Factors [That] Influence Your Website’s Ranking on Google

How to Get Your Website Ranked on Google’s First Page
Getting listed on Google’s first result page is the goal of every webmaster. Unfortunately, many webmasters still do the wrong things to improve their rankings and fail to realize the best possible performance for their
website.
The thing to remember is that it’s not possible to get top 10 rankings on Google by focusing on a single strategy. Getting listed on Google requires you to work on all elements of your website. Here are the top 5 factors that influence the position of your website in Google’s search results:
Ranking factor 1: website accessibility
It doesn’t make sense to optimize your web pages if search engines cannot access your web pages:

• Your robots.txt file should allow search engines to visit your web pages. If your robots.txt file contains errors then many search engines won’t list your website.
• The HTML code of your web pages should be error-free and your web server should return the correct response code. The contents of your web pages should be readable to search engine spiders.

Continue reading … Article by, David Amerland and courtesy of Associated Content, Inc.

Originally posted by Candice A