Seo FAQs


Search Engine Optimization FAQs


What does SEO stand for? This acronym itself stands for Search Engine Optimization.

What is SEO? The process of making a site and its content highly relevant for both search engines and searchers to increase ROI or meet goals. SEO includes technical tasks to make it easier for search engine spiders to index the content on a website or social media networking community.

Is SEO spam, junk, dead etc.? Some believe that SEO is dead but with the expansion of social media networking communities, ethical and “white hat” SEO is more alive than every and is highly necessary when performing social media optimization (SMO).

Why aren’t we #1 or on page 1 at Google? Any SEO company that promises you the #1 spot on search engines is trying to sell you something. There are no guarantees as far as search engines are concerned but if you haven’t done SEO yet, have no real website content, and have a site that contains mostly Flash, AJAX and Javascript, you will have a difficult time showing up in any search engines. SEO is a long term strategy – not a keyword density game.

Why am I on #1 all the time but when my wife searches for me she doesn’t find me? Search engines like to cache (or keep) your personal preferences and personalized search queries to make searching more convenient for you. If you search and click on your website often, search engines such as Google will bring that website to the top of the stack. Clear your history/cache and turn off personalized search options to see the real ranking.

When will we see results? Some websites are indexed in a few hours and some take a few months. This time span depends on the search engine’s processes, your content and age of website as well as your level of competition.

Can we rank for Apple? Ranking for a highly competitive keyword such as this will decrease your possibility of getting ranked properly. Remember that you are in direct competition with the likes of Steve Jobs.

Can we rank for everything (huge list of keywords)? Sure you can but this is not the most effect way of being ranked. Customers who want an Apple computer but come to your website that sells mattresses is not only going to leave but will most likely not return even when they are ready to purchase a mattress. It is all about the long tail approach and relevancy. You have one chance to make a first impression with your customers.

How much does SEO cost? This really depends the goals of that you or your company have in place. Every good SEO company will work with you to assess your goals and give you a project cost and timeline agreement based on an hourly rate as SEO is an ongoing process. Some SEO companies have created packages with a set of deliverables to help the decision making process.

Why is SEO so expensive? This depends on your classification of “expensive”. High quality ethical and natural SEO costs more because you are paying for the return on that investment. SEO is a science and an art that will bring in more money to your company than it takes. An ethical SEO company will focus on your ROI.

How long does it take to get indexed by Google? Each search engines indexes different sites at different times. It could take minutes or weeks depending on your site. Without SEO, it may never be indexed.

How to submit my new site to Google/Bing/Yahoo etc.? The search engines provide a few submission portals but these days your website it submitted through content and XML Sitemaps.

How do I submit to 1000 search engines? There is absolutely no need to submit to that may websites. The top 3 search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo) usually feed all the smaller websites their findings. Submit to the big 3 search engines and the smaller ones will find them.

Do I need an XML Sitemap? There is some room for debate but it is highly recommended to have a XML Sitemap for your site to provide further information to search engines.

Do I need meta tags for SEO? Yes, although some meta tags are no longer being used for search engine placement and indexing, the information is usually display and will increase the chances of someone clicking a link to your website. Other meta tag information gives data to the search engines to help decide if your site is safe and when they should return to index again.

Do I need a high PageRank for SEO? PageRank is important to some but it is all about the content on your site and your target audience. There are thousands of websites that have great PageRank with absolutely no return on investment (ROI) and vise-versa.

What is linkbait? It is highly linkable masterfully crafted pieces of content people not only like but also recommend to others by linking.

Can’t my niece who is a graphic designer do the SEO? Again, SEO is an art and a science. There are a number of people that are well versed in many areas of website design and development but those who are successful in SEO have an extreme passion for SEO specifically. Just as web designers are no coders, graphic designers are not SEO experts.

Can’t my nephew who is a web developer do the SEO? Many professional schools don’t train web developers about SEO and its place in web programming. A good web developer can only provide about one third of the skills needed for successful SEO.

Can my son-in-law who is a Perl, Java and C programmer do my SEO? Programmers often underestimate the difficulty of SEO and attempt to attain rankings by creating scripts that automatically enhance websites. This is a very risky business as it often crosses the thin line of what’s allowed by the search engine guidelines.

Why should I outsource my SEO? SEO is a full time process. Unless you have at least one experienced full time SEO in-house it is strongly advised to seek assistance from a SEO company or consultant.

Can’t I just use WordPress plus plugins for SEO? You can to get started but it’s not enough. Nowadays most modern content management systems (CMS) and blog software have built-in technical SEO capabilities. To outrank others who use mostly SEO friendly software, you need a professional.

Does Google hate SEO? No, Google provides information and website tools to help webmasters fine-tune their SEO efforts. In fact the Google employees and SEO practitioners speak at the same conferences and work together as business partners.

Does SEO mean optimization for search engines spiders not humans? SEO is not used to please just search engines robots but humans as well. Most reputable SEO experts advocate search engine optimization for end-users and customers.

Is buying links, hidden text, IP delivery etc. black hat SEO? Most definitely! Some techniques can be used ethically as well but there these specific tactics are black hat SEO tactics.

Is black hat SEO legal? The question to ask should rather be whether black hat SEO is recommended. No it is not. Most of it is probably still legal, depending on the technique. It pays only for the few who do it on large scale but most that do find their websites and IP addresses blacklisted from search engines quickly.

Does site size matter? Yes, site size does matter. Search engines will only crawl a portion of the data on a site if it is overrun with programming codes, large graphics and other technological instances that would slow down as website load time.

Do domain extensions (top level domains like .com, co.uk) matter? Yes they do. Especially when it comes to country-based domains like .fr, .de or .es – for local results in respective countries you should use preferably a country domain to get a small advantage.

Do nofollow links count? Yes, search engines don’t discount nofollow links completely but it decreases the credibility of the link and therefore it’s link “juice”

Do you offer PageRank optimization, search engine submission, meta tag optimization? These things are secondary or negligible. In the world of SEO, content and linking reign supreme.

Is blog commenting for SEO spam? Like in many other cases, it depends on how it is used. Your name should be relevant and comment value needs to be added.


Which are the most important area to include your keywords? – Page title and Body text are the most important areas where we can include keywords for the SEO purpose.

What are webmaster tools? – Webmaster tools is a free service by Google from where we can get free Indexing data, backlinks information, crawl errors, search queries, CTR, website malware errors and submit the XML sitemap.

What is the best way to maximize the frequency of crawling of your website by search engines? – Frequently adding new, original and quality content on the website.

Do you know who is Danny Sullivan? – He is a Journalist who covers the field of web search, considered as search engine guru and editor at searchengineland.com


Who is Matt Cutts? – He is the head of web spam team at Google. Read more about Matt Cutts here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

What is the best criterion to identify the value of a backlink? – The authority of the domain, quality of the content on the page where the backlink is provided and then the page rank of the website.

What is keyword proximity? – Keyword Proximity is a measurement criteria of the closeness of the keywords within the Page Title, Meta Description and Body Text.

What is keyword prominence? – Keyword prominence is the location of the keywords in the page title, meta description and body tex

Difference between exit rate and bounce rate? – Bounce rate is the percentage of people who leaves a particular website just after visiting a single page on this and exit rate refers to the percentage of people who leaves from a particular pag


What is the Panda update and which is its current version? – Panda is a search algorithm update by the Google to take on the content farms, low quality websites and the websites getting low quality backlinks, Google removed a lot of the webpage from the higher search index during this update and the current version of Panda is 2.5.3 updated on October 19/20th Oct. 2011…read here for latest panda updates http://www.seroundtable.com/tag/panda


What is 404? – It is a server error code which is returned by the server what a particular webpage or the file is missing from the webhost server.

What is 301
301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It's not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it's the safest option. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently".

What is robots.txt? – Robots.txt is a text file used to give instructions to the search engine crawlers about the caching and indexing of a webpage, domain, directory or a file of a website.


What is a landing page? – a landing page is a page in the website which is designed to attract the visitors to contact/subscribe/buy a service or the product by reading few lines of important information about that particular service or the product on that page

What is the recent change in Google Analytics? – Real time visitors info, visitors flow, webmaster tools SEO data and website speed data

How to handle the duplicate page in the website? – using canonical tag.

How many heading tags are there in HTML? – 6 tags, from H1 to H6

What are top SEO ranking factors? – Quality of content on the webpage, quality and quantity of backlinks to the webpage, anchor text used in the backlinks, domain authority, social sharing metrics and some other traffic metrics like page CTR, bounce rate and average time on the webpage.

Some basic and quick steps to increase the webpage speed. – removing the unused code and scripts. Replacing internal and inline CSS with the external CSS. Using web server’s page compression methods. Using small sized images or minimizing the no. of images.

What SEO tools do you regularly use or weekly basis?
Google Analytics, Alexa Rank Tool, Keyword analysis tools, keyword density tools, index checking, backlink checking, wordprocessor to check spelling and grammar, HTML validation and others.


What is a search engine?
Search engines help people find relevant information on the Internet. Major search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo etc) maintain huge databases of web sites that users can search by typing in some text.

Why is search engine placement important?
The vast majority of Internet users find new web sites by using a search engine. And a position within the top 20 listings of a major search engine tremendously increases traffic to a web site. On the other hand if you are willing to advertise your site, it’s very expensive.

What is a “spider”?
Spiders can also be known as “crawlers” or “bots”. These are actually programs used by search engines to read information and links on web pages. They the spiders index the web pages based on this information and rank it in the search engine database. They read web pages sporadically to check for updates or new data.

How long does it take for SEO results to kick in?
Because SEO is quite an intensive process, it can take anywhere from 4 to 16 weeks for search engines to recognize a newly optimized site. SearchPro Systems persistently give updates and reports to clients to make sure they understand what is taking place and how their pages are ranking to guarantee supreme satisfaction and awareness.




How do I find the best keywords for my business?
First, try to analyze and categorize the products and services you offer. Then research keywords from your top ten competitors. You may also want to try a key word developing tool, such as Google’s.

What are backlinks and why do I need them?
Backlinks, also known as inbound links, are links that direct a visitor to a specific website from a different web page. The more backlinks you have on different web pages the more likely you are for a visitor to recognize and click to your site and, most of all, your website will become more popular to search engine rankings.

What is page rank and why is it important?
Page rank is the search engine’s way of determining the ‘importance’ of a site. It is usually dependent on popularity of the site and SEO. The higher your page ranking the more visible you are to people using search engines to look for a particular answer, information, product, or service that is relevant to you or your business.

How can social media be used for SEO?
As you likely know, social media is an increasingly popular facet of internet users. By using social media, you are able to create even more backlinks through multiple web channels. Social media can be more than just Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. You can use it for content writing for articles, press releases, and blogs too. This creates great exposure to a broad audiences and points even more arrows to your website. Not only that but it can give your “fans” a sense of connectedness and exclusivity to you or your company, which can form a sense of loyalty among followers.

How is video important for SEO?
Multi-millions of people use online videos as a source of information; it is the latest trend in web search and is growing every day. Video is great for giving a viewer straight forward information or entertainment, which uses visuals, audio, animation and more, all in one piece. Search engines such as Google and YouTube heavily index videos with great content and keywords. A good quality video will likely attract a large crowd of viewers.

How can web copy be used to enhance SEO?
Creating internet content is a fantastic way of attracting visitors to your site. If it has good enough information then it will even augment the reputation of the company which the content is indirectly promoting.

What is Universal Search?
Search engines are no longer just bringing up the usual text results when you are searching online for information. Now search engines are digging deeper to find you the most relevant facts available. Search engines such as Google, will direct you to blogs, videos, news articles, images, local listings, shopping, and much more. They are using various ways of media to keep internet searchers captivated and informed.


What is Organic or Natural SEO?
Organic Seo placement in search engine results (SERPs) means that the site naturally displays well in search results. Without paid inclusions, Pay-Per-Click advertising, or black-hat practices. Any site that has good organic placement is likely to be more stable in its long term search engine positions, with less likelihood of position changes due to changing algorithms, frequently applied by Google, Bing and Yahoo


Why we do social bookmarking in SEO?
Social bookmarking submissions are very important in SEO.
Social bookmarking helps in the fast indexing of website.
Social bookmarking is the best way to increase traffic and it helps in getting high quality backlinks and site can be definitely improved.
We can get the good quality backlinks because mostly social bookmarking websites have good pr.
We can vote on other website and we can also get the voting and comment
Google love very much social bookmarking website
we can get the more traffic and visitors by the help of SBM sites.

What are the Best SEO Tools?
Google Analytics, Google Adwords, SEOquake, SEO meta inspector, Google Webmaster Tools, Woorank, Whoisdomaintools, Backlinkwatch, InformEnter are best and widely used seo tools.

Which one in important? back links or page indexed?
Without indexing : Web pages with not come up
Without backlink : Your willl not get good page rank .... so both are important in their own regard.

What is the difference between SEO and SEM?

SEO(Search Engine Optimization): SEO is the process of increase the visibility of your website with targeted keywords in major search engine like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. It is free of cost but takes some time to come in SERP. You can increase traffic on your website with the help of SEO.

SEM(Search Engine Marketing): SEM is for online advertizement. Ii is paid. It is display on Google SERP as a sponsored link when user click on ads we have to pay to Google. We fix per click rate according to our budget. Lots of traffic come on website due to SEM methods.

How many keywords can be put in one web page?
We can target 15-20 keywords in on page while in Off page activities we should target 8-10 keywords, otherwise search engines consider that page as a Spam, so better to target 8-10 keywords in off-page activities...

What is keyword stuffing?
Keyword stuffing is considered to be an unethical search engine optimization (SEO) technique. Keyword stuffing occurs when a web page is loaded with keywords in the meta tags or in content.

Why we are using ALT and Title Attributes?
From the human user's perspective, the ALT property is only used if they have configured their browser not to show images, or if they are browsing from some kind of "text-only" browser. The Title property may or may not be seen. Some wordpress themes add the title below the image, as if it were the image caption. Some browsers also show the title as a tooltip when you hover over the image.

From an SEO perspective, the ALT title seems to be the most important, as it's the one that web crawlers use to determine what an image is about. So, and image with an ALT title that says "dog training" would add a bit more on-site "weight" to your site for the "dog training" keyword.

Top 5 SEO paid tools

1. IBP - ibusinesspromoter.com
Business Promoter is a multi-award winning website promotion software tool. IBP helps you in achieving high search engine rankings effectively. It is always up-to-date and helps you optimize your web pages for the latest search engine algorithms. Apart from providing customized tips for on-page optimization, it submits your website to major search engines automatically and monitors your website rank.
IBP also provides 1 year guarantee for top 10 ranking with money back offer....


2. WEB CEO - www.webceo.com
Web CEO is a comprehensive SEO software suite. In fact, it is goes beyond SEO and assists in overall website promotion. It has a smart user interface that helps to automate most of the repetitive tasks & encourages you to adopt a more structured approach towards search engine marketing. It helps you to find the most effective keywords by comparing keyword popularity & competition, manages your PPC campaign with service providers, like Google Adwords.


3. SEO ELITE - www.seoelite.com
SEO Elite, Bryxen Software, has been one of the most preferred SEO Tools for quite some time now. It has a well thought out User Interface. However, you would need basic knowledge of Internet Marketing to fully exploit it’s advanced features. It helps you create multiple link pages for exchanging links, submits your article on major directories automatically and analyzes the density of your target keywords on your website. SEO Elite makes the job of article marketing fairly easy

4. SEO STUDIO - www.trendmx.com
SEO Studio, by Trendmetrix, is one of the SEO tools that has been around for a long time. It used to be very popular for it’s user friendliness but has slowly fallen out of favor because of lack of advanced features. It’s still quite useful for small sites but is not recommended for managing large and complex sites. SEO Studio analyzes the density of your target keywords on your website, provides customized tips regarding on page optimization and suggest keywords....

5. TRAFFIC TRAVIS - www.traffictravis.com
Traffic Travis, by Affilorama, is one of those SEO tools that became popular during the SEO boom in 2006 but has slowly fallen out of favor. However, it’s still preferred by many because of it’s user friendliness. In it’s early days it was known for making SEO fun. It’s still quite useful for small sites but is not recommended for managing large or complex sites. It monitors your website rank on multiple search engines, manages your PPC campaign with service providers....

Can you say some Link Building Techniques?
OffPage Optimization is typically consisting of various link building techniques.

* Directory Submission
* Social Bookmarking
* Blog Posting
* Blog Hosting
* Article Submission
* Press Release Submission
* Forum Posting ( which you already know :P )
* Footer Links
* Affiliate Marketing
* Blog Commenting
* Review Posting
* Rss Feed Submission
* Css Submission
* Video Submission
* Profile Creation
* Link Wheel
* Social Media Optimization



What is the duplicated content?
If you have already placed an content in the website or else if the same content exist in the website already then it would be showing as Duplicate content. Make sure whether you have placed the content before. check your website's duplicate content in http://www.copyscape.com/


What is the easiest way to increase pagerank?
There is no easy way to increase your pagerank, you need time and patience in finding high quality and high PR backlinks to link from. Some might argue, it is easy but those easy methods might cause more harm than good to your sites

What is LSI?
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is a system used by Google and other major search engines The contents of a webpage are crawled by a search engine and the most common words and phrases are collated and identified as the keywords for the page. LSI looks for synonyms related to the title of your page. For example, if the title of your page was “Dental Implants”, the search engine would expect to find words relating to that subject in the content of the page as well, i.e. “dentist”, “teeth”, “tooth decay”, “cavity” and “tooth crown”.

Latent Semantic Indexing is not a science, it is simple common sense. Here are some simple guidelines:

1. If your page title is Learn to Play Tennis, make sure your article is about tennis.
2. Do not overuse your keywords in the content. It could look like keyword stuffing and the search engines may red flag you.
3. Never use Article Spinning Software.
4. If you outsource your content, choose a quality source.
5. Check Google Webmaster Tools and see what keywords your pages are ranking for.

How to index a website in google?
There are many ways to index your web page or blog pages in google or other search engine.

1. update your xml site map
2. addd webmaster code
3. submit site info in Social Bookmaring sites
4. Share news in Social Networking Sites

What is exactly a Gray Hat SEO?
Gray hat SEO are combination of white hat and black hat SEO.

What is reciprocal link ?
A reciprocal link is a two-way link, i.e. a link to your site from an external source and a link from your site back to the external source.


DoFollow vs NoFollow Links - Why both links are good
Do-Follow Links are good for Human Traffic and SEO Traffic.
And on the other side, No-Follow Links are only good for Human Traffic which is still the best traffic you can have.

The difference between a Normal Link and a NoFollow Link is that the NoFollow Link has a special HTML Markup inside that tells the Search Engines like Google to NOT FOLLOW the destination inside the link.

In this case let’s go back to the example from above:
Google Website - This link is pointing to http://www.google.com/

If we analyze the initial HTML Markup from that link, the code will look like the text below.

NORMAL LINK – HTML MARKUP
<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Website</a>
However if you add the NoFollow Value to the attribute rel, your markup will look like below.

NOFOLLOW LINK – HTML MARKUP
<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google Website</a>

As you can see the only difference is the following attribute rel="nofollow" which tells the Search Engines that they cannot follow the destination inside the link.


The difference between a Normal Link and a DoFollow Link is that the DoFollow Link has a special HTML Markup inside that tells the Search Engines like Google to FOLLOW the destination inside the link. Now have in mind that using this special markup or not will make the link a DoFollow Link automatically.

In this case let’s go back to the example from above:

Google Website - This link is pointing to http://www.google.com/
If we analyze the HTML Markup from that link, the code will look like the text below.
NORMAL LINK – HTML MARKUP
<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Website</a>

However if you add the DoFollow Value to the attribute rel, your markup will look like below.

NOFOLLOW LINK – HTML MARKUP
<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="dofollow">Google Website</a>
As you can see the only difference is the following attribute rel="dofollow" which in this case having the attribute rel="dofollow" will do the same as if you have nothing.

In other words, if you want to make a link dofollow just add the attribute rel with the value dofollow or just leave the link as it is.


How to find do follow backlinks?
it's very simple just need to install add-ons "search status", which will high light no follow link as well as do follow link.

What is RSS?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It is a way to easily distribute a list of headlines, update notices, and sometimes content to a wide number of people. It is used by computer programs that organize those headlines and notices for easy reading.

Google Webmaster Tool Tips?
Google Webmaster Tools is a great tool for reporting statistics and diagnostics pertaining to the managment of your site’s pages in Google index. If you are not indexed, you’re not going to rank… and if you don’t rank, you don’t receive any traffic to your site. (Of course this is from an organic SEO perspective). If not have not yet set up Google Webmaster Tools, you’ll want to check it out by going here:


1.       Google Provides Key Information About the Indexing of Your Site
2.       Google Webmaster Tools Allows a method for XML Sitemap Submission
3.       Google Provides Key Diagnostic Data about Your Site
4.       Webmaster Tools Provides Key Statistics About Your Site
5.       Webmaster Tools Provides Insight into the Anchor Text of Links to Your Site
6.       Google Webmaster Tools Provides Great information about Interlinking of your Site’s Pages
7.       Google Webmaster Tools Provides a Detailed Look into Your External Link Inventory
8.       Webmaster Tools Allows You to Generate / Analyze Your Robots.txt
9.       Google Webmaster Tools You Can Set a Preferred Domain
10.     Google Webmaster Tool allows You to Set a Gepgraphic Target
11.     Webmaster Tools Provide a Number of Other Tools to Aid in the Indexing of Your Site
12.     Google Webmaster Tools is Free!
13.     Google Webmaster Tools is Easy to Set Up
14.     Google Webmaster Tools Provide Indexing Tips from Google
15.     Google Webmaster Tools Provide Indexing Tips from Google



What are the Rules for Choosing the Right Domain Name?

Brainstorm 5 Top Keywords When you first begin your domain name search, it helps to have 5 terms or phrases in mind that best describe the domain you're seeking. Once you have this list, you can start to pair them or add prefixes & suffixes to create good domain ideas. For example, if you're launching a mortgage related domain, you might start with words like "mortage, finance, home equity, interest rate, house payment" then play around until you can find a good match.

Make the Domain Unique Having your website confused with a popular site already owned by someone else is a recipe for disaster. Thus, I never choose domains that are simply the plural, hyphenated or misspelled version of an already established domain. I still believe that fliker desperately needs to buy Flicker.com - I hear kids in their 20's tell parents in their 40's and 50's to see photos on Flickr and always envision that traffic going straight to the wrong domain.

Only Choose Dot-Com Available Domains If you're not concerned with type-in traffic, branding or name recognition, you don't need to worry about this one. However, if you're at all serious about building a successful website over the long-term, you should be worried about all of these elements, and while directing traffic to a .net or .org (as SEOmoz does) is fine, owning and 301'ing the .com is critical. With the exception of the very tech-savvy, most people who use the web still make the automatic assumption that .com is all that's out there - don't make the mistake of locking out or losing traffic to these folks.

Make it Easy to Type If a domain name requires considerable attention to type correctly, due to spelling, length or the use of un-memorable words or sounds, you've lost a good portion of your branding and marketing value. I've even heard usability folks toute the value of having the letters include easy-to-type letters (which I interpret as avoiding "q," "z," "x," "c," and "p").

Make it Easy to Remember Remember that word-of-mouth and SERPs dominance marketing (where your domain consistently comes up for industry-related searches) both rely on the ease with which the domain can be called to mind. You don't want to be the company with the terrific website that no one can ever remember to tell their friends about because they can't remember the domain name.

Keep the Name as Short as Possible Short names are easy to type and easy to remember (the previous two rules). They also allow for more characters in the URL in the SERPs and a better fit on business cards and other offline media.

Create and Fulfill Expectations When someone hears about your domain name for the first time, they should be able to instantly and accurately guess at the type of content that might be found there. That's why I love domain names like Hotmail.com, CareerBuilder.com, AutoTrader.com and WebMD.com. Domains like Monster.com, Amazon.com and Zillow.com (whom I usually praise) required far more branding because of their un-intuitive names.

Avoid Copyright Infringement This is a mistake that isn't made too often, but can kill a great domain and a great company when it does. To be sure you're not infringing on anyone's copyright with your site's name, visit copyright.gov and search before you buy.

Set Yourself Apart with a Brand Using a unique moniker is a great way to build additional value with your domain name. A "brand" is more than just a combination of words, which is why names like mortgageforyourhome.com or shoesandboots.com aren't as compelling as branded names like bankrate.com or lendingtree.com. SEOmoz itself is a good example - "SEO" does a good job of explaining the industry we're in and creating expectations, while "moz" gives a web association, and an association with being free, open, and community-driven.

Reject Hyphens and Numbers Both hyphens and numbers make it hard to give your domain name verbally and falls down on being easy to remember or type. I'd suggest not using spelled-out or roman numerals in domains, as both can be confusing and mistaken for the other.

Don't Follow the Latest Trends Website names that rely on odd mis-spellings (like many Web 2.0 style sites), multiple hyphens (like the SEO-optimized domains of the early 2000's), or uninspiring short adjectives (like "top...x," "best...x," "hot...x") aren't always the best choice. This isn't a hard and fast rule, but in the world of naming conventions in general, if everyone else is doing it, that doesn't mean it's a surefire strategy. Just look at all the people who named their businesses "AAA... x" over the last 50 years to be first in the phone book; how many Fortune 2000's are named "AAA company?"


.XML sitempa VS .html Sitemap, which to use?
Xml sitemap is for search engine, it helps to indexed your web pages faster by spider. Html sitemap is useful for visitors. With help of html sitemap visitors can visit easily to page that what he is looking for.

How to index website in Yahoo and Bing?
Now Yahoo Webmaster tool merged into Bing webmaster tool so add your website into bing webmaster tool and create keyword rich meta tags because bing gives importance to meta tags.

Top 5 Browsers?
1]       Internet Explorer
2]       Mozilla firefox
3]       Google chrome
4]       Opera
5]       Safari

What is the most SEO Friendly URL Structure?
A keyword rich URL can be helpful in your SEO activities. It plays an important role in your website’s ranking. Well-defined and clear URLs structured are easily crawled by search engine spiders and improves your website’s online visibility.

How often does Google index new sites?
If you have quality sites with great content then there is no problem in indexing your sites.


What is canonical error in SEO?
If your site open with two type of url like http://cogniter.com and http://www.cogniter.com its called canonical problem in SEO Google takes it as a duplicate site and some times punish it.

Google Search Operators
allintitle: example.com                   allintext:        allinanchor:
allinurl:          author:                   cache:          define:
ext:              filetype:                  group:           id:
inanchor:       info:                       insubject:      intext:
intitle:           inurl:                      link:              location:
movie:          phonebook:             related:         site:    source:


What is Doorway page?
Doorway pages are pages that have been designed for one purpose only, to rank high in the search engines for a particular keyword and then direct the arriving visitors further into the site. Usually their design is relatively simplistic and includes a lot of text, but contains very little graphics or other fancy effects.

Web Traffic Estimators
A new and very fast alternative for StatBrain.com is www.calcustat.com. A clean and simple website that estimates the number of visitors, the number of visits, pageviews, website worth and it shows similar websites. It's a no-brainer



How is Blog useful?
Blogs and websites are almost similar... its just that the blogs are more dynamic in nature.
You can use blog to get traffic by follow the steps:
- Keep your blog count to a maximum of 10, unless you have a lot of time or money
- Update your blogs frequently
- Create your own unique content
- Invest the same a mount of time into each blog that you own
- Give yourself at least one day out of the week to just fully work on your blogs and marketing
- Keep your blog investing and stick with topics that you are knowledgeable with

How To Analyze Your Seo Competitors?
1.       First find out who our SEO competitors are:
2.       General Background Information:
3.       Make a visit to Competitors s ites and analyze them:
4.       Analyze SEO Competitors Site Pagerank and Alexa Rank:
5.       Analyze the SEO competitors keywords used:
6.       Analyze the Backlinks of SEO competitors:
7.       Evaluate your SEO competitors site presence on social media:
8.       Analyze how your competitors are using PPC Ads:
9.       How Well Is The Site Designed
10.     Check whether Your Competitor Gained Google Trust Rank:


How to remove the website from SERPs?
Remove Google webmaster tools of that particular website. It will take a little more time to remove from search results.


500+ XML Sitemap...
http://xsitemap.com/ This tool helps to generate morethan five hundred xml links

How to chek site age ?
http://www.networksolutions.com this site will helps you to find all details about the website. Or Just install SEOquake on Google Chrome and enable it. Now, the top of bar will show you lots of information ( including the age) about the page you are visiting.

Facebook helps for seo?
Yes facebook help in SEO because facebook is the best social networking website so you can make an circle and get more traffic.







What is the difference between SEO and SMO?
1. SEO:- SEO is a process which help search engines to find and rank your website higher than the billions of another websites in response to search query. Means search engine friendly. Some activities which was fallen in SEO is like Directory Submission, Press Release Submission and Articles Submission. The main target of SEO is increase Backlinks of a site.

2. SMO:- SMO is so differ from SEO because the expanded form of SMO is Social Media Optimization and from the word SMO means to promote your site media, public. The activities of SMO is like Bookmarking, RSS Feed, forums. A important activity of SMO is Video Posting because this activity increases your visitors.

Why backlink is needed?
Back links are the backbone for search engine optimization. only on page activities are not enough to do for good seo. it will increase your page's traffic, SERP, and page rank.

There are two types of backlinks
1. Nofollow Backlinks - It brings traffic only but it will not help to google page rank & SERP .
2. Dofollow Backlinks - It will help to bring traffic, google page rank & SERP (get high quality backlings)


What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a popular term for advanced internet technology and application including blog, RSS, Social Networking, squidoo, tumblr, hubpages, Weebley and social bookmarking. Web 2.0 is really starting to means the combination of technology allowing the customer actually interact with the information.


How to get image optimization?
Image optimization is the process of optimizing your image with alt tags. Google cannot read images. So you use the "alt" Alt tag is meant to be an alternative information source the both tags are primarily meant for visitors (though alt text seems more important for crawlers) so provide explicit information on an image to encourage them to view it or get them interested. Include your main keywords in both of them but keep them different. Keyword stuffing in "alt" and "title" is still keyword stuffing, so keep them relevant and meaningful.



What is the role of Spider?
Spider is a program which visit websites and collect information from those websites. Spider/Crawler/google bot etc are one and the same thing. They keep visiting websites 24x7 and collect information which is then used by search engines for listing websites etc.

1. Very first u r doing seo for a perticular site "abc.com".
2. Than u will get back-links by Social bookmarking , profile link buildings , directory submissions and other procedures in seo.
3. Now whenever google bot will that will visits them .
4. Bot will copy ur site and than stores in google index.
5.Than google will checks ur cite in different ways, like quality of content, inbound link, external links, etc.
6. Than according to google algo that will verify , how it is usefull ?
7. Than if site will get good impression from google means google like ur site .
8.Than google will crawl ur site .
9. And ur site is parmanently got a place in google memory/cache/index/database for a certain keyword.
This google bot/Robot / spider/google catcher all are same thing.

How to use robots.txt?
Robot.txt file has some simple directives which manage the bots.These are define as below.
1.User agent : The * is a wildcard which means all bots or googlebot for google.
2.Disallow : Define which folder or file will be executed.





Examples:
This example tells all robots to visit all files because the wildcard * specifies all robots:
User-agent: *
Disallow:

This example tells all robots to stay out of a website:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

The next is an example that tells all robots not to enter four directories of a website:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /private/

Example that tells a specific robot not to enter one specific directory:
User-agent: BadBot # replace 'BadBot' with the actual user-agent of the bot
Disallow: /private/

Example that tells all robots not to enter one specific file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /directory/file.html

What is Search Engine?
Search engine is the one place where you can find the quick result of your queries. Now a days Google is the best search engine. Yahoo, Bing is also the search engine. You can search every thing what you want with the help of search engine.


How often is PR updated?
There is no fixed time but I can say that google updates PR within 2 to 3 months of interval.

What are the advantages of SEM?
- You get both paid and organic traffic
- You drive more leads for your business
- With good online presence you build a good reputation among your clients
- You get a good exposure among wider range of audience
- More Sales

What is Google Panda?
Google Panda is a new algorithm launched by google in 2011.

What is Anchor Text?
Anchor text is visible and clickable text in hyperlink, the word contain of hyperlink is display as link. Use of keywords as anchor text, it will improve your relevance, increase traffic by those anchor text keyword and improve ranking by that keyword also.

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