Google Says Ranking Signals & Factors Are Like Fuel, While Systems Are The Machines That Use The Fuel
Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, gave a good analogy of the differences between ranking systems, ranking signals and ranking factors. He said signals and factors are the same, the “signal/factors are like fuel; systems are the machine that uses them,” Sullivan wrote. Danny Sullivan explained that at Google, “We use signal and factor fairly … Read more
