seo best practices
Here is a list of the major factors in Search Engine Rankings in order of importance.

1. Trust/Authority of the Host Domain - no excessive metatags, cloaking, malicious content or server downtime.
2. Link Popularity of the Specific Page
3. External Links from other trusted sites to the page - ex. networking sites, business directories,blogs, etc.
4. On-Page Keyword Usage - in text, title tags, headers, image tags and meta tags
5. Visitor/Traffic & Click-Through Data - How long the site has been up, how many people visit it and how many times did they click to a new page.
6. Registration & Hosting Data