bflicker from Los Angeles, CA asks: "If we were to syndicate my written content (entire articles) to multiple domains then would we be able to use the imminent cross-domain link rel="canonical" tag to confirm which site we would like to index for a … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2010
Is there a way to mark a section of a page as being less important for snippets?
Dan W. from San Francisco, CA asks: "Can Google provide a way to mark a section of our pages as being less important for being indexed/snippeted by Google? Sort of like the AdSense section targeting comments. The snippet that Google SERPs often shows … [Read more...]
Which games do you play?
claytonseo from South Africa asks: "General question: PC or Console? Which do you like best, do you play games? Have you played COD MW2? Thanks" … [Read more...]
Are the webspam reports read by anyone?
Bilgehan from İstanbul asks: "Does anyone at google read web spam reporting messages?" Learn how to report webspam here: www.google.com … [Read more...]
How does URL structure affect PageRank?
Chris. F. Masse from the World-Wide World asks: "On your WordPress.org blog (mattcutts.com), why did you switch from domainname.com/year/month/day/sample-post/ to domainname.com/postname/ ? Has this to do with how PageRank flows within a site?" … [Read more...]
Do pop-unders affect ranking?
Biz, from the USA asks: "We got rid of a profitable pop-under ad (since we thought it the concept was user unfriendly), but then pages-per-visit and time-on-page dropped - along with our rankings. Does Google reward or penalize for a pop-under, … [Read more...]
What should we do about IE 6?
JimmyB from London, UK asks: "I hate IE6! How would you propose we rid the Internet of this outdated browser? (Both serious and humourous ideas would be welcome)" … [Read more...]