Read Google's help article about SEO here: www.google.com With a lot of my potential clients, the first words out of their mouth when building a site is "Can you make my site #1 on Google?" This question is extremely annoying to me... how can I … [Read more...]
How long does it take for rich snippets to appear?
How long should it take for my RDFa markup to appear in search results as a Rich Snippet after completing the submission form? Paul, Washington DC … [Read more...]
Is it still important to offer a site map to users?
In addition to using Webmaster Tools to submit an XML Sitemap to Google, how important is it to also have a sitemap for users? It seems like nobody does this anymore. Is it still important in Web 2.0? … [Read more...]
Why does Google give SEO advice?
Why Google supports SEO specialists with advice? Google business is to sell text ads / ad space so bad optimized web sites are the target of Google, aren't they? With giving good SEO advice Google works against its business or it's not true? … [Read more...]
Does Google see automatically generated content as a bad thing?
Does Google see automatically generated content as a bad thing (ie spam)? If I publish uncopyrighted content on my site that is available from other sources/sites via a WordPress plugin, and Google found out, are there any penalties? Steve, Austin, … [Read more...]
Does the number of subdirectories in a URL affect its ranking?
How much of a difference does the number of levels in the URL make? Does 'www.domain.com/keyword' give much higher rankings on 'keyword' than www.domain.com/blabla/blabla/keyword? Monique, The Netherlands … [Read more...]
Should I be worried about ad servers affecting my site’s speed and ranking?
i Matt, With the recent news about website speed being included in the Google metrics, how will Google allow for slow third party ad servers (including AdWords) dragging a site's load speed down? eg Ad Server on load: 5s versus Ad server off: sub 1s … [Read more...]
How precise is the number of results in a site: query?
How reliable is the 'site:domain.com' query in determining the number of pages in the Google index? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA … [Read more...]
How can a site rank for keywords that aren’t anywhere on its pages?
A site for my client's competitor shows up on a SERP for keywords that never show up in the site anywhere (not even hidden in the source code). How is this even possible, and isn't this spam? What can my client do about it? Land Lubber, Colorado … [Read more...]
Are there any SEO certification programs you are aware of?
There are a lot of "SEO Experts" that preach myths you have debunked here. Are there any industry certification programs you are aware of? Nick Y, Vancouver BC … [Read more...]