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2. Which are the most important area toinclude your keywords? Page title, Description and Bodytext are the most important areaswhere we can include keywords forthe SEO purpose. 3. What are webmaster tools? Webmaster tools is a free service byGoogle from where we can get freeIndexing data, backlinksinformation, crawl errors, searchqueries, CTR, website malwareerrors and submit the XML sitemap. 4. What is the best way to maximize thefrequency of crawling of your websiteby search engines? Frequently adding new, original and quality content on the website. 5. Do you know who is Danny Sullivan? He is a Journalist who covers thefield of web search, considered assearch engine guru and editor atsearchengineland.com 6. Who is Matt Cutts? He is the head of web spam team at Google. Read more about Matt Cutts here: http://www.mattcutts.com/b log/ 7. What is the best criterion to identify thevalue of a backlink? The authority of the domain, quality of the content on the page where the backlink is provided and then the page rank of the website. 8. What is keyword proximity? Keyword Proximity is ameasurement criteria of thecloseness of the keywords withinthe Page Title, Meta Descriptionand Body Text. 9. What is keyword prominence? Keyword prominence is the locationof the keywords in the page title,meta description and body text... 10. Difference between exit rate andbounce rate? Bounce rate is the percentage of people who leaves a particular website just after visiting a single page on this and exit rate refers to the percentage of people who leaves from a particular page. 11. What is the Panda Update? Panda is a search algorithm updateby the Google. 12. What was caffeine update? Caffeine update was rolled out byGoogle in June 2010 and the mainpurpose of this update was toinclude more fresh results in thesearch index, at least 50%... 13. A customer can give you an access toonly one tool, which one will youchoose, Webmasters or Analytics? Of Course Webmaster tools, becausethese are almost the essential tools forthe search engine optimization, we canhave some analytics data in thewebmasters as well. But now due to theinclusion of webmaster data inAnalytics, we would like to have accessto Analytics. 14. What is 404? It is a server error code which isreturned by the server what aparticular webpage or the file ismissing from the webhost server 15. What is 301 redirect? It is a SEO friendly version of permanent redirect for the webpages or the domains. 16. What is 302 redirect? It is a temporary redirect. 17. What is robots.txt? Robots.txt is a text file used to give instructions to the search engine crawlers about the caching and indexing of a webpage, domain, directory or a file of a website. 18. What are the other methods to restrict awebpage from the search index? we can use noindex meta tag. 19. What are Google Webmaster Tools crawlerrors? Crawl errors provides the information about the URLs of your website which are not accessible but linked from somewhere. 20. What is a landing page? a landing page is a page in the website which is designed to attract the visitors to contact/ subscribe/ buy a service or the product by reading few lines of important information about that particular service or the product on that page. 21. What is the recent change in GoogleAnalytics? Real time visitors info, visitors flow, webmaster tools SEO data and website speed data. 22. How to handle the duplicate page in thewebsite? using canonical tag. 23. What are the types of CSS and which isbetter for SEO? 3 types, Internal CSS, inline CSS and external CSS. 24. How many heading tags are there inHTML? 6 tags, from H1 to H6. 25. Can we use more than one H1 on asingle webpage? Of course, if there is a need ofdescribing two related topics on thesame page then we can use, butusing more than 2 or 3 will notprovide any credit to the searchengines. Matt Cutts advise on usingmore than one H1 tag. 26. Italic or Bold, which is more useful? Both are almost same but Italic have a slight more better for keyword targeting on the webpage. 27. What are top SEO ranking factors? Quality of content on the webpage, quality and quantity of backlinks to the webpage, anchor text used in the backlinks, domain authority, social sharing metrics and some other traffic metrics like page CTR, bounce rate and average time on the webpage. 28. What is the criteria for removing awebpage from Google search index? It should return a 404 not found error or it should be 301 permanently redirected. 29. Some basic and quick steps to increasethe webpage speed. removing the unused code and scripts. Replacing internal and inline CSS with the external CSS. Using web servers page compression methods. Using small sized images or minimizing the no. of images. 30. What is CTR? It is Click Through Rate. 31. What is CTA? It is Call To Action.