Google recently made lot of updates in its search algorithm update. But they disclosed few updates only for public and most of them never got disclosed. Myself ( i own few websites ) and my friends website, they all used to have a good traffic for few years and months and once i/them moved to...

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...

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 one be penalized for having every file in XML Sitemap listed with the same priority? Definitely, one will not be penalized for this. If one gives same importance to all files in XML Sitemap, then Google will try to find out which ones are really important from their perspective. So, one...

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...

What are your views on PR sculpting? Useful and recommended? or unethical?  Actually, it is not unethical, as their stuff on the website, one is allowed to handle how PR flows within your site. But, to be honest, it's not the first thing one would rely on. Instead, one must focus on getting...

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...

Does the position of keywords in the URL have a significant impact? Actually, it is better not to worry about it much. Yeah, it helps in some level if one has keywords in the URL. But it won't be useful when you stuff lots of keywords in the URL.  It will seem easy and nice, when you have four...

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...

Are product description pages on an e-commerce site termed as duplicate content, if the same description appears on other sites? Usually, It happens for many branded products. Actually, it's a Yes, it happens. And mostly it happens because it's not original content.  So, when one gets an...

Do dates in the URL of blogs or websites help in determining the freshness of the content? Actually, the dates in the URL or in the content is really helpful, but people may maximize it and say, it's always ten minutes old.  So Google has their own ways to find out how fresh pages are. For an...

What is the best way to include the text of a company logo for SEO purposes? ALT tag or CSS hiding? One should have little more consideration in choosing this, because it really matters. It is recommended to use an ALT tag rather CSS hiding. This is because the ALT tag was more or less...

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...