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What are the social media platform used for SEO ?

  What are the social media platform used for SEO ? Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn are some important platform which is used for online promotion. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

How often should you perform a link audit?

  How often should you perform a link audit? A link audit may be a tedious and complicated process. If you have just started on building links, you can do an audit quite often. But a complete link audit should be done approximately once a year. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What is robots.txt file?

  What is robots.txt file? Robots.txt is a text file. It is through this file. It gives instruction to search engine crawlers about indexing and caching of a webpage, file of a website or directory, domain. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What is 301 redirect?

  What is 301 redirect? It is a method by which the user is redirected to new page url to old page url. It is a permanent redirect, and it is also useful in directing link juice to new url from old url. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

How will you cross-check whether your SEO campaign is working or not?

  How will you cross-check whether your SEO campaign is working or not? In order to check whether your SEO campaign is working or not, the first approach is to check the website’s statistics, which tells you about the origin of the traffic. The other way of checking is to make a search based on the relevant keywords and key phrases and look for the search result. The number of search result will tell you whether your SEO campaign is working or not. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What does the term LSI means?

  What does the term LSI means? LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing . This technique is established to obtain the data by relating the word to its closest counterparts or its similar context. For example, if you are searching for something with a keyword "CAR" it will show all the related things like classic cars, car auctions, Bentley car, car race, etc. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What are the differences between SEO and SEM?

  What are the differences between SEO and SEM? SEM (Search Engine Marketing), it is used for the promotion of website through paid advertising by increasing their visibility in Search Engine Result Page (SERP) in the Ads section. SEO is optimizing the site to increase the organic ranking of a site. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What is considered as more significant; creating content or building backlinks?

  What is considered as more significant; creating content or building backlinks? Both are necessary for creating quality content is equally important to building backlinks. Although link building is useful in building authority to a site and for ranking as well, quality content is the first element that is considered to be more responsible for ranking. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

Why is a website's Title Tag so valuable in SEO?

  Why is a website's Title Tag so valuable in SEO? Title tags are essential in SEO, as it tells about the contents on that web page. Through title tags only the search engine will notify the user, what is there in the page. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What is the difference between Page Rank and SERPs?

  What is the difference between Page Rank and SERPs? Page rank is calculated on the basis of quality inbound links from other website or webpages to our webpage or a website. SERP (Search Engine Result page) is the placement of the website or web-pages which is returned by the search engine after a search query or attribute. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What is the difference between ‘nofollow’ and ‘dofollow’ link?

  What is the difference between ‘nofollow’ and ‘dofollow’ link? Nofollow links do not pass Link juice and have no impact on Google Ranking Algorithm. Dofollow link passes link juice and has an impact on Google Ranking Algorithm. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What are some famous Black Hat SEO techniques that were used?

  What are some famous Black Hat SEO techniques that were used? 1.Link Farming 2.Hidden text, etc. 3.Gateway or Doorway pages 4.Cloaking 5.Keyword Stuffing ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What does Black Hat SEO mean?

  What does Black Hat SEO mean? In order to get a high ranking in SEO search engine result page, websites go for various methods and techniques which are characterized by two categories. One method that is acceptable by search engine guidelines is known as White Hat SEO, while the other method which is not acceptable by search engine guidelines is known as Black Hat SEO. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What is a Google Sandbox?

  What is a Google Sandbox? The Google Sandbox is a commonly believed filter that’s used by Google to prevent new websites from ranking high in Google’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). It’s believed that Google uses this filter to put some restrictions on rankings for new websites. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What is the characters limits in a Meta Description tag?

  What is the characters limits in a Meta Description tag? Meta descriptions can be any length, but Google generally truncates snippets to ~155–160 characters. It's best to keep meta descriptions long enough that they're sufficiently descriptive, so we recommend descriptions between 50–160 characters. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

How many types of Meta Tags are there in SEO?

  How many types of Meta Tags are there in SEO? There are mainly eight types of Meta tags in SEO. 1. Title tag 2. Meta description 3. Canonical tag 4. Alternative text tag 5. Robots meta tag 6. Open graph meta tags and Twitter cards 7. Header tags 8. Responsive design meta tag ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What do you mean by Cloaking?

  What do you mean by Cloaking? Cloaking is a deceptive way of optimizing your website for search. In this technique, different content will be shown to the search engine crawler than what is presented to the end users. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What are some SEO blogs that help you to enhance your content marketing strategies ?

  What are some SEO blogs that help you to enhance your content marketing strategies ? 1. Google Webmaster Central 2 Search Engine Land 3. SEOSmarty 4. MOZ 5. Search Engine Journal 6. BacklinkO 7. Ubersuggests 8. BruceClay ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What is keyword stemming?

  What is keyword stemming? The process of finding out new keywords from the root keyword from the search query is referred to as keywords stemming. Adding a prefix, suffix, or pluralization can be used to create the new keyword. ---  Answered by:  James Catanich

What does it mean if nothing appears while searching for the domain?

  What does it mean if nothing appears while searching for the domain? On searching for your domain and if nothing appears, then there are three possibilities. 1.Maybe the site has been banned by search engines 2.Maybe its not index yet by search engines 3.Some canonical issues ---  Answered by:  James Catanich