I think the point that Roman is making is that it doesn't make any difference what you use for your logo from Google perspective.

You just need to make sure that it works across the different types of browser.

As far as I know, Google doesn't really interpret images as such at the moment.

As Donald said you don't want your logo as the title.

ALT text is used to describe an image, the impact on SEO is very small these days.

I would say keep the good HTML programming and editorial practices such as start your page with a header, adding titles were appropriate and elaborate with text, pictures and videos. Make sure you describe the pictures and videos with text, including the text around the element and within the ALT the text.

In this day and age, you need to optimize the user experience, not the search engine.

I've never used compressed site maps for Google.

All they are looking for is an XML list of pages, providing Google can read it that's all that really matters.

I don't have any experience of bing i'm afraid, I just let it work.

Hope that helps

I guess it probably depends on the website, I think they are counted as 'backlinks' but probably carry less authority.  I guess one benefit is it helps the visibility of your pages to search engines.

I believe it's more of a user experience thing rather than SEO, although technically it is a ranking factor (very small one).  Additionally, too much bold text will probably have the opposite effect.
The purpose of bolding text is to emphasise, keep it in context and relevant and bold where you need to.

I'm not too sure whether it's a ranking factor or not, there are varying opinions.  I would say it's risky.

Additionally, I don't see what there is to be gained by deleting and recreating a profile that could just get another bad review, Also the person that gave you that bad review can come and leave another one!

I would work with some good customers and ask them to do reviews. Far more productive than trying to hide hide mistakes and Google will love good reviews to.

Explain to your client that resources are better spend on creating some new reviews and if you get enough good ones you can outweigh the bad ones to a large degree.  Take a look around, you will see there is plenty of excellent brands that get bad reviews from time to time.

Need to be clear on the purpose of "no-index".  Search engines will still crawl the page, but in theory will not be published in the index.  Some search engines may still choose to index the page despite no-index tag.  Also that page will still be publicly accessible on your website.

As already noted a couple of times I would be very slow to noindex any page.

I can't think of very many applications where it would be used. The way I view it is either something is public or its private, if it's public you properly want search engines to find it, or if it's private it should be locked away behind a username and password.

Google tries to personalize the results as much as possible, they use cookies and other types of identification data to try and track users and provide the most relevant results.

After you close chrome technically there is no method for Google to identify who you are, hence you may see different results.

Getting accurate search position results for tracking marketing progress seems a bit of a buzz word at the moment.  It comes back to as Marketers/SEO's we need to track and monitor our efforts, on the flipside Google is trying to provide the most accurate result to the user often by means of personalisation.  That is where you have an immediate conflict, for maximum user engagement (which all of us want) you sometimes have to sacrifice tractability.

Assuming you did manage to track personalised results you would need a lot of data about that person and their browsing habits to understand how you back best matched their search query.  Most of us would quickly get ourselves lost in data.  Does that make sense?

There are plenty of Serps checker tools around, but I sometimes have my doubts how accurate they are - Google definitely doesn't like them.

Definitely check the Lost & Broken links in ahrefs.

Interested to know the outcome, I have the same question myself.

Keep us posted.