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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What are the factors in determining of PageRank of a Twitter page? Is it the followers or backlinks? One should remember the fact that, Google treats Twitter pages as regular web pages. Google does not consider the number of followers on Twitter, but they only consider the number of links that...

Will SEO still exist in 5 years? Yes, Search Engine Optimisation will still exist in 5 years. Google tries to make a thing that one does not need to be an SEO expert. Actually, SEO helps in putting the best foot forward for your website. So, the notable fact is SEO is not spam. One can use...

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...

Google has said that frequently updated pages get boosted in rankings (QDF), which favours blogs and news sites over company sites, which have less reason to be updated often. How important of a signal is 'freshness'? Actually, one has to understand the fact that if you are updating the page or...

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...

If someone buys a text link from my website, I add the nofollow tag so it has become a paid link. Should one do the same for banner images too? Generally, speaking about banner ads, most of those are sold through d exchanges or several advertising networks, which will do block out bots.  They...

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...

If someone manage three websites which sell same products across three domains, but with a distinct selling approach, price structure, target audience, etc. Does Google take this as spammy or black hat? It is not so bad because the domains are distinguished by layout, selling approach and...

Does Google take action on those websites, which gives back keyword stuff every phone number in the world on its pages, when someone typed a phone number?  Actually, it's an 'yes'. Google, usually, gets lot of complaints regarding this. If one has a page, which has only phone numbers on it...