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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Would you spend time with a perfectly optimized website or a barrel full of kittens? Well, in my case, I will definitely go for the second option, without giving a second thought. One has to remember the fact that they have sort of an emotional appeal. They tug at your heart strings. If you...