The recently released Penguin 2.1 update by Google has taken the SEO community by surprise. Matt Cutts said Penguin 2.1 would affect >1% of searches, webmasters have however seen a significant impact of the update. Post Penguin 2.1, PageTraffic did an in-depth analysis of its on-going campaigns

Q: What is the ideal word limit of blog page on a website? Should I allow my readers to comment? Are comments good, bad, or neutral for SEO? A: Since Google doesn't prefer short blog posts, I would recommend that your write-up should have around 2000 characters. It is important that your post is good, well-written, and follows all the on-page SEO tact

Q: Google has recently released the new algorithm Hummingbird, which is a move towards semantic search. Is the new algorithm an indication of the start of the end of keyword-based SEO? A: Hummingbird is more about long tail keywords than a few short keywords, intended to deliver precise & quick information to the searcher. Before we get into the

Q: Are links within our own page (to other pages on the site) counted as "link juice"? If two blog posts, Part I and Part II are written and on posting Part II, it is linked back to Part I, is this considered as link juice? A: Link juice flows between two web pages or websites. If that one "object" on the web is linked to another "object", link juice

Q. Content such as specifications or features of a product will be same across every website selling it. So, how can we handle the content that will be duplicated across several sites? A. The first thing you should know is that duplicate content works at different levels. The duplicate content within your website can be the biggest problem for you. If

It depends on how frequently Google indexes the site content. You can use the site:command to find out the indexing pattern. In case Google is crawling the website in a week or lesser duration, chances are that the changes will be picked up quickly. This will be better if you use One Click from home page for identifying new content for Google. The existing crawl pattern depends

Q. I had set up a personal Google+ page for my business and completed the authorship. Since, Google+ business pages are now available, should I change the authorship of my business website to Google+ business page? A. When you are doing SEO, you have to look at things the way your customers see it. Therefore: The Difference between Google+ Profile, Google+ Page, and Google+

Cross Linking- a strategy that can come in handy to get high search engine rankings, by leveraging multiple domains owned by you. Search engines value these links, as they are from relevant sites, with related content- and you stand a chance of getting a better rank. How It Works- The most common practiced strategies for cross linking are- footer/sidebar links and in-content d

As an SEO, all you want is to make search engines notice you and place you prominently in their results. But more often than not, your wait for getting higher SERPs seems never ending. In your haste, do not take the wrong way to better rankings. You have to make the engines happy and do not try to fool them. Search engines have tightened their quality control, and in the Post Panda scena

The following list of keywords is the most popular 500 keywords used on search engines over the last year provided by Wordtracker. These top keywords are real searches made on the Metacr