Position

What does Position Mean?

Position in Google search means the ranking you have for a keyword when searched for in Google. This is the Ads Position or number in line that your site shows up on the search results page.

In SEO and SEM terms, rank (or ranking, Ads Position) refers to where a website or page is ranked within search engine results.

For example, if your Web site is about churches, when a person queries “churches” in a search engine, your ranking indicates where in the search results your Web page is listed (e.g. within the top 5 results, on the first page, the 300th page and so on).

What do we know about how Google ranks web pages in its SERPs?

There are 2 major factors in play:

Relevance and quality.

To identify relevance, Google looks at how well the page answers the searcher’s question or fulfills the purpose of the query. Then, Google tries to figure out the degree of relevance of the page to the query. And while this is an undoubtedly complex process, it’s a comprehensible one. Google will look at your page and entire website in terms of keyword-related features, like keyword usage and topic relevance. Perhaps, they’ll also look for some keywords and semantically related concepts in the anchor text of links pointing to your page.

For most queries, this analysis will produce thousands of webpages that meet the relevance criteria, which Google needs to arrange in a certain order before they are displayed to searchers, ensuring that the best results appear at the top. This is where quality comes in.

But what exactly does Google mean by “quality”? The term seems incredibly (perhaps purposely) vague. But if you dig a little beneath the surface, quality becomes interesting. The concept, it turns out, has to do with many things beyond the website itself. And beyond backlinks, too.

Back in November, Google revealed their latest Search Quality Rating Guidelines, a 160-page read of “what Google thinks search users want”. This document is used by Google’s quality evaluators who rate web pages in SERPs; based on their feedback, Google can develop changes to their ranking algorithms.

That’s right. Human beings sit down, type queries into the Google search bar, and rate search results according to these guidelines so that Google can improve the quality of its SERPs.

Conclusion

Is your company in need of help? MV3 Marketing Agency has numerous Marketing experts ready to assist you. Contact MV3 Marketing to jump-start your business.