I have a site that ranks #1 on Google for a specific keyword on mobile.  On desktop, it ranks #3.  What are the likely considerations I need to be aware of to try and bump up my desktop ranking?  Thanks for any insight.  Joe
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What are the best ways to improve a site's position in the Google search results?
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Simple question  What is better:  http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html   or  http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456   As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end.  Please explain to me which is better and for what reasons.
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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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My website changed significantly this month.  Amongst the changes was the website's title.  Two weeks ago, I finally used Webmaster Tools and submitted the page.  So far, Yahoo and Bing have updated the title in the search results, but not Google.  I've resubmitted via Webmaster Tools the website, and the bots have crawled the page, and have added "content keywords".  But the title still doesn't match.  The "content keywords" lists many of the words in the new title (but contains keywords of the existing title also).  Must say that 4 of the top 5 key words in the "significance" list are the new title's.  Still, no change.  Any remedies for this problem?  Is adding the "alt" tag for the logo significant enough to trigger the change?  There isn't an appropriate place to put the company name between  tags on the front page.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.
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I often use Stack Exchange sites on my smartphone. The mobile version works great, but when I end up on a page which is not found (like a deleted question), it redirects me to the full version of site.  Can you please re-design that page to adjust on a small screen?
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What influences findability on a post?   Upvotes Views Asked date Last active time   How is this done in the Stack Exchange internal search engine? And how does Google do it?  Why is it that when searching on Google for 'iPhone development stackoverflow' the fourth result is ?
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I often use Stack Exchange sites from my smartphone. It works great, but I always have to switch to full version to see view counts of a question. Can you please add it? There's plenty of space on question page for it to place. I request community to suggest a location.
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I noticed this issue as I tend to view Stack Overflow via the mobile site frequently:   The mobile version does not show possible duplicate questions while you're typing the question/description, while in "full site mode" the suggestions come up just fine.  In my mind, getting the suggestions to show up on the mobile version of the site should not be a hard thing to implement  While I admit it makes me lazy asking for this feature when there is a work around, the full site doesn't display nearly as well as the mobile one so it would make life a lot easier to have this simple change.  Also, what good programmer isn't lazy? :)
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In the website some Meta tags are coloured differently. I think this should be replicated on the android app.    Thinking about it I think the required meta tags, feature-request, support, discussion and bug should also be highlighted in some way, as they are on the desktop version.
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How often is my total score for a particular tag calculated. I've gotten several recent upvotes under android but my total score hasn't seem to have gone up. When I say total score, I mean like the total score displayed on this .
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A coworker and I are locked in a debate over the value of SEO keywords in the URL of a page. She wants to change all the filenames of the HTML pages of a fencing company so they look like residential-home-chicago.html, contact-chicago-contractor.html, and so on. She is convinced that because Google highlights keywords in URLs in search results, that means that putting keywords here is more valuable.  My position is that these do not improve SEO, since Google doesn't seem to give keywords in the URL any more weight than keywords in the body of the page, and . In the meantime, they make it harder for me to find the pages I want when its time to edit them, and the site as a whole looks cheap and spammy.   suggests to me that yes, keywords in URLs are useful, but not superior, and that they are more useful for human readability than search engine rankings.  I'm looking for authoritative sources that support either position, not blog articles from SEO optimization companies trying to promote themselves.
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There has been a tug-of-war in the  list.  seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site:  'But we want to encourage people to post, that's the whole point of the HQ list!' I hear you cry. I disagree. We want to encourage people to the site not just to that question.  The SE Community Team seems to have  (emphasis mine):  the results have been... Not great so far: a significantly smaller number of people are clicking through to randomly-selected questions than to the top questions, which hints that the algorithm may've been doing a better job of identifying general-interest questions across topics than some expected.  Disclaimer: This should not be taken as a slight of the community team whatsoever, nor do I think this is some cause for revolt or a boxing match as the below prose may indicate. These are just poorly applied literary tools to emphasize the drastically different approaches to the same list between two groups. In the Red Corner, the Community Members The goal of the hot questions should be to drive up interest in the site. The hot questions should be a lure to encourage SE network users to contribute to other content, not just do a drive-by on the hot question. In the Blue Corner, the Community Team The goal of the hot questions should be to drive traffic to general-interest questions. After all, the Hot Network Questions used to be more accurately named as &quot;Popular Questions&quot;. What is the Goal of Advertising Network Questions? Before discussing , or , we need to come to an agreement on what the heck we are actually trying to achieve. Once we know what we are looking to accomplish, we can find the best way to do that. The list of questions from a variety of sites is in a great location screen-wise, it is readily accessible and does get a lot of eyes on it. But as with any marketing, the goal isn't just to grab eyes, it's to grab the right eyes.* * I have nothing against left eyes. Most of my friends have left eyes too. And they are awesome. But in the context right eyes are not a geospatial thing, but rather in the 'correct' sense. So what are the right eyes? What type of people do we want to attract to our site? What would we determine as 'success'? How can we measure that success? Please do not limit yourself to the very narrowly scoped topic above. Think outside the box if you'd like. On every page across the network we have a nice piece of real estate for showing off the rest of the network. How can that space best be used if not on a list of questions picked by an arbitrary algorithm?
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The way reputation is displayed on a user's profile page on meta sites is a bit off. There's gray padding around it:  which is not visible on the main site:  The 'top x%' label being so close to it makes it even worse. This affects both  and .
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My domain : CreditCardPaymentGateways dot in  even after 6 months is not ranking well. Could it be due to length of it?  Also I've blocked backlinks to some directories( without nofollow) using robots.txt.  I suspect either is playing spoilsport in good rankings of my site, which I've optimized well and has least competition.
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I several days ago somewhere read that category and tag pages should be noindexed. But later on somewhere else, I read that, they only increase rank for search term, but overall traffic decreases- said one from his experience.  So, if I just concern about traffic, not about individual search term that much, should I make those category and tag pages as indexed to google? I am confused which is the best to do.  Thanks in advance.  Regards Rana
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Sometimes I find myself start writing a question, or start answering a question, in the mobile app and there are times where I then reach my computer or find out I need to be more comfortable when writing it; I need my computer - a larger screen, keyboard.  The problem is that by opening the question in the desktop browser - my draft will not be there and so I find myself start over or need to look&amp;copy my text from the smartphone or email it, etc. Not particularly comfortable...    I think we need some sort of a syncing ability.
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I would have thought that someone must have asked this already but .  The ordering of the Stack Exchange drop-down menu is at times [in parts] logical, and then there are random positionings. Take a look at this:         to the question , does not explain the ordering that I see:     Sites where you have > 200 reputation will be sorted by reputation,   highest reputation accounts at the top.      Sites where you have &lt; 200 reputation will then be listed in random   order. e at the top.   It is not because I need to wait 24 hours either, as it has been like this for nearly a week. In fact, it has always been badly ordered - only now am I analysing the order, or trying to.  3D Printing messes up the ordering at the top of the list - is this because I have always been on that site, in the past few weeks, and so it has been positioned as a favourite?  Surely Ask Ubuntu should be just below Stack Overflow, and Arqade at the bottom?   If I scroll down that menu, it gets even more random, and not all of them are &lt; 200, so the explanation in the answer above, doesn't appear to apply: