I came across this great infographic on iboxseo – it’s nicely lays out the tactics you need to get Google juice for one of your web site’s pages. The bottom of their blog post has ‘ranking factors’ – basically a cheatsheet on what matters, now, for Google’s ranking engine.

They list the top on page factors as:

1. Keyword use anywhere in title tag
2. Keyword use as the 1st word(s) of the title tag
3. Keyword use in the root domain name
4. Keyword use anywhere  in the h1
5. Keyword use in internal or external link anchor text on the page
6. Keyword use in the first 50-100 words

It’s a great post; check out all the tips at the bottom of it!