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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

What is the power of keyword domains? And what kind of domain one can go for?  If one is registering a new domain name, they wish to compete in particular niche within SEO. So one can opt for two different strategies. One can opt for brandable names such as Twitter, Tumblr, etc. People will...

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...

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...

How can you quote correctly from different sources without getting penalized for duplicated content? Is it possible to quote and refer to the source? Let's take two instances. First one is that you are a normal blogger, and you want to quote an excerpt from some author you like or from some...

Is Google removing the page rank feature to avoid Link Trade that is very popular in the industry now? Google always recompute it using lot of machines. They could take page ranks in any given time and export it as a snapshot and they will show them in the Google toolbar. In order to help...

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...

Should we have more or less content on a homepage? Certainly, difference in opinion happens depending on the situation. It is not recommended to have a homepage which has 20 megabytes, as it will take long time to load. The users who have a dial-up or a modem or slow connection, they will...