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Top SEO Factors - 2022-04-26      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 - 2022-04-26 - 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	-0.35	-0.60	0.68%
2	CPZZZ50	Number of Top 50 Shared Factors Used	44	25	-0.35	-0.59	89.33%
3	CPZZZ100	Number of Top 100 Shared Factors Used	88	50	-0.33	-0.61	88.40%
4	ENT000a	Number of Entities Used	64	25	-0.32	-0.66	74.68%
5	CP104z	Search Result Has Publish Date	1	1	-0.30	-0.50	0.76%
6	CPZZZ	Number of Factors Used	220	137	-0.30	-0.59	92.72%
7	CPZZZ200	Number of Top 200 Shared Factors Used	152	90	-0.29	-0.58	87.13%
8	CP470	Keywords in the HTML Tag	1,179	187	-0.26	-0.56	94.41%
9	CP134	Keywords in Body Tag	1,201	168	-0.26	-0.56	92.80%
10	CP062	Ahrefs Referring Domains	2,280	130	-0.26	-0.38	17.19%
11	CP061	Ahrefs Referring Class C Addresses	1,020	78	-0.26	-0.40	17.27%
12	CP063	Ahrefs Referring IP Addresses	1,570	106	-0.25	-0.40	17.27%
13	CP059	Ahrefs Rank	42	17	-0.25	-0.53	13.46%
14	CP064	Ahrefs Referring Pages	320,661	7,935	-0.24	-0.31	17.19%
15	CP054	Ahrefs NoFollow Backlinks	26,269	733	-0.24	-0.37	17.27%
16	CP067	Ahrefs Text Backlinks	320,265	7,897	-0.24	-0.30	17.19%
17	CP002	Ahrefs Backlinks	320,661	7,889	-0.24	-0.30	17.27%
18	CPX010	Keywords in Div Tags	608	106	-0.24	-0.53	93.23%
19	CP161	Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	43	8	-0.24	-0.53	93.56%
20	CP157	Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	28	7	-0.23	-0.53	92.72%
21	CP465	Keywords in P Tags	188	31	-0.23	-0.52	93.99%
22	ENT003	Entities in H2 Tags	24	5	-0.23	-0.54	73.24%
23	CP004	Ahrefs Dofollow Backlinks	293,989	7,298	-0.23	-0.30	17.10%
24	ENT004	Entities in H3 Tags	29	5	-0.23	-0.53	73.50%
25	CP375	Keywords in LI Tags	85	16	-0.22	-0.50	91.96%
26	CP469	Keywords in Sentences	153	25	-0.22	-0.48	93.65%
27	CP153	Keywords in H1 and H2 Tags	13	4	-0.22	-0.52	90.35%
28	CP129	Keywords in A Tags	146	22	-0.22	-0.50	92.80%
29	ENT018	Entities in Sentences	603	93	-0.22	-0.46	97.54%
30	ENT009	Entities in Title Tag	10	3	-0.22	-0.53	69.69%
31	ENT001	Entities in HTML Tag	1,368	279	-0.21	-0.45	94.83%
32	CP165	Keywords in H2 Tags	12	3	-0.21	-0.50	91.70%
33	LSI002	LSI Words in Sentences	4,469	594	-0.21	-0.44	96.53%
34	CP475	Term Frequency	7	3	-0.21	-0.49	93.14%
35	CKWD001	Clean Keyword Density in the HTML Tag	9	4	-0.20	-0.48	83.66%
36	CP135	Body Tag Size Kilobytes	463	84	-0.20	-0.48	90.86%
37	CP160	Leading Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	11	2	-0.20	-0.49	89.92%
38	CP127	Keywords in A Tag HREFs	212	41	-0.20	-0.43	93.82%
39	CP071	Search Result Display URL Matches	3	1	-0.20	-0.49	77.56%
40	CP097	Search Result Link Text Matches	3	1	-0.20	-0.49	77.56%
41	CP465c	Keywords in script Tags	296	35	-0.20	-0.47	93.82%
42	CP127b	Keywords in Unique A Tag HREFs	165	28	-0.20	-0.42	93.90%
43	CP470a	Search Terms in the HTML Tag	768	14	-0.20	-0.46	89.33%
44	CP134a	Search Terms in Body Tag	548	16	-0.20	-0.45	90.18%
45	CP156	Leading Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	9	2	-0.20	-0.49	88.91%
46	GD001	Google Variation Density	8	2	-0.20	-0.48	83.07%
47	CP488	Keywords in pages top 10 most used phrases	5	2	-0.20	-0.49	85.94%
48	CP128	Keywords in Alt Attributes	58	6	-0.19	-0.45	88.48%
49	DD015	DomDetailer Moz PA	66	44	-0.19	-0.44	28.62%
50	CP019	Ahrefs Has DoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.52	16.26%
51	CP458	Page Size Kilobytes	528	150	-0.19	-0.47	88.23%
52	CP045	Ahrefs Has Text Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.52	16.51%
53	CP038	Ahrefs Has NoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.53	16.34%
54	CP017	Ahrefs Has Backlinks	1	1	-0.19	-0.52	16.26%
55	CP492b	Unabridged Word Count	4,917	1,651	-0.19	-0.42	90.35%
56	CP140	Clean Text Kilobytes	29	10	-0.19	-0.42	87.30%
57	CP468	Number of Sentences	340	62	-0.19	-0.43	89.33%
58	CP999	Search Result Path Matches	4	1	-0.19	-0.48	73.92%
59	CP481	Keywords in Title Tag	11	2	-0.19	-0.48	77.56%
60	CP169	Keywords in H3 Tags	15	3	-0.19	-0.46	89.92%
61	ENT005	Entities in H4 Tags	10	2	-0.19	-0.50	70.28%
62	DD010	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Subnets	65,549	14,411	-0.19	-0.23	31.08%
63	DD005	DomDetailer Majestic CF	61	37	-0.19	-0.43	29.21%
64	CPXX888	Number of HTML Tags	2,622	875	-0.19	-0.46	86.45%
65	CP487	Keywords in pages top 5 most used phrases	3	1	-0.18	-0.48	85.44%
66	DD013	DomDetailer Moz DA	75	41	-0.18	-0.40	27.52%
67	CP471	Keywords in Span Tags	46	9	-0.18	-0.43	90.94%
68	CP113	Search Result URL Matches	4	2	-0.18	-0.46	76.46%
69	DD006	DomDetailer Majestic IPs	277,346	52,210	-0.18	-0.22	32.26%
70	ENT008	Entities in Meta Description Tag	22	3	-0.18	-0.47	66.38%
71	DD008	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Domains	1,843,345	331,625	-0.18	-0.24	32.43%
72	CP492	Word Count	4,791	1,474	-0.18	-0.36	88.06%
73	CP137	Keywords in the Canonical URL	4	2	-0.18	-0.46	82.47%
74	CP146	Keywords in the First 100 Words	24	8	-0.18	-0.45	78.24%
75	CP048	Ahrefs Image Backlinks	44,741	1,605	-0.18	-0.38	15.58%
76	DD012	DomDetailer Majestic TF	56	27	-0.18	-0.38	29.47%
77	CP124a	Keywords in Absolute URLs	197	39	-0.18	-0.39	90.60%
78	CPXR24	Number of P Tags	148	36	-0.18	-0.43	86.79%
79	CP072	Search Result Document Matches	3	1	-0.18	-0.46	65.79%
80	CP381	Keywords in Meta Descriptions	11	2	-0.17	-0.46	83.57%
81	DD007	DomDetailer Majestic Links	87,653,121	8,214,963	-0.17	-0.26	32.77%
82	CP486	Keywords in pages top 3 most used phrases	2	1	-0.17	-0.47	85.61%
83	CP159a	Search Terms in H1-H6 Tags	15	1	-0.17	-0.45	87.98%
84	CPX003	Keywords in Main Tags	485	46	-0.17	-0.48	89.75%
85	CPXR018	Keywords in Nav Tags	178	17	-0.17	-0.41	89.59%
86	ENT002	Entities in H1 Tags	11	2	-0.17	-0.42	65.03%
87	CP152	Keywords in H1 Tags	3	1	-0.17	-0.42	79.85%
88	CPXR003	Number of Heading Tags	100	21	-0.17	-0.42	86.45%
89	CP050	Ahrefs Internal Links	564	138	-0.17	-0.38	17.27%
90	CP005	Ahrefs Domain Rating	81	46	-0.17	-0.42	11.85%
91	CP032	Ahrefs Has Image Backlinks	1	0	-0.17	-0.48	13.97%
92	QS003	Number of Questions	85	6	-0.17	-0.39	86.71%
93	CP056	Ahrefs Pages	6	2	-0.17	-0.42	15.41%
94	ENT013	Has Entities in H2 Tags	1	1	-0.17	-0.50	65.71%
95	GD004	Google Density Exact Matches	26	3	-0.17	-0.42	69.43%
96	CP007	Ahrefs External Links	132	28	-0.17	-0.34	15.92%
97	CP425	Number of HTTPS Links	490	143	-0.17	-0.39	82.98%
98	CP164	Leading Keywords in H2 Tags	3	1	-0.16	-0.45	86.62%
99	DD002	DomDetailer Facebook Shares	11,070,222	-8,822,730	-0.16	-0.22	30.82%
100	CP427	Number of Images with Alt Text	77	18	-0.16	-0.39	86.62%
101	CP385	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Content	9	1	-0.16	-0.46	76.04%
102	CP431	Number of Internal Links	460	130	-0.16	-0.38	85.27%
103	CP435	Number of Links	492	147	-0.16	-0.38	83.91%
104	CPX013	Keywords in Footer Tags	57	6	-0.16	-0.40	83.07%
105	DD016	DomDetailer Moz Rank	7	4	-0.16	-0.40	26.76%
106	CP376	Keywords making whole LI Tags	5	1	-0.16	-0.43	82.39%
107	DD014	DomDetailer Moz Links	93,577,703	19,112,451	-0.16	-0.28	31.41%
108	CP410	Number of DoFollow Links	484	142	-0.16	-0.38	81.54%
109	CP383	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Description	9	2	-0.16	-0.43	80.44%
110	CP426	Number of Images	108	27	-0.16	-0.38	84.34%
111	LSI001	LSI Words in Title Tag	27	6	-0.16	-0.40	90.01%
112	CP476	TF/IDF	1	1	-0.16	-0.45	83.66%
113	CP125	Keywords making whole A Tags	6	1	-0.16	-0.41	83.32%
114	CP109	Search Result Summary Text Matches	5	2	-0.16	-0.44	60.88%
115	CP469a	Search Terms in Sentences	31	2	-0.16	-0.39	89.25%
116	CPXR006	Number of H3 Tags	24	7	-0.16	-0.38	85.69%
117	ENT012	Has Entities in H1 Tags	1	1	-0.16	-0.47	61.22%
118	LSI006	LSI Words in H2 Tags	94	16	-0.16	-0.38	94.75%
119	CP484	Leading Keywords in Title Tag	1	0	-0.16	-0.45	75.28%
120	ENT014	Has Entities in H3 Tags	1	1	-0.16	-0.46	66.55%
121	LSI007	LSI Words in H3 Tags	182	16	-0.16	-0.37	94.16%
122	CP060	Ahrefs Redirects	720	9	-0.16	-0.35	13.63%
123	CPJLDxSA	Number Of JSON-LD Types	88	9	-0.15	-0.39	83.40%
124	CP108	Search Result Summary Length	323	155	-0.15	-0.35	58.85%
125	CP070	Ahrefs Word Count	4,237	1,392	-0.15	-0.39	8.72%
126	CP041	Ahrefs Has Redirects	1	0	-0.15	-0.44	12.36%
127	GD003	Google Density Variations	104	35	-0.15	-0.38	77.39%
128	CP158	Keywords making whole H1-H6 Tags	5	0	-0.15	-0.43	79.59%
129	CP472	Keywords making whole Span Tags	13	1	-0.15	-0.41	85.77%
130	CP483a	Search Terms in the Title Tag	3	0	-0.15	-0.43	78.75%
131	QS004	Number of Questions In Headings	5	2	-0.15	-0.38	33.02%
132	CP473	Keywords in Strong Tags	14	2	-0.15	-0.40	83.91%
133	CP391	Number of Absolute URLs	423	142	-0.15	-0.39	84.42%
134	CP177	Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	30	2	-0.15	-0.41	81.20%
135	CP126a	Search Terms in A Tags	96	2	-0.15	-0.39	85.61%
136	ENT015	Has Entities in H4 Tags	1	0	-0.15	-0.45	61.64%
137	CP151	Leading Keywords in H1 Tags	2	0	-0.15	-0.42	79.00%
138	CP173	Keywords in H4 Tags	10	1	-0.15	-0.41	81.96%
139	CP006	Ahrefs Edu Backlinks	49,828	385	-0.15	-0.36	12.87%
140	CP374	Keywords in the last 100 words	15	4	-0.15	-0.37	79.76%
141	CP052	Ahrefs Linked Root Domains	17	7	-0.15	-0.37	15.75%
142	CP358	Inline Javascript Kilobytes	153	31	-0.15	-0.34	83.57%
143	CPXR005	Number of H2 Tags	16	6	-0.15	-0.36	86.79%
144	CP154	Keywords making whole H1, H2, and H3 Tags	2	0	-0.15	-0.43	78.07%
145	ENT010	Title Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.15	-0.41	57.75%
146	QS006	Number of Questions In H2 Tags	4	1	-0.15	-0.38	81.54%
147	CP467	Keywords in Section Tags	116	16	-0.14	-0.41	83.66%
148	QS012	Headings Has Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.44	79.59%
149	CP477	Keywords in Title Attributes	79	6	-0.14	-0.38	85.52%
150	CP021	Ahrefs Has EDU Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.40	12.02%
151	CP485	Keywords in pages most used phrase	1	0	-0.14	-0.41	80.44%
152	CP168	Leading Keywords in H3 Tags	4	1	-0.14	-0.40	84.00%
153	CP150a	Search Terms in H1 Tags	1	0	-0.14	-0.40	79.42%
154	DD011	DomDetailer Majestic Referring .gov Links	22,622,106	3,637,129	-0.14	-0.23	29.81%
155	ENT011	Meta Description Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.14	-0.43	56.65%
156	CP130	Keywords in Article Tags	156	17	-0.14	-0.42	79.09%
157	CP150a2	Search Terms in H2 Tags	5	0	-0.14	-0.39	86.96%
158	CPJLD011	Has JSON-LD Answer	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	64.86%
159	CPJLD217	Has JSON-LD Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	64.94%
160	QS007	Number of Questions In H3 Tags	11	1	-0.14	-0.39	79.17%
161	CP353	Head Size Kilobytes	115	42	-0.14	-0.35	81.71%
162	CP034	Ahrefs Has Internal Links	1	1	-0.14	-0.41	13.97%
163	CP479	Title Has Sales Words	1	0	-0.14	-0.39	67.06%
164	CPXR007	Number of H4 Tags	75	4	-0.14	-0.36	79.93%
165	CP479ii	Title Has Sentiment Words	1	0	-0.14	-0.39	67.15%
166	CP355	Keywords in ID Attributes	9	1	-0.13	-0.37	81.88%
167	CP357	Inline CSS Kilobytes	102	30	-0.13	-0.37	81.03%
168	PAGE009	Number of Prices	407	32	-0.13	-0.33	73.41%
169	CPJLD007	Has JSON-LD AggregateRating	1	0	-0.13	-0.41	62.15%
170	LSI003	LSI Words in Meta Description Tag	52	9	-0.13	-0.35	89.16%
171	CP022	Ahrefs Has External Links	1	1	-0.13	-0.40	14.65%
172	CP139	Keywords in Class Attributes	122	4	-0.13	-0.35	76.29%
173	CP377	Load Time Milliseconds	121,734	2,433	-0.13	-0.27	62.74%
174	CP036	Ahrefs Has Linked Root Domains	1	1	-0.13	-0.40	13.63%
175	CP413	Number of External Links	60	17	-0.13	-0.30	75.36%
176	CP451	Number of US Phone Numbers	121	6	-0.13	-0.32	77.56%
177	CP015	Ahrefs Gov Backlinks	4,862	113	-0.13	-0.35	8.81%
178	CP176	Leading Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	6	0	-0.13	-0.39	74.68%
179	CP172	Leading Keywords in H4 Tags	4	0	-0.13	-0.38	76.12%
180	CPJLDxCB	Number Of Claimed Brands	10	1	-0.13	-0.36	75.11%
181	CP460	Percentage of DoFollow Internal Links	95	81	-0.13	-0.34	74.26%
182	LSI005	LSI Words in H1 Tags	16	4	-0.13	-0.31	87.81%
183	ENT006	Entities in H5 Tags	11	1	-0.13	-0.37	60.03%
184	CP030	Ahrefs Has Gov Backlinks	1	0	-0.13	-0.38	7.96%
185	CP356	Keywords in I Tags	25	6	-0.13	-0.36	79.59%
186	CP057	Ahrefs Page Size	54,635	29,817	-0.12	-0.27	8.04%
187	CP149	Keywords making whole H1 Tags	1	0	-0.12	-0.39	74.51%
188	CP386	Keywords in Meta Twitter Description	5	1	-0.12	-0.38	69.86%
189	CP049	Ahrefs Images	70	20	-0.12	-0.29	8.21%
190	CP347	Has US Phone Number	1	0	-0.12	-0.39	62.66%
191	CPJLD209	Has JSON-LD Product	1	0	-0.12	-0.38	45.98%
192	CP474	Keywords making whole Strong Tags	4	0	-0.12	-0.37	77.22%
193	CP065	Ahrefs RSS Backlinks	69	1	-0.12	-0.39	9.57%
194	LSI008	LSI Words in H4 Tags	81	7	-0.12	-0.34	89.42%
195	CPJLD105	Has JSON-LD HomeAndConstructionBusiness	1	0	-0.12	-0.37	10.92%
196	CP381a	Search Terms in Meta Descriptions	1	0	-0.12	-0.35	83.23%
197	CP384	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Site Name	1	0	-0.12	-0.35	71.04%
198	CP099	Search Result Number of Dirs in Path	3	2	-0.12	-0.34	57.66%
199	CP481b	Word Count in Meta Description Tag	60	20	-0.12	-0.31	69.94%
200	CP409	Number of DoFollow External Links	57	14	-0.12	-0.28	73.50%

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