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Google shows "searches related to keyword" at the bottom of the SERPs for some queries. On what basis does Google shows this ? search volume ?

Yes, i should have done that.

Here's the link -   http://searchengineland.com/new-place-search-shows-googles-commitment-to-local-53990

According to a searchengineland post, Google has replaced "7 pack" results. But they are still appearing for local queries. Like for  query "pizza restaurant new delhi"  ( in Google.co.in ), i can still see 7 pack results.

Has local and general search algorithms merged ?

Do you want to say that if search triggers blended results, rankings will improve. Please elaborate.

"firmly associated with the australian market"  Does it mean the same thing as  "pages which are hosted on web servers located in Australia"

Thanks a lot Dan for sharing the useful link.

BTW, does blended results, mean the listing of web page in SERPs, as opposed to listing of Google place page.

Thanks Himanshu. I also read your blog, which is fantastic.

There are many sites where the home page content is not updated for months, yet they get indexed after 1-2 days. Is this, then due to the links they have got ?

Thanks Alex for your reply.

Then what does "pages from australia" link signify ?

When i enter a keyword in  google.com.au, and click on a link "Pages from australia" ( in the middle left ), i expect to australian sites only. But there are sites with .com extension.

Then what is the meaning of link "Pages from australia". What does it signify ?

Is it true that Google place  listing can provide increase  in search engine ranking ?

Then why it is suggested to have one version - with or without trailing slash ?

If a URL has trailing slash ( / ), and a user types the URL without trailing slash, would an 404 error will be shown ?

Hello, Can we submit Press release to Google news ? If yes, is there any criteria for Google news to accept the Press release ? Is there any benefit in this ? Thanks

Thanks Ryan for explaining things very clearly.

If spiders follow links to an article on my site, will they read the contents then ?  If the canonical tag is on article page itself, will canonical  tag will be seen ?

Thanks Daylan for your quick response. I just wanted a second opinion that canonical tag will never be seen if a page is disallowed.

If i use nofollow on links ( internal or external ), will it reduce the link count as regard to Google. If there are 50 external links, and i nofollow 20 of them, will Google count this as 30 external  links.

In the SEOmoz post - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts, it's being said -

If you have a robots.txt disallow in place for a page, the canonical tag will never be seen.

Does it so happen that if a page is disallowed by robots.txt, spiders DO NOT read the html code ?

Thanks. That answers my query.