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title: "Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About"  
description: "There are a lot of SEO facts and stats out there, with more or less known matters. Here's some shocking facts about SEO"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-12-05  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1759/shocking-seo-facts-you-never-knew-about  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["SEO", "SEO benifits", "SEO for business", "SEO friendly", "SEO for website", "SEO facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About

![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/93c4695b-0f04-446d-a627-068f2f3bd985.jpeg) ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/c26904d5-835e-4ed2-8ce4-7328c2be26b6.jpeg) Duplicate Content Won’t Get You Penalized ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/1a21c768-00ef-46a0-bd57-972dba0e614e.jpeg) Not All Search Engines Use Links as a Ranking Factor ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/8ed893c7-68fd-4d7f-9222-ef1996d3427c.jpeg) Google+ Is the Highest Correlated Social Factor for Rankings ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/7bf8d6ef-8e01-441d-a88f-3d78ebbcd391.jpeg) Rich Snippets Have No Direct Impact on Your Rankings ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/afe6d361-892f-48c1-b15a-6026ff2221cc.jpeg) Only 2 of the Top 10 Most Popular Sites Are Content Sites ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/6e21aec9-fe7b-4db6-a42d-29d94618512a.jpeg) Object Detection in Images is a Strong Ranking Signal ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/4ac0eed5-29a9-4f91-adbe-621671d55ba2.jpeg) Google Has Search Evaluators to Determine the Quality of Results ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/9e1da5e6-ff90-4e04-a85f-66c6b25b0e3b.jpeg) A Video on Your Homepage Will Double the Chances to Show up on Page 1 of Google ![Shocking SEO Facts You Never Knew About](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/59cff6b6-4a36-4355-bdfa-01d00dbf8094/images/ea6fc38f-7225-4b03-868b-f20a5ddb77c5.jpeg) Travel Time Is a Metric for Google’s Ranking Google Ranks Events Based upon Popularity

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