Is a website designed with a CSS-based layout more SEO friendly than a table-based layout? Actually, one need not to be worried about it. Google can handle both table-based and CSS-based layout. Google scores them, regardless of what type of layout mechanism one uses.  It is recommended to use...

'Query deserves freshness.' Fact or fiction? Definitely, it's not a fiction, but its a fact. In the New York Times, Amit Singhal has talked about it. In that, he says that he believed there are some queries which deserve freshness. So, Query Deserve Freshness (QDF) is really a fact, not fiction. 

Will Google find text in images someday? Actually, it is easy to say in words, but it is a big undertaking in real. But, it will be fun at the same time. Actually, it will be great, if Google crawled the web, found all the images and ran OCR (optical character recognition) on all the images on...

Do you have any specific tips for news sites, which have unique concerns compared with commercial sites? For an instance, let's say, if it's a developing news story, it is recommended to have one page, where all the page rank can gather.  For an another instance, you might come across, who do...

Will therefore be any issues, if the h1 tag appears below the h2 tag in the code. Does the spider still know what's going on? Actually, one need not to be worried about it, as Google handles h1s and h2s so well. So, just do not  make a whole page h1 or h2.  People put up lots of stuff on the...

On what conditions, Google will display "Did you mean" search results above normal results?  Actually, "Did you mean" search results began to be displayed since November 2008. Google will show it, when they were more confident  that there was something really helpful.  Mostly, not all the...

What impact do site load times have on Google rankings? ctually, it can be answered in two ways, like in a short and long manner. The short answer is, at present, it does not have any impact.  If a site takes long time to load that Google can't even bring it, Googlebot can't even get a copy of...

Underscores or dashes in URLs, Are there differences between my-page and mi_pagina? Yes, they are different. If one can opt between underscores and hyphens, I would go for hyphens (-) personally. But, if you have underscores (_) and everything works so good, one need not to worry about it and...

In some queries, Google uses the date of the post in the description snippet at Google search. Is there any reason for it? Is there any way one can say not to mention it? Google's snippets team always try their best ways to show really helpful descriptions or snippets in the search results. ...

If one externalize all CSS style definitions, Java scripts and disallow all user agents from accessing these external files (via robots.txt), would this cause problems for Googlebot? Does Googlebot need access to these files? It is recommend not to block, because for an instance, the...