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Top SEO Factors - 2022-03-03      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 - 2022-03-03 - 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	-0.32	-0.59	0.82%
2	CPZZZ50	Number of Top 50 Shared Factors Used	44	24	-0.32	-0.56	68.44%
3	CPZZZ100	Number of Top 100 Shared Factors Used	86	51	-0.31	-0.57	65.78%
4	ENT000a	Number of Entities Used	65	25	-0.28	-0.61	75.48%
5	CPJLD238	Has JSON-LD SingleFamilyResidence	1	0	-0.28	-0.55	1.74%
6	CPZZZ	Number of Factors Used	219	133	-0.27	-0.53	88.47%
7	CPZZZ200	Number of Top 200 Shared Factors Used	147	93	-0.27	-0.53	67.43%
8	CP059	Ahrefs Rank	39	16	-0.24	-0.46	13.27%
9	CP061	Ahrefs Referring Class C Addresses	591	48	-0.23	-0.34	15.37%
10	CP063	Ahrefs Referring IP Addresses	907	64	-0.23	-0.33	15.37%
11	CP062	Ahrefs Referring Domains	5,073	108	-0.23	-0.31	15.46%
12	CP134	Keywords in Body Tag	2,772	175	-0.23	-0.52	84.26%
13	CP470	Keywords in the HTML Tag	4,076	185	-0.22	-0.50	91.95%
14	CP054	Ahrefs NoFollow Backlinks	96,161	1,085	-0.22	-0.30	15.37%
15	CP067	Ahrefs Text Backlinks	212,363	6,620	-0.22	-0.25	15.55%
16	CP002	Ahrefs Backlinks	212,384	6,599	-0.22	-0.25	15.55%
17	CP064	Ahrefs Referring Pages	212,384	6,627	-0.22	-0.25	15.55%
18	ENT003	Entities in H2 Tags	26	6	-0.21	-0.50	63.95%
19	ENT009	Entities in Title Tag	8	2	-0.21	-0.50	61.57%
20	ENT004	Entities in H3 Tags	32	5	-0.21	-0.51	64.59%
21	CP161	Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	59	8	-0.21	-0.47	85.73%
22	CPX010	Keywords in Div Tags	1,681	112	-0.21	-0.46	90.30%
23	CP157	Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	42	7	-0.21	-0.47	85.91%
24	CP129	Keywords in A Tags	222	25	-0.20	-0.47	86.00%
25	CP004	Ahrefs Dofollow Backlinks	207,173	5,688	-0.20	-0.25	15.19%
26	CP104z	Search Result Has Publish Date	1	1	-0.20	-0.36	1.28%
27	CP153	Keywords in H1 and H2 Tags	24	4	-0.20	-0.46	84.45%
28	CP465	Keywords in P Tags	628	34	-0.19	-0.44	93.69%
29	CP127	Keywords in A Tag HREFs	327	47	-0.19	-0.45	85.54%
30	CP097	Search Result Link Text Matches	3	1	-0.19	-0.48	74.11%
31	CP071	Search Result Display URL Matches	3	1	-0.19	-0.48	74.11%
32	CP127b	Keywords in Unique A Tag HREFs	199	32	-0.19	-0.44	86.18%
33	CP375	Keywords in LI Tags	166	18	-0.19	-0.45	84.63%
34	CP038	Ahrefs Has NoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.52	15.65%
35	CP135	Body Tag Size Kilobytes	230	85	-0.19	-0.45	90.76%
36	CP458	Page Size Kilobytes	324	152	-0.19	-0.47	86.92%
37	CP045	Ahrefs Has Text Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.50	15.65%
38	CP017	Ahrefs Has Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.50	15.55%
39	CP475	Term Frequency	8	3	-0.19	-0.44	90.76%
40	CP469	Keywords in Sentences	584	25	-0.19	-0.41	90.48%
41	CP165	Keywords in H2 Tags	20	3	-0.18	-0.45	84.90%
42	DD015	DomDetailer Moz PA	73	45	-0.18	-0.42	23.33%
43	CKWD001	Clean Keyword Density in the HTML Tag	44	4	-0.18	-0.45	74.93%
44	DD005	DomDetailer Majestic CF	69	39	-0.18	-0.43	23.70%
45	CP160	Leading Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	16	2	-0.18	-0.44	83.17%
46	CP156	Leading Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	11	1	-0.18	-0.44	82.62%
47	CP492b	Unabridged Word Count	5,312	1,695	-0.18	-0.40	87.37%
48	CP019	Ahrefs Has DoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.18	-0.48	14.91%
49	DD010	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Subnets	56,995	13,442	-0.18	-0.21	26.35%
50	DD013	DomDetailer Moz DA	88	43	-0.18	-0.39	22.23%
51	CP134a	Search Terms in Body Tag	41,380	42	-0.18	-0.40	85.36%
52	CPXX888	Number of HTML Tags	2,692	905	-0.18	-0.44	85.18%
53	CP140	Clean Text Kilobytes	51	11	-0.18	-0.40	84.90%
54	DD006	DomDetailer Majestic IPs	203,830	48,171	-0.18	-0.21	26.81%
55	CP465c	Keywords in script Tags	224	33	-0.18	-0.42	94.14%
56	CP124a	Keywords in Absolute URLs	331	44	-0.18	-0.40	82.80%
57	CP999	Search Result Path Matches	4	2	-0.18	-0.44	67.34%
58	GD001	Google Variation Density	10	2	-0.17	-0.44	73.47%
59	CP113	Search Result URL Matches	5	2	-0.17	-0.44	71.91%
60	CP470a	Search Terms in the HTML Tag	45,232	41	-0.17	-0.40	89.94%
61	DD008	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Domains	1,517,305	299,050	-0.17	-0.21	27.54%
62	CP488	Keywords in pages top 10 most used phrases	6	2	-0.17	-0.45	87.01%
63	DD016	DomDetailer Moz Rank	9	5	-0.17	-0.40	21.32%
64	CP050	Ahrefs Internal Links	556	119	-0.17	-0.33	15.28%
65	ENT008	Entities in Meta Description Tag	13	3	-0.17	-0.44	58.01%
66	CP128	Keywords in Alt Attributes	53	7	-0.17	-0.40	82.16%
67	CP108	Search Result Summary Length	357	157	-0.17	-0.39	61.57%
68	CP468	Number of Sentences	217	59	-0.17	-0.38	83.62%
69	CP005	Ahrefs Domain Rating	77	39	-0.17	-0.37	10.61%
70	ENT002	Entities in H1 Tags	6	2	-0.17	-0.41	56.54%
71	CP072	Search Result Document Matches	4	1	-0.17	-0.43	62.67%
72	CP146	Keywords in the First 100 Words	62	7	-0.17	-0.45	72.37%
73	DD007	DomDetailer Majestic Links	161,489,318	-4,342,609	-0.17	-0.24	25.71%
74	ENT018	Entities in Sentences	467	85	-0.17	-0.36	97.80%
75	CP137	Keywords in the Canonical URL	5	2	-0.17	-0.44	77.13%
76	GD004	Google Density Exact Matches	93	3	-0.16	-0.41	63.95%
77	DD012	DomDetailer Majestic TF	64	29	-0.16	-0.37	23.79%
78	CP425	Number of HTTPS Links	528	151	-0.16	-0.39	82.34%
79	CP007	Ahrefs External Links	139	24	-0.16	-0.30	14.73%
80	CP492	Word Count	5,477	1,624	-0.16	-0.29	84.54%
81	CP169	Keywords in H3 Tags	19	3	-0.16	-0.40	84.17%
82	CP471	Keywords in Span Tags	172	9	-0.16	-0.38	89.02%
83	CPXR24	Number of P Tags	145	37	-0.16	-0.39	81.98%
84	CP481	Keywords in Title Tag	3	1	-0.16	-0.41	77.31%
85	CP435	Number of Links	530	155	-0.16	-0.39	83.90%
86	CP410	Number of DoFollow Links	519	150	-0.16	-0.38	81.24%
87	ENT005	Entities in H4 Tags	12	2	-0.16	-0.44	61.12%
88	CP381	Keywords in Meta Descriptions	10	2	-0.16	-0.42	76.03%
89	CP487	Keywords in pages top 5 most used phrases	3	1	-0.16	-0.44	86.09%
90	CPXR018	Keywords in Nav Tags	371	19	-0.16	-0.37	83.53%
91	CP431	Number of Internal Links	516	138	-0.16	-0.38	84.26%
92	CP056	Ahrefs Pages	7	2	-0.16	-0.36	14.82%
93	CP427	Number of Images with Alt Text	59	19	-0.16	-0.36	83.07%
94	CPX003	Keywords in Main Tags	699	48	-0.16	-0.44	82.25%
95	LSI002	LSI Words in Sentences	3,263	534	-0.16	-0.33	96.34%
96	CP159a	Search Terms in H1-H6 Tags	580	1	-0.16	-0.40	81.79%
97	CPXR003	Number of Heading Tags	54	21	-0.16	-0.37	85.36%
98	ENT001	Entities in HTML Tag	1,248	261	-0.16	-0.34	95.61%
99	CP358	Inline Javascript Kilobytes	124	33	-0.15	-0.37	83.17%
100	QS003	Number of Questions	56	6	-0.15	-0.35	74.57%
101	CP109	Search Result Summary Text Matches	6	3	-0.15	-0.42	57.27%
102	CP152	Keywords in H1 Tags	3	1	-0.15	-0.39	72.00%
103	CP070	Ahrefs Word Count	3,437	1,325	-0.15	-0.32	11.53%
104	ENT010	Title Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.15	-0.43	59.84%
105	CP151	Leading Keywords in H1 Tags	1	0	-0.15	-0.42	74.02%
106	DD002	DomDetailer Facebook Shares	7,338,569	-5,177,120	-0.15	-0.24	24.61%
107	GD003	Google Density Variations	681	37	-0.15	-0.37	68.62%
108	DD014	DomDetailer Moz Links	101,196,593	15,077,461	-0.15	-0.24	27.26%
109	CP426	Number of Images	251	28	-0.15	-0.34	82.07%
110	QS004	Number of Questions In Headings	5	2	-0.15	-0.35	22.78%
111	CPX013	Keywords in Footer Tags	201	7	-0.15	-0.39	75.94%
112	ENT013	Has Entities in H2 Tags	1	1	-0.15	-0.45	63.68%
113	CP052	Ahrefs Linked Root Domains	20	7	-0.15	-0.30	14.91%
114	CP374	Keywords in the last 100 words	52	4	-0.15	-0.39	72.74%
115	CP476	TF/IDF	1	1	-0.15	-0.42	79.14%
116	CPJLDxSA	Number Of JSON-LD Types	51	9	-0.15	-0.38	81.34%
117	CP383	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Description	11	2	-0.15	-0.40	73.56%
118	CPXR006	Number of H3 Tags	23	7	-0.15	-0.36	84.72%
119	CPXR005	Number of H2 Tags	18	6	-0.14	-0.34	81.52%
120	CP385	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Content	3	1	-0.14	-0.41	68.16%
121	CPJLD247	Has JSON-LD State	1	0	-0.14	-0.40	8.42%
122	CP486	Keywords in pages top 3 most used phrases	2	1	-0.14	-0.41	86.00%
123	CP048	Ahrefs Image Backlinks	62,760	1,365	-0.14	-0.28	14.09%
124	CP034	Ahrefs Has Internal Links	1	1	-0.14	-0.43	13.27%
125	QS012	Headings Has Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	66.79%
126	ENT014	Has Entities in H3 Tags	1	1	-0.14	-0.43	65.69%
127	CP355	Keywords in ID Attributes	47	1	-0.14	-0.38	77.13%
128	CP022	Ahrefs Has External Links	1	1	-0.14	-0.43	13.91%
129	DD011	DomDetailer Majestic Referring .gov Links	20,397,405	3,198,178	-0.14	-0.26	24.43%
130	CP164	Leading Keywords in H2 Tags	5	1	-0.14	-0.38	78.32%
131	CP391	Number of Absolute URLs	530	137	-0.14	-0.35	81.15%
132	CPJLD048	Has JSON-LD City	1	0	-0.14	-0.41	12.99%
133	CP125	Keywords making whole A Tags	10	1	-0.14	-0.37	77.22%
134	CP483a	Search Terms in the Title Tag	2	0	-0.14	-0.38	80.88%
135	ENT012	Has Entities in H1 Tags	1	1	-0.14	-0.42	59.56%
136	CP036	Ahrefs Has Linked Root Domains	1	1	-0.14	-0.41	13.08%
137	CP126a	Search Terms in A Tags	5,398	6	-0.14	-0.35	81.61%
138	CP057	Ahrefs Page Size	61,001	28,394	-0.14	-0.28	10.89%
139	CP484	Leading Keywords in Title Tag	1	0	-0.14	-0.40	79.60%
140	CPJLD083	Has JSON-LD Event	1	0	-0.14	-0.36	6.22%
141	CP469a	Search Terms in Sentences	2,406	3	-0.14	-0.35	89.11%
142	QS006	Number of Questions In H2 Tags	3	1	-0.14	-0.36	71.09%
143	CP413	Number of External Links	71	17	-0.14	-0.30	75.11%
144	CP032	Ahrefs Has Image Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.39	13.45%
145	PAGE009	Number of Prices	191	35	-0.14	-0.32	58.46%
146	CP377	Load Time Milliseconds	116,157	2,691	-0.13	-0.29	65.23%
147	CP150a	Search Terms in H1 Tags	57	0	-0.13	-0.37	74.02%
148	CP049	Ahrefs Images	52	20	-0.13	-0.30	11.16%
149	CP477	Keywords in Title Attributes	51	6	-0.13	-0.35	85.09%
150	CPJLD011	Has JSON-LD Answer	1	0	-0.13	-0.41	57.55%
151	CP376	Keywords making whole LI Tags	9	1	-0.13	-0.36	77.49%
152	CP168	Leading Keywords in H3 Tags	5	0	-0.13	-0.36	79.23%
153	CP409	Number of DoFollow External Links	55	14	-0.13	-0.29	73.83%
154	QS007	Number of Questions In H3 Tags	3	1	-0.13	-0.35	69.81%
155	CP473	Keywords in Strong Tags	15	2	-0.13	-0.33	82.07%
156	CPJLD217	Has JSON-LD Question	1	0	-0.13	-0.41	57.55%
157	LSI001	LSI Words in Title Tag	14	5	-0.13	-0.31	92.59%
158	PAGE010	Number of Schema Products	4	1	-0.13	-0.40	31.56%
159	ENT011	Meta Description Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.13	-0.40	57.82%
160	CP158	Keywords making whole H1-H6 Tags	3	0	-0.13	-0.37	75.02%
161	PAGE005	Is Pagination Page	1	0	-0.13	-0.39	43.00%
162	CPXR002	Number of HTML Comments	637	30	-0.13	-0.34	75.85%
163	CP130	Keywords in Article Tags	399	20	-0.13	-0.39	73.10%
164	CP472	Keywords making whole Span Tags	11	1	-0.13	-0.35	84.63%
165	CP353	Head Size Kilobytes	117	42	-0.13	-0.34	78.13%
166	CPJLD060	Has JSON-LD Country	1	0	-0.13	-0.40	16.47%
167	LSI006	LSI Words in H2 Tags	82	14	-0.13	-0.29	95.70%
168	CP357	Inline CSS Kilobytes	83	29	-0.13	-0.35	76.76%
169	CP177	Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	16	1	-0.13	-0.34	74.93%
170	CP467	Keywords in Section Tags	407	17	-0.13	-0.35	83.99%
171	CP114	Search Result Uses HTTPS	1	1	-0.12	-0.36	57.00%
172	CP150a2	Search Terms in H2 Tags	177	1	-0.12	-0.35	81.15%
173	CP451	Number of US Phone Numbers	67	7	-0.12	-0.32	75.21%
174	CP154	Keywords making whole H1, H2, and H3 Tags	2	0	-0.12	-0.36	74.75%
175	CP099	Search Result Number of Dirs in Path	3	2	-0.12	-0.34	57.27%
176	CPJLDxCB	Number Of Claimed Brands	10	1	-0.12	-0.36	72.19%
177	CP060	Ahrefs Redirects	30	2	-0.12	-0.28	12.72%
178	ENT015	Has Entities in H4 Tags	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	54.80%
179	CP380	Meta Description Length	560	130	-0.12	-0.31	72.10%
180	CP444	Number of Social Accounts	20	1	-0.12	-0.33	73.19%
181	CP020	Ahrefs Has Domain Rating	1	1	-0.12	-0.39	9.70%
182	PAGE001	Is Home Page	1	0	-0.12	-0.37	31.29%
183	CP356	Keywords in I Tags	23	4	-0.12	-0.34	72.55%
184	CP173	Keywords in H4 Tags	12	1	-0.12	-0.34	75.21%
185	CP440	Number of NoFollow Links	38	6	-0.12	-0.30	78.59%
186	CP424	Number of HREF Lang Tags	43	1	-0.12	-0.33	69.90%
187	PAGE008	Is Store Page	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	47.30%
188	CP481b	Word Count in Meta Description Tag	90	21	-0.12	-0.31	71.09%
189	CP430	Number of Instagram Pages	10	1	-0.12	-0.31	74.11%
190	CP139	Keywords in Class Attributes	534	6	-0.12	-0.32	74.29%
191	CP485	Keywords in pages most used phrase	1	0	-0.12	-0.36	77.04%
192	CP460	Percentage of DoFollow Internal Links	94	80	-0.12	-0.30	69.62%
193	CP021	Ahrefs Has EDU Backlinks	1	0	-0.12	-0.35	9.42%
194	CP006	Ahrefs Edu Backlinks	2,935	37	-0.12	-0.30	10.34%
195	CPJLDxKA	Number Of JSON-LD Entity References	5	1	-0.12	-0.36	64.32%
196	CPXR007	Number of H4 Tags	30	4	-0.12	-0.30	74.02%
197	CP384	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Site Name	2	0	-0.12	-0.34	65.97%
198	GD002	Google Exact Match Density	4	0	-0.12	-0.36	37.60%
199	CP445	Number of Social Pages	14	3	-0.12	-0.29	73.65%
200	CP454	Number of YouTube Accounts	1	0	-0.12	-0.34	70.81%

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