Ranking used to be all about the links. However, more individuals began to use links as a way to get the higher ranking and they were not careful about the links they used. There have been changes to make the rankings more in line with quality than the links. You still have to pay attention to the various types of links such as popularity, reciprocal, triangular, mini nets, and link farms. They are still very much a catch phrase as well for those in SEO. Search engines used to take the websites and just index them and rank them according to the number of links. This is just not possible anymore with the millions or even billions of websites out there. They needed a better system. To help you gain the knowledge you need regarding the ranking factors, we have decided to give you the most important ones below.

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