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Top SEO Factors - 2022-03-10      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 - 2022-03-10 - 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	43	24	-0.31	-0.55	74.09%
2	CPZZZ100	Number of Top 100 Shared Factors Used	86	52	-0.31	-0.55	71.81%
3	CPJLD238	Has JSON-LD SingleFamilyResidence	1	0	-0.30	-0.60	0.97%
4	ENT000a	Number of Entities Used	65	26	-0.29	-0.62	75.06%
5	CPZZZ200	Number of Top 200 Shared Factors Used	147	93	-0.27	-0.53	72.87%
6	PAGE002	Is Inner Page	1	1	-0.26	-0.55	0.41%
7	CPZZZ	Number of Factors Used	219	137	-0.26	-0.53	89.11%
8	CP104z	Search Result Has Publish Date	1	1	-0.25	-0.51	0.41%
9	CP063	Ahrefs Referring IP Addresses	5,114	99	-0.24	-0.37	15.84%
10	CP061	Ahrefs Referring Class C Addresses	3,086	72	-0.24	-0.37	15.84%
11	CP062	Ahrefs Referring Domains	7,398	158	-0.24	-0.36	15.84%
12	CP054	Ahrefs NoFollow Backlinks	96,161	1,117	-0.23	-0.34	15.68%
13	CP134	Keywords in Body Tag	2,772	176	-0.23	-0.52	85.78%
14	CP470	Keywords in the HTML Tag	4,076	190	-0.23	-0.51	92.85%
15	CP002	Ahrefs Backlinks	481,086	8,520	-0.23	-0.29	15.92%
16	CP064	Ahrefs Referring Pages	481,086	8,549	-0.23	-0.29	15.92%
17	CP067	Ahrefs Text Backlinks	480,968	8,514	-0.23	-0.29	16.00%
18	CP059	Ahrefs Rank	64	18	-0.23	-0.46	12.51%
19	ENT003	Entities in H2 Tags	35	6	-0.22	-0.50	65.07%
20	ENT009	Entities in Title Tag	7	3	-0.22	-0.51	61.82%
21	ENT004	Entities in H3 Tags	32	6	-0.22	-0.51	65.31%
22	CP161	Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	59	8	-0.21	-0.48	86.92%
23	CP157	Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	42	7	-0.21	-0.48	86.92%
24	CP004	Ahrefs Dofollow Backlinks	439,936	7,559	-0.21	-0.29	15.68%
25	CPX010	Keywords in Div Tags	1,681	113	-0.21	-0.47	90.25%
26	CP129	Keywords in A Tags	222	25	-0.21	-0.46	86.68%
27	CP465	Keywords in P Tags	628	34	-0.20	-0.46	93.66%
28	CP153	Keywords in H1 and H2 Tags	24	4	-0.20	-0.46	84.48%
29	CP127	Keywords in A Tag HREFs	272	47	-0.19	-0.44	85.87%
30	CP375	Keywords in LI Tags	166	18	-0.19	-0.45	85.30%
31	CP127b	Keywords in Unique A Tag HREFs	172	31	-0.19	-0.44	84.89%
32	CP135	Body Tag Size Kilobytes	474	85	-0.19	-0.46	90.90%
33	CP469	Keywords in Sentences	584	26	-0.19	-0.42	90.74%
34	CP038	Ahrefs Has NoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.52	15.52%
35	CP071	Search Result Display URL Matches	3	1	-0.19	-0.48	73.92%
36	CP097	Search Result Link Text Matches	3	1	-0.19	-0.47	74.00%
37	CP045	Ahrefs Has Text Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.50	15.60%
38	CP475	Term Frequency	7	3	-0.19	-0.44	90.50%
39	CP017	Ahrefs Has Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.50	15.60%
40	CP165	Keywords in H2 Tags	20	3	-0.19	-0.45	85.05%
41	CP458	Page Size Kilobytes	563	153	-0.19	-0.47	87.81%
42	CKWD001	Clean Keyword Density in the HTML Tag	44	4	-0.19	-0.45	74.25%
43	CP160	Leading Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	16	2	-0.19	-0.45	84.16%
44	CP019	Ahrefs Has DoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.48	15.35%
45	DD005	DomDetailer Majestic CF	61	39	-0.18	-0.43	25.75%
46	CP156	Leading Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	11	1	-0.18	-0.45	83.92%
47	DD015	DomDetailer Moz PA	68	46	-0.18	-0.43	25.59%
48	CP134a	Search Terms in Body Tag	330	13	-0.18	-0.41	85.70%
49	CP492b	Unabridged Word Count	9,191	1,718	-0.18	-0.41	89.52%
50	CP470a	Search Terms in the HTML Tag	409	11	-0.18	-0.42	89.76%
51	DD010	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Subnets	85,873	14,444	-0.18	-0.22	28.27%
52	CP140	Clean Text Kilobytes	53	11	-0.18	-0.41	87.16%
53	CP465c	Keywords in script Tags	224	34	-0.18	-0.43	94.56%
54	CP050	Ahrefs Internal Links	889	132	-0.18	-0.36	15.68%
55	CP999	Search Result Path Matches	4	2	-0.18	-0.45	68.56%
56	GD001	Google Variation Density	10	2	-0.18	-0.43	74.09%
57	ENT002	Entities in H1 Tags	6	2	-0.18	-0.42	56.86%
58	ENT018	Entities in Sentences	449	89	-0.18	-0.37	98.13%
59	DD006	DomDetailer Majestic IPs	377,103	52,396	-0.18	-0.21	29.00%
60	CP488	Keywords in pages top 10 most used phrases	6	2	-0.17	-0.45	85.70%
61	CP113	Search Result URL Matches	5	2	-0.17	-0.44	72.14%
62	CP124a	Keywords in Absolute URLs	259	45	-0.17	-0.40	84.08%
63	CPXX888	Number of HTML Tags	2,552	892	-0.17	-0.43	85.22%
64	CP128	Keywords in Alt Attributes	53	7	-0.17	-0.41	82.94%
65	CP005	Ahrefs Domain Rating	83	40	-0.17	-0.39	10.07%
66	DD008	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Domains	2,504,608	332,001	-0.17	-0.22	29.98%
67	CP468	Number of Sentences	204	61	-0.17	-0.39	85.70%
68	DD013	DomDetailer Moz DA	81	44	-0.17	-0.39	24.94%
69	ENT008	Entities in Meta Description Tag	11	3	-0.17	-0.44	57.84%
70	DD007	DomDetailer Majestic Links	60,417,191	-4,952,771	-0.17	-0.25	27.54%
71	CP146	Keywords in the First 100 Words	62	7	-0.17	-0.45	71.73%
72	CP137	Keywords in the Canonical URL	5	2	-0.17	-0.44	78.23%
73	CP108	Search Result Summary Length	404	160	-0.17	-0.39	60.44%
74	CP169	Keywords in H3 Tags	19	3	-0.17	-0.41	84.73%
75	CP007	Ahrefs External Links	734	28	-0.17	-0.33	14.87%
76	CP072	Search Result Document Matches	4	1	-0.17	-0.44	63.61%
77	DD012	DomDetailer Majestic TF	56	29	-0.17	-0.38	26.16%
78	GD004	Google Density Exact Matches	93	3	-0.17	-0.41	64.50%
79	CPXR24	Number of P Tags	147	37	-0.17	-0.40	83.75%
80	CP487	Keywords in pages top 5 most used phrases	3	1	-0.16	-0.45	86.35%
81	CP492	Word Count	5,477	1,659	-0.16	-0.29	86.60%
82	ENT005	Entities in H4 Tags	15	2	-0.16	-0.45	62.47%
83	DD016	DomDetailer Moz Rank	8	5	-0.16	-0.40	24.13%
84	CP425	Number of HTTPS Links	528	149	-0.16	-0.39	81.07%
85	CP481	Keywords in Title Tag	3	1	-0.16	-0.41	77.58%
86	ENT001	Entities in HTML Tag	1,375	275	-0.16	-0.35	96.02%
87	CP159a	Search Terms in H1-H6 Tags	17	1	-0.16	-0.41	82.86%
88	CP471	Keywords in Span Tags	172	9	-0.16	-0.38	90.01%
89	CP435	Number of Links	530	153	-0.16	-0.38	82.70%
90	CPXR018	Keywords in Nav Tags	371	19	-0.16	-0.38	81.64%
91	CP410	Number of DoFollow Links	519	148	-0.16	-0.38	80.67%
92	CP381	Keywords in Meta Descriptions	10	2	-0.16	-0.42	76.20%
93	CP070	Ahrefs Word Count	3,437	1,329	-0.16	-0.33	11.21%
94	QS003	Number of Questions	61	6	-0.16	-0.35	76.69%
95	CPXR003	Number of Heading Tags	54	21	-0.16	-0.38	85.70%
96	CP427	Number of Images with Alt Text	55	18	-0.16	-0.37	83.35%
97	CP056	Ahrefs Pages	7	2	-0.16	-0.36	14.78%
98	CP152	Keywords in H1 Tags	3	1	-0.16	-0.39	71.49%
99	CPX003	Keywords in Main Tags	699	48	-0.16	-0.44	82.86%
100	CP431	Number of Internal Links	516	136	-0.16	-0.37	83.10%
101	CP358	Inline Javascript Kilobytes	429	33	-0.16	-0.37	83.18%
102	CP048	Ahrefs Image Backlinks	104,076	1,613	-0.16	-0.31	14.46%
103	DD002	DomDetailer Facebook Shares	9,909,915	-5,460,253	-0.15	-0.24	25.43%
104	LSI002	LSI Words in Sentences	2,909	515	-0.15	-0.33	96.91%
105	CP151	Leading Keywords in H1 Tags	1	0	-0.15	-0.43	74.57%
106	ENT013	Has Entities in H2 Tags	1	1	-0.15	-0.46	63.53%
107	DD014	DomDetailer Moz Links	113,105,005	17,481,327	-0.15	-0.24	29.33%
108	CP032	Ahrefs Has Image Backlinks	1	0	-0.15	-0.43	13.48%
109	ENT010	Title Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.15	-0.42	57.51%
110	QS004	Number of Questions In Headings	6	2	-0.15	-0.38	22.01%
111	GD003	Google Density Variations	681	37	-0.15	-0.37	68.16%
112	CPX013	Keywords in Footer Tags	201	7	-0.15	-0.39	75.63%
113	CP109	Search Result Summary Text Matches	6	3	-0.15	-0.41	55.73%
114	CP486	Keywords in pages top 3 most used phrases	2	1	-0.15	-0.42	85.05%
115	CP426	Number of Images	251	28	-0.15	-0.33	83.27%
116	CP476	TF/IDF	1	1	-0.15	-0.43	79.37%
117	CP052	Ahrefs Linked Root Domains	20	7	-0.15	-0.33	15.19%
118	CPXR006	Number of H3 Tags	23	7	-0.15	-0.37	84.89%
119	CPJLDxSA	Number Of JSON-LD Types	52	9	-0.15	-0.38	80.02%
120	CP374	Keywords in the last 100 words	52	4	-0.15	-0.38	73.60%
121	QS012	Headings Has Question	1	0	-0.15	-0.43	68.56%
122	ENT012	Has Entities in H1 Tags	1	1	-0.15	-0.43	58.16%
123	ENT014	Has Entities in H3 Tags	1	1	-0.15	-0.44	65.15%
124	CPXR005	Number of H2 Tags	18	6	-0.14	-0.35	83.18%
125	CP385	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Content	3	1	-0.14	-0.41	69.29%
126	CP383	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Description	11	2	-0.14	-0.39	76.20%
127	CPJLD247	Has JSON-LD State	1	0	-0.14	-0.40	7.55%
128	CPJLD048	Has JSON-LD City	1	0	-0.14	-0.42	13.00%
129	CP483a	Search Terms in the Title Tag	2	0	-0.14	-0.39	80.50%
130	CP164	Leading Keywords in H2 Tags	5	1	-0.14	-0.38	79.12%
131	CP126a	Search Terms in A Tags	54	2	-0.14	-0.36	82.45%
132	CP125	Keywords making whole A Tags	10	1	-0.14	-0.37	77.66%
133	CP355	Keywords in ID Attributes	47	1	-0.14	-0.38	76.69%
134	CP469a	Search Terms in Sentences	31	2	-0.14	-0.36	89.03%
135	QS006	Number of Questions In H2 Tags	3	1	-0.14	-0.37	71.97%
136	CP391	Number of Absolute URLs	530	140	-0.14	-0.36	82.05%
137	CP484	Leading Keywords in Title Tag	1	0	-0.14	-0.41	77.90%
138	CP413	Number of External Links	71	17	-0.14	-0.32	74.65%
139	DD011	DomDetailer Majestic Referring .gov Links	30,469,197	3,734,146	-0.14	-0.24	27.21%
140	CP034	Ahrefs Has Internal Links	1	1	-0.14	-0.42	13.48%
141	CP049	Ahrefs Images	67	21	-0.14	-0.29	10.64%
142	PAGE009	Number of Prices	374	35	-0.14	-0.33	64.99%
143	CPJLD011	Has JSON-LD Answer	1	0	-0.14	-0.42	60.84%
144	QS007	Number of Questions In H3 Tags	11	1	-0.14	-0.36	70.27%
145	CPJLD217	Has JSON-LD Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.42	60.84%
146	CP477	Keywords in Title Attributes	51	6	-0.14	-0.36	83.83%
147	CP473	Keywords in Strong Tags	15	2	-0.13	-0.33	83.43%
148	CP057	Ahrefs Page Size	61,001	29,931	-0.13	-0.27	10.56%
149	CP376	Keywords making whole LI Tags	9	1	-0.13	-0.37	76.36%
150	CP409	Number of DoFollow External Links	55	15	-0.13	-0.30	72.79%
151	CPJLD083	Has JSON-LD Event	1	0	-0.13	-0.36	4.96%
152	CP150a	Search Terms in H1 Tags	2	0	-0.13	-0.37	75.14%
153	CP168	Leading Keywords in H3 Tags	5	0	-0.13	-0.37	79.61%
154	CP006	Ahrefs Edu Backlinks	61,291	332	-0.13	-0.31	11.05%
155	CP036	Ahrefs Has Linked Root Domains	1	1	-0.13	-0.41	13.32%
156	CP021	Ahrefs Has EDU Backlinks	1	0	-0.13	-0.38	10.15%
157	CP060	Ahrefs Redirects	92	3	-0.13	-0.30	13.16%
158	CP022	Ahrefs Has External Links	1	1	-0.13	-0.40	14.13%
159	CP377	Load Time Milliseconds	116,157	2,581	-0.13	-0.28	63.61%
160	CP130	Keywords in Article Tags	399	20	-0.13	-0.39	72.95%
161	CP467	Keywords in Section Tags	407	17	-0.13	-0.37	84.16%
162	CP158	Keywords making whole H1-H6 Tags	3	0	-0.13	-0.37	75.63%
163	CP177	Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	16	1	-0.13	-0.35	76.44%
164	CP041	Ahrefs Has Redirects	1	0	-0.13	-0.37	11.86%
165	CP357	Inline CSS Kilobytes	83	31	-0.13	-0.36	78.15%
166	CP353	Head Size Kilobytes	117	43	-0.13	-0.35	77.42%
167	CP150a2	Search Terms in H2 Tags	14	0	-0.13	-0.35	81.72%
168	CP472	Keywords making whole Span Tags	11	1	-0.13	-0.35	84.48%
169	ENT011	Meta Description Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.13	-0.39	56.78%
170	CPJLDxCB	Number Of Claimed Brands	10	1	-0.13	-0.36	71.73%
171	CP154	Keywords making whole H1, H2, and H3 Tags	2	0	-0.13	-0.37	74.57%
172	CPJLD001	Has JSON-LD Accommodation	1	0	-0.13	-0.41	1.06%
173	CP451	Number of US Phone Numbers	59	7	-0.13	-0.32	73.68%
174	ENT015	Has Entities in H4 Tags	1	0	-0.12	-0.39	56.05%
175	CPXR002	Number of HTML Comments	637	29	-0.12	-0.32	76.04%
176	LSI001	LSI Words in Title Tag	17	4	-0.12	-0.30	92.61%
177	CPJLD201	Has JSON-LD Physician	1	0	-0.12	-0.35	2.36%
178	PAGE010	Number of Schema Products	4	1	-0.12	-0.39	34.52%
179	CP020	Ahrefs Has Domain Rating	1	1	-0.12	-0.40	8.85%
180	CP099	Search Result Number of Dirs in Path	4	2	-0.12	-0.34	55.08%
181	CP356	Keywords in I Tags	28	5	-0.12	-0.35	71.89%
182	CP173	Keywords in H4 Tags	12	1	-0.12	-0.35	77.01%
183	CP424	Number of HREF Lang Tags	43	1	-0.12	-0.34	71.16%
184	CPJLD060	Has JSON-LD Country	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	15.27%
185	LSI006	LSI Words in H2 Tags	82	13	-0.12	-0.28	95.29%
186	CPJLD101	Has JSON-LD HardwareStore	1	0	-0.12	-0.39	7.88%
187	CPJLDxKA	Number Of JSON-LD Entity References	6	1	-0.12	-0.36	65.39%
188	PAGE005	Is Pagination Page	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	45.82%
189	CP444	Number of Social Accounts	20	1	-0.12	-0.32	73.27%
190	CP485	Keywords in pages most used phrase	1	0	-0.12	-0.36	77.50%
191	PAGE001	Is Home Page	1	0	-0.12	-0.37	32.74%
192	CP380	Meta Description Length	560	131	-0.12	-0.32	70.67%
193	CP384	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Site Name	2	0	-0.12	-0.34	66.53%
194	CP381a	Search Terms in Meta Descriptions	2	0	-0.12	-0.34	78.07%
195	CP430	Number of Instagram Pages	8	1	-0.12	-0.31	74.90%
196	CP347	Has US Phone Number	1	0	-0.12	-0.39	57.19%
197	CPJLD206	Has JSON-LD Plumber	1	0	-0.12	-0.37	1.30%
198	CP481b	Word Count in Meta Description Tag	90	21	-0.12	-0.31	70.51%
199	CP114	Search Result Uses HTTPS	1	1	-0.12	-0.35	56.30%
200	PAGE008	Is Store Page	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	51.42%

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