Did you know that there are more than 200 signals that affect your website’s ranking on search engines? Nevertheless, five of them are more important than all the others as far as it gets to reaching Google’s first page. Do you know which ones?
1. Content
Yes, it is the key indeed. It must always be original, high-quality, and follow SEO best practices.
2. Backlinks
The more quality pages linking to yours, the better. Especially if they link your website in the keyword you want to rank in.
3. On-Page SEO
Google considers aspects such as domain age, webspam score, URL structure, meta description, and many other on-page factors (as a matter of fact, on-page SEO is so crucial it can be a full separate post).
4. User Experience
This includes factors such as page loading time, time spent on the website, navigation, and whether your site is mobile-friendly.
5. Brand signals
The number of times your brand name is mentioned across the internet is also a very important part of getting to the top search results faster.
So, did you guess all these main 5 ranking signals? Are you already employing all of them on your company’s website?
