| 1. |
Will SEO still exist in 5 years? |
4,061 |
| 2. |
Organic link building, according to me is one of the most difficult tasks for SEOs of SMEs. Can you please list 5 effective ways of organic link building other than building great content? |
3,606 |
| 3. |
Can you verify that Google is putting more weight on "brands" in search engine rankings? |
2,481 |
| 4. |
What happens if I link to a good page that later becomes spammy? |
1,771 |
| 5. |
Does PageRank flow through image links? |
1,756 |
| 6. |
What is Google's thinking about links from article marketing, widgets, etc? |
1,579 |
| 7. |
Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO? |
1,455 |
| 8. |
Uncrawled URLs in search results |
1,433 |
| 9. |
Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic and acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like Twitter, Facebook to a website? |
1,361 |
| 10. |
Some people are under the impression that blogs are good for SEO only if they're updated frequently. How much does frequency play into PageRank for blogs and other dynamic sites? |
1,349 |
| 11. |
Is first link priority an on-page SEO factor? |
1,347 |
| 12. |
How accurate is Google's backlink-check (link:…)? |
1,346 |
| 13. |
Whitehat linkbait |
1,322 |
| 14. |
Will Google consider Yahoo! Directory and BOTW as sources of paid links? |
1,311 |
| 15. |
Does anchor text carry through all 301 redirects? |
1,302 |
| 16. |
How would a photographer gain any significant PageRank for his or her site when the subject that really matters-images-has no anchor text? |
1,298 |
| 17. |
How can I make sure that Google reaches and indexes pages that are on a lower (deeper) level of a website? |
1,285 |
| 18. |
As Google's algo evolves, is it better to have exceptional links and mediocre content, or exceptional content and mediocre links? |
1,257 |
| 19. |
Is there such a thing as building too many links, if you're following Google's webmaster guidelines exactly? |
1,249 |
| 20. |
Are there negative SEO implications to having a blog with do-follow comments? |
1,238 |
| 21. |
HTML sitemap vs. XML sitemap. Which one is yummy for Google search engine spider? |
1,236 |
| 22. |
I have a client who was hacked. The SEO consultant said things were cleaned up, but they weren't correctly. All 30,000 viagra/cialis type and paid links have been removed, but no improvement in SERPs. We send reconsideration. What do we do now? |
1,235 |
| 23. |
An SEO suggested that I take all the content on my Twitter page and auto-feed it into a section on my website. Will this really help my site's PageRank? |
1,228 |
| 24. |
How can linking remain a major part of a search algorithm when the majority of internet users are unable to post a 'followed' link on the World Wide Web? |
1,212 |
| 25. |
Is there a way to benefit from content scraped from your site? |
1,211 |
| 26. |
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? |
1,200 |
| 27. |
Regarding "nofollow" on internal links: Does it hurt? |
1,197 |
| 28. |
Does Google value its own links for PR/Linkjuice? |
1,182 |
| 29. |
I keep a "blogroll" page with links to all my friends' blogs on my blog. Will that affect my blog's reputation in Google? |
1,181 |
| 30. |
How much of a difference does the number of levels in the URL make? |
1,172 |
| 31. |
The Sitemap.xml file states there are 10,000 URLs but only 1500 have been indexed. After numerous crawls it does not appear Google is going to index these additional detail pages. What can I do to get Google to index my unique and current detail pages. |
1,166 |
| 32. |
What are your views on 'PageRank sculpting'? |
1,152 |
| 33. |
Is there a limit to the number of pages that Google will index from one site? |
1,152 |
| 34. |
How can I get my business to become known online? |
1,151 |
| 35. |
How much time is Google taking to index a new webpage, and how can we accelerate the process besides using Google Webmaster Tools? |
1,148 |
| 36. |
Is it a good thing to put 'nofollow' in links to a disclaimer, privacy statement and other pages like that with the internal PageRank in mind? |
1,141 |
| 37. |
As far as big brands go, why is it that they seem to do well regardless of relevance, content or links when analyzing keyword placement in search engine results pages? |
1,133 |
| 38. |
How does Google rank sites which run on a different port than the standard port 80? |
1,132 |
| 39. |
If I have 3 websites, is there a problem to cross link websites? |
1,122 |
| 40. |
Now that Google can crawl JavaScript links, what is going to happen with all those paid links that were behind JavaScript code? |
1,103 |
| 41. |
I see so many people asking "Will this increase my PageRank? |
1,102 |
| 42. |
How can Googlebot crawl and index pages that don't have any links to them on my website? |
1,097 |
| 43. |
Is it OK to sell links as long as we use the nofollow attribute? |
1,091 |
| 44. |
I'm seeing Google PR for some Twitter profiles, even a PR of 4 for someone with less than 50 followers and 100 tweets, whereas for some more meaningful profiles there is no PR. Does PR of Twitter profile pages matter? |
1,078 |
| 45. |
Does Google treat links in footer s differently than links surrounded by text (e.g. in a paragraph)? |
1,072 |
| 46. |
Seeing as the "link:" search query is hardly ever accurate, what would your favorite/preferred way to check for inbound links be if you were a webmaster? |
1,056 |
| 47. |
How much does the size of a web site (# indexed pages/content) have an effect on its authority in Google's eyes? |
1,047 |
| 48. |
When you search for something, let's say "LinkedIn", you will notice there are some quick links on the search result such as "Jobs, About, Advanced" etc. How does that work? |
1,041 |
| 49. |
Any updates on "site hierarchies display in search results" (aka breadcrumbs)? |
1,037 |
| 50. |
If we were to syndicate my written content (entire articles) to multiple domains then would we be able to use the imminent cross-domain <link rel="canonical" tag to confirm which site we would like to index for a given piece of content? |
1,037 |
| 51. |
Does PageRank take into account cross-browser compatibility? |
1,030 |
| 52. |
Last year, one of my client's web servers when down for over a day. Would this have affected the site's PageRank at all? |
1,026 |
| 53. |
Does Google crawl and treat TinyURLs using a 301 redirect the same as other links? |
1,025 |
| 54. |
Websites lose backlinks due to other websites going out of business or closing (Geocities, AOL member pages). Does Google remove the back link juice that once came from these pages? |
1,025 |
| 55. |
What are Google's plans for indexing the deep web? |
1,019 |
| 56. |
If a page is disallowed by robots.txt, will a link to this page transfer/leak link juice? |
1,005 |
| 57. |
A client has a leading competitor who has created 100 or so blog sites with little depth – Google gives them a top ranking on every related term to their industry. Why does this tactic still win? |
999 |
| 58. |
Are nofollow links worth getting? |
998 |
| 59. |
What are Google's thoughts on blog commenting? |
997 |
| 60. |
If a site owner has a personal relationship with another unrelated site in a different nice and adds a link to their site from his, this link looks a LOT like a paid link. Since paid links can harm your site, what is best practice in this situation? |
988 |
| 61. |
What are the factors that go into determining of PageRank of a Twitter page, e.g. it is the followers, backlinks? |
986 |
| 62. |
On what basis are you increasing the PageRank for each PageRank update? |
963 |
| 63. |
Can I use robots.txt to optimize Googlebot's crawl? |
957 |
| 64. |
JavaScript and email addresses |
955 |
| 65. |
What if there are external links to a URL that is not the canonical one? |
948 |
| 66. |
What factors influence a video universal result in Google? |
945 |
| 67. |
Google is showing breadcrumb URLs in SERPs now. Does the delimiter matter? |
943 |
| 68. |
Will the new canonical tag help with issues where you, by accident (stupid editors linking to wrong addresses) have indexed sites by the IP address rather than hostname? |
932 |
| 69. |
Why is Google still taking notice of DMOZ? |
932 |
| 70. |
When you move a domain from one registrar to another or your registrant information changes very slightly (e.g. new phone number) will Google ding you for instability at the registrar? |
926 |
| 71. |
Does Googlebot use inference when spidering – having crawled site.com/article/page1.htm and /page2.htm, can it guess at the existence of a /page3.htm and crawl it? |
925 |
| 72. |
Sometimes when you search for a company, you won't get the main page as a search result. For example, you search for [example-company-name] and get their FAQ page listed first. How does that happen and how can we avoid it on our own websites? |
923 |
| 73. |
We got rid of a profitable pop-under ad (since we thought the concept was user unfriendly), but then pages-per-visit and time-on-page dropped – along with our rankings. Does Google reward or penalize for a pop-under, directly or indirectly? |
920 |
| 74. |
Do you think web search will ever make use of references (web site mentions that are not links) as a ranking signal? |
918 |
| 75. |
What is the nofollow equivalent for JavaScript links/redirections (now that you follow those too)? |
901 |
| 76. |
Does the new canonicalization tag make it safe to add tracking arguments to some of my internal links without fear that Google will split the quality signals between the two addresses? |
895 |
| 77. |
If I link back to a press article about our company, will Google perceive this as a reciprocal link and therefore give less weight to the inbound link? |
894 |
| 78. |
Is there a good way to kick off a feed in Google Reader by doing something like temporarily making the feed include a whole bunch of old content? |
890 |
| 79. |
Are different sites treated differently? |
887 |
| 80. |
Hidden gems of Google – Search Options |
876 |
| 81. |
Is Google doing anything different when it comes to serving up Twitter results? |
839 |
| 82. |
I didn't get to PubCon this year but heard that if there was at least 1 unfollowed link in a webpage, all links were considered unfollow? |
832 |
| 83. |
Has Google changed the relevancy it awards to Social Media sites in the last six months? |
818 |
| 84. |
When I do a Google search for my business name, Google suggests "did you mean:" with some other company name. Is there anything we can do to keep that from happening? |
795 |
| 85. |
If you have inbound links from reputable sites but those sites do not show up in a link:webname.com search, does this mean you are not getting any 'credit' in Google's eyes for having inbound links? |
180 |
