Google giving more importance to mobile-based website which helps users to find what they looking for. Nowadays mobile traffic is increased more than desktop and laptop traffics. This new mobile era gonna be more advanced in few years and they search is gonna be more simple than ever. People are...

Will DiggBar create duplicate content issues? For example, my site is example.com and now when you add digg.com before my site's address, digg.com/example.com, it is showing a page from Digg with my content exactly the same. Actually, the answer is No. When Digg was originally launched, it...

If one looks to hire an SEO agency, which one do you recommend? Actually, it will not be good enough to recommend an SEO agency personally, because they may change their policies and we do not know what different agencies might be doing.  So, the general answer is, one can search for Google...

Will the new canonical tag help with issues where you by accident you have indexed by IP address rather than hostname? One has to double check it, but this kind of thing is, one would like to be able to do. One would like to put hostname rather than your IP address.  Actually, Google has to...

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...

Is it true that domains registered before 2004 have a totally different way of getting PageRank? Like 'Pre-2004' domains are highly desirable because they get PageRank based on old easier criteria. No, it is completely false. There is obviously no difference between 2004 domains, 2005 domains...

Does the first link on a page matter a lot? Should I ensure that first link is really what I care the most?If so, should we modify CSS or JavaScript to show the correct link first? Generally, it is better not to worry about it. If one has a thousand links, I wouldn't make it a thousand and...

'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...

How Google calculates site load times in the data it exposes in Google's webmaster statistics? Is the calculation simply average time to get and receive the HTML content for a page?  Actually, it's a Yes. It works as, Googlebot sends out the request and beginning from there, Google calculates...

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...

Can you explain about the proposed autocomplete type attribute? Should we add this on web forms? Many websites have forms which ask for the name (first and last name), the address, the street address, the postal code and all such stuffs. Visitors, usually, feel irritated or lazy to fill up...

Is it good to keep key content pages close to the root or have them deep within a topical funnel-structure? Actually, the most noticeable fact is, this is not SEO advice, but behavioral advice. If one has stuff, some number of clicks from the root page, visitors will seem to find it. But if...

Does Google crawl and treat tiny URLs using a 301 redirect the same as other links? It will be much better if we use URL-shorteners rather than tinyURLs. And coming back to the question, whenever Google index one of 301 redirects, they do follow and flow the PageRank as normally they would with...

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...

Google has been more proactive in providing results that feature "corrected" spellings. How Google will employ smart guesses in search results in the future?  Google has lots of visitors every day, in that, some users are not savvy and some users do not always spell correctly. When you look at...

If one has a lot of blog content for a new section of a site (100+ pages), is it best to release it over a period of time or is it fine to just unleash 100 pages?  Generally, one can unleash those hundred pages at a time, if it is a high quality content. But, when it comes to ten thousand or a...

Is it good to put a 'coming soon' page for new domains? Yes, it's a pretty smart thing to put a "coming soon" on a page for new domains. It's good thing for the visitors, because they just don't end up on a "black hole page" atleast.  If you have some content which is ought to come out, then...