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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 - 2022-05-07 - 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	44	24	-0.35	-0.59	90.10%
2	CPZZZ100	Number of Top 100 Shared Factors Used	88	48	-0.34	-0.60	89.30%
3	ENT000a	Number of Entities Used	65	25	-0.32	-0.66	72.68%
4	CPZZZ	Number of Factors Used	220	136	-0.31	-0.61	93.37%
5	CPZZZ200	Number of Top 200 Shared Factors Used	152	87	-0.29	-0.59	87.62%
6	CP470	Keywords in the HTML Tag	34,221	206	-0.26	-0.56	93.63%
7	CP061	Ahrefs Referring Class C Addresses	1,067	67	-0.26	-0.41	18.21%
8	CP063	Ahrefs Referring IP Addresses	1,783	90	-0.26	-0.40	18.30%
9	CP062	Ahrefs Referring Domains	2,487	112	-0.26	-0.38	18.30%
10	CP134	Keywords in Body Tag	31,482	202	-0.25	-0.55	91.69%
11	CP059	Ahrefs Rank	38	16	-0.25	-0.54	12.02%
12	CP161	Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	207	9	-0.24	-0.55	90.10%
13	CP064	Ahrefs Referring Pages	1,080,859	13,639	-0.24	-0.31	18.30%
14	CP067	Ahrefs Text Backlinks	1,080,766	13,577	-0.24	-0.30	18.30%
15	CP002	Ahrefs Backlinks	1,080,855	13,547	-0.24	-0.30	18.39%
16	CP157	Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	149	7	-0.24	-0.55	89.92%
17	CP054	Ahrefs NoFollow Backlinks	172,056	1,355	-0.24	-0.37	18.21%
18	CPX010	Keywords in Div Tags	16,880	124	-0.23	-0.51	92.04%
19	ENT003	Entities in H2 Tags	84	6	-0.23	-0.55	71.88%
20	CP465	Keywords in P Tags	2,938	35	-0.23	-0.52	93.37%
21	CP004	Ahrefs Dofollow Backlinks	908,699	12,255	-0.23	-0.30	18.30%
22	CP153	Keywords in H1 and H2 Tags	13	4	-0.23	-0.53	87.62%
23	ENT009	Entities in Title Tag	28	3	-0.23	-0.54	67.73%
24	CP469	Keywords in Sentences	2,669	28	-0.23	-0.48	92.13%
25	ENT004	Entities in H3 Tags	57	5	-0.22	-0.54	71.26%
26	LSI002	LSI Words in Sentences	4,469	620	-0.22	-0.47	96.29%
27	CP129	Keywords in A Tags	3,076	25	-0.22	-0.49	92.22%
28	CP375	Keywords in LI Tags	1,149	18	-0.22	-0.49	90.80%
29	ENT018	Entities in Sentences	394	92	-0.22	-0.45	97.35%
30	ENT001	Entities in HTML Tag	1,345	269	-0.21	-0.44	95.23%
31	CKWD001	Clean Keyword Density in the HTML Tag	203	4	-0.21	-0.49	81.43%
32	CP165	Keywords in H2 Tags	56	3	-0.21	-0.49	90.80%
33	CP071	Search Result Display URL Matches	11	1	-0.21	-0.49	77.98%
34	CP097	Search Result Link Text Matches	11	1	-0.20	-0.49	78.16%
35	GD001	Google Variation Density	301	3	-0.20	-0.50	79.22%
36	CP475	Term Frequency	7	3	-0.20	-0.49	92.04%
37	CP160	Leading Keywords in H1-H6 Tags	22	2	-0.20	-0.50	87.44%
38	CP135	Body Tag Size Kilobytes	207	84	-0.20	-0.47	91.60%
39	CP045	Ahrefs Has Text Backlinks	1	1	-0.20	-0.55	17.24%
40	CP127	Keywords in A Tag HREFs	2,004	42	-0.20	-0.43	92.22%
41	CP019	Ahrefs Has DoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.20	-0.54	17.77%
42	CP127b	Keywords in Unique A Tag HREFs	1,643	29	-0.20	-0.42	91.78%
43	CP038	Ahrefs Has NoFollow Backlinks	1	1	-0.20	-0.55	16.98%
44	CP017	Ahrefs Has Backlinks	1	1	-0.20	-0.55	17.24%
45	CP465c	Keywords in script Tags	6,567	38	-0.20	-0.46	92.40%
46	CP156	Leading Keywords in H1, H2, and H3 Tags	15	2	-0.20	-0.49	86.21%
47	CP488	Keywords in pages top 10 most used phrases	5	2	-0.19	-0.49	84.35%
48	CP468	Number of Sentences	340	61	-0.19	-0.44	87.89%
49	CP128	Keywords in Alt Attributes	294	7	-0.19	-0.45	88.42%
50	CP492b	Unabridged Word Count	5,072	1,673	-0.19	-0.42	89.21%
51	CP070	Ahrefs Word Count	2,623	1,332	-0.19	-0.47	5.92%
52	CP481	Keywords in Title Tag	14	2	-0.19	-0.48	77.28%
53	CP140	Clean Text Kilobytes	31	10	-0.19	-0.42	87.71%
54	ENT008	Entities in Meta Description Tag	46	3	-0.19	-0.49	64.99%
55	CP492	Word Count	3,638	1,344	-0.19	-0.40	87.18%
56	CP134a	Search Terms in Body Tag	268	13	-0.19	-0.42	89.74%
57	CP458	Page Size Kilobytes	340	149	-0.19	-0.46	86.21%
58	ENT005	Entities in H4 Tags	21	2	-0.19	-0.50	67.99%
59	CP169	Keywords in H3 Tags	79	3	-0.18	-0.46	88.86%
60	DD015	DomDetailer Moz PA	68	45	-0.18	-0.42	30.50%
61	CP470a	Search Terms in the HTML Tag	371	12	-0.18	-0.42	89.74%
62	CP487	Keywords in pages top 5 most used phrases	3	1	-0.18	-0.47	85.15%
63	CPXX888	Number of HTML Tags	2,622	855	-0.18	-0.44	87.27%
64	LSI001	LSI Words in Title Tag	27	7	-0.18	-0.44	89.66%
65	CP999	Search Result Path Matches	13	2	-0.18	-0.46	73.74%
66	CP048	Ahrefs Image Backlinks	292,938	3,868	-0.18	-0.38	16.00%
67	DD010	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Subnets	76,047	14,364	-0.18	-0.22	32.89%
68	CP050	Ahrefs Internal Links	730	137	-0.18	-0.39	17.42%
69	CP471	Keywords in Span Tags	547	10	-0.18	-0.43	89.83%
70	CP381	Keywords in Meta Descriptions	42	2	-0.18	-0.47	80.02%
71	CPXR24	Number of P Tags	145	36	-0.18	-0.44	87.27%
72	CP152	Keywords in H1 Tags	16	1	-0.18	-0.42	77.45%
73	ENT002	Entities in H1 Tags	20	2	-0.18	-0.43	63.48%
74	CP072	Search Result Document Matches	5	1	-0.18	-0.47	63.13%
75	DD005	DomDetailer Majestic CF	64	37	-0.18	-0.41	31.21%
76	CP007	Ahrefs External Links	132	28	-0.18	-0.35	16.09%
77	CP056	Ahrefs Pages	6	2	-0.18	-0.41	15.92%
78	DD013	DomDetailer Moz DA	79	42	-0.18	-0.38	29.27%
79	DD007	DomDetailer Majestic Links	87,653,121	9,284,235	-0.18	-0.28	34.39%
80	CP032	Ahrefs Has Image Backlinks	1	0	-0.18	-0.50	14.77%
81	CPXR003	Number of Heading Tags	100	21	-0.18	-0.43	85.85%
82	DD006	DomDetailer Majestic IPs	340,307	51,956	-0.18	-0.22	33.78%
83	DD008	DomDetailer Majestic Referring Domains	2,347,019	330,996	-0.17	-0.24	34.31%
84	CP113	Search Result URL Matches	22	2	-0.17	-0.44	75.86%
85	CP137	Keywords in the Canonical URL	56	2	-0.17	-0.45	80.90%
86	CPX003	Keywords in Main Tags	7,051	53	-0.17	-0.48	86.83%
87	CP124a	Keywords in Absolute URLs	2,025	39	-0.17	-0.38	89.66%
88	LSI006	LSI Words in H2 Tags	94	17	-0.17	-0.41	94.08%
89	QS003	Number of Questions	99	6	-0.17	-0.40	85.68%
90	CPXR018	Keywords in Nav Tags	3,537	21	-0.17	-0.42	87.18%
91	CP385	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Content	9	2	-0.17	-0.48	74.09%
92	CP383	Keywords in Meta OpenGraph Description	39	2	-0.17	-0.46	77.98%
93	CP104z	Search Result Has Publish Date	1	1	-0.17	-0.52	0.09%
94	PAGE002	Is Inner Page	1	1	-0.17	-0.52	0.09%
95	ENT013	Has Entities in H2 Tags	1	1	-0.17	-0.50	64.46%
96	CP146	Keywords in the First 100 Words	199	8	-0.17	-0.43	76.75%
97	DD012	DomDetailer Majestic TF	53	27	-0.17	-0.37	31.12%
98	CP486	Keywords in pages top 3 most used phrases	2	1	-0.17	-0.45	85.68%
99	GD004	Google Density Exact Matches	26	3	-0.17	-0.43	66.84%
100	LSI007	LSI Words in H3 Tags	182	17	-0.17	-0.41	91.87%
101	CP049	Ahrefs Images	47	19	-0.17	-0.39	5.75%
102	CPJLD131	Has JSON-LD LegalService	1	0	-0.17	-0.44	1.77%
103	CP425	Number of HTTPS Links	490	140	-0.16	-0.38	84.35%
104	DD016	DomDetailer Moz Rank	8	5	-0.16	-0.40	27.85%
105	CP052	Ahrefs Linked Root Domains	18	8	-0.16	-0.41	16.53%
106	CP431	Number of Internal Links	460	127	-0.16	-0.38	85.59%
107	CPJLDxSA	Number Of JSON-LD Types	88	9	-0.16	-0.41	82.14%
108	DD002	DomDetailer Facebook Shares	11,070,222	-9,126,365	-0.16	-0.22	32.45%
109	CP427	Number of Images with Alt Text	77	17	-0.16	-0.39	86.74%
110	CP109	Search Result Summary Text Matches	44	3	-0.16	-0.45	61.10%
111	CP435	Number of Links	492	144	-0.16	-0.38	84.97%
112	CP159a	Search Terms in H1-H6 Tags	15	1	-0.16	-0.42	87.62%
113	GD003	Google Density Variations	5,992	44	-0.16	-0.41	76.75%
114	CP410	Number of DoFollow Links	484	138	-0.16	-0.38	83.20%
115	ENT012	Has Entities in H1 Tags	1	1	-0.16	-0.46	60.04%
116	CP426	Number of Images	108	27	-0.16	-0.38	83.47%
117	CP164	Leading Keywords in H2 Tags	3	1	-0.16	-0.44	85.32%
118	DD014	DomDetailer Moz Links	93,577,703	19,106,440	-0.16	-0.27	33.33%
119	CP125	Keywords making whole A Tags	6	1	-0.16	-0.41	82.76%
120	ENT014	Has Entities in H3 Tags	1	1	-0.16	-0.47	63.66%
121	CPXR006	Number of H3 Tags	24	7	-0.16	-0.39	83.47%
122	CP476	TF/IDF	1	1	-0.16	-0.45	81.52%
123	CP005	Ahrefs Domain Rating	81	44	-0.16	-0.38	10.43%
124	ENT010	Title Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.16	-0.42	56.06%
125	CP376	Keywords making whole LI Tags	4	1	-0.16	-0.42	80.81%
126	CPX013	Keywords in Footer Tags	1,482	7	-0.16	-0.39	82.32%
127	CP391	Number of Absolute URLs	423	138	-0.15	-0.39	83.82%
128	CP484	Leading Keywords in Title Tag	1	0	-0.15	-0.44	75.07%
129	CPJLD261	Has JSON-LD Vehicle	1	0	-0.15	-0.33	0.35%
130	CP108	Search Result Summary Length	218	155	-0.15	-0.34	61.89%
131	ENT015	Has Entities in H4 Tags	1	0	-0.15	-0.45	58.36%
132	CP158	Keywords making whole H1-H6 Tags	5	0	-0.15	-0.43	76.75%
133	CP022	Ahrefs Has External Links	1	1	-0.15	-0.44	14.68%
134	ENT011	Meta Description Tag Has Entities	1	1	-0.15	-0.44	54.64%
135	CP034	Ahrefs Has Internal Links	1	1	-0.15	-0.45	14.59%
136	CPXR005	Number of H2 Tags	16	6	-0.15	-0.36	87.00%
137	LSI003	LSI Words in Meta Description Tag	50	10	-0.15	-0.39	88.15%
138	CP374	Keywords in the last 100 words	196	4	-0.15	-0.38	78.96%
139	CPJLD179	Has JSON-LD NutritionInformation	1	0	-0.15	-0.48	1.15%
140	CP151	Leading Keywords in H1 Tags	1	0	-0.15	-0.41	76.57%
141	LSI005	LSI Words in H1 Tags	16	5	-0.15	-0.35	85.76%
142	CP006	Ahrefs Edu Backlinks	87,716	776	-0.15	-0.37	13.26%
143	CP473	Keywords in Strong Tags	103	2	-0.15	-0.39	85.32%
144	CP469a	Search Terms in Sentences	31	2	-0.15	-0.37	89.57%
145	QS004	Number of Questions In Headings	5	2	-0.15	-0.37	30.33%
146	CP472	Keywords making whole Span Tags	13	1	-0.15	-0.40	84.79%
147	CP177	Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	58	2	-0.15	-0.41	81.34%
148	CP154	Keywords making whole H1, H2, and H3 Tags	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	74.80%
149	CP358	Inline Javascript Kilobytes	121	32	-0.14	-0.33	81.34%
150	CP173	Keywords in H4 Tags	49	1	-0.14	-0.40	82.94%
151	CP057	Ahrefs Page Size	54,635	29,863	-0.14	-0.29	5.66%
152	QS012	Headings Has Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.44	79.05%
153	CP060	Ahrefs Redirects	720	9	-0.14	-0.33	15.21%
154	CP467	Keywords in Section Tags	1,689	17	-0.14	-0.40	85.06%
155	QS006	Number of Questions In H2 Tags	3	1	-0.14	-0.37	80.64%
156	CP021	Ahrefs Has EDU Backlinks	1	0	-0.14	-0.40	12.47%
157	CP033	Ahrefs Has Images	1	1	-0.14	-0.43	4.95%
158	CP036	Ahrefs Has Linked Root Domains	1	1	-0.14	-0.44	14.50%
159	CP483a	Search Terms in the Title Tag	3	0	-0.14	-0.40	79.49%
160	CP126a	Search Terms in A Tags	47	2	-0.14	-0.37	84.53%
161	CP479	Title Has Sales Words	1	0	-0.14	-0.40	66.67%
162	CP041	Ahrefs Has Redirects	1	0	-0.14	-0.42	14.24%
163	CP130	Keywords in Article Tags	1,362	18	-0.14	-0.43	79.13%
164	CP479ii	Title Has Sentiment Words	1	0	-0.14	-0.40	67.20%
165	CP168	Leading Keywords in H3 Tags	8	1	-0.14	-0.40	82.85%
166	CPJLD007	Has JSON-LD AggregateRating	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	60.83%
167	CP353	Head Size Kilobytes	122	43	-0.14	-0.35	79.13%
168	CPJLD011	Has JSON-LD Answer	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	64.72%
169	CPJLD206	Has JSON-LD Plumber	1	0	-0.14	-0.42	2.74%
170	CP477	Keywords in Title Attributes	366	6	-0.14	-0.36	84.97%
171	CPJLD217	Has JSON-LD Question	1	0	-0.14	-0.43	64.90%
172	CPXR007	Number of H4 Tags	75	4	-0.14	-0.37	78.16%
173	DD011	DomDetailer Majestic Referring .gov Links	31,500,869	3,697,734	-0.14	-0.23	31.56%
174	QS007	Number of Questions In H3 Tags	4	1	-0.14	-0.39	79.22%
175	CP015	Ahrefs Gov Backlinks	6,754	296	-0.14	-0.35	7.78%
176	CP485	Keywords in pages most used phrase	2	0	-0.14	-0.39	80.19%
177	CP357	Inline CSS Kilobytes	102	31	-0.13	-0.38	79.05%
178	ENT006	Entities in H5 Tags	11	1	-0.13	-0.39	59.06%
179	CP030	Ahrefs Has Gov Backlinks	1	0	-0.13	-0.41	7.25%
180	CPJLD236	Has JSON-LD ServiceChannel	1	0	-0.13	-0.43	2.03%
181	LSI008	LSI Words in H4 Tags	81	7	-0.13	-0.37	87.09%
182	CP150a	Search Terms in H1 Tags	1	0	-0.13	-0.36	80.55%
183	CP413	Number of External Links	52	17	-0.13	-0.30	76.30%
184	CP451	Number of US Phone Numbers	121	6	-0.13	-0.32	78.34%
185	PAGE009	Number of Prices	407	32	-0.13	-0.32	73.56%
186	CP150a2	Search Terms in H2 Tags	5	0	-0.13	-0.37	85.59%
187	CPJLDxCB	Number Of Claimed Brands	26	1	-0.13	-0.37	74.98%
188	CP377	Load Time Milliseconds	48,992	2,312	-0.13	-0.26	64.01%
189	CPJLD247	Has JSON-LD State	1	0	-0.13	-0.40	7.25%
190	CP356	Keywords in I Tags	329	6	-0.13	-0.37	78.43%
191	CP481a	Word Count in Title Tag	26	10	-0.13	-0.35	56.15%
192	CPJLD102	Has JSON-LD HealthAndBeautyBusiness	1	0	-0.13	-0.44	2.39%
193	CP347	Has US Phone Number	1	0	-0.13	-0.39	63.04%
194	CP139	Keywords in Class Attributes	4,229	10	-0.13	-0.35	76.48%
195	CPJLD228	Has JSON-LD Review	1	0	-0.13	-0.41	41.03%
196	CP319	Has Schema Markup	1	1	-0.13	-0.40	69.32%
197	CP481b	Word Count in Meta Description Tag	87	21	-0.13	-0.33	72.24%
198	CP176	Leading Keywords in H4-H6 Tags	7	0	-0.12	-0.38	77.01%
199	CP042	Ahrefs Has RSS Backlinks	1	0	-0.12	-0.41	8.22%
200	CP065	Ahrefs RSS Backlinks	8	0	-0.12	-0.38	8.84%

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