{"id":635,"date":"2008-07-10T19:16:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T11:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2008-07-10T19:16:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T11:16:27","slug":"google-sheds-light-on-factors-influencing-search-engine-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/search-engine-optmization-seo\/google-sheds-light-on-factors-influencing-search-engine-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sheds Light on Factors influencing Search Engine Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Google search engine ranking team Google Fellow Amit Singhal published a blog post “Introduction to Google Ranking<\/a>” at the official Google blog.<\/p>\n While not going into the specific nuts-and-bolts factors influencing SERPs (or search engine results pages), Amit outlined a number of broad principles to keep in mind when optimizing your web pages.<\/p>\n Principle 1: “Best locally relevant results served globally”<\/strong><\/p>\n As I’ve earlier noted, your geographic location, specifically your IP number can determine the search results returned<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amit’s assurance that they operate on the “no query left behind” principle, meaning every user query gets the most relevant results, is yet another assertion that the “user experience” more so than the affiliate marketer, SEO or even adwords advertiser’s interest is given priority.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you’ve been following developments (and educated guesses) in the SEO field, you’ll know that meta criteria like “time on site” and other deeper level criteria from Google Analytics (and no doubt, Google own deeper level analytics, and possibly algorithms derived from basic analytics) are being incorporated into these ranking factors.<\/p>\n I applaud the SEOs who’re on the leading edge in following and sometimes trying to step ahead of Google to rank higher in the SERPs. For the average internet marketer, developing a long term sustainable business model and providing original, quality, link worthy content is probably the best route for now.<\/p>\n Principle 2: Keep It Simple<\/strong><\/p>\n What’s simple to a UC Berkeley or Carnegie Mellon comp sci major might be rocket science to the average man.<\/p>\n Again, the average man-in-the-street marketer is going to be hard pressed to come up with anything innovative, unless you’ve got the technical chops of a BlueHat SEO<\/a> with his madlib and deeplinking strategies.<\/p>\n