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Top SEO Factors - 2022-02-05      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 - 2022-02-05 - View Factors By Date

Ordinal	Factor ID	Name	#1 Max	Page 1 Avg	Correlation	Correlation By Page	Keywords
1	PAGE002	Is Inner Page	1	1	-0.30	-0.59	7.52%
2	CPZZZ50	Number of Top 50 Shared Factors Used	44	30	-0.30	-0.57	37.10%
3	CPZZZ100	Number of Top 100 Shared Factors Used	85	60	-0.30	-0.58	37.20%
4	CP104z	Search Result Has Publish Date	1	1	-0.29	-0.56	8.15%
5	CPZZZ200	Number of Top 200 Shared Factors Used	142	105	-0.28	-0.56	37.41%
6	ENT000a	Number of Entities Used	61	29	-0.28	-0.60	76.18%
7	LSI004	LSI Words in HTML Tag	6,636	3,222	-0.27	-0.70	0.10%
8	CPZZZ	Number of Factors Used	214	138	-0.24	-0.46	92.79%
9	ENT004	Entities in H3 Tags	24	5	-0.21	-0.51	75.34%
10	CP470	Keywords in the HTML Tag	42,438	381	-0.21	-0.47	95.61%
11	ENT009	Entities in Title Tag	8	3	-0.21	-0.49	73.46%
12	CP108	Search Result Summary Length	359	151	-0.21	-0.46	82.13%
13	ENT003	Entities in H2 Tags	38	6	-0.20	-0.49	75.65%
14	CPX010	Keywords in Div Tags	21,803	239	-0.20	-0.46	94.78%
15	CP134	Keywords in Body Tag	25,606	301	-0.20	-0.48	95.40%
16	CP161	Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	159	8	-0.20	-0.47	94.15%
17	CP157	Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	120	7	-0.20	-0.47	93.00%
18	CP129	Keywords in A Tags	5,079	48	-0.20	-0.44	94.46%
19	CP465	Keywords in P Tags	2,297	43	-0.19	-0.43	92.89%
20	CP475	Term Frequency	11	5	-0.19	-0.40	92.48%
21	CP153	Keywords in H1 and H2 Tags	65	4	-0.19	-0.46	92.69%
22	CP465c	Keywords in script Tags	14,490	94	-0.19	-0.47	92.79%
23	CP488	Keywords in pages top 10 most used phrases	20	2	-0.19	-0.48	88.40%
24	DD015	DomDetailer Moz PA	73	43	-0.19	-0.42	40.86%
25	CP469	Keywords in Sentences	1,728	32	-0.19	-0.40	91.01%
26	CP127b	Keywords in Unique A Tag HREFs	2,560	43	-0.19	-0.43	94.36%
27	CKWD001	Clean Keyword Density in the HTML Tag	204	5	-0.19	-0.45	86.31%
28	CP127	Keywords in A Tag HREFs	3,423	63	-0.18	-0.42	94.88%
29	DD008	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Domains	2,388,627	330,790	-0.18	-0.24	45.35%
30	DD010	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Subnets	79,785	15,070	-0.18	-0.24	44.41%
31	CP097	Search Result Link Text Matches	12	2	-0.18	-0.46	81.19%
32	CP071	Search Result Display URL Matches	12	2	-0.18	-0.46	81.19%
33	CP375	Keywords in LI Tags	1,297	26	-0.18	-0.42	92.79%
34	DD006	DomDetailer Majestic IPs	351,761	53,830	-0.18	-0.24	45.04%
35	CP062	Ahrefs Referring Domains	2,638	87	-0.18	-0.26	16.93%
36	CP061	Ahrefs Referring Class C Addresses	1,228	49	-0.18	-0.27	17.03%
37	ENT018	Entities in Sentences	467	105	-0.18	-0.38	97.18%
38	CP487	Keywords in pages top 5 most used phrases	3	1	-0.18	-0.48	88.30%
39	CP063	Ahrefs Referring IP Addresses	2,174	74	-0.18	-0.26	17.03%
40	CP458	Page Size Kilobytes	461	141	-0.18	-0.45	88.19%
41	CP165	Keywords in H2 Tags	57	3	-0.18	-0.43	92.89%
42	CP135	Body Tag Size Kilobytes	260	78	-0.18	-0.44	90.28%
43	DD005	DomDetailer Majestic CF	69	37	-0.17	-0.41	42.01%
44	LSI002	LSI Words in Sentences	3,263	583	-0.17	-0.37	95.92%
45	CP067	Ahrefs Text Backlinks	545,183	12,621	-0.17	-0.22	17.03%
46	CPXX888	Number of HTML Tags	2,719	796	-0.17	-0.42	83.80%
47	CP064	Ahrefs Referring Pages	545,196	12,644	-0.17	-0.22	17.03%
48	CP002	Ahrefs Backlinks	545,196	12,644	-0.17	-0.22	17.03%
49	ENT001	Entities in HTML Tag	1,339	330	-0.17	-0.36	97.18%
50	DD013	DomDetailer Moz DA	88	43	-0.17	-0.38	39.18%
51	CP160	Leading Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	29	2	-0.17	-0.43	91.12%
52	CP470a	Search Terms in the HTML Tag	296	9	-0.17	-0.40	86.62%
53	ENT008	Entities in Meta Description Tag	13	3	-0.17	-0.44	68.34%
54	CP134a	Search Terms in Body Tag	217	11	-0.17	-0.39	91.54%
55	CP054	Ahrefs NoFollow Backlinks	117,683	1,964	-0.17	-0.23	17.03%
56	CP486	Keywords in pages top 3 most used phrases	2	1	-0.17	-0.46	85.89%
57	CP059	Ahrefs Rank	33	10	-0.17	-0.32	15.15%
58	CP492b	Unabridged Word Count	14,433	1,704	-0.17	-0.36	81.82%
59	CP999	Search Result Path Matches	29	1	-0.17	-0.43	77.85%
60	CP140	Clean Text Kilobytes	78	11	-0.17	-0.36	81.19%
61	CP113	Search Result URL Matches	37	1	-0.17	-0.43	80.36%
62	CP156	Leading Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	22	1	-0.17	-0.42	89.45%
63	CP109	Search Result Summary Text Matches	48	3	-0.17	-0.45	77.64%
64	GD001	Google Variation Density	351	5	-0.17	-0.42	85.48%
65	DD016	DomDetailer Moz Rank	9	5	-0.16	-0.38	37.83%
66	CP159a	Search Terms in H1-H6 Tags	10	1	-0.16	-0.45	87.46%
67	DD002	DomDetailer Facebook Shares	9,017,199	-7,108,175	-0.16	-0.25	43.36%
68	DD012	DomDetailer Majestic TF	64	29	-0.16	-0.38	40.44%
69	CP481	Keywords in Title Tag	14	2	-0.16	-0.42	79.41%
70	CP468	Number of Sentences	217	59	-0.16	-0.36	82.34%
71	QS003	Number of Questions	23	5	-0.16	-0.39	85.16%
72	CP492	Word Count	5,180	1,474	-0.16	-0.32	80.04%
73	CPXR018	Keywords in Nav Tags	5,533	52	-0.16	-0.39	89.34%
74	CP471	Keywords in Span Tags	634	13	-0.16	-0.39	89.13%
75	CPX003	Keywords in Main Tags	6,906	68	-0.16	-0.44	86.42%
76	CP004	Ahrefs Dofollow Backlinks	544,356	10,743	-0.16	-0.23	16.82%
77	DD007	DomDetailer Majestic Links	203,933,348	6,715,093	-0.16	-0.18	43.16%
78	CP137	Keywords in the Canonical URL	5	2	-0.16	-0.41	86.21%
79	CP425	Number of HTTPS Links	404	127	-0.16	-0.35	82.45%
80	CP410	Number of DoFollow Links	389	127	-0.16	-0.35	81.92%
81	CP146	Keywords in the First 100 Words	207	9	-0.16	-0.41	83.18%
82	ENT010	Title Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.16	-0.41	61.55%
83	DD014	DomDetailer Moz Links	138,462,603	15,075,267	-0.16	-0.24	43.78%
84	CP169	Keywords in H3 Tags	59	3	-0.16	-0.40	90.80%
85	CP431	Number of Internal Links	400	115	-0.16	-0.35	81.61%
86	ENT013	Has Entities in H2 Tags	1	1	-0.16	-0.46	68.65%
87	ENT005	Entities in H4 Tags	23	2	-0.16	-0.43	72.83%
88	CP381	Keywords in Meta Descriptions	39	2	-0.15	-0.41	82.97%
89	CP435	Number of Links	409	132	-0.15	-0.35	82.24%
90	CP124a	Keywords in Absolute URLs	5,590	69	-0.15	-0.37	90.18%
91	ENT002	Entities in H1 Tags	5	2	-0.15	-0.37	69.17%
92	CPXR24	Number of P Tags	156	36	-0.15	-0.36	85.37%
93	CP128	Keywords in Alt Attributes	223	6	-0.15	-0.36	89.97%
94	CP476	TF/IDF	1	1	-0.15	-0.44	80.88%
95	CPXR003	Number of Heading Tags	48	20	-0.15	-0.36	86.00%
96	CP072	Search Result Document Matches	27	1	-0.15	-0.41	73.77%
97	LSI001	LSI Words in Title Tag	14	5	-0.15	-0.36	92.27%
98	CP358	Inline Javascript Kilobytes	128	29	-0.15	-0.36	84.74%
99	ENT014	Has Entities in H3 Tags	1	1	-0.15	-0.45	67.82%
100	CP355	Keywords in ID Attributes	523	4	-0.15	-0.38	84.54%
101	PAGE009	Number of Prices	424	29	-0.15	-0.33	30.62%
102	CP383	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Description	44	2	-0.15	-0.38	82.34%
103	CP374	Keywords in the last 100 words	207	5	-0.15	-0.39	82.76%
104	DD011	DomDetailer Majestic Referring .gov Links	29,753,663	3,563,482	-0.15	-0.25	39.60%
105	LSI006	LSI Words in H2 Tags	77	15	-0.15	-0.35	95.40%
106	CP353	Head Size Kilobytes	126	43	-0.14	-0.39	82.24%
107	CP426	Number of Images	97	24	-0.14	-0.34	83.18%
108	CP152	Keywords in H1 Tags	8	1	-0.14	-0.35	82.13%
109	CP427	Number of Images with Alt Text	65	16	-0.14	-0.34	84.54%
110	CP357	Inline CSS Kilobytes	102	31	-0.14	-0.40	82.24%
111	ENT012	Has Entities in H1 Tags	1	1	-0.14	-0.41	64.47%
112	CP391	Number of Absolute URLs	351	126	-0.14	-0.34	82.76%
113	CP045	Ahrefs Has Text Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.36	16.72%
114	GD004	Google Density Exact Matches	39	2	-0.14	-0.37	70.64%
115	QS012	Headings Has Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	80.56%
116	QS004	Number of Questions In Headings	7	1	-0.14	-0.36	32.81%
117	CPXR006	Number of H3 Tags	20	7	-0.14	-0.35	84.64%
118	CP469a	Search Terms in Sentences	31	2	-0.14	-0.33	88.19%
119	CP017	Ahrefs Has Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.35	16.93%
120	CP104b	Search Result Publish Date	2,007,990,746	1,956,689,246	-0.14	-0.36	40.96%
121	CPX013	Keywords in Footer Tags	2,347	21	-0.14	-0.36	86.52%
122	CP038	Ahrefs Has NoFollow Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.36	16.20%
123	CP164	Leading Keywords in H2 Tags	7	1	-0.14	-0.37	86.42%
124	CP019	Ahrefs Has DoFollow Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.36	16.93%
125	CP484	Leading Keywords in Title Tag	1	0	-0.14	-0.41	77.32%
126	CP150a2	Search Terms in H2 Tags	5	0	-0.14	-0.38	86.73%
127	CP385	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Content	9	1	-0.14	-0.39	79.62%
128	CP099	Search Result Number of Dirs in Path	5	2	-0.14	-0.36	59.35%
129	ENT011	Meta Description Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.14	-0.41	58.10%
130	CPXR005	Number of H2 Tags	14	6	-0.14	-0.34	85.58%
131	CP472	Keywords making whole Span Tags	18	1	-0.13	-0.35	84.12%
132	CP376	Keywords making whole LI Tags	4	1	-0.13	-0.36	83.18%
133	CP424	Number of HREF Lang Tags	16	1	-0.13	-0.38	74.92%
134	CP151	Leading Keywords in H1 Tags	2	0	-0.13	-0.38	79.83%
135	CP147	Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease	159	103	-0.13	-0.29	26.75%
136	CP158	Keywords making whole H1-H6 Tags	5	0	-0.13	-0.40	78.16%
137	CP473	Keywords in Strong Tags	68	3	-0.13	-0.35	83.07%
138	GD003	Google Density Variations	5,765	48	-0.13	-0.35	78.47%
139	QS007	Number of Questions In H3 Tags	3	1	-0.13	-0.33	82.03%
140	CP114	Search Result Uses HTTPS	1	1	-0.13	-0.38	64.47%
141	LSI007	LSI Words in H3 Tags	62	14	-0.13	-0.33	93.31%
142	CP377	Load Time Milliseconds	45,255	2,085	-0.13	-0.30	71.58%
143	CP413	Number of External Links	68	17	-0.13	-0.31	76.59%
144	CP126a	Search Terms in A Tags	49	2	-0.13	-0.37	86.83%
145	QS006	Number of Questions In H2 Tags	4	1	-0.13	-0.36	83.28%
146	CPJLDxSA	Number Of JSON-LD Types	51	8	-0.13	-0.34	81.50%
147	CP154	Keywords making whole H1, H2, and H3 Tags	1	0	-0.13	-0.40	74.19%
148	CP467	Keywords in Section Tags	896	23	-0.13	-0.37	85.89%
149	CP050	Ahrefs Internal Links	330	72	-0.13	-0.27	16.72%
150	LSI003	LSI Words in Meta Description Tag	41	9	-0.13	-0.32	88.51%
151	CP177	Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	34	2	-0.13	-0.36	85.27%
152	CP407	Number of Bytes to First Match	9,972,428	500,637	-0.13	-0.29	63.22%
153	CP460	Percentage of DoFollow Internal Links	93	78	-0.13	-0.34	73.56%
154	CP477	Keywords in Title Attributes	325	7	-0.13	-0.33	86.10%
155	CP461	Percentage of DoFollow Links	100	92	-0.13	-0.32	70.74%
156	CP168	Leading Keywords in H3 Tags	13	0	-0.13	-0.35	81.82%
157	CP112	Search Result URL Length	100	56	-0.13	-0.32	45.04%
158	CP125	Keywords making whole A Tags	6	1	-0.13	-0.34	86.00%
159	CP483a	Search Terms in the Title Tag	2	0	-0.13	-0.36	83.07%
160	CP130	Keywords in Article Tags	843	21	-0.12	-0.36	75.76%
161	CP173	Keywords in H4 Tags	27	1	-0.12	-0.35	84.22%
162	BYTES01	Bytes To First P Tag	81,393	53,306	-0.12	-0.37	69.28%
163	CP479	Title Has Sales Words	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	74.19%
164	ENT015	Has Entities in H4 Tags	1	0	-0.12	-0.39	61.44%
165	CP409	Number of DoFollow External Links	58	15	-0.12	-0.28	76.91%
166	CP479ii	Title Has Sentiment Words	1	0	-0.12	-0.37	73.15%
167	CP439	Number of NoFollow Externa Links	21	2	-0.12	-0.32	76.70%
168	CP481b	Word Count in Meta Description Tag	83	20	-0.12	-0.32	69.17%
169	CP485	Keywords in pages most used phrase	2	0	-0.12	-0.37	78.89%
170	CP313	Has Privacy Policy	1	1	-0.12	-0.38	71.16%
171	ENT006	Entities in H5 Tags	4	1	-0.12	-0.34	63.64%
172	CPJLD011	Has JSON-LD Answer	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	68.97%
173	CPJLD217	Has JSON-LD Question	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	69.17%
174	CP451	Number of US Phone Numbers	67	9	-0.12	-0.30	81.40%
175	CP380	Meta Description Length	507	125	-0.12	-0.31	69.49%
176	CP225	Has Meta Description	1	1	-0.12	-0.37	63.32%
177	CP440	Number of NoFollow Links	30	4	-0.12	-0.29	74.92%
178	CP139	Keywords in Class Attributes	6,663	43	-0.12	-0.31	78.89%
179	CP106	Search Result Summary Has Ellipsis	1	1	-0.12	-0.37	50.57%
180	CP204	Has Canonical URL	1	1	-0.11	-0.36	72.83%
181	CP319	Has Schema Markup	1	1	-0.11	-0.37	73.77%
182	CPXR007	Number of H4 Tags	16	4	-0.11	-0.30	78.47%
183	CP150a	Search Terms in H1 Tags	1	0	-0.11	-0.34	82.24%
184	CP148	Flesch Kincaid Reading Grade	8	4	-0.11	-0.26	25.18%
185	CP479b	Title Has Year	1	0	-0.11	-0.34	71.26%
186	LSI005	LSI Words in H1 Tags	13	4	-0.11	-0.27	89.66%
187	CP208	Has Copyright	1	1	-0.11	-0.36	66.46%
188	CP181	Keywords in H5 Tags	8	0	-0.11	-0.32	78.16%
189	CP056	Ahrefs Pages	6	1	-0.11	-0.24	16.51%
190	CPXR002	Number of HTML Comments	558	28	-0.11	-0.30	75.65%
191	DD001	DomDetailer Facebook Comments	462	62	-0.11	-0.28	37.20%
192	CPX005	Keywords in Aside Tags	1,785	8	-0.11	-0.34	72.41%
193	CPJLD127	Has JSON-LD ItemList	1	0	-0.11	-0.34	41.48%
194	CPXR011	Keywords in Button Tags	1,219	5	-0.11	-0.33	80.04%
195	CP428	Number of Images without Alt Text	47	9	-0.11	-0.29	74.09%
196	CP444	Number of Social Accounts	5	1	-0.11	-0.31	69.80%
197	CP096	Search Result Link Text Length	58	50	-0.11	-0.32	56.43%
198	CP414	Number of Facebook Accounts	3	1	-0.11	-0.31	69.07%
199	CP082	Search Result Has Params	1	0	-0.11	-0.36	46.60%
200	CPXR008	Number of H5 Tags	7	1	-0.11	-0.30	74.40%

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