Top Seo Factors

Google's 200 Position Factors: The Entire List

You Probably already know that Google uses about 200 ranking factors in their algorithm...
However, What the hell are they?
Well Today you are in for a treat since I've assembled a whole list.
Some are proven.
Some Are contentious.
Others are SEO nerd speculation.

Nation TLD expansion:

Having A Country Code Top Level Domain (.cn, .pt, .ca) helps the site rank for that particular country...but restricts the site's capacity to rank globally.

Amount Of Internal Links Pointing to Page:

The Number of internal hyperlinks to a webpage suggests its significance relative to other pages on the site.

Human Editors:

Although Never confirmed, Google has filed a patent for a system that allows human editors to influence the SERPs.

Reading Amount:

There's No doubt that Google estimates the scanning level of webpages. In fact, Google used to give you studying level stats:

However, What they do with this info is up for debate. Some state that a simple reading level can allow you to rank better because it is going to attract the masses. However others associate a simple reading level with content mills like Ezine Articles.

Keyword In Subdomain Name:

Moz's 2011 panel agreed a key word appearing in the subdomain can boost positions: