How Google measures your web site
Here are some of the elements that Google uses to measure the web site relevancy, regarding a "keyword".
- Website information On site information
- The keyword is part of the domain name
- The keyword appears within the title tag
- The keyword appears in the page content
- How often does the content changes? Google loves new content
- The web site age. how long has this web site been around
- The web site renewal date. A doamin registered for another year gets less points than a domain registered for 5 years
- Off site
- The keyword appears in the links pointing to the web site
- The Websites these links are on
- Are they relating to the same subject?
- Are they from the same area?
- Is this a two way link?
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- Google and user behavior
- Time spent on the web site
- Clicks from Google result pages and return to the Google SERP