What Google Actually Looks for When Ranking Websites

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Quick Answer TL;DR Google evaluates websites across hundreds of signals, but the ones that actually move rankings fall into four categories: content quality and relevance, technical site health, page experience, and off-page authority. Most businesses spend too much energy on signals that are easy to game and too little on the ones that genuinely determine […]