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The question is in the title: Should HTML Heading Tags ALWAYS be in Hierarchical Order?

For example, using them in order: H1, H2, H3... etc.

Or is it OK to have H2 tags before the main H1 tag on a page? - for example sidebar content with H2 headings before the main content H1 tag?

Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Thanks for that reply.  What about paginated META Description tags?  Remove them completely?

Thank you for your responses.

I think 30 is a reasonable number as we currently have 15 per page.

Also, for the numbered pages - what would be preferred titles:

"Page Title (Page 2)"

or

"Page 2 for Page Title"

When optimizing a forum topic page for SEO, would it be better to have a higher number of posts per page than seperating the topic up into multiple pages?

For example, out of the box a forum may display 15 posts per topic page - would there be any SEO benifit in changing that number to say 30 posts per page?  I.e. more content per page and decreasing unnecessary "page 2, page 3, page 4"... etc.

Your thoughts and comments are most appreciated.

In SEO terms, what would be the best method: High number of items per page or low number with more pages?

For example, this category listing here:

http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/90/fsx-civil-aircraft/

It has 10 items per page.  Would there be any benefit of changing a listing like that to 20 items in order to decrease the number of pages in the category?

Also, what other ways could you increase the SEO of category listings like that?

Could profanity such as swear words or cursing decrease the trust Google has in a website?  For example, abusive comments... etc?  I'm not talking about the SafeSearch filter, I'm talking about the overall trust of the website.

Your thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

What would be the best SEO META Description tag for forum topics on a forum type website?

I can think of a few options so far

1. Snippet of first post.
2. Title of the topic with templated trailing text
3. Remove description tag completely

Your thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

We are considering expanding our site navigation menu (horizontal) at the top of our pages.  However, once implemented, this would include around 30-40 links at the top of the page; before the content of the page.

How much effect (good/bad) would this have on SEO?

Are their any other options? (perhaps rendering the menu after the main content with CSS)?

Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Can including advertising slots at the top and side of pages have a negative effect on SEO?

Can Google detect these advertising slots?  Can they work our advertising pixels to page content pixels ratio?

Any ideas, suggestions, comments and opinions are greatly appreciated!

In the eyes of Google, would the font text size of say a news article affect SEO?  For example, a slightly larger font being easier to read by those with bad eyes?  Accessibility?  If so, what size would be ideal? 10, 12, 14?

Your thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

If for example on a discussion forum, what would be the best way to stop pages such as the posting page (where a user posts a topic or message) from being indexed AND not diluting PageRank too? If we added them to the Disallow on robots.txt, would pagerank still flow through the links to those blocked pages or would it stay concentrated on the linking page? Your ideas and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

With the latest Google updates in both cracking down on useless pages and concentrating on high quality content, would it be beneficial to include user posted comments on the same page as the content or a separate page? Having a separate page with enough comments on it would he worth warranting, especially as extra pages add extra pagerank but would it be better to include them with the original article/post? Your ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Any ideas and suggestions guys?

I.e...what we would like to do is "break free" from the UK Whois and server ip location flags.

Thanks for the response. Ok say we wanted to target all English speaking countries with a slight focus on the US search market and we had a UK ip address and UK Whois contact details...would the best setting be "unlisted" or to not specify at all?

What if we published an address in the UK as the contact/WHOIS details but wanted to target the USA market? The server resides in the UK, the domain WHOIS resides in the UK - but what are the best methods to target the US search market?  The domain is a .com domain.

The question is in the title: Does publishing your physical company address increase your Google Trust?

I.e. on the contact page of the website, providing a physical address.  The address would match the WHOIS entry for the domain, and allow customers to contact you via post.

One of the category has over 65 pages.  You're suggesting writing something unique for each page?  It can be done...

Fellows,

We are deciding whether we should include our category description on all pages of the category listing - for example; page 1, page 2, page 3...

The category description is currently a few paragraphs of text that sits on page 1 of the category only at present.  It also includes an image (linked to a large version of it) with appropriate ALT text.

Would we benefit from including this introductory text on the rest of the pages in the category?  Or should we leave it on the first page only?  Would it flag up duplicate signals?

Ideas please!

Thanks.

OK, so I have taken it upon myself to now have our URLs as follows:

/news/853/free-flight-simulator/

Anything else gets 301'd to the correct URL.  /news/853/free-flight-simulator would be 301'd to /news/853/free-flight-simulator/ along with /news/853/free-flight-sifsfsdfdsfmulator/ ... etc.