TOP Search Engine Ranking Factors

Google's 200 Ranking Factors: The Entire List

You Probably know that Google uses about 200 rank factors in their algorithm...
However, What the heck are they?
Nicely Today you are in for a treat because I've put together a complete list.
Some are proven.
Some Are controversial.
Others are SEO nerd speculation.

Penalized WhoIs Owner:

If Google identifies a specific person for a spammer that it is reasonable that they'd scrutinize different websites owned by that individual.

Magnitude Of Content Updates:

The Significance of edits and changes can be a freshness element. Adding or removing whole sections is a more significant upgrade than switching around the order of a few words.

Page's PageRank:

Perhaps not Perfectly connected. But generally higher PR pages are inclined to rank better than low PR pages.

Helpful Supplementary Content:

According Into a now-public Google Rater Guidelines Document, helpful supplementary articles is an indicator of a page's quality (and consequently, Google ranking). Examples include currency converters, loan interest programs and interactive recipes.

Title Tag Begins with Keyword:

According To Moz data, title tags which starts with a keyword tend to do better than title tags with the keyword towards the close of the label:

Public vs. Private WhoIs:

Personal WhoIs information may be a sign of "something to hide". Matt Cutts is quoted as saying at Pubcon 2006:
"...When I checked the whois on them, they all had "whois privacy protection service" on them. That is relatively uncommon. ...Getting whois privacy turned on is not automatically bad, but once you get several of these factors all together, you are often talking about a really different kind of webmaster compared to the fellow who just has one site or so."