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What is ICS
What does the ICS take into account?
How to view ICS
How does IKS differ from TIC?
Does the IKS affect search engine rankings?
How to Raise a Website’s IKS: 15 Proven Methods
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Ekaterina Chernykh
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What is ICS
Yandex IKS stands for Site Quality Index and is formed based on other important indicators. The IKS indicator in Yandex is an indicator that evaluates the usefulness and convenience of your site for the audience. In this article, we will figure out what IKS is and how to email data raise the IKS of a site in Yandex.
What does the ICS take into account?
Yandex does not fully disclose information about what other indicators are taken into account when calculating the IKS. But based on the reference, we will highlight several key metrics:
Site audience size;
User satisfaction level;
The level of trust in the site from users and Yandex;
Other indicators.
Meanwhile, Yandex can change the algorithm for calculating the IKS at any time and not warn us about it. That’s the mystery.
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According to Yandex data and expert analysis, the following factors influence the IKS:
The size and activity of the site’s audience;
User satisfaction;
Level of trust in the site;
Number of indexed pages;
Domain age;
Branded queries
Social media presence;
Behavioural factors (e.g. returning to search results);
Availability of information about the site in Yandex services;
Quality and relevance of external links.
How to view ICS
It’s simple. In Yandex, enter any site we’re interested in. Click on the rineheart shared his three dots next to the site link. In the drop-down list, click on the last item “Site information”. Done. We can see the site quality index.
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You are automatically redirected to a page with information about the site
Does the IKS affect search engine rankings?
As an example, we will show whether the IKS affects the positions in the search results. We enter the query “CRM system” in the search bar. You can enter any commercial/non-commercial query. We do not take advertising and informational search results as chine directory an example. We look at the information on these 3 sites.
