Top 5 Criteria for ranking in Google

[imate]

What is your top 5 important criteria of the Google algo. Lets say that the age of a domain is one of the criteria's. What are the rest 4?

[pageoneresults]

1. A competent Captain.
2. A competent Crew.
3. A competent Client.

Without the first three, you can kiss the others goodbye. ;)

Personally I don't think you can list these in any kind of ranking order. They are just parts of the equation. Google claims that it now looks at over 200 factors when determining the quality of a page. I would think that first query to the server from the bot is one of the most important. What are you serving? ;)

I find that technical issues can cause more problems than basic SEO issues.

[SandySEO]

Evergreen 5 Criteria:

1. Domain Age
2. Meta & Image Text Optimization
3. Inbound Link Building
4. Article Syndication
5. Blog, Forum SEO work

Let me know if you have any one more effective from these.

- SandySEO

[sem4u]

1. Inbound links with your keyword(s) as anchor text.
2. Appropriate uses of keywords in titles.
3. Integration of keywords into the body text of each page.
4. Good naviation structure including text links and site map(s).
5. Unique meta descriptions for each page.