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Top SEO Factors - 2022-04-04      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 - 2022-04-04 - 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	-0.38	-0.62	0.73%
2	CP104z	Search Result Has Publish Date	1	1	-0.35	-0.58	0.81%
3	CPZZZ50	Number of Top 50 Shared Factors Used	43	25	-0.32	-0.57	86.82%
4	CPZZZ100	Number of Top 100 Shared Factors Used	85	53	-0.32	-0.58	86.33%
5	ENT000a	Number of Entities Used	60	28	-0.32	-0.65	76.24%
6	CPZZZ	Number of Factors Used	212	141	-0.29	-0.56	93.00%
7	CPZZZ200	Number of Top 200 Shared Factors Used	146	93	-0.29	-0.56	85.84%
8	CP470	Keywords in the HTML Tag	1,179	201	-0.26	-0.54	94.79%
9	CP134	Keywords in Body Tag	1,201	178	-0.25	-0.54	93.41%
10	CP062	Ahrefs Referring Domains	7,283	158	-0.24	-0.35	21.89%
11	CP061	Ahrefs Referring Class C Addresses	2,004	80	-0.23	-0.36	22.13%
12	CP063	Ahrefs Referring IP Addresses	3,009	110	-0.23	-0.35	22.21%
13	CPX010	Keywords in Div Tags	667	114	-0.23	-0.51	92.35%
14	CP465	Keywords in P Tags	177	36	-0.23	-0.51	93.98%
15	ENT003	Entities in H2 Tags	35	6	-0.23	-0.51	74.61%
16	CP161	Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	30	8	-0.23	-0.51	92.43%
17	CP157	Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	24	7	-0.23	-0.50	91.62%
18	CP054	Ahrefs NoFollow Backlinks	56,344	654	-0.23	-0.34	21.32%
19	ENT004	Entities in H3 Tags	30	6	-0.22	-0.52	74.04%
20	ENT009	Entities in Title Tag	7	3	-0.22	-0.51	71.52%
21	CP469	Keywords in Sentences	375	28	-0.22	-0.48	92.19%
22	ENT018	Entities in Sentences	1,282	104	-0.22	-0.45	98.37%
23	CP067	Ahrefs Text Backlinks	923,996	9,275	-0.22	-0.30	22.54%
24	CP064	Ahrefs Referring Pages	924,270	9,289	-0.22	-0.30	22.54%
25	CP002	Ahrefs Backlinks	924,271	9,289	-0.22	-0.30	22.54%
26	CP129	Keywords in A Tags	146	24	-0.22	-0.47	93.41%
27	CP059	Ahrefs Rank	68	17	-0.22	-0.45	16.19%
28	CP153	Keywords in H1 and H2 Tags	18	4	-0.22	-0.48	90.15%
29	CP004	Ahrefs Dofollow Backlinks	913,980	8,645	-0.21	-0.30	22.29%
30	CP475	Term Frequency	7	3	-0.21	-0.48	92.11%
31	CP375	Keywords in LI Tags	74	17	-0.21	-0.47	92.92%
32	CP070	Ahrefs Word Count	4,493	1,582	-0.21	-0.43	15.13%
33	CP165	Keywords in H2 Tags	16	3	-0.20	-0.46	90.48%
34	CP470a	Search Terms in the HTML Tag	768	14	-0.20	-0.45	88.45%
35	CP127	Keywords in A Tag HREFs	233	43	-0.20	-0.45	93.33%
36	ENT001	Entities in HTML Tag	1,901	313	-0.20	-0.42	95.12%
37	CP127b	Keywords in Unique A Tag HREFs	184	29	-0.20	-0.44	92.35%
38	CP135	Body Tag Size Kilobytes	474	84	-0.20	-0.47	90.64%
39	CKWD001	Clean Keyword Density in the HTML Tag	10	4	-0.20	-0.45	81.45%
40	CP488	Keywords in pages top 10 most used phrases	5	2	-0.20	-0.49	84.78%
41	CP465c	Keywords in script Tags	296	35	-0.20	-0.46	93.82%
42	CP492b	Unabridged Word Count	17,546	1,835	-0.19	-0.43	89.67%
43	CP140	Clean Text Kilobytes	124	11	-0.19	-0.42	86.49%
44	CP160	Leading Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	11	2	-0.19	-0.45	89.50%
45	CP134a	Search Terms in Body Tag	548	15	-0.19	-0.43	89.50%
46	DD010	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Subnets	91,964	15,196	-0.19	-0.25	38.16%
47	DD015	DomDetailer Moz PA	68	46	-0.19	-0.46	35.56%
48	CP071	Search Result Display URL Matches	3	1	-0.19	-0.47	76.73%
49	CP097	Search Result Link Text Matches	3	1	-0.19	-0.47	76.97%
50	DD006	DomDetailer Majestic IPs	407,806	53,418	-0.19	-0.24	38.73%
51	CP487	Keywords in pages top 5 most used phrases	3	1	-0.19	-0.48	86.17%
52	CP156	Leading Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	8	1	-0.19	-0.44	88.61%
53	GD001	Google Variation Density	10	2	-0.19	-0.44	83.16%
54	CP468	Number of Sentences	709	68	-0.19	-0.41	90.15%
55	DD008	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Domains	2,834,506	320,608	-0.19	-0.25	39.46%
56	CP128	Keywords in Alt Attributes	57	7	-0.19	-0.41	89.83%
57	CP458	Page Size Kilobytes	563	151	-0.19	-0.47	87.06%
58	CPJLD092	Has JSON-LD Game	1	0	-0.18	-0.38	5.61%
59	CP999	Search Result Path Matches	4	2	-0.18	-0.46	75.26%
60	CP019	Ahrefs Has DoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.18	-0.49	20.75%
61	DD005	DomDetailer Majestic CF	61	39	-0.18	-0.44	37.84%
62	CP481	Keywords in Title Tag	5	2	-0.18	-0.45	77.87%
63	CP471	Keywords in Span Tags	46	10	-0.18	-0.43	89.91%
64	CPXX888	Number of HTML Tags	2,160	867	-0.18	-0.44	85.03%
65	ENT002	Entities in H1 Tags	9	2	-0.18	-0.43	65.50%
66	CP169	Keywords in H3 Tags	15	3	-0.18	-0.43	88.69%
67	CP045	Ahrefs Has Text Backlinks	1	1	-0.18	-0.49	21.07%
68	CPXR24	Number of P Tags	152	40	-0.18	-0.42	86.49%
69	CP137	Keywords in the Canonical URL	5	2	-0.18	-0.45	83.32%
70	CP017	Ahrefs Has Backlinks	1	1	-0.18	-0.49	20.91%
71	CP124a	Keywords in Absolute URLs	471	43	-0.18	-0.42	91.13%
72	CP038	Ahrefs Has NoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.18	-0.49	20.10%
73	CP050	Ahrefs Internal Links	999	138	-0.18	-0.37	21.97%
74	CP113	Search Result URL Matches	4	2	-0.18	-0.44	77.62%
75	ENT008	Entities in Meta Description Tag	22	3	-0.17	-0.44	67.53%
76	CP486	Keywords in pages top 3 most used phrases	2	1	-0.17	-0.47	84.30%
77	DD013	DomDetailer Moz DA	81	45	-0.17	-0.40	34.91%
78	CP146	Keywords in the First 100 Words	25	7	-0.17	-0.43	77.95%
79	CPX003	Keywords in Main Tags	494	48	-0.17	-0.47	88.20%
80	CP007	Ahrefs External Links	195	28	-0.17	-0.34	21.40%
81	CP492	Word Count	15,962	1,853	-0.17	-0.29	87.47%
82	CP152	Keywords in H1 Tags	3	1	-0.17	-0.42	78.36%
83	CPXR018	Keywords in Nav Tags	190	18	-0.17	-0.40	86.82%
84	CPXR003	Number of Heading Tags	93	22	-0.17	-0.41	86.09%
85	CP159a	Search Terms in H1-H6 Tags	18	1	-0.17	-0.42	86.57%
86	ENT013	Has Entities in H2 Tags	1	1	-0.17	-0.48	66.88%
87	DD012	DomDetailer Majestic TF	56	30	-0.17	-0.39	36.62%
88	LSI002	LSI Words in Sentences	7,963	602	-0.17	-0.36	97.15%
89	GD004	Google Density Exact Matches	34	3	-0.17	-0.41	68.10%
90	ENT005	Entities in H4 Tags	10	2	-0.17	-0.45	70.30%
91	CP049	Ahrefs Images	91	24	-0.17	-0.35	14.48%
92	CP072	Search Result Document Matches	4	1	-0.17	-0.44	68.43%
93	DD007	DomDetailer Majestic Links	143,279,724	1,353,010	-0.17	-0.23	39.22%
94	QS003	Number of Questions	85	6	-0.17	-0.37	86.17%
95	DD016	DomDetailer Moz Rank	8	5	-0.17	-0.41	34.26%
96	CP381	Keywords in Meta Descriptions	11	2	-0.17	-0.42	85.44%
97	CP427	Number of Images with Alt Text	71	18	-0.16	-0.39	85.76%
98	DD002	DomDetailer Facebook Shares	7,876,228	-5,237,522	-0.16	-0.25	38.24%
99	CP476	TF/IDF	1	1	-0.16	-0.45	81.45%
100	CP056	Ahrefs Pages	9	2	-0.16	-0.35	20.99%
101	CP425	Number of HTTPS Links	453	140	-0.16	-0.37	81.53%
102	CP005	Ahrefs Domain Rating	77	43	-0.16	-0.39	14.65%
103	CPX013	Keywords in Footer Tags	57	7	-0.16	-0.40	82.59%
104	CP469a	Search Terms in Sentences	30	2	-0.16	-0.38	89.02%
105	CP048	Ahrefs Image Backlinks	222,296	1,785	-0.16	-0.33	19.61%
106	CP426	Number of Images	471	28	-0.16	-0.37	85.84%
107	CP032	Ahrefs Has Image Backlinks	1	0	-0.16	-0.45	17.49%
108	CP385	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Content	4	1	-0.16	-0.43	74.94%
109	DD014	DomDetailer Moz Links	133,182,870	16,623,428	-0.16	-0.27	37.10%
110	CP435	Number of Links	460	144	-0.16	-0.36	82.67%
111	CP052	Ahrefs Linked Root Domains	22	8	-0.16	-0.37	21.16%
112	CP410	Number of DoFollow Links	447	138	-0.16	-0.36	79.90%
113	ENT014	Has Entities in H3 Tags	1	1	-0.16	-0.46	67.13%
114	CPXR005	Number of H2 Tags	16	6	-0.16	-0.37	87.14%
115	ENT012	Has Entities in H1 Tags	1	1	-0.16	-0.45	61.11%
116	CP383	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Description	9	2	-0.16	-0.40	81.69%
117	CP431	Number of Internal Links	449	126	-0.15	-0.35	82.59%
118	CPJLDxSA	Number Of JSON-LD Types	54	9	-0.15	-0.38	80.80%
119	CP484	Leading Keywords in Title Tag	1	0	-0.15	-0.44	74.86%
120	CP108	Search Result Summary Length	404	157	-0.15	-0.34	60.94%
121	GD003	Google Density Variations	162	35	-0.15	-0.37	78.03%
122	CPXR006	Number of H3 Tags	22	8	-0.15	-0.38	85.03%
123	CP483a	Search Terms in the Title Tag	3	0	-0.15	-0.42	78.84%
124	CP021	Ahrefs Has EDU Backlinks	1	0	-0.15	-0.43	13.18%
125	CP374	Keywords in the last 100 words	16	4	-0.15	-0.39	81.20%
126	CP164	Leading Keywords in H2 Tags	4	1	-0.15	-0.39	84.38%
127	CP358	Inline Javascript Kilobytes	429	31	-0.15	-0.36	82.18%
128	CP151	Leading Keywords in H1 Tags	2	0	-0.15	-0.42	77.22%
129	CP391	Number of Absolute URLs	623	145	-0.15	-0.38	84.38%
130	DD011	DomDetailer Majestic Referring .gov Links	34,872,559	3,488,499	-0.15	-0.28	35.31%
131	CP006	Ahrefs Edu Backlinks	101,265	497	-0.15	-0.35	14.32%
132	CP473	Keywords in Strong Tags	14	2	-0.15	-0.39	82.59%
133	ENT010	Title Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.15	-0.42	57.77%
134	CP467	Keywords in Section Tags	116	19	-0.15	-0.41	83.24%
135	CPJLD217	Has JSON-LD Question	1	0	-0.15	-0.43	67.37%
136	CPJLD011	Has JSON-LD Answer	1	0	-0.15	-0.43	67.45%
137	CP130	Keywords in Article Tags	145	20	-0.14	-0.41	78.93%
138	CP057	Ahrefs Page Size	61,358	29,560	-0.14	-0.29	14.56%
139	CP126a	Search Terms in A Tags	96	2	-0.14	-0.36	85.84%
140	CP033	Ahrefs Has Images	1	1	-0.14	-0.41	12.86%
141	CP376	Keywords making whole LI Tags	5	1	-0.14	-0.39	79.90%
142	CP477	Keywords in Title Attributes	79	6	-0.14	-0.38	83.81%
143	QS012	Headings Has Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	77.62%
144	QS006	Number of Questions In H2 Tags	4	1	-0.14	-0.36	81.04%
145	QS004	Number of Questions In Headings	7	2	-0.14	-0.36	27.75%
146	CP485	Keywords in pages most used phrase	1	0	-0.14	-0.41	77.22%
147	CP034	Ahrefs Has Internal Links	1	1	-0.14	-0.42	19.93%
148	CP109	Search Result Summary Text Matches	5	2	-0.14	-0.40	58.83%
149	CP355	Keywords in ID Attributes	12	1	-0.14	-0.38	82.75%
150	CP125	Keywords making whole A Tags	6	1	-0.14	-0.36	81.45%
151	CP036	Ahrefs Has Linked Root Domains	1	1	-0.14	-0.41	19.28%
152	CP022	Ahrefs Has External Links	1	1	-0.14	-0.42	20.26%
153	CP413	Number of External Links	59	18	-0.14	-0.32	76.65%
154	CP060	Ahrefs Redirects	636	7	-0.14	-0.34	16.68%
155	CP150a2	Search Terms in H2 Tags	14	0	-0.14	-0.37	86.82%
156	CP472	Keywords making whole Span Tags	8	1	-0.14	-0.37	82.83%
157	CP168	Leading Keywords in H3 Tags	6	0	-0.14	-0.37	82.75%
158	CP150a	Search Terms in H1 Tags	2	0	-0.14	-0.38	78.11%
159	QS007	Number of Questions In H3 Tags	11	1	-0.13	-0.36	79.82%
160	CP177	Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	16	1	-0.13	-0.37	81.12%
161	ENT011	Meta Description Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.13	-0.41	59.64%
162	CP041	Ahrefs Has Redirects	1	0	-0.13	-0.39	15.30%
163	CP158	Keywords making whole H1-H6 Tags	3	0	-0.13	-0.39	78.11%
164	CP357	Inline CSS Kilobytes	150	32	-0.13	-0.36	78.44%
165	CP377	Load Time Milliseconds	45,246	2,538	-0.13	-0.27	63.22%
166	LSI006	LSI Words in H2 Tags	86	15	-0.13	-0.30	94.22%
167	CP173	Keywords in H4 Tags	6	1	-0.13	-0.37	81.20%
168	CP409	Number of DoFollow External Links	57	15	-0.13	-0.30	74.21%
169	CP353	Head Size Kilobytes	163	44	-0.13	-0.34	76.48%
170	PAGE009	Number of Prices	374	33	-0.13	-0.31	72.09%
171	CP154	Keywords making whole H1, H2, and H3 Tags	2	0	-0.13	-0.38	76.89%
172	ENT015	Has Entities in H4 Tags	1	0	-0.13	-0.41	60.13%
173	CP381a	Search Terms in Meta Descriptions	2	0	-0.12	-0.35	81.20%
174	CPJLDxCB	Number Of Claimed Brands	10	1	-0.12	-0.35	71.93%
175	CP356	Keywords in I Tags	28	6	-0.12	-0.35	78.28%
176	CPXR007	Number of H4 Tags	73	4	-0.12	-0.33	76.40%
177	CPJLD007	Has JSON-LD AggregateRating	1	0	-0.12	-0.39	61.51%
178	CP139	Keywords in Class Attributes	209	5	-0.12	-0.33	78.28%
179	CP451	Number of US Phone Numbers	67	7	-0.12	-0.31	73.15%
180	LSI001	LSI Words in Title Tag	26	5	-0.12	-0.30	92.11%
181	CP065	Ahrefs RSS Backlinks	13	1	-0.12	-0.36	11.15%
182	CPJLD266	Has JSON-LD Website	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	58.10%
183	CP319	Has Schema Markup	1	1	-0.12	-0.38	70.22%
184	CP479	Title Has Sales Words	1	0	-0.12	-0.37	67.70%
185	CP460	Percentage of DoFollow Internal Links	95	80	-0.12	-0.32	69.32%
186	LSI007	LSI Words in H3 Tags	85	15	-0.12	-0.30	93.08%
187	CP042	Ahrefs Has RSS Backlinks	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	10.50%
188	CP077	Search Result Domain Matches	1	0	-0.12	-0.37	47.11%
189	CP424	Number of HREF Lang Tags	24	1	-0.12	-0.34	74.04%
190	CP099	Search Result Number of Dirs in Path	4	2	-0.12	-0.33	54.27%
191	CP479ii	Title Has Sentiment Words	1	0	-0.12	-0.36	66.72%
192	DD001	DomDetailer Facebook Comments	513	57	-0.12	-0.34	34.01%
193	CP230	Has Meta Twitter Cards	1	1	-0.12	-0.39	60.54%
194	CPJLD122	Has JSON-LD ImageObject	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	64.93%
195	CP439	Number of NoFollow Externa Links	41	3	-0.12	-0.31	78.03%
196	CP440	Number of NoFollow Links	70	6	-0.12	-0.30	77.54%
197	CPJLD189	Has JSON-LD Organization	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	68.10%
198	CP481b	Word Count in Meta Description Tag	68	21	-0.12	-0.30	72.25%
199	CP020	Ahrefs Has Domain Rating	1	1	-0.12	-0.38	12.94%
200	CP380	Meta Description Length	405	128	-0.12	-0.30	71.93%

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