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It’s challenging to stay on top of the ever-changing SEO standards. However, if you want to rise to the top of Google’s search results, you’ll need to know what’s happening. It’s a no-brainer that the more traffic a site receives, the more leads and sales it generates<\/em>. Therefore, SEO is necessary if you want your hard work to pay off. Without it, your efforts will go in vain. To prevent this from happening to you, we asked a team of digital marketing pros<\/a> for help and gathered a list of essential SEO ranking factors that make your website dominate search engine results pages (SERPs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEO ranking factors that will launch your website at the top of SERPs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The term SEO (search engine optimization) essentially implies increasing the likelihood that a web page will appear in a search engine’s first page results<\/strong>. However, let’s be honest: search engine basically means Google nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Appearing in the top three results of a Google search is quite beneficial because the click-through rates on your website will increase dramatically.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not a secret that every website owner wants their website among the first results of a relevant Google search<\/em>. After all, the closer your website gets to the top of the search results, the higher your click-through rates will be. But how does one exactly get there? By focusing on the following SEO ranking factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High-quality content<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The importance of your website and blog content quality cannot be overstated. High-quality content might be the most important of all SEO ranking factors. If you focus on creating pages that don’t contribute anything of value to the user experience, it can come back to haunt you. That is because of Google’s Panda and Fred algorithm improvements<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posting high-quality content will help you increase the amount of time a user spends on a page.<\/strong> On the other hand, it will also reduce the percentage of visitors leaving your website as you give them a good reason to stay. Therefore, your blog should include posts with valuable tips and advice<\/a> relevant to your industry that your readers will find helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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High-quality content will always remain among the most critical SEO ranking factors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the sake of SEO, high-quality content pages need to do more than be well-written and lengthy. For them to drive organic traffic to your website, you need to know your customers’ intent<\/strong> and what they are looking for. And, because searcher intent might change over time, you need to make sure to regularly check your Google Analytics and analyze the data you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accessibility and security of your website<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Another essential SEO ranking factor has everything to do with the right type of URL for your website<\/strong>. You need an URL that Google’s crawlers will have no problem accessing and crawling. For Google to comprehend what your page is about, it needs to be able to go to its URL and look at its content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll need the following to help the bots figure out your website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n