Indexing/Crawling Related Questions

1. How to check whether the page is crawled by search engine or not?
2. How often the search engine can index/crawl your site?
3. How the crawler of a site read the data of a page?
4. Is it possible to index the footer of the page before any other part? Justify your answer.
5. A domain is not crawled by search engine, how much time you will take to crawl it.
6. I don't want to crawl some part of page. For example I want that crawler crawl my page, but not index any specific table. How is it possible?
   

On Page Optimization

TITLE

1. Does position of keyword in title matter?
2. What's the max length of titles? If a keyword is at the end of 100 char TITLE, will it help the page rank?
3. How about the effectiveness of keyword in long title versus short title, containing only the keyword?
4. If I place keyword at the end of title, does it rank lower than a page where title starts off with keyword?
5. Keyword at the end of Title Tag

META Keyword/Description

1. about if the keyword appears in title, keyword, description, but not on the page?
2. What if keyword appears only in the META and anchor text to the page?
3. What if keyword appears in the META and Alt Text?
4. How about if keyword appears in the meta AND keyword appears on the page...does that boost page placement?

Anchor Text

1. What's the effect of anchor text? e.g. the effect of pointing to a page submasodsfnh.
2. Compare long link text with keywords embedded and a link text with only keywords.
3. Effect of anchor text? How about a page that is completely unoptimized except it gets an link in from the index? Which would rank higher?
4. Relevant VS non-relevant anchor text.

Page size / Word Count

1. The amount of text
2. The amount of keywords / page.
3. Is huge HTML pages really bad?

Images

1. Pages with pics and alt text versus page without alt text.
2. How much boost do ALT text give?

CSS/JS

1. Does Google read JS? CSS?
2. Does Google actually read CSS? How would I be able to tell? Use bold in CSS and compare with a page that use bold on the page?

Keyword Position on the Page

1. Also test some on-page factors, like text appearing at the top of the page VS text appearing at the bottom of the page. This should be very easy to test.

Keyword Position in a Sentence

1. Does it really make a difference if I start off a paragraph with keywords? Try putting keywords in different positions of a sentence.
2. I need to paragraphs of the same length, one with keyword embedded in the paragraph, and another with keyword that starts off the paragraph.
3. Keyword at the beginning of a sentence

Directory Questions

Directory/URL

1. Does it really hurt to have your pages 2-3 directories below root? (Create a page with similar optimization as another page and place it 4-5 directories lower).
2. Keyword in URL vs. no keyword in URL.
3. Keyword in directory VS no keyword in URL.

Linking Related Questions

Nofollow Tag

1. nofollow really pass 0 PR?
2. Will nofollow prevent Google from following a link / indexing a page?
3. If links are tagged with nofollow, will that pass more PR to rest of the links on the page? iv. Will pages be penalized if nofollow is used excessively?

Outgoing Link Boost

1. See the effect of outgoing link.
2. Try linking out to a big site like CNN.com. If I use nonsense text to link to CNN, will it place for that text.

PR/RK/Internal Linking

1. How much effect does PR have on ranking?
2. Ranking of two pages with different numbers of incoming internal links.
3. Ranking of two pages, where one page has incoming links from another domain, and the other page doesn't.
4. Compare ranking of a page with one incoming link to another page with 2+ incoming links. I want to know the weight of those links.

Incoming Links

1. Test power of link bombing from other pages. (e.g. page that doesn't have the word at all BUT links pointing to that page contains that keyword

SEO Off Topic Questions

1. "Max length meta description google" Go for 60 chars min ~ 155.
2. Which gets crawled faster? /index.html or /keyword.html?
3. If a page has more incoming links, does it get crawled faster/updated more often?
4. How much text does a page need to avoid dup penalty?
5. What's the minimum I have to do to make sure I avoid the dup penalty?
6. Does using LAST MODIFIED improve crawling frequency?
7. Does duplicate content penalty really apply across two domains?
8. Are content on subdomains getting punished?
9. Will a good .htaccess prevent cannonical problems with Google?
10. Image Search: How to rank higher for image searches?
11. How to avoid the adult content filter? Avoiding certain words?
12. 302 Hijacking...does this really work?
13. Impact of unique IP / Hosting
14. Impact of crosslinking between domains on the same IP, versus linking across domains on different IP.
15. Is there really a limit of # of links / page?
16. Does going down several directories matter? Will spiders refuse to go below 3/4 urls?
17. Will Google rank pages based on the text inside frames?
18. Does having pages with very similar descriptions/title create supplementals?
19. Will Identical H1/H2 tags across a domain create supplemental?

Image Related Questions

1. How do I rank higher for Google Image searches?
2. If I block images with .htaccess, will Google still index them?
3. Will Google index images from pages blocked by robots.txt or NOINDEX?
4. Is using bigger images better?
5. If I use a thumb and link directly to a JPG, is that better than trying to get a huge pic embedded on an HTML page indexed?
6. Will Capital Letters in filenames work?
7. Underscores or dashes in filenames?
8. How much alt text is too much?
9. How effective is listing JPG files in sitemaps?

Important SEO Questions

1. What is search engine optimization.
2. How to increase link popularity of a web site.
3. What are the initial steps for promoting a web site.
4. What is supplemental result.
5. Way to get out supplemental result.
6. How to increase page rank of a website.
7. What are the orphaned pages.
8. What are the doorway pages.
9. Updates of google.
10. What is the difference between strategy used by google, yahoo and MSN
11. What is google sandbox.
12. What is clocking.
13. Keyword analyzation tools.
14. What is LSI.
15. About meta tags and title tags.
16. On page and off page optimization.
17. Directory submission and article submission efficiency.
18. Latest tool of google.
19. How to check duplicate content.
20. PPC, Google Analytic, Statcounter