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Google doesn't tell site owners correctly how they rank site pages and that is seen a whole technical marketing discipline grow up. SEO consultants use their experience, research and testing to make sense of which of the 200+ components will have the most impact in helping a site to rank. Google makes sense of where to rank pages by realizing an algorithmic model which audits well in excess of 200 ranking components. The essential factor that is constant is the comparison. So if there were the same destinations focused in on the keywords you expected to rank for, you would rank at the top.