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Copyright law will probably prevent this from ever becoming an actual ad for my client’s “lead magnet” report, but it tickles me, so I’m posting it here for whenever I need a little chuckle. If anyone else wants to chuckle along, feel free. ;-)

Too young to know the reference? I got your back: Nurse Ratched

Here’s a basic breakdown of the most important factors for ranking on Google, and which ones are more important than others. Happy to see that quality and keywordliness of the page content is still a top factor. (#3 on the list.) That’s the factor that site owners have the most direct control over. If you build the best page on a certain topic, you still have a good chance of ranking well, regardless of your site’s popularity or other factors. However, if Google is comparing your page to competition that’s of similar quality, then links and popularity (#’s 1 and 2 on the list) might be the deciding factor.

Here’s the main infographic behind the survey. MOZ has a lot more info at the Ranking Factors 2015 main page.

Think Traffic has put together a really great summary of steps you can (and should) take to develop a kick-ass blog that rocks the Internet’s socks off.

It’s not that hard to achieve success in blogging, but it does take some work. Actually, quite a bit of work–but not hard work. All of these steps are pretty easy in and of themselves, and Think Traffic even includes time estimates for each task. So start working through the list, and by the time you get through the last of these tasks, you will be noticing a difference in your blogging efforts–namely, they will feel easier and be more effective. In fact, you should start feeling those effects well before you finish all 21 tasks.

Are you still reading this? Because you should probably be reading Think Traffic’s post by now, and getting to work on the first task. Get to it!

http://thinktraffic.net/21-quick-actions-for-massive-blog-success