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Top SEO Factors - 2022-02-03      Previous - Next

Understanding The Top Factors Data

We measure up to 2100 possible SEO factors and we use both Spearman's and Pearson's correlation coefficients to help identify likely ranking factors that may be contributing to the sort order of the search results. To date this method has been highly successful in helping top SEOs rank pages. The factors you see in this report are the strongest correlations of the 2100 factors. We continue to measure all possible factors because we don't know which factors will stop working or which factors will start working again. We still suspect we don't know all the factors. So in general, if it is measurable and plausible we will measure it going forward.

Keywords	Any of the keyword variations, including the exact match, Google makes bold in the search results.
Search Terms	The exact match search terms you used in Google.
Entities	Any term that has a wikipedia page, GMB, MREID. These are nouns that Google's AI understands topically.
LSI Words	An industry misnomer. These tend to generally be statistically discovered entities. No two implementations of LSI are the same. SEOs use LSI words when entity recognition isn't available in their language. The lists tend to have a lot of overlap and they are used the same... just sprinkle them in your content.
Search Result	If a factor name mentions "Search Result" then that factor is measuring something about how the page is presented in the Google search results.
#1 Max Column	The maximum measurement found in the #1 position in Google.
Page 1 Avg Column	The average page 1 average across thousands of keywords in Google.
Keywords Column	The percentage of thousands of keywords that this factor was a strong correlation for.

Why are you sharing such valuable information?

We share the information because it helps our industry learn about SEO. The measurement facts about how pages in the number one rank position are tuned typically break people's belief-based assumptions about how search works. This information is very inefficient for SEO in general. People still need Cora SEO Software because the amount of each factor you need to compete will change from keyword to keyword and URL to URL. So the information in this report might be good for some keywords but it might be too little or too much for other keywords. At the end of the day SEO is about ranking efficiently, especially if you are a professional full time SEO. Tuning your page to the correct amount for your keyword competitors is the key to efficient SEO.

Some factors aren't meant to be tuned.

Some factors on this list are meant to inform us if Google is using certain algorithms or parts of algorithms. If you generally have no idea how to tune for something then skip it or go learn about it. If there are HTML tags, HTML attributes, or Schema Objects you don't know then please look them up before contacting us. W3Schools HTML Reference, Schema.org Reference

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Top SEO Factors - 2022-02-03 - View Factors By Date

Ordinal	Factor ID	Name	#1 Max	Page 1 Avg	Correlation	Correlation By Page	Keywords
1	CPZZZ50	Number of Top 50 Shared Factors Used	44	29	-0.31	-0.59	34.08%
2	CPZZZ100	Number of Top 100 Shared Factors Used	85	59	-0.31	-0.59	34.08%
3	PAGE002	Is Inner Page	1	1	-0.30	-0.59	7.59%
4	CP104z	Search Result Has Publish Date	1	1	-0.28	-0.56	8.33%
5	CPZZZ200	Number of Top 200 Shared Factors Used	142	104	-0.28	-0.57	34.19%
6	ENT000a	Number of Entities Used	62	29	-0.28	-0.60	74.47%
7	LSI004	LSI Words in HTML Tag	6,636	3,222	-0.27	-0.70	0.11%
8	CPZZZ	Number of Factors Used	214	138	-0.24	-0.47	93.38%
9	ENT004	Entities in H3 Tags	24	6	-0.21	-0.51	73.50%
10	CP470	Keywords in the HTML Tag	42,438	384	-0.21	-0.48	94.98%
11	CPX010	Keywords in Div Tags	21,803	243	-0.21	-0.47	93.70%
12	ENT009	Entities in Title Tag	7	3	-0.21	-0.49	71.58%
13	CP161	Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	159	8	-0.21	-0.47	94.66%
14	CP108	Search Result Summary Length	359	152	-0.21	-0.46	84.19%
15	ENT003	Entities in H2 Tags	38	6	-0.21	-0.49	73.72%
16	CP134	Keywords in Body Tag	25,606	303	-0.21	-0.48	94.66%
17	CP157	Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	120	7	-0.21	-0.47	93.38%
18	CP129	Keywords in A Tags	5,079	49	-0.20	-0.44	94.44%
19	CP475	Term Frequency	11	5	-0.19	-0.41	92.95%
20	CP465	Keywords in P Tags	2,297	43	-0.19	-0.43	92.74%
21	CP153	Keywords in H1 and H2 Tags	65	4	-0.19	-0.46	93.16%
22	CP465c	Keywords in script Tags	14,490	96	-0.19	-0.48	92.52%
23	CP127b	Keywords in Unique A Tag HREFs	2,560	44	-0.19	-0.43	94.44%
24	CP127	Keywords in A Tag HREFs	3,423	64	-0.19	-0.43	95.09%
25	CP488	Keywords in pages top 10 most used phrases	20	2	-0.19	-0.49	89.64%
26	CKWD001	Clean Keyword Density in the HTML Tag	204	5	-0.19	-0.46	87.07%
27	CP469	Keywords in Sentences	1,728	32	-0.19	-0.40	91.56%
28	CP487	Keywords in pages top 5 most used phrases	3	1	-0.18	-0.49	89.00%
29	CP097	Search Result Link Text Matches	12	2	-0.18	-0.46	82.16%
30	CP071	Search Result Display URL Matches	12	2	-0.18	-0.46	82.16%
31	DD015	DomDetailer Moz PA	72	42	-0.18	-0.41	40.38%
32	CP375	Keywords in LI Tags	1,297	26	-0.18	-0.42	92.74%
33	CP165	Keywords in H2 Tags	57	3	-0.18	-0.44	93.06%
34	CP458	Page Size Kilobytes	461	141	-0.18	-0.46	87.71%
35	CP135	Body Tag Size Kilobytes	260	78	-0.18	-0.44	89.74%
36	DD008	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Domains	2,388,627	332,964	-0.18	-0.24	44.76%
37	ENT018	Entities in Sentences	449	104	-0.18	-0.38	97.65%
38	LSI002	LSI Words in Sentences	3,027	573	-0.18	-0.37	95.73%
39	DD010	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Subnets	79,785	14,772	-0.18	-0.24	43.70%
40	CP061	Ahrefs Referring Class C Addresses	1,228	52	-0.18	-0.26	16.67%
41	CP062	Ahrefs Referring Domains	2,638	95	-0.18	-0.26	16.56%
42	CP063	Ahrefs Referring IP Addresses	2,174	81	-0.18	-0.26	16.67%
43	CPXX888	Number of HTML Tags	2,719	788	-0.18	-0.42	83.44%
44	DD006	DomDetailer Majestic IPs	351,761	53,306	-0.18	-0.24	44.34%
45	CP160	Leading Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	29	2	-0.18	-0.44	91.56%
46	CP067	Ahrefs Text Backlinks	1,397,815	18,386	-0.17	-0.22	16.67%
47	CP134a	Search Terms in Body Tag	217	11	-0.17	-0.39	91.35%
48	CP470a	Search Terms in the HTML Tag	296	9	-0.17	-0.40	85.90%
49	ENT008	Entities in Meta Description Tag	9	3	-0.17	-0.44	66.56%
50	CP064	Ahrefs Referring Pages	1,397,835	18,406	-0.17	-0.22	16.67%
51	CP002	Ahrefs Backlinks	1,397,838	18,406	-0.17	-0.22	16.67%
52	CP486	Keywords in pages top 3 most used phrases	2	1	-0.17	-0.47	86.43%
53	ENT001	Entities in HTML Tag	1,339	326	-0.17	-0.35	96.90%
54	CP156	Leading Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	22	1	-0.17	-0.43	89.42%
55	DD005	DomDetailer Majestic CF	69	36	-0.17	-0.39	41.45%
56	CP492b	Unabridged Word Count	14,433	1,682	-0.17	-0.36	81.94%
57	CP140	Clean Text Kilobytes	78	10	-0.17	-0.36	81.20%
58	CP109	Search Result Summary Text Matches	48	3	-0.17	-0.46	78.53%
59	CP054	Ahrefs NoFollow Backlinks	117,683	2,022	-0.17	-0.23	16.67%
60	GD001	Google Variation Density	351	5	-0.17	-0.43	86.00%
61	DD013	DomDetailer Moz DA	87	42	-0.17	-0.36	38.89%
62	CP113	Search Result URL Matches	37	1	-0.17	-0.43	80.77%
63	CP999	Search Result Path Matches	29	1	-0.17	-0.43	78.95%
64	CP159a	Search Terms in H1-H6 Tags	10	1	-0.17	-0.45	87.50%
65	CP059	Ahrefs Rank	33	10	-0.17	-0.32	14.85%
66	CP481	Keywords in Title Tag	14	2	-0.17	-0.43	80.98%
67	DD012	DomDetailer Majestic TF	64	28	-0.16	-0.37	39.96%
68	CP468	Number of Sentences	169	58	-0.16	-0.35	82.59%
69	CP492	Word Count	5,031	1,436	-0.16	-0.33	80.45%
70	CPXR018	Keywords in Nav Tags	5,533	53	-0.16	-0.40	89.42%
71	QS003	Number of Questions	23	5	-0.16	-0.39	86.32%
72	CPX003	Keywords in Main Tags	6,906	68	-0.16	-0.44	86.43%
73	CP471	Keywords in Span Tags	634	13	-0.16	-0.39	89.96%
74	DD002	DomDetailer Facebook Shares	9,017,199	-7,363,348	-0.16	-0.24	42.63%
75	CP425	Number of HTTPS Links	385	126	-0.16	-0.36	82.59%
76	DD016	DomDetailer Moz Rank	9	4	-0.16	-0.37	37.39%
77	CP410	Number of DoFollow Links	378	126	-0.16	-0.35	82.26%
78	CP146	Keywords in the First 100 Words	207	9	-0.16	-0.42	84.08%
79	CP137	Keywords in the Canonical URL	5	2	-0.16	-0.41	86.65%
80	CP169	Keywords in H3 Tags	59	3	-0.16	-0.41	90.92%
81	CPXR24	Number of P Tags	156	35	-0.16	-0.37	85.58%
82	ENT013	Has Entities in H2 Tags	1	1	-0.16	-0.47	67.52%
83	CP431	Number of Internal Links	358	113	-0.16	-0.35	82.16%
84	CP004	Ahrefs Dofollow Backlinks	1,392,344	16,501	-0.16	-0.24	16.45%
85	CP435	Number of Links	386	130	-0.16	-0.35	82.69%
86	CP381	Keywords in Meta Descriptions	39	2	-0.16	-0.41	83.97%
87	ENT005	Entities in H4 Tags	23	2	-0.16	-0.43	71.69%
88	CP124a	Keywords in Absolute URLs	5,590	70	-0.16	-0.38	90.49%
89	CPXR003	Number of Heading Tags	48	20	-0.16	-0.37	87.39%
90	CP128	Keywords in Alt Attributes	223	6	-0.16	-0.36	90.06%
91	DD007	DomDetailer Majestic Links	203,933,348	6,475,366	-0.15	-0.17	42.52%
92	ENT002	Entities in H1 Tags	5	2	-0.15	-0.37	67.63%
93	ENT010	Title Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.15	-0.41	60.47%
94	DD014	DomDetailer Moz Links	138,462,603	15,572,484	-0.15	-0.23	43.38%
95	LSI001	LSI Words in Title Tag	14	5	-0.15	-0.37	92.52%
96	CP476	TF/IDF	1	1	-0.15	-0.44	82.37%
97	CP072	Search Result Document Matches	27	1	-0.15	-0.41	74.47%
98	CP358	Inline Javascript Kilobytes	128	29	-0.15	-0.36	83.87%
99	LSI006	LSI Words in H2 Tags	77	15	-0.15	-0.36	95.51%
100	CP355	Keywords in ID Attributes	523	4	-0.15	-0.38	84.40%
101	ENT014	Has Entities in H3 Tags	1	1	-0.15	-0.45	66.99%
102	CP374	Keywords in the last 100 words	207	5	-0.15	-0.39	83.65%
103	CP383	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Description	44	2	-0.15	-0.39	83.55%
104	CP426	Number of Images	84	24	-0.15	-0.34	83.65%
105	PAGE009	Number of Prices	424	29	-0.15	-0.33	27.78%
106	CP353	Head Size Kilobytes	126	43	-0.15	-0.39	81.52%
107	CP427	Number of Images with Alt Text	65	15	-0.15	-0.35	84.62%
108	CP152	Keywords in H1 Tags	8	1	-0.14	-0.35	82.59%
109	QS012	Headings Has Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	81.84%
110	QS004	Number of Questions In Headings	7	1	-0.14	-0.37	32.91%
111	CP391	Number of Absolute URLs	351	125	-0.14	-0.34	83.01%
112	DD011	DomDetailer Majestic Referring .gov Links	29,753,663	3,641,288	-0.14	-0.25	39.32%
113	CPXR006	Number of H3 Tags	19	7	-0.14	-0.35	85.58%
114	CP357	Inline CSS Kilobytes	102	31	-0.14	-0.40	81.84%
115	ENT012	Has Entities in H1 Tags	1	1	-0.14	-0.41	62.71%
116	CPX013	Keywords in Footer Tags	2,347	21	-0.14	-0.37	86.65%
117	CP484	Leading Keywords in Title Tag	1	0	-0.14	-0.42	77.67%
118	CP164	Leading Keywords in H2 Tags	7	1	-0.14	-0.38	87.29%
119	GD004	Google Density Exact Matches	39	2	-0.14	-0.37	70.51%
120	CPXR005	Number of H2 Tags	14	6	-0.14	-0.34	86.22%
121	CP376	Keywords making whole LI Tags	4	1	-0.14	-0.37	83.44%
122	CP472	Keywords making whole Span Tags	18	1	-0.14	-0.35	84.51%
123	CP104b	Search Result Publish Date	2,007,990,746	1,956,443,706	-0.14	-0.36	40.92%
124	LSI007	LSI Words in H3 Tags	62	14	-0.14	-0.34	93.80%
125	CP099	Search Result Number of Dirs in Path	5	2	-0.14	-0.36	58.44%
126	CP469a	Search Terms in Sentences	31	2	-0.14	-0.33	87.93%
127	CP045	Ahrefs Has Text Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.35	16.24%
128	CP150a2	Search Terms in H2 Tags	4	0	-0.14	-0.38	87.39%
129	CP473	Keywords in Strong Tags	68	3	-0.14	-0.35	84.51%
130	CP151	Leading Keywords in H1 Tags	2	0	-0.14	-0.38	80.02%
131	CP385	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Content	9	1	-0.14	-0.39	80.77%
132	CP019	Ahrefs Has DoFollow Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.35	16.56%
133	CP424	Number of HREF Lang Tags	16	1	-0.14	-0.39	75.21%
134	ENT011	Meta Description Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.14	-0.40	57.05%
135	CP114	Search Result Uses HTTPS	1	1	-0.14	-0.38	65.38%
136	CP158	Keywords making whole H1-H6 Tags	5	0	-0.13	-0.40	78.42%
137	CP017	Ahrefs Has Backlinks	1	0	-0.13	-0.34	16.56%
138	QS007	Number of Questions In H3 Tags	3	1	-0.13	-0.33	83.44%
139	CP413	Number of External Links	68	17	-0.13	-0.31	77.56%
140	CP038	Ahrefs Has NoFollow Backlinks	1	0	-0.13	-0.35	15.81%
141	CP147	Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease	159	103	-0.13	-0.29	25.96%
142	QS006	Number of Questions In H2 Tags	4	1	-0.13	-0.36	83.97%
143	CPJLDxSA	Number Of JSON-LD Types	47	8	-0.13	-0.34	81.41%
144	GD003	Google Density Variations	5,765	49	-0.13	-0.35	78.31%
145	CP177	Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	34	2	-0.13	-0.37	85.90%
146	CP154	Keywords making whole H1, H2, and H3 Tags	1	0	-0.13	-0.40	74.47%
147	LSI003	LSI Words in Meta Description Tag	24	9	-0.13	-0.33	88.46%
148	CP467	Keywords in Section Tags	896	23	-0.13	-0.37	86.43%
149	CP126a	Search Terms in A Tags	49	2	-0.13	-0.37	86.65%
150	CP377	Load Time Milliseconds	21,493	2,022	-0.13	-0.30	71.90%
151	CP050	Ahrefs Internal Links	330	72	-0.13	-0.27	16.45%
152	CP125	Keywords making whole A Tags	6	1	-0.13	-0.34	86.86%
153	CP168	Leading Keywords in H3 Tags	13	0	-0.13	-0.35	81.94%
154	CP477	Keywords in Title Attributes	325	7	-0.13	-0.34	86.22%
155	CP407	Number of Bytes to First Match	8,640,065	480,922	-0.13	-0.29	63.03%
156	CP483a	Search Terms in the Title Tag	2	0	-0.13	-0.36	82.80%
157	CP130	Keywords in Article Tags	843	20	-0.13	-0.37	75.96%
158	CP112	Search Result URL Length	100	56	-0.13	-0.32	45.41%
159	CP460	Percentage of DoFollow Internal Links	93	78	-0.13	-0.34	74.68%
160	CP173	Keywords in H4 Tags	27	1	-0.13	-0.36	85.79%
161	CP461	Percentage of DoFollow Links	100	92	-0.12	-0.32	71.90%
162	CP409	Number of DoFollow External Links	58	15	-0.12	-0.28	77.46%
163	CP479	Title Has Sales Words	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	74.04%
164	BYTES01	Bytes To First P Tag	79,874	53,238	-0.12	-0.37	68.80%
165	ENT015	Has Entities in H4 Tags	1	0	-0.12	-0.39	61.22%
166	CP479ii	Title Has Sentiment Words	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	73.08%
167	CP481b	Word Count in Meta Description Tag	83	20	-0.12	-0.32	70.09%
168	CP439	Number of NoFollow Externa Links	21	2	-0.12	-0.32	76.39%
169	CP313	Has Privacy Policy	1	1	-0.12	-0.38	71.79%
170	CP485	Keywords in pages most used phrase	2	0	-0.12	-0.38	79.81%
171	ENT006	Entities in H5 Tags	4	1	-0.12	-0.35	62.29%
172	CPJLD011	Has JSON-LD Answer	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	70.30%
173	CP225	Has Meta Description	1	1	-0.12	-0.37	64.53%
174	CPJLD217	Has JSON-LD Question	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	70.51%
175	CP204	Has Canonical URL	1	1	-0.12	-0.37	73.29%
176	CP380	Meta Description Length	507	125	-0.12	-0.31	70.62%
177	CP451	Number of US Phone Numbers	67	9	-0.12	-0.29	81.62%
178	CP208	Has Copyright	1	1	-0.12	-0.37	66.88%
179	CP139	Keywords in Class Attributes	6,663	43	-0.12	-0.32	79.27%
180	CPXR007	Number of H4 Tags	16	4	-0.12	-0.31	79.81%
181	LSI005	LSI Words in H1 Tags	13	4	-0.12	-0.27	89.74%
182	CP106	Search Result Summary Has Ellipsis	1	1	-0.12	-0.37	51.71%
183	CP440	Number of NoFollow Links	30	4	-0.12	-0.28	74.15%
184	CP181	Keywords in H5 Tags	8	0	-0.12	-0.33	78.42%
185	CP319	Has Schema Markup	1	1	-0.11	-0.37	72.97%
186	CP479b	Title Has Year	1	0	-0.11	-0.34	70.73%
187	CP150a	Search Terms in H1 Tags	1	0	-0.11	-0.33	81.94%
188	CP148	Flesch Kincaid Reading Grade	8	4	-0.11	-0.27	25.11%
189	CPXR002	Number of HTML Comments	558	27	-0.11	-0.30	76.50%
190	CP056	Ahrefs Pages	6	1	-0.11	-0.25	16.13%
191	CPXR011	Keywords in Button Tags	1,219	5	-0.11	-0.33	80.45%
192	CP444	Number of Social Accounts	5	1	-0.11	-0.32	70.30%
193	CP428	Number of Images without Alt Text	39	8	-0.11	-0.29	74.89%
194	CP414	Number of Facebook Accounts	3	1	-0.11	-0.31	69.44%
195	CPJLD127	Has JSON-LD ItemList	1	0	-0.11	-0.34	42.09%
196	CP096	Search Result Link Text Length	58	50	-0.11	-0.32	58.76%
197	CP345	Has Terms of Service	1	0	-0.11	-0.34	70.19%
198	DD001	DomDetailer Facebook Comments	462	65	-0.11	-0.28	36.97%
199	CPX005	Keywords in Aside Tags	1,785	8	-0.11	-0.33	73.82%
200	CPXR008	Number of H5 Tags	7	1	-0.11	-0.31	76.18%

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