200 Top SEO Ranking Factors January 2026

TOP SEO Factors for 2026-01 previous

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	Name	Correlation	#1 Max	Page 1 Avg	Usage %	Searches %
1	Number of Unique Variations Used Diversity	-0.23	30	7	79 %	88 %
2	Number of Unique LSI Words Used Diversity	-0.23	997	307	82 %	66 %
3	Search Result Domain is .com, .net, or .org Other	-0.23	1	1	5 %	74 %
4	Search Result Domain is .com Other	-0.22	1	1	5 %	74 %
5	Load Time Milliseconds Performance	-0.22	22536	1493	84 %	92 %
6	Number of Top 100 Shared Factors Used Diversity	-0.21	39	29	98 %	93 %
7	Number of Top 50 Shared Factors Used Diversity	-0.21	17	12	97 %	93 %
8	Number of Top 200 Shared Factors Used Diversity	-0.21	52	38	98 %	93 %
9	Entities in Title Tag Relevancy	-0.21	8	3	64 %	93 %
10	Number of Distinct Entities Used Diversity	-0.21	68	26	73 %	94 %
11	Variations in Div Tags Relevancy	-0.2	18920	129	72 %	93 %
12	Variations in H1-H6 Tags Relevancy	-0.2	144	7	62 %	91 %
13	Variations in Body Tags Relevancy	-0.2	56182	243	77 %	91 %
14	Variations in H1, H2, and H3 Tags Relevancy	-0.2	91	6	61 %	91 %
15	Variations in HTML Tags Relevancy	-0.2	56182	239	76 %	92 %
16	Variations in H1 and H2 Tags Relevancy	-0.2	46	4	59 %	91 %
17	Variations in P Tags Relevancy	-0.2	1502	30	65 %	92 %
18	Variations in Sentences Relevancy	-0.19	1628	36	70 %	92 %
19	Variations in LI Tags Relevancy	-0.19	602	20	63 %	90 %
20	Term Frequency Relevancy	-0.19	6	3	76 %	91 %
21	Number of Factors Used Diversity	-0.19	286	174	98 %	90 %
22	Variations in the Title Tag Relevancy	-0.18	11	2	63 %	87 %
23	Entities in the HTML Tag Relevancy	-0.18	867	132	67 %	96 %
24	Entities in Sentences Relevancy	-0.18	762	130	64 %	97 %
25	Entities in H2 Tags	-0.18	36	7	50 %	93 %
26	Entities in H1 Tags	-0.18	8	2	51 %	90 %
27	Number of Referring Domains Authority	-0.18	46287	287	49 %	75 %
28	Variations in Search Result Document File Name Relevancy	-0.18	4	1	41 %	80 %
29	Variations in H2 Tags Relevancy	-0.18	36	3	46 %	89 %
30	Variations in First 100 Words Relevancy	-0.18	178	7	64 %	87 %
31	Variations in A Tags Relevancy	-0.18	1941	23	64 %	89 %
32	Variations in Search Result Display URL Relevancy	-0.18	9	2	78 %	84 %
33	Variations in Search Result Link Text Relevancy	-0.18	9	2	78 %	84 %
34	Variations in H1 Tags Relevancy	-0.18	11	1	51 %	85 %
35	Word Count Size	-0.18	10039	1447	83 %	88 %
36	Number of Backlinks Authority	-0.18	6309709	30291	49 %	76 %
37	Unabridged Word Count Size	-0.18	46360	1891	83 %	89 %
38	Variations in Meta Description Relevancy	-0.18	35	2	54 %	86 %
39	Clean Text Kilobytes Size	-0.17	232	12	75 %	88 %
40	Leading Variations in H1-H6 Tags Relevancy	-0.17	29	2	42 %	88 %
41	Number of P Tags Size	-0.17	1653	40	74 %	88 %
42	Variation Density in Top 30KB Relevancy	-0.17	290	3	60 %	82 %
43	Variation Count in Top 30KB Relevancy	-0.17	4142	23	65 %	88 %
44	Clean Keyword Density in the HTML Tag Relevancy	-0.17	181	4	69 %	83 %
45	Variations in Search Result URL Path Relevancy	-0.17	4	1	43 %	82 %
46	Number of HTML Tags Size	-0.17	8552	1002	84 %	89 %
47	Number of Do Follow Backlinks Authority	-0.17	2612753	17829	45 %	76 %
48	Entities in Meta Description Tag Relevancy	-0.17	15	3	56 %	89 %
49	Number of Images Size	-0.17	339	31	76 %	88 %
50	Variations in A Tag HREF Attributes Relevancy	-0.17	937	41	58 %	90 %
51	Leading Variations in H1, H2, and H3 Tags Relevancy	-0.17	16	2	40 %	87 %
52	Number of Includes Technology	-0.17	59	27	80 %	83 %
53	Variations in Distinct A Tag HREF Attributes Relevancy	-0.17	610	27	58 %	90 %
54	Number of No Follow Backlinks Authority	-0.17	3077537	10550	38 %	70 %
55	Variations in ALT Attributes Relevancy	-0.17	91	6	45 %	87 %
56	Number of Images with ALT Text Size	-0.16	332	21	70 %	88 %
57	Entities in H3 Tags	-0.16	29	7	42 %	92 %
58	Number of Heading Tags Size	-0.16	133	22	75 %	89 %
59	Variations in Absolute URLs Relevancy	-0.16	5095	61	59 %	90 %
60	TF/IDF Relevancy	-0.16	1	1	56 %	87 %
61	Variations in the Canonical URL Relevancy	-0.16	35	2	48 %	85 %
62	Variations in OpenGraph Title Relevancy	-0.16	8	1	53 %	82 %
63	Variations in Span Tags Relevancy	-0.16	359	9	49 %	90 %
64	Percentage of DoFollow Internal Links Authority	-0.16	91	72	79 %	87 %
65	Number of Facebook Pages Authority	-0.16	19	2	58 %	83 %
66	Number of Sentences Size	-0.16	836	125	82 %	87 %
67	Variations in OpenGraph Description Relevancy	-0.16	30	2	49 %	84 %
68	Number of H2 Tags Size	-0.16	24	7	68 %	88 %
69	Variations in Script Tags Relevancy	-0.16	1207	54	61 %	88 %
70	Number of Internal Links Authority	-0.16	389	121	79 %	85 %
71	Number of DoFollow Links Authority	-0.16	396	130	79 %	85 %
72	Number of Links Authority	-0.16	397	134	79 %	85 %
73	Number of HTTPS Links Authority	-0.16	396	132	79 %	85 %
74	Number of CSS Includes Technology	-0.16	28	10	73 %	81 %
75	Has JSON-LD Schema Markup Relevancy	-0.16	1	1	53 %	79 %
76	Percentage of DoFollow Links Authority	-0.15	100	82	79 %	89 %
77	Variations in Search Result URL Relevancy	-0.15	4	2	52 %	78 %
78	Variations in Nav Tags Relevancy	-0.15	2493	27	45 %	87 %
79	Variations in H3 Tags Relevancy	-0.15	46	3	34 %	86 %
80	LSI Words in Title Tag Relevancy	-0.15	17	5	58 %	95 %
81	Number of H1 Tags Size	-0.15	4	1	69 %	86 %
82	Variations in Main Tags Relevancy	-0.15	5292	58	36 %	88 %
83	Number of HTML Comments Size	-0.15	516	46	71 %	86 %
84	Number of H3 Tags Size	-0.15	51	9	60 %	85 %
85	LSI Words in Sentences Relevancy	-0.15	3199	625	56 %	96 %
86	Leading Variations in H1 Tags Relevancy	-0.15	2	1	23 %	80 %
87	Number of Absolute URLs Authority	-0.15	951	268	82 %	81 %
88	Leading Variations in Title Tag Relevancy	-0.15	1	1	27 %	83 %
89	Search Result Number of Dirs in Path Other	-0.15	3	2	72 %	75 %
90	Flesch Kincaid Reading Grade Level Other	-0.15	7	1	94 %	89 %
91	Is Home Page Other	-0.15	1	1	22 %	50 %
92	Title Tag Has Entities Relevancy	-0.14	1	1	64 %	87 %
93	Number Of JSON-LD Types Relevancy	-0.14	72	14	56 %	86 %
94	Number of Images without ALT Text Size	-0.14	218	11	58 %	84 %
95	Number of Instagram Pages Authority	-0.14	19	2	46 %	77 %
96	Number of Questions Size	-0.14	257	12	66 %	83 %
97	Has Entities in H1 Tags Relevancy	-0.14	1	1	51 %	86 %
98	Number of Questions In Headings Size	-0.14	11	3	37 %	86 %
99	Variations in Footer Tags Relevancy	-0.14	2461	11	38 %	85 %
100	Meta Description Length Size	-0.14	245	117	67 %	81 %
101	Number of External Links Authority	-0.14	55	14	75 %	84 %
102	Variations in Section Tags Relevancy	-0.14	825	16	36 %	87 %
103	Number of Forms Technology	-0.14	11	2	52 %	79 %
104	Search Result Domain Length Size	-0.14	25	17	84 %	82 %
105	Search Result Host Length Size	-0.14	25	17	84 %	82 %
106	Number of DoFollow External Links Authority	-0.14	54	12	74 %	82 %
107	Number of JavaScript Includes Technology	-0.14	50	18	80 %	82 %
108	Word Count in Meta Description Size	-0.14	58	19	67 %	81 %
109	Variations in Strong Tags Relevancy	-0.14	50	2	26 %	85 %
110	Has Canonical URL Authority	-0.14	1	1	71 %	81 %
111	Has Meta Description Relevancy	-0.14	1	1	65 %	78 %
112	Has Entities in H2 Tags Relevancy	-0.14	1	1	50 %	87 %
113	Exact Matches in the HTML Tag Relevancy	-0.14	288	8	24 %	88 %
114	Inline CSS Kilobytes Size	-0.14	175	63	65 %	84 %
115	Number of US Phone Numbers Trust	-0.14	1220	16	40 %	78 %
116	Has Meta Viewport Technology	-0.14	1	1	81 %	83 %
117	LSI Words in H1 Tags Relevancy	-0.14	31	4	47 %	93 %
118	Title Length Size	-0.14	175	51	82 %	79 %
119	Number of Social Pages Authority	-0.14	21	5	64 %	80 %
120	Average Words Per Sentence Size	-0.14	139	29	77 %	80 %
121	Uses Microdata latitude Other	-0.14	1	1	6 %	14 %
122	Uses Microdata longitude Other	-0.14	1	1	6 %	14 %
123	LSI Words in Meta Description Tag Relevancy	-0.14	23	9	48 %	93 %
124	Leading Variations in H2 Tags Relevancy	-0.14	15	1	21 %	83 %
125	Number of LinkedIn Pages Authority	-0.14	14	1	30 %	77 %
126	Page Size Kilobytes Size	-0.14	816	303	83 %	79 %
127	Search Result Uses HTTPS Other	-0.13	1	1	83 %	86 %
128	Has Meta Charset Technology	-0.13	1	1	73 %	81 %
129	Has Privacy Policy Trust	-0.13	1	1	54 %	73 %
130	Variations making whole A Tags Relevancy	-0.13	25	1	28 %	80 %
131	Number of Facebook Accounts Authority	-0.13	4	1	28 %	78 %
132	Has Form Technology	-0.13	1	1	51 %	74 %
133	Title Word Count Size	-0.13	20	8	82 %	78 %
134	Uses Microdata geo Other	-0.13	1	1	5 %	15 %
135	Has FavIcon Technology	-0.13	1	1	75 %	79 %
136	Uses Microdata GeoCoordinates Other	-0.13	1	1	5 %	15 %
137	LSI Words in H2 Tags Relevancy	-0.13	138	18	48 %	95 %
138	Variations in the last 100 words Relevancy	-0.13	183	3	49 %	84 %
139	Has US Phone Number Trust	-0.13	1	1	42 %	66 %
140	Number of Questions In H2 Tags Size	-0.13	4	1	24 %	83 %
141	Uses JSON-LD name Other	-0.13	1	1	53 %	79 %
142	Uses Schema geo Other	-0.13	1	1	5 %	15 %
143	Variations making whole H1-H6 Tags Relevancy	-0.13	15	1	14 %	81 %
144	Uses Microdata priceRange Other	-0.13	1	1	6 %	15 %
145	Meta Description Tag Has Entities Relevancy	-0.13	1	1	55 %	82 %
146	Has Entities in H3 Tags Relevancy	-0.13	1	1	43 %	86 %
147	Has Email Trust	-0.13	1	1	43 %	73 %
148	Uses Microdata addressCountry Other	-0.13	1	1	5 %	18 %
149	Variations Making Whole Span Tags Relevancy	-0.13	15	1	19 %	86 %
150	Variations making whole H1, H2, and H3 Tags Relevancy	-0.13	2	1	13 %	80 %
151	Has OpenGraph Type Relevancy	-0.13	1	1	62 %	75 %
152	Number of Email Addresses Trust	-0.13	190	5	43 %	80 %
153	Number of Prices Size	-0.13	2363	74	68 %	81 %
154	Inline JavaScript Kilobytes Size	-0.13	527	114	80 %	74 %
155	Headings Has Question Other	-0.13	1	1	37 %	81 %
156	Percentage of DoFollow External Links Authority	-0.13	29	11	73 %	76 %
157	Number of Social Accounts Authority	-0.13	15	2	42 %	79 %
158	Variations in Article Tags Relevancy	-0.13	275	14	24 %	79 %
159	Uses Schema name Other	-0.13	1	1	60 %	73 %
160	Has OpenGraph Image Relevancy	-0.13	1	1	54 %	74 %
161	Has Contact Page Trust	-0.13	1	1	62 %	75 %
162	Uses Microdata email Other	-0.13	1	1	5 %	15 %
163	Uses Schema telephone Other	-0.13	1	1	20 %	65 %
164	Variations in Button Tags Relevancy	-0.13	337	2	9 %	81 %
165	Has Schema Markup Relevancy	-0.13	1	1	63 %	77 %
166	Variations in Meta Twitter Content Relevancy	-0.12	4	1	25 %	75 %
167	Variations Making Whole LI Tags Relevancy	-0.12	4	1	23 %	81 %
168	Uses JSON-LD url Other	-0.12	1	1	45 %	77 %
169	Variations in Meta Twitter Description Relevancy	-0.12	15	1	23 %	76 %
170	Uses Schema organization Other	-0.12	1	1	36 %	71 %
171	Is Store Page Other	-0.12	1	1	44 %	68 %
172	Variations in TITLE Attributes Relevancy	-0.12	138	5	37 %	83 %
173	Number Of Claimed Brands Other	-0.12	25	2	25 %	77 %
174	Variations in I Tags Relevancy	-0.12	308	4	23 %	80 %
175	Number of Questions In H3 Tags Size	-0.12	7	2	17 %	81 %
176	Uses Schema url Other	-0.12	1	1	56 %	70 %
177	Leading Variations in H3 Tags Relevancy	-0.12	15	1	16 %	79 %
178	Uses Schema image Other	-0.12	1	1	21 %	67 %
179	Uses JSON-LD dayOfWeek Other	-0.12	1	1	4 %	31 %
180	Is Purchase Page Other	-0.12	1	1	44 %	65 %
181	Uses JSON-LD addressRegion Other	-0.12	1	1	17 %	64 %
182	Uses JSON-LD Organization Other	-0.12	1	1	32 %	74 %
183	Number of Twitter Accounts Authority	-0.12	5	1	24 %	71 %
184	Uses Schema dayofweek Other	-0.12	1	1	4 %	31 %
185	Uses Schema addressregion Other	-0.12	1	1	18 %	63 %
186	Uses Schema postaladdress Other	-0.12	1	1	19 %	65 %
187	Has Terms of Service Trust	-0.12	1	1	38 %	68 %
188	Uses Schema addresslocality Other	-0.12	1	1	19 %	65 %
189	Uses JSON-LD addressLocality Other	-0.12	1	1	18 %	66 %
190	Uses JSON-LD telePhone Other	-0.12	1	1	15 %	70 %
191	Uses JSON-LD PostalAddress Other	-0.12	1	1	18 %	67 %
192	Uses JSON-LD FAQPage Other	-0.12	1	1	9 %	68 %
193	Has Meta Twitter Card Authority	-0.12	1	1	53 %	72 %
194	Number of H4 Tags Size	-0.12	99	4	36 %	82 %
195	Uses Schema faqpage Other	-0.12	1	1	9 %	66 %
196	Uses JSON-LD streetAddress Other	-0.12	1	1	17 %	66 %
197	Exact Matches in Top 30KB Relevancy	-0.12	17	1	14 %	83 %
198	Entities in H4 Tags	-0.12	15	2	19 %	87 %
199	Number of H5 Tags Size	-0.12	20	2	17 %	77 %
200	Variations making whole H1 Tags Relevancy	-0.12	1	1	7 %	77 %

Measures 148963 SEO Factors

147241 Built-In SEO Factors

138069 On-page SEO Factors

9172 Google Maps SEO Factors for Local SEO

1722 SEO Factors from APIs

147 API SEO Factors for off-page SEO like backlinks and referring domains.

1575 Technology Stack SEO Factors

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