Who Else Has This on Their Website

A webpage has over 200 elements that can affect ranking. Although, it has been proved that you can get into a top position on links alone with even a blank page, who wants to? So I came up with a few "gotta haves" that should be in all your webpages. ( If you want to position well in the engines that is).

• Robots.txt
• w3 declaration
• Google/Yahoo sitemap
• Character Encoding in Header
• Language Encoding
• Links back to your home page that say your main keyword instead of "home page".
• Title &, Description tags.

The Title tag is by far the most important on page factor.

Comments

[Derek Burress]

200 elements? Most of us have a hard enough time trying to get the first 10 elements of SEO down with our sites. With over 200 different elements we might as well start offering Ph.D's in Googling or Google SEO!

[SEO Tim]

Focus on links and good content.Make sure your page has good Titles with your keywords.

Repeat.

[Rex]

I think links are the most important thing. Look at Technorati for example, your site can rank poorly on Alexa, but high on Technorati. My blog is a good example of that. - rexduffdixon.com.

Also another thing that will rank you up there (blog speaking) is good and consistent content.

There is no magic to that.

Rex

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[Oskars]

Well I agree that title is very important, but where did you get the info that w3 and encoding affects SE rankings?

[Nataliya Flannery]

How does the robots.txt affect the page ranking for various search engines?