2022 Top 10 Google Ranking Factors
The top 10 Google ranking factors for 2022. Based on Google best practice standards and methods, there is a lot of information and studies to try and determine what the Google algorithm likes. The algorithm is dynamic, and fluctuates depending on updates, changes and any other factors from Google edits.
This makes SEO a difficult eco system to understand and adapt to. Thanks to so many incredibly useful Google and SEO tools, we are able to fully audit a website and determine the exact elements that need work. These auditing tools measure the importance of SEO elements to optimize based on a set of important factors.
2022 Google ranking factors
- Content
- Original
- Valuable
- Relevant
- Natural
- Well Optimized (On page techniques)
- Website Security
- HTTPS
- Domains / URLS
- Target keyword in domain name
- Mobile Friendliness
- Responsive
- Site Speed & Performance
- Site Structure
- Navigation (users and crawlers)
- Sitemaps (.xml and HTML)
- Backlinks
- High Quality
- From High DA websites
- Relevant
- Keyword Optimization
- On page audit
- On page optimization
- User Experience
- Social engagement are ranking signals, as Google crawls and indexes social posts.
- Content
