Why Google search does not treat the @ sign differently given the rise of Twitter? For example @google and google give me the same results. Actually, this is a considerable choice as Google did not want an index email addresses, at least. One does not want somebody scraping Google to find a...

With canonical tags, can you point that page to itself? Say for an instance, if www.google.com/webpage points to www.google.com/webpage , will this cause a loop?   The rel=canonical element is referred as "canonical link". It means, an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate...

What is Google's view on guest blogging for links? High quality guest blogging is worth in some cases. In some case, what if it gets extreme? Or what if someone take it too far? So for an instance, we shall take an easy case.  If you are a high quality writer, you give shout out to Lisa Barone...

Search for a physical product ranks Amazon number one, in spite of not offering the best user experience. What they have done to prevent large corporations from dominating search engine results? Generally, one has to accept the fact that Amazon has relatively good user experience. Though, it is...

If a website has a 'Read More' dropdown window with the simplistic design elements. The box includes maximized content, keyword anchor text linking deeper into the site and a lot more. Will a site be penalized for this? Is there any alternatives? One must be aware of some issues regarding this...

On what basis, Google change the title, it shows in the search depending on the query? Usually, in case of choosing or deciding which title to show in the search result, Google searches for the concise description of the page, which must be related to the query. It is based on some aspects as...

Google changed the search engine market in the 90's by evaluating a website's backlinks instead of the content. Will backlinks lose their importance?  Actually, backlinks still have several years left in them. Inevitably, Google tries to find out how an expert user would say, this particular...

Does Google have a version of search engine that totally excludes any backlink relevance? In SEO terminology, a back-link is a hyperlink that links from a webpage back to your own Web page. It is otherwise known as an InBound Link (IBL). It helps in determining the popularity of a Web site...

How does Google handle duplicate content and what negative effects it can have on rankings from SEO perspective? Duplicate content means considerable blocks of content within or across domains that either match other content fully or partially.  It is important to know by looking at the...

What is the ideal keyword density? At first, the term keyword density means the percentage of times a keyword or phrase mentioned on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page. As per the terms of SEO, keyword density helps in finding out if a website is related to a specified...

How exactly does a Google search work?  If one searches for something in Google, he actually searches in Google's index of the web. It can be done with a software program named Spiders, which starts by bringing a few web pages. Then, they follow the links on those few web pages and bring the...