One of the primary advices I've been reading about SEO is to put out great content. But how exactly does Google measure that? What specific metrics does it use?  I understand how it identifies bad content (poor spelling, bad grammar, poorly structured article, keyword spamming, etc.).  But I have yet to find a clear criteria for how Google determines great content.
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What are the best ways to improve a site's position in the Google search results?
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I just noticed something which I think is pretty cool ():  Inside the search results, Google includes the number of answers and the date a certain question was asked (even more intriguing: these values are properly localized).  Is this Google special-casing for Stack&nbsp;Overflow, or does Stack&nbsp;Overflow somehow provide these values from within the page itself?
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I have a website on which users can ask a question and also answer it. So, when a user asks a question, it creates a new webpage on website and below that question lies its answers.  I don't want search engines to index those pages or questions which don't have an answer, so I added an if condition stating if the question doesn't have answer show the noindex meta tag, if it does, then don't show it.  I was wondering if it is the right way to do so?  I mean, first when the question is asked and Google will crawl it, it will see the noindex tag. But after some time when it will have an answer, Google will see that it can be indexed.  Will it affect the ranking and overall performance in Google search results?
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I don't know much more about SEO, but it's interesting to learn about it. When I tried to search my website with an associated keyword or you can say with the exact name of the domain, I got some suggestions by Google. Here's .  First of all, I don't want to spamming here, I just want prove my question and want to give a hint about what I am talking here. The above link display the Did You Mean, I know the specific reason why Google shows this, but I want to know the Google's guidelines and some guidance by you experts so that if someone search for the particular keyword then Google hide that Did You Mean and display the result.
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So I am building my website up, so far so good, only 2 categories and about 40 articles. Each category is different and several of the articles in each category are reviews.  My question is this...  I have 500 words of unique content on each review, and then I have around 300+ words of the exact same content across each review (different category different similar content)  The 300 words of similar content is things like..     Product contains eggs.      product contains milk      product doesn't have support      product company isn't active on social media.      product doesn't have email support.   Things like this, depending on the product and depending on how deep I dive into the reviews they range from 300+ words.  Is it okay to have these reviews with this point back to my category landing page? I mean they're ranking for separate products not the main keyword as my category landing page. Should I rework my strategy and just take out that similar content?
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I was wondering how much time to devote to guest-blogging.  It is pretty consuming and one person can only do a few per day max. And often you just get a link in the bottom of the post.  Is it really beneficial to SEO? And if so, are there any particular tricks or pitfalls to it?
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Does anybody have any statistics as to how many people end up selecting an auto-suggestion versus typing their own search phrase when performing a search online with auto-suggestion capabilities? (whether Google or a website internal search)  Obviously it might have to do with the quality of the auto-suggestions, and thus figures will differ whether we're talking about Google (assumption is that suggestions are pretty good) or a random website (assumption is that suggestions aren't as good), but I'd like to get an idea of how inclined to using auto-suggestions people usually are.  I could find existing questions on the net, but unfortunately no answers:
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I've purchased a domain. I'm in the process of creating the website for that domain. This may take about a month.  In the mean time, what is the smartest thing to do with that domain, in terms of SEO?  For example, should I send a 204 No Content HTTP header? I know that's not the right thing to do but what is? I know that simply having a "Coming Soon" page is also bad for SEO.  Any advice?
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I am using hidden text on one of my websites for better search engine ranking.  However, many articles suggest it is better not to use hidden text. Does using hidden text with keywords in the webpage affect rankings? Does Google block such types of site that use hidden text like using the same color for the text as for the background?
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I received this bit of advice about the meta description tag recently:     Meta descriptions are used by Google probably 80% of the time for the snippet. They don’t help with rankings but you should probably use them. You could just auto generate them from the first part of the question.   The description tag exists in the header, like so:  &lt;meta name="Description" content="A brief summary of the content on the page."&gt;  I'm not sure why we would need this field, as Google seems perfectly capable of showing the relevant search terms in context in the search result pages, like so (I searched for c# list performance):    In other words, where would a meta description summary improve these results? We want the page to show context around the actual search hits, not a random summary we inserted!   Google Webmaster Central :     For some sites, like news media sources, generating an accurate and unique description for each page is easy: since each article is hand-written, it takes minimal effort to also add a one-sentence description. For larger database-driven sites, like product aggregators, hand-written descriptions are more difficult. In the latter case, though, programmatic generation of the descriptions can be appropriate and is encouraged -- just make sure that your descriptions are not "spammy." Good descriptions are human-readable and diverse, as we talked about in the first point above. The page-specific data we mentioned in the second point is a good candidate for programmatic generation.   I'm struggling to think of any scenario when I would want the Google-generated summary, that is, actual context from the page for the search terms, to be replaced by a hard-coded meta description summary of the question itself.
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Possible Duplicate:          I have noticed that when I ask a question on Stack Overflow and I go into Google and search for the question, it comes up in Google in just a minute or so.  How do they do this? I want the secret!  I am a web developer and I know about most things that you can do for SEO, but I have no idea how these questions appear in Google this quickly!  I think it's amazing!
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I'm building a web portal where language content will generally depend on the "accept-language" sent by the browser. The same content-URI will thus serve different content to different users depending on their browser setting.  I'm very curious to know how this will affect search indexing. Does Google index using all languages, and is it handled well?
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How does Stack Overflow work so well with search engines? It's really amazing; if I post a question, it'll show up in Google's search results within 15-30 minutes!  What are the tricks? sitemap.xml? Or, any other good methods?  Help me, and others too, if anyone knows a good technique/method.
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I have this website which is relatively new and I am trying to rank it in Google. But, I have this enemy who keeps building bad/spam links to my site. So, every time I see some rank improvement in my site, he builds spam links to my site and my ranking slides down in SERP's. I am disavowing those links as soon as I see them but, for how much time I am gonna do that! Is there any tool or trick using which I can disavow such links automatically?
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I've been working on a site for a new company that is in the tactical gear/survival gear niche and have ran into a hitch with the keywords that Google ranks for the site.  Namely 4 of the top 5 keywords aren't content related at all, and are elements/functions of the site. The top 5 are as follows:   Tactical Cart Compare Wishlist Quick (from a quick-view function on the site)   My question is how the heck can I avoid this issue? Or CAN I avoid this issue?
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After solving the first  issue for adsense (i.e “Unable to review your site” - AdSense),  again i applied to Google ad-sense with live blank ads on page, but In second review they disapproved my website by saying "- Insufficient content"  .   What should do now?
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Today I came across an OBVIOUSLY good answer in /review. It had 7 upvotes, contained lists, paragraphs of explanation, and well-applied sample code. It was also moderately long. How does a question like this get flagged for review? I don't really know how the algorithm works.   If this is low-quality then I feel bad about all of my answers.  Here's a  if you care to see it in context. It's not really a huge problem (as Bart's comment emphasizes), but this seems like an extreme outlier in every measurable aspect.