It is been said that Google uses over 200 parameters to rank you content, most of them on page and few offpage (backlinks being the most important off page element). So here is the list of 56 on page elements in terms of important using which google decide the quality and relevance of content. This doesn’t mean that you start filling your content with these tags, this just for reference and to understand how google ranking works.

List of On page html tags and elements for Google Ranking

01 title - Title tag, no secret here
02 samp - sample or example, check here to know more about samp tag
03 acronym
04 linking to relevant pages
05 a.href
06 p
07 pre
08 inside a textarea
09 kbd
10 caption
11 small
12 code
13 strong
14 sub
15 u
16 center
17 cite
18 big
19 font
20 bdo - bi directional tag for languages which are read from right to left
21 em
22 legend
23 button
24 table > thead > tr > td
25 abbr
26 address
27 blockquote
28 caption
29 div
30 span
31 del - stands for deletion, check here for more info on del tag
32 ul > li
33 strike
34 ins - insertion, check here to know more about ins tag
35 sup
36 dfn
37 body
38 tt
39 table > tr > td
40 dt
41 h1
42 i
43 s
44 h3
45 a
46 img.alt
47 select > option
48 object > param.name
49 object > param.value
50 input.value
51 (meta:keywords).content
52 (meta:description).content
53 (meta:author).content
54 URL
55 b
56 HTML comments

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