Thread: Answer and Ask a SEO Question

This thread would be an excellent resource for both novice and experienced on Search Engine Optimization. If you have a specific question you like to DISCUSS with everybody else please don't post here, rather open a new thread.
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Lets play a simple game of answer and ask a SEO question. Hopefully this thread would be a great resource for everybody interested in SEO. Made this thread sticky.

Rules are simple:
- First answer the question on the last post of this thread.
- Then ask a question.
- Put answer and question on same post.
- Please do not post any other post for comment purposes only.

I will start with a question, since I have nothing to answer above

Question:
Why blogs rank better then websites?

Question:
Why blogs rank better than websites?

Answer
because blog can update more rapidly.

Question:
What is Viral Marketing and how to use it?

Answer
Viral marketing strategy that involves customers in the marketing and promotion process.

Question

How much helps Black hat techniques?

Hello manik, good idea, and fun also.

Originally Posted by bluehype

Question

How much helps Black hat techniques?

Answer
Black Hat techniques may help in the short run, but in the long run site using it may even get banned by search engines.

Question
If you have a site on "Credit Check", and for link building you can get a link either from a PR 6 e-commerce site or from a PR 1 bank site. Which one you should get and why?

Originally Posted by manik

Answer
Question
If you have a site on "Credit Check", and for link building you can get a link either from a PR 6 e-commerce site or from a PR 1 bank site. Which one you should get and why?

depends entirely on the page and quality of both links, the quality of link is dependent on

• actual page PR
• what's written on the page, titles, headings etc
• where the link is (ie text, sidebar, footers etc) and
• how many other links leave the page

many would answer "the banking site because it's relevant", but this is not the real story here, if you have an anchor text link, from body text, on a PR4 internal page of the PR6 site, with only 8 links off that page, relevancy wouldn't matter, it would be vastly superior to any PR1 (domain) "relevant" link.

in all liklihood I'd probably go with the PR6 site as assuming PR doubles logarithmically, (and the ratio could be more than double), ie PR1+PR1 = PR2 PR2+PR2 = PR3, PR3+PR3 = PR4 etc.. Then the PR 6 site is somewhere in the region of 30 times as powerful (PR and trust) than the PR1 site.

my question...

what's better, 1x PR5 link from a page with 100 links leaving it, or 1x PR2 link from a page with 3 links leaving it?

both pages are equally relevant.

Originally Posted by SEO Ibiza

my question...

what's better, 1x PR5 link from a page with 100 links leaving it, or 1x PR2 link from a page with 3 links leaving it?

both pages are equally relevant.

Answer:
I would go with the PR2 link, since the number of outgoing links is less on that I would get a better share of the PR leak from that page.

Question:
Does Meta Description play a role in SERP ranking in Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines?

Question:
Why blogs rank better then websites?[/QUOTE]

Typically updates like previously stated... also updating blogs by pinging them... and it is less expensive to have blogs so the number of blogs is much higher than real websites

Originally Posted by manik

Question:
Does Meta Description play a role in SERP ranking in Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines?

It can help to increase CTR of your website and can also help in SERPs if META content is relevant although it's always controversial.

More you can check here too - Meta Description Does not Play a Role in SERP Ranking

My Question :
Do you really think Google Webmaster Tools help Webmasters / SEOs to manage their website better?

Originally Posted by mit

My Question :
Do you really think Google Webmaster Tools help Webmasters / SEOs to manage their website better?

Of course, because they provide you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility on Google. hmmm thats make sense lol

My Question:
Do you think forums can help your rankings on SERP?

Originally Posted by ezwoodz

Of course, because they provide you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility on Google. hmmm thats make sense lol

My Question:
Do you think forums can help your rankings on SERP?

Answer:
It does. Every backlinks does count, more or less. However NOFOLLOW links would not give any credit in Google.

Question:
Dynamic websites uses same script page for showing different pages. For example this forum uses showThread.php to show all the threads. In all cases the script page uses a querystring variable to identify different pages. Do you think search engines consider different pages by same script page different?

Answer :

Thats a very thoughtful question Manik. And great idea to make this thread, I just noticed it. I think that search engines will consider different pages with same script page different because the content on the pages will often be different. In addition, now we have vBSEO so the pages will also have a different URL.

Question :
Some people say that your website just has to be W3C compliant in order to be considered fit for the search engines. Others say that search engines like Google favor HTML over other forms of coding and favor a higher text to code ratio. What is the truth about this?

Originally Posted by Amirmullick3

Question :
Some people say that your website just has to be W3C compliant in order to be considered fit for the search engines. Others say that search engines like Google favor HTML over other forms of coding and favor a higher text to code ratio. What is the truth about this?

My Answer:
It's good having a site W3C validated. It means that you have correct and validated codes on your site which can be easily readable by Search engines robots / crawlers. But if you see what Search engines robots wants to make you in search results - that is - Content.

Question:
Do you really think there is any SANDBOX exist?

Originally Posted by mit

My Answer:
It's good having a site W3C validated. It means that you have correct and validated codes on your site which can be easily readable by Search engines robots / crawlers. But if you see what Search engines robots wants to make you in search results - that is - Content.

Question:
Do you really think there is any SANDBOX exist?

Answer:
I don't think so. Think its more of a myth. Lot of times Google take too much time indexing a site.

Question:
Does a sitemap help get a site rank better on SERPs? If so, how?

Originally Posted by manik

Question:
Does a sitemap help get a site rank better on SERPs? If so, how?

Answer:
Sitemap helps in better indexing. And if you have good indexing of the pages, we can assume good rankings in search engines too.

We can also use Google sitemap, an XML feed for the whole sites where all of the important pages be included to get an easy indexing.

Question:
Do you think it's hard to rank with a dynamic site than a HTML site?