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September, 16 2024

• Google On Why Simple Factors Aren’t Ranking Signals via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains the reason why characteristics like valid HTML and typos aren't [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 16 2024

• CWV & Google Page Experience Ranking Factor Updated via @sejournal, @martinibuster Performance metrics in June 2024 CrUX data are expected to inform Google's Page Experience Ranking [...] - Search Engine Journal

June, 14 2024

• Google On Traffic Diversity As A Ranking Factor via @sejournal, @martinibuster Despite being clear in his original statement recommending diversifying traffic sources, someone [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 16 2024

• Is Service Areas A New Google Local Ranking Factor? A bunch of local SEOs are buzzing about a possible new local SEO Google ranking factor and are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 29 2024

• Google Explains How CWV Is A Ranking Factor But Doesn’t Improve Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google explains why Core Web Vitals are a ranking factor that you shouldn't waste much time [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 13 2024

• Google: EEAT Isn't A Ranking Factor Nor A Thing That Factors Into Other Factors We've covered Google saying E-E-A-T is not a ranking factor too many times here but have we covered [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 6 2024

• Google Explains Systems Are Machines That Use Ranking Signals & Factors Which Are Fuel Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, gave a good analogy of the differences between ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 5 2024

• Google: We Don't Say Core Web Vitals Are A Ranking Factor Google's Danny Sullivan said on Friday, "We don't confirm any of the things [page experience [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 8 2024

• Google: Author Bylines Not A Ranking Factor via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google clarifies author bylines don't directly influence search rankings, despite claims. - Search Engine Journal

December, 16 2023

• Google Confirms Business ‘Openness’ As Local Ranking Factor via @sejournal, @kristileilani Discover the impact of business operating hours on visibility in local searches and maps, as Google [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 10 2023

• Ranking Factors That Changed In 2023 via @sejournal, @sejournal Download our 2023 Ranking Factors guide, and learn which key changes in the Google's ranking [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 25 2023

• Links are not a top 3 Google Search ranking factor, says Gary Illyes Google's Gary Illyes said people overestimate the importance of links, saying they haven't been a [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 29 2023

• Don't Slow Your Website Down To Increase Time on Website - It's Not A Google Ranking Factor I spotted Google's John Mueller laughing at a LinkedIn post that is telling SEOs to slow down [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 5 2023

• Google's John Mueller: No Ranking Factor Compensates For Missing Relevance Google's John Mueller has another good one-liner about SEO and Google ranking. He said on Mastodon, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 29 2023

• Semantic HTML: Not A Ranking Factor But Still Important via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller advises using semantic HTML. Though not a ranking factor, it helps search [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 26 2023

• 2023 Survey: Local search ranking factors Whitespark has surveyed dozens of local SEO experts to compile what they believe are the most [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 9 2023

• Google: Page Size Is Not A Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, "Page size is not a ranking factor." Meaning [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 31 2023

• Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak: Insights via @sejournal, @martinibuster Catching up with the Yandex ranking factors leak, what it's all about - Search Engine Journal

January, 30 2023

• Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leaked & Revealed Yandex had a boatload of its source code across all its technology allegedly leaked by a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 27 2023

• Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors SEOs have already started analyzing Yandex's search ranking factors, which include PageRank and [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 17 2023

• Google ranking signals: A complete breakdown of all confirmed, rumored and false factors An easy-to-read, highly condensed analysis of all the known, confirmed, rumored, and absolute [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 4 2022

• Google: Links Will Be Less Important As A Ranking Factor In The Future Google has published on the Search Off The Record podcast, which was a recording from brightonSEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 3 2022

• Google Predicts Strength Of Backlinks Ranking Factor Will Drop via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern During a live session at Brighton SEO, Google Search Advocate John Mueller makes a prediction about [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 9 2022

• Ranking Factors: Fact Or Fiction? Let’s Bust Some Myths! [Ebook] via @sejournal, @BennyJamminS Get evidence-based answers for all your pressing ranking factors questions. - Search Engine Journal

March, 22 2022

• Google Again: Product Prices Not A Ranking Factor But Explains Why... Back in 2016, we covered how Google's John Mueller said product pricing is not a web search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 15 2022

• Google: We Don't Use User Engagement As A Search Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said again that Google Search does not use "engagement" as a factor [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 11 2022

• How Page Experience Ranking Factors Actually Work via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller shows how page experience ranking signals can help a site rank better and why [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 1 2022

• Google: CSS Colors Are Not A Google Ranking Factor... Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "we generally don't use color as a factor." He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 7 2022

• Google: Keyword Density Still Not An SEO Search Ranking Factor So it is now 2022 and some folks are asking if keyword density is an SEO Google search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 31 2021

• Title Tags are a Tiny Ranking Factor via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains the status of title tags as a ranking factor and whether company [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 22 2021

• Google: Author Not A Direct Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said a bit ago in a video hangout that the author of an article is not a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 8 2021

• Google on Product Price As a Ranking Factor via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller discusses product price as a ranking factor and explains whether it can [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 29 2021

• These Are The Ranking Factors SEOs Want Google To Turn Up Remco Tensen asked on Twitter which dials would you want to turn in the Google search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 14 2021

• We Analyzed 88 Google Ranking Factors & Here’s What We Found [Ebook] via @sejournal, @MrDannyGoodwin Have you ever wondered what is and isn’t a ranking factor? This guide determines whether [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 6 2021

• Google Says Now The Page Experience Update Is More Than A Tie Breaker Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said on Reddit this morning that the page experience update that incorporates [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Core Web Vitals Ranking Factor is More than a Tie Breaker via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller affirmed on Reddit that the Core Web Vitals ranking factor is more than just [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 23 2021

• Google Shows Which Ranking Factors Resulted In A Page Ranking Google is rolling out a new feature for the about this result overlay that actually tells searchers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Shows Ranking Factors, Core Updates Impact PAAs, Redirected Signals Can Last Forever & AMP Icons Are Gone Google is rolling out a feature to show in the about this result overlay why the company ranked [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 22 2021

• Google Expands ‘About This Result’ With Info On Ranking Factors via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is expanding the ‘About This Result’ panel with information about what factors [...] - Search Engine Journal

June, 10 2021

• Google: Ranking Ranking Factors Is A Bad Idea Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is a bad idea for Google to try to rank its ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 6 2021

• Google Talks Hypothetically About Speed As A Ranking Factor - It's Small Google's John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released their latests "search off the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 12 2021

• How Often Is Core Web Vitals Ranking Factor Calculated? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Is the Core Web Vitals ranking factor updated on a real-time basis or is it rarely updated? - Search Engine Journal

January, 31 2021

• Google: Duplicate Content is Not a Negative Ranking Factor Google’s John Mueller clarifies a misconception about duplicate content, saying it’s [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 3 2020

• Google Page Experience Update Ranking Factor Will Apply To Mobile Search Only So yesterday, I accidentally published a story too quickly, around a new FAQ around Google's Page [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 30 2020

• Yes, Anchor Text Is A Google Ranking Factor I am a bit surprised I am writing this but yes, anchor text is a signal Google uses for ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 5 2020

• Google My Business and reviews gain in 2020 Local Ranking Factors survey But rankings and conversions aren't always the same thing. - Search Engine Land
• Vlog #88: Drew Madore On User Experience Signals As Google Ranking Factors In part one of my vlog with Drew Madroe we talked about how black hat SEO has changed... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 16 2020

• Google ranking factors to change search in 2021: Core Web Vitals, E-A-T, or AMP? Which of the fresh Google ranking factors will actually influence SEO practice, and which will fade [...] - Search Engine Watch

September, 15 2020

• 8 major Google ranking factors — SEO guide Of over two hundred Google ranking factors that we know about, which ones are the most important? [...] - Search Engine Land
• 8 major Google ranking factors — SEO guide Of over two hundred Google ranking factors that we know about, which ones are the most important? [...] - Marketing Land

September, 7 2020

• Google: It's Unlikely Core Web Vitals Will Become A Primary Ranking Factor Gary Illyes from Google said on Reddit he thinks it is unlikely that core web vitals "would [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 25 2020

• A deeper dive into more of the Bing Search ranking factors Why author and site reputation, completeness of content, transparency of authorship and negativity [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 7 2020

• Knowing Google Ranking Factors Help You Do SEO? Izzi Smith posted a Twitter poll asking "does something being a "confirmed ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 5 2020

• SEO myth-busting: What is not a Google search ranking factor Google has said it doesn't use these signals to inform where your site ranks in organic search [...] - Search Engine Land

July, 23 2020

• Apple Lists Its Search Ranking Factors Apple has updated the "about Applebot" help documentation page the other day and in that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 16 2020

• John Mueller On Google Rants On Ranking Factors Google's John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released another podcast this morning. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 30 2020

• Bing Ranking Factors Revealed in Update to Webmaster Guidelines Bing published an updated version of its webmaster guidelines which contains an all-new section on [...] - Search Engine Journal
• Bing’s search ranking factors; relevance, quality & credibility, user engagement, freshness, location and page load time Want to know how Bing ranks web pages? Here is how Bing describes it within its own guidelines. - Search Engine Land

June, 12 2020

• Cumulative Layout Shift – Overview of 2021 Ranking Factor Cumulative Layout Shift is becoming a ranking factor in 2021. Learn what it is and how to optimize [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 28 2020

• The Google Page Experience Update: User experience to become a Google ranking factor This new ranking factor won't be live until 2021, at the earliest. Here is what you need to know. - Search Engine Land

April, 29 2020

• Confirmed: Google Site Speed Is A Teeny-Tiny Ranking Factor I've been saying this for years but now Google has confirmed that the site speed ranking signals [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 21 2020

• Again, Google Does Not Use BBB Ratings As A Search Ranking Factor In 2012, 2017 and 2018 Google said they do not use the BBB (Better Business Bureaus) rating of a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 5 2020

• Google: URL Length Is Not A Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller had to say on Twitter that "URL length is not a ranking fraction." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 6 2019

• Another Google Says We Don't Use User Behavior As A Ranking Factor I knew this Martin Splitt laptop head-bang GIF would come in handy the day he would answer this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 11 2019

• Google: Content Accuracy Is A Ranking Factor Gary Illyes from Google said on stage at PubCon that he would consider content accuracy a ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 10 2019

• Content accuracy is not a ranking factor Google’s Danny Sullivan explained that its systems rely on topic relevance and authority to [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 26 2019

• Google: Web Site Traffic Is Not A Ranking Factor Want some pure myth busting from Google? Well, here it is. Google's official Google Webmaster [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 5 2019

• Google: Word Count Is Not A Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that Google does not use word count as a ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 25 2019

• Google: You Cannot Isolate Specific Ranking Factor Successes I am going to do it, I am going to read between the lines here on a John Mueller tweet. In short, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 24 2019

• The inside story with Google’s external ranking factors Episode Overview When it comes to Google rankings, there are a lot of external factors that might [...] - Searchmetrics

April, 16 2019

• Built for speed: Google’s ranking factors for media and publishing sites  iTunes       Overcast      Spotify   [...] - Searchmetrics

April, 15 2019

• What are Google’s unique ranking factors for the eCommerce industry?  iTunes       Overcast      Spotify     [...] - Searchmetrics

April, 5 2019

• Google: The Web is Faster Since Page Speed Became a Ranking Factor Google says sites are faster and abandonment rates are down since making page speed a ranking [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 11 2019

• Google Discusses Ranking Factors Google's John Muller explains why top ranked sites can be slow and suggests user satisfaction as a [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 11 2019

• Google Search Ranking Factors Include "Pornyness" I know Gary Illyes from Google is going to roll his eyes when he sees this post, but I find it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 22 2019

• How reputation became a major ranking factor in SEO To stay on top of rankings today, you need to be diligent in assessing your site's usability and [...] - Search Engine Land

December, 1 2018

• Content Factors and Ranking Factors for Google Search Consideration of content and ranking factors in a search engine that uses AI for 30% of search [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 23 2018

• 2018 Local Search Ranking Factors: Google My Business Signals Up 32% The impact of Google My Business on local search rankings has seen significant growth in 2018. - Search Engine Journal

November, 22 2018

• Ranking Factors for Retailers: Getting your Shop to the Top The holiday season sees marketing departments everywhere investing heavily in paid advertising, [...] - Searchmetrics

November, 19 2018

• Domain Name Registration Expire Date Or Length Not A Google Ranking Factor We've covered this numerous times but hey, Google had to chime in again about the topic of domain [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 28 2018

• Real World Ranking Factors Evaluating how Google ranks websites today and what the new ranking factors may be. - Search Engine Journal

July, 16 2018

• Google Does Not Use Pogo-Sticking As a Ranking Factor Google’s John Mueller revealed that a behavior known as pogo-sticking is not a signal when it [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 13 2018

• Google: H Tags as a Ranking Factor How important are using <h> tags – and more specifically multiple <h> tags, such [...] - The SEM Post

July, 10 2018

• Google Speed Update: Load Time is a Mobile Ranking Factor Google is getting fast and furious since 9th of July: Your future may depend on how fast your URLs [...] - Searchmetrics

June, 14 2018

• Stars, Ratings & Surveys Not A Google Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video at the 24:43 minute mark that Google does [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 22 2018

• SEO Ranking factors panel: SMX West session recap Contributor Eric Enge recaps the controversial takeaways and interesting marketing tips from the [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 15 2018

• Report: EU to ask Google, others to publicly reveal ranking factors Proposed rules are designed to redress the “superior bargaining power” of the large [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 28 2018

• Study: 11 voice search ranking factors analyzed Some of the findings confirm and some upend conventional wisdom. - Search Engine Land

January, 17 2018

• The Google Speed Update: Page speed will become a ranking factor in mobile search Starting in July 2018, Google will finally use mobile page speed as a ranking in their mobile [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 15 2017

• Health Ranking Factors: 5 Winter Traffic Tips for Avoiding Website Flu It’s that time of the year, when the creepy-crawlies hit us with viruses, bugs and winter [...] - Searchmetrics

November, 14 2017

• Reviews are the Most Prominent Local SEO Ranking Factor in 2017 Reviews appear to be the most prominent ranking factor in local search, according to a recent study. - Search Engine Journal
• SEMrush SEO Ranking Factors 2017 Report Cites Factors Google Denies As Ranking Signals SEMrush, the popular SEO toolset company, have released their 2017 study on Google ranking factors, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Top 17 Organic Search Ranking Factors [STUDY] An updated study from SEMRush reveals what are said to be the top organic search ranking factors in [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 13 2017

• 2017 Google Local Ranking Factors SEO Study Andrew Shotland has published his 2017 local SEO ranking factors study the other day. Andrew said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 10 2017

• Local ranking factors study finds reviews, organic SEO best practices boost local visibility This is the second year of the LocalSEOGuide ranking factors study, performed in conjunction with [...] - Search Engine Land

October, 25 2017

• SEO Ranking Factors in 2017: What’s Important and What’s Not What are the most crucial search engine ranking factors these days? Panelists at SMX East discussed [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 29 2017

• SEO ranking factors: What’s important, what’s not This week, Google celebrated its 19th birthday. A lot has changed in nearly two decades. Rather [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 19 2017

• Bing says links are still a very important ranking factor A recent interview with a Bing representative suggested links will be downplayed for rankings in [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 18 2017

• Google: Top Ranking Factors Change Depending on Query Contrary to popular belief, Google says there are no top 3 ranking factors that apply to all web [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 6 2017

• Google: Number One Search Ranking Factor Is Awesomeness Every wonder what the number one, most important, search ranking factor is in Google's algorithms? [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 19 2017

• Google announces Assistant app-discovery channels, broad ranking factors It's early, but Google will soon need to rank Assistant apps, too. - Search Engine Land

April, 24 2017

• Google: No Plans To Boost HTTPS Ranking Factor As you know, back in 2014, Google released the HTTPS ranking boost to give a little ranking boost [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 17 2017

• Local search ranking factors: What’s working in 2017 [Podcast] In our new episode, we chat with Darren Shaw about the just-released Local Search Ranking Factors [...] - Search Engine Land
• Google Local Search Ranking Factors From Moz Moz released their local search ranking factors study results for 2017. They do these studies every [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 13 2017

• 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors: Proximity to Searcher is Number One Here are the top local search ranking factors of 2017, according to dozens of local search experts. - Search Engine Journal

April, 11 2017

• Just released: 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors survey results After taking a year off, latest version of survey again features educated opinions from almost 40 [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 23 2017

• Google Mobile First Index: Page Speed Included as a Ranking Factor During yesterday’s Mobile First session at SMX, Gary Illyes from Google discussed page speed [...] - The SEM Post

February, 10 2017

• Searchmetrics e-commerce ranking factors study says easy e-commerce sites rank higher in Google Want to know what makes an e-commerce site rank well in Google? This study explores those ranking [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 25 2017

• Google: AMP Not Ranking Factor But If AMP Page Is Canonical, It Will Be Used For Site Quality John Mueller addressed two different questions around AMP in the past 24 hours or so. The first, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 14 2016

• Google’s Top Search Ranking Factors of 2016, According to Searchmetrics Study Searchmetrics has released their annual study of Google’s top search ranking factors. - Search Engine Journal

December, 13 2016

• Why We’re Killing Searchmetrics Ranking Factors (Hint: Google Made Us) We are gathered here to formally acknowledge that Universal Ranking Factors are dead. The new kings [...] - Searchmetrics
• Searchmetrics Google ranking factors study says content gaining while links losing in importance Google search ranking factors study is now out, it measured the top 20 search results for 10,000 [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 3 2016

• Webmasters React To Google's 200 Rankings Factors Claim While Googlers Look On For the past several days, I've been watching this thread at WebmasterWorld with a great title [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 8 2016

• Is Code to Text Ratio a Google Ranking Factor? During yesterday’s Crawling and Indexing Q&A with Google, the question was raised about [...] - The SEM Post

August, 24 2016

• Google To Drop Mobile Friendly Label But Not The Ranking Factor Google announced yesterday that they are dropping the mobile friendly label from the mobile search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 30 2016

• Google: Product Pricing Is Not A Ranking Factor Google does not look at how expensive or cheap your products are for organic search rankings. They [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 27 2016

• New Study Reveals Top Local SEO Ranking Factors for 2016 A new study reveals information about the factors behind high ranking Google My Business (GMB) [...] - Search Engine Journal

June, 1 2016

• Google says page speed ranking factor to use mobile page speed for mobile sites in upcoming months The speed of your mobile pages currently doesn't impact your mobile rankings but soon it may says [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 8 2016

• How Page Speed as a Google Ranking Factor Works There is always this push by SEOs to get the highest possible page speed score to get the most [...] - The SEM Post

April, 1 2016

• Google Documents Google My Business Local Ranking Factors Google's document on ranking in the local search results has been expanded to include factors like [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 24 2016

• Now we know: Here are Google’s top three search ranking factors Google's Andrey Lipattsev reveals links, content and RankBrain are the top three ranking signals in [...] - Search Engine Land
• Google: The Top Three Ranking Factors Are Content, Links & RankBrain Surprise, surprise, the top three ranking signals in Google's search ranking algorithm is content, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Finally Confirms the Two Most Important Ranking Factors When Google originally announced RankBrain, they confirmed that it was now the third most important [...] - The SEM Post

March, 17 2016

• Google To Boost The Mobile Friendly Ranking Factors In May Google announced that the mobile friendly ranking algorithm which launched on April 21, 2015 will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 11 2016

• Google: Why Google Doesn't Go Over Every Ranking Factor For Webmasters This morning in a Google Hangout on Google+, John Mueller said he is decided to skip a bunch of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 26 2016

• Google Says AMP Not A Ranking Factor (But Does it Matter At This Point?) Responding to a question asked in a Google+ Hangout, Google’s John Mueller officially stated [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 3 2016

• Google: Local Reviews Are Not A Web Search Ranking Factor In the hangout from last week on Google+ at the 17:27 minute mark Google's John Mueller said he [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Google: Keywords In URLs A Very Small Ranking Factor In the Google hangout from last week on Google+ at the 17:50 minute mark John Mueller of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 28 2016

• Google: Outbound Links Are Not A Ranking Factor In the Google Hangout from earlier this week, John Mueller filled us up with yes and nos to is this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 27 2016

• Google: Title Tags Are A Ranking Factor But Is It A Critical Factor? Last week, I upset some people by the words I used in my headline of my story which read Google: [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 24 2015

• Local Search Ranking Factors 2015 The 2015 Local Search Ranking Factors report is out and it’s a must read for anyone in the [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 11 2015

• Google: Structured Markup May Become A Ranking Factor I was shocked a bit to hear this, since Google has said time and time again that rich snippets and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Correlation vs. causality and the Ranking Factors infographic This year we introduced a brave new type of infographic in our annual Ranking Factors Study. We are [...] - Searchmetrics

September, 3 2015

• This Guy Tried To Document 260+ Google Ranking Factors Google has said time and time again that they have over 200 ranking signals within their search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 14 2015

• Google: I'd Love To Make Interstitials A Negative SEO Ranking Factor Google's Gary Illyes said on Twitter that he'd love to make a new negative search engine ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 12 2015

• Moz 2015 Search Engine Ranking Factors Study Moz released their ranking factors study which interview 150 SEO experts and applied that to a data [...] - Search Engine Land
• [Study] 2015 Search Engine Ranking Factors Released By Moz A new study from Moz combines data from 150 industry leaders and gives us a look at the search [...] - Marketing Land
• Google: User Actions On Your Web Site Are Not A Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said in a Google Hangout yesterday that there are no Google algorithms that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 9 2015

• Google Patents ‘Watch Time’ as a Search Ranking Factor A patent granted to Google may be an indication of how the search giant intends to rank video [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 30 2015

• The Top 5 Ranking Factors for 2015: How Strong is Your Hand? The Searchmetrics Ranking Factors study 2015 for Google.com is finally here! Once again we made the [...] - Searchmetrics