A short while ago I posted some on page ranking factors, mainly pointing at google’s ranking factors. As promised, this SEO checklist is related to off page factors such as linking etc.
Positive linking factors:
- Inbound text link the anchor you need to rank
- Inbound text links from good pagerank sites
- Listed in authority directories (DMOZ, Yahoo! etc.)
- Good neighbours (trusted sites such as Google, it never hurts to link back to them)
- Remember quality > quantity; If you’d have to choose between a link from MySpace’s homepage or 10,000 other backlinks, choose MySpace.
Bad linking factors:
- Too many external links
- Bad neighbours
Domain:
- General trust of a domain (Important!)
- Age
- Traffic of a domain. Many say that its not important, however in the Google Patent it is clearly mentioned that increasing traffic - good site.
- Keyword in domain name
This is all that comes to my mind at this moment! I will update this SEO Checklist as soon as I get more ideas.
