Answers to top SEO questions - Part 5

The next batch of SEO questions is as below:

21. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
22. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for back links?
23. What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
24. What things wouldn’t you to do increase rankings because the risk of penalty is too high?
25. What’s the difference between Page Rank and Tool Bar Page Rank?
26. Why might you want to use no-follow on an internal link?

Answers are as below:

Answer 21: SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION AND SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING ;) the difference is SEO is the process you use in getting your pages to place well on search results. SEM involves complete online marketing purchasing advertising space on search result pages. Sponsored listings are SEM. Both are related though!

Answer 22: High quality, higly relevant, no bad networks or bad neighborhoods, link growth at rapid pace so that is may seems natural, no buying of links.

Answer 23: Social media apart from providing quality links and targeted traffic can most importantly help in VIRAL and WORD TO MOUTH marketign of your websites. Hence a strong marketing tool that can't be ignored.

Answer 24: I am strictly against anything that can be considered as SPAM be it a link campaign, use of CSS, hidden text or links, creating of doorway pages, META tags spamming or any similar act.

Answer 25: Tool bar page rank may be different from actual page rank of a page. the term is arrived from the SEO belief that google is constantly updating tool bar and one update is going somewhere at a data center of Google.

Answer 26: Nofollow can be used for internal links that you don't need to be indexed or followed for example: Link to shopping cart, login pages etc..

In the mean time I would also like to ask Google chat users to check lively with new features for chat with chat rooms. Visit Google homes blog

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 4

Here comes the part four of search engine optimisation questions and answers to them.

16. Rate from 1 to 10, tell me the most important “on page” elements
17. Review the code of past clients/company websites where SEO was performed.
18. What do you think about link buying?
19. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
20. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?

Answer 16: content>title>alt>title attribute>keywords in anchor

Answer 17: ;)

Answer 18: I am not in favor of link buying except few exceptions

Answer 19: LSI indexing ries to overcome the limitations of "literal" search term matching . For example, if someone is searching for "hiking in Norhter Nevada" a literal search would only match the words used without taking into account words such as "hike", "hiked". LSI can give more relevant results because it does take word usage and context into account determining what a page is "about" rather than a strict reliance on literal wording.

Answer 20: regards to search results, it is a method that search engines such as google use to determine relevance of a page based on phrases actually used in a document. For example, if you have a page instructing people on wildlife photography, the search engine would reasonably expect to see terms and phrases such as "selecting a camera", "approaching wildlife", and "low light photo conditions". Related phrases will add to the relevance of a page where unrelated phrases will reduce the relevance of a page. This is one technique that Google is using to weed out "spam" sites.

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 3

Here come the part three of the series Answer to top SEO questions. SO questions to be answered in this post are :

11. Do you have experience in copywriting and can you provide some writing samples?
12. Have you ever had something you’ve written reach the front-page of Digg? Sphinn? Or be Stumbled?
13. Explain to me what META tags matter in today’s world.
14. Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?
15. If the company whose site you’ve been working for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would you take?

Answer 11: No, not yet. but I have got few bookmarks at Digg that good as high as 50 Diggs.

Answer 12: Metas are important not only in SEO rankings but also they play major part in conversion once you achieve rankings.

Answer 13: Conversation with website owner to know his SEO goals
Keyword research
Web site analysis for search engine friendliness, structural change needed etc..
Recommendation according to analysis
Keywords research
on-page optimisation
search engine submission
off-page optimisation
use of search engine tools for webmasters
traffice analysis
further SEO planning

Answer 14: Content --> title --> Atl and title atribute --> keywords in anchor

Answer 15: 301 redirect

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 2

Welcome to part second of the Top SEO questions series. SO the batch of next five question of the series are :

6. What do you think of using XML site maps?
7. What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO?
8. What SEO tools do you regularly use?
9. Under what circumstances would you look to exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs meta robots tag?
10. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?

You can check the list of full questions at Top SEO questions : most commonly asked search engine optimisation questions. Also the answer to previous questions is posted over here. Now beow are the answers to current five questions:

Answer 6: XML sitemaps are additional too to check how search engines crawl your website submitting XML sitemap to google webmaster central can really help you with indexing are optimizing the webpages efficiently.

Answer 7: Its on the boom today and very much imp for seo marketing.

Answer 8: You may answer tools you use like keyword research tools like Wordtracker, and other tools like ranking check, grammar checker, copied content checker like WebCEO, copyscape, backlinkswatch and many more.... You may check TOP SEO TOOLS

Answer 9: Meta tags can be used to exclude individual pages from search engines whereas ROBOTS.txt can be used to exclude a particular directory of your webpage or whole site from search engines.

Answer 10: Unique content and quality links. I'd prefer to say that if : CONTENT IS THE KING THEN LINKS ARE THE QUEEN.

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 1

Well weeks have become months for me. Most of my friends think SEOv is on exile but its not true real fact is that after now I am living with my parents and its hardly left me with any time to post at any of my blogs not even on weekends. Previously when I used to live alone the time I spend at my room was utilized online either in discussion forums or by posting at my blogs. Blogging was the passion that time, its not likely that I am get done with blogging its a matter of few regular post and blogging will be at its peak again.

Now I am posting first part of the Answers to top search engine optimisation questions: Well I am taking the first five posted at Top SEO questions : most commonly asked search engine optimisation questions

1. Give me a description of your general SEO experience.
2. Can you write HTML code by hand?
3. Could you briefly explain the Page Rank algorithm?
4. How you created any SEO tools either from scratch or pieced together from others?
5. What do you think of Page Rank?

Answer 1 : Its a very simple and tricky question to get an overview of you approach towards Search engine optimisation. Here you can answer briefly with your achievements, SEO implementation referring to few good sites you have worked upon and that are currently ranking well and of course have good PR.

Answer 2: Of course YES, you need to be good in HTML.Here no body will ask you the tag syntax but to make sure that you can work in HTML through an HTML editor like Dreamweaver.

Answer 3: Well ou can search for an exact definition over inter or visit Google Page rank. for me its a Google methods of evaluating the worth of an page and calculated on the basis of number of quality inbound links pointing to a website or web page.

Answer 4: Well I am not a good developer I can just only develop programs for Fibonacci series, calculate leaps year etc not some software tools. But good answer for this question would be mention if you or your team developed any tool like ranking check, PR check etc alternatively you can also mention few good tool that you may have used.

Answer 5: PR its very important for website owners mostly SEO clients but as a SEO expert I just consider PR as a measure of number of inbound links a site have.

Good bye for now check the Answers to top SEO questions - Part 2 later !!!

SEOv is back again @ Search engine optimisation experts blog

Posting at my SEO blog after a long time. Its been more the a month I am making a post and don't know from where to continue posting again. Have been busy last month with job hunt, shifting to new location, joining new job etc and also it took bit long as i expected to get new internet connection. I had to post here earlier as I got a call from one of my friend who asked me to post the answers to the SEO questions I posted earlier. Here is the link to that post : Most frequently asked SEO questions.

Answering all the question in one post will not be feasible but I will try to make sure to answers all the questions in next few weeks.

Frequent updates by Google

Search engines are making it more complex day by day. I am sure its gonaa be a tough year for search engine optimisation professionals. At the start of 2008 it was google PR update then within few weeks it was microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo whic was declined by Yahoo after a lot of discussions and rumors is SEO world. And yesterday I observed another update by google. I hope it wasn't the regular PR update and as just something going on at google data centers near me.

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SEO at its best : Search engine optimisation industry at is peak

Hi all,

Its SEO SEO SEO every where. Lot is being talked about search engine optimisation nowadays. Each and every person in online business who is either selling services, products, online marketing agency or anyone looking for online existence needs search engine optimisation company services from SEO experts to make his/her website a success. existence of SEO industry may be few years old but search engine optimisation has lots of scope industry have grown at a very fast rate in recent years. Also according to market and business research experts search engine optimisation industry would expect a growth of 200% this year. I myself have seen SEO industry growin at a rapid pace.

When I started my career in SEO 4 years later there were to or three SEO companies in Chandigarh a major IT hub in north India and wtthin 4 years there are around 80+ companies and each week I got to know couple of new software/IT/web development companies looking to hire SEO professionals to start SEO in there company also.

SEO is at boom and I expect industry to grow more and more.

I also suggest people to pursue career in search engine optimisation, its very interesting job profile and really very very good carrer growth potential.

Google Algoritms updates in 2008 : Video on Google updates

Watch the video posted by WebProNews on Google algorithms changes in 2008. Video also mentioend about Google's view on authority links and Web 3.0.

View full video at http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/01/07/google-changes-algorithm?click=1

Carrer in Search Engine Marketing : rewarding career

SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization) conducted yet another surveys regarding career in search engine marketing. According to the surveys conducted among in house Search Engine Marketin professional of SEMPO a career in search marketing can be very rewarding.

The results reflected the newness of the industry, but also showed that search is maturing. About 64 percent of respondents have five years of SEM experience or less. Very few entry-level SEMs reported salaries over $100,000; just 8.0 percent of those with 0-3 years experience. Compare this to the number of similar respondents making less than $50,000: 48.8 percent. The remaining 43.2 percent fell in the middle, making between $50,000 and $100,000 a year.

The size of salaries roughly corresponded to the size of the company, with larger companies paying more. "That indicates that it's a good career path. There are options out there, it just takes a little more experience to get them," he said.

More experienced SEMs, those with 5 to 7 years of experience, tended to make significantly more than their inexperienced counterparts. Just 17.4 percent of respondents in this group reported making less than $50,000. The majority (56.4 percent) make more than $80,000 a year, including 4.4 percent that reported earning more than $200,000 in salary and 30.3 percent making between $100,000 and $200,000.


The difference in experience levels is being reflected in the number of senior level titles. There are still relatively few VP-level search marketers, less than 4 percent of respondents. Another 10 percent hold a director title, and 9 percent have a senior management role. More than 36 percent of respondents in this group reported salaries between $80,000 and $100,000.

Twenty-six percent of respondents hold the title of manager, though nearly half do not directly manage people. Compensation for this group clustered around the $60,000 to $90,000 range.

Top SEO questions : most commonly asked search engine optimisation questions

Frequently asked Search engine optimisation questions

1. Give me a description of your general SEO experience.
2. Can you write HTML code by hand?
3. Could you briefly explain the Page Rank algorithm?
4. How you created any SEO tools either from scratch or pieced together from others?
5. What do you think of Page Rank?
6. What do you think of using XML site maps?
7. What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO?
8. What SEO tools do you regularly use?
9. Under what circumstances would you look to exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs meta robots tag?
10. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?
11. Do you have experience in copywriting and can you provide some writing samples?
12. Have you ever had something you’ve written reach the front-page of Digg? Sphinn? Or be Stumbled?
13. Explain to me what META tags matter in today’s world.
14. Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?
15. If the company whose site you’ve been working for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would you take?
16. Rate from 1 to 10, tell me the most important “on page” elements
17. Review the code of past clients/company websites where SEO was performed.
18. What do you think about link buying?
19. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
20. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?
21. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
22. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for back links?
23. What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
24. What things wouldn’t you to do increase rankings because the risk of penalty is too high?
25. What’s the difference between Page Rank and Tool Bar Page Rank?
26. Why might you want to use no-follow on an internal link?

Search engine optimisation questions related to analysis

1. Are you familiar with web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?
2. From an analytics perspective, what is different between a user from organic search results vs. a type-in user?
3. How do you distinguish the results of your search optimization work from a seasonal change in traffic patterns?
4. How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?
5. What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?
6. If you’ve done 6 months of SEO for a site and yet there haven’t been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the problem?
7. How many target keywords should a site have?
8. How do you help a customer decide how to their budget between organic SEO and pay per click SEM?
9. You hear a rumor that Google is weighting the HTML LAYER tag very heavily in ranking the relevance of its results, how does this affect your work?
10. Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many topics?
Industry Involvement

Search engine optimisation questions ooops interview questions.

1. If salary and location were not an issue, who would you work for?
2. In Google Lore - what are ‘Hilltop’, ‘Florida’ and ‘Big Daddy’?
3. Have you attended any search related conferences?
4. Google search on this candidates name, (if you cannot find them, that’s a red flag).
5. Do you currently do SEO on your own sites? do you operate any blogs? do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
6. Of the well known SEOs, who are you not likely to pay attention to?
7. What are some challenges facing the SEO industry?
8. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?
9. Who are the two key people who started Google?
10. Who is Matt Cutts?
11. If you were bidding on a contract, what competitor would you most worry about?
Open Ended

Search engine optimisation questions regarding SEO experience

1. Tell me your biggest failure in an SEO project
2. What areas of SEO do you most enjoy?
3. In what areas of SEO are you strongest?
4. In what areas of SEO are you weakest?
5. How do you handle a client who does not implement your SEO recommendations?
6. Can you get “xyz” company listed for the keyword “Google” in the first page?
7. What do you think is different about working for an SEO agency vs. doing SEO in-house?
8. Why are you moving from your current position and / or leaving any current projects?


I suggest you can ask few of these question to a SEO company is you are looking for search engine optimization services for your website.

SEO video tutorial - top 20 SEO downloads

watch the SEO video tutorial for top 20 SEO tools and downloads

2007 Year that watch SEO grow

Year 2007 was a great year for SEO. We saw lots of updates in the world of SEO. Search engine optimisation industry grew by 200% and same is expected for year 2008. Main highlights from the world of SO and search engines in 2007 are listed below:

Year of personalized and universal search: It was a mix of both personalized and universal search. with search engine releasing beta versions of localized search fro there users.

Search engine updates on quality search results: Search engine were more focussed to improve quality of search results and lessening the amount of spam website appearing in SERPs. Yahoo launched its ad ranking system in February as part of its Panama project. Soon after, Google updated its 18-month-old ad quality scoring algorithm. Microsoft followed in April, adding a quality score element to ad center.

Year of Social Media Marketing: Rise of lots of social media websites and social media marketing was on full swing throughout the year. Social network saw the rise of various social networks like :

FaceBook
Twitter
Flickr
Youtube
Digg
Netscape
Mahalo
Wikipedia
Search wikia

More tools from search engines for webmasters

SEO industry grew up

Article source: WDC Blog

I am a seach engine optimisation expert, search engine optimisor

How do you explain your job to others. Like someone you meet on holiday trip, or some old school or college friend or during induction schedule of new employee of your office.

Like I am working as SEO Head in SEO Company India, or say you are working as SEO in web design company. How do you market yourself? What do you say? All I want to ask here is how do you explain SEO to the layman?

SEO is itself a broad category to explain, but I begin with what a website is, and then turn to search through different search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, then SEO. there may be different options and ways of doing this, but I know SEO introductory chat and a real SEO is totally poles apart thing.

Search Engine Strategies Chicago : News and updates dail coverage

Lots of discussion, news, post are being written at Search Engine Strategies Chicago. There were a total of 144 different Search Engine Optimisation Experts who participated in one of the 69 panels, sessions, workshops or keynotes at the event. Plus, a surprising number of the more than 3,000
attendees were also reporting or blogging from the show.

You can check links below for more news and coverage from search engine strategies:

Day 1 Coverage
Day 2 Coverage

Also you can read more at Search Engine strategies Chicago Blog


Also posting some images from the event:

Search Engine OPtimisation : Achieving top rankings using link building

All of you must have hear a popular quote in SEO : "If content is tha KING then links are QUEEN". Also each one knows links ate the key for achieving top rankings. Only on page SEO will not take you in top 10 ranks in search engine alone. Yes its possible to achieve top ranks through on[page SEO itself for less competitive keywords but you need to get quality links with proper anchor text.

This post is fully devoted to art of link building and how proper link building for your website can help you in getting top rankings. Link building is required to get incoming link to a website so as to increase its link popularity over various search engines and ranking also. Link building is also necessary for a good Page Rank (PR) of a website.

From search engines point of view following things matter most regarding a link:

- Number of Links

- Quality/Origin of Links

- Relevance of Links

- Anchor Text Within Links

- Links Must Present Value to Users


SO juss getting link from anywhere will not help your website with rankings you will need to work over quality link building techniques.

Have nice time...

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Search Engine Optimisation mistaeks to avoid

Hi ever you thought about small search engine optimisation mistakes that you never cared about. Maye be these mistakes are keeping you below the ranks in search engines. Found a nice article about common search engine optimisation mistakes that can be avoided. Article focuses on common mistakes like:

Using wrong keywords
Keyword stacking
Using hidden text
Using Frameset
Using free hosting
Using tiny text

This may seems that all SEO experts are aware of these factors still sometimes we ignore and make these mistakes. SO take care of all these factors an be ahead of your competitors.

You can read complete articel @ WDC Blog

Making SEO friendly website

A quality design is the base of search engine optimization and it plays a vital role in SEO work for any site. So when it comes to doing business online, it’s all about the traffic (no. of users who visit your website).It will always be the lifeblood of any business venture working online, as there is no use of website when there’s no one there to see its pages. It doesn’t matter how successful your products be but if no one would be able to know about them or avail of your services then what’s a purpose of having such invisible dull presence. That’s why the strategies of traffic generation start at the very moment you are materializing the idea for the website itself.

So if you’re starting a company these days or want to expand your social atmosphere, I’m sure you’ve also thought about the composition of your website and having the SEO friendly standard. The best websites clearly and pleasantly convey your/your company’s message. This is true especially for web based startups as your website is your public face, your storefront and probably one of the most frequent contacts with customers.

It really doesn’t matter whether your website is of personal nature with few pages or an e-commerce website, having a well-designed site is very important. A good web design is not just about getting your website live and running. It’s about designing every aspect and structure of your website from the general look, accessibility and search engines stand point. May be you can’t believe but website design is something which really matters to your visitors. It gonna make all the difference in whether they leave your site or bookmark it.


Moreover a well-formed HTML website keeps the search engine spiders happy. According to the figures major search engines leads somewhat 76 % of the website visitors to a site, which means if these search engines cannot found your site, there will be a huge loss financially. That’s the reason many businesses pay thousands of dollars to SEO companies to be one of the highest ranked sites in search results. Therefore, it’s necessary to find out whether your website is search engine-friendly. The search engine spiders repay you by indexing your website, which will eventually lead your visitors to its goal, a conversion or a sale. A complete web design jumpstart your business right away.


Basically in a well furnished site important content is at the top of the page, where people can see the material without scrolling. Visitors should be able to get a clear picture of your site’s purpose. See as in newspapers headlines and biggest stories are put “above the fold” – meaning the top half of the page that you would see before opening the paper , same principle applies to web design.


All text links and graphic elements such as buttons and tabs should be easy to read and use .You doesn’t want your visitors leaving because they were not able to figure out how to get your Flash menu to work. A better presentation never switches from one style to another too often, as it may causes confusion to the visitors.

To build an effective web site, ensure that the information on your website is quick and easy to find .You always have to keep one thing in mind that many consumers still use dial up internet speed, and if a web site is not quick to load, then it is highly likely that the average consumer will not have the patience to view the content of your site.

A great designed site should have a fresh standard look that will suit the type of work/business it is intended for, but it shouldn’t detract from your ability to communicate effectively to your friend/customer.

Overall always keep the user in mind when designing every aspect of your startup’s web site. Everything you do should be designed with the user’s experience in mind. Internet in present time is a fast paced place with tons of new startups, and if you want your site to be relevant then you must have to act in the right direction. Getting a positive attention of visitors with a well designed and usable web site is the first step toward success.

The Author is the owner of a Web Design Company, and providing Web Site Design and Development Solutions to clients across USA and UK for affordable and sensible prices.

YOu can read more web design and SEO articles by author at WDC blog

Top keywords: SEOv Blog : some analytic reports

Hello was just checking my google analytics for my SEOv blog. Thought to share some stats with you all. As I already stated in my SEO quotes

Stats are like BIKNIS they reveal a lot but hide the actual thing ;) .

Thus you need to be a real analytic expert to make most of your web stats a,d traffice reports.

Top 10 trafice resources:
1. webproworld.com / referral
2. google / organic
3. (direct) / (none)
4. digg.com / referral
5. blogger.com / referral
6. favoritepage.net / referral
7. top25web.com / referral
8. answers.yahoo.com / (not set)
9. answers.yahoo.com / referral
10. bloglines.com / referral

And top 10 keywords:

1. search engin optimisation
2. info: search engine optimization blogspot
3. add link seo company
4. average salary for search engine optimisation (seo) skills in india
5. google searcñ
6. how effective is it to get pdfs indexed in search engines
7. http://seov.blogspot.com
8. pay to get ranked
9. search engine for quotes
10. search engine optimisation links to documents

Technorati blog confirutaiong :Activate the claim using Post Claim

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