Can too many redirects/multiple hops for a given URL(301 as well as 302) can have negative impact in crawling/indexing/ranking? Arpit Srivastava, Gurgaon, India Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
How does SafeSearch work?
How does SafeSearch (both for text and images) work? Gary Tamás, Zurich, CH If you're a website owner and you think that your content is mistakenly being filtered by SafeSearch, you can let us know here: support.google.com Have a question? Ask it in … [Read more...]
What is Google’s approach to customer service?
Google's approach to customer service, and why it uses algorithms instead of people. Cale McNulty, Canada Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on Twitter … [Read more...]
Will Google implement the ability to search with regular expressions?
Will Google offer the feature to search with reg exp? When, or why not? I feel that sometimes you really want to be able to write very specific search queries where the normal operators and operands aren't enough. Jimmy @Feldon Wirsborg, Stockholm, … [Read more...]
What is the ideal keyword density of a page?
What is the ideal keyword density: 0.7%, 7%, or 77%? Or is it some other number? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on … [Read more...]
Does translated content cause a duplicate content issue?
Will multilingual translations of one content across different websites attract duplicate content penalty? Yo, New Delhi, India Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like … [Read more...]
Should I care about mixed content if I offer my pages on HTTPS?
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Should I make up filename extensions to improve my rankings?
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How can I target parts my site to different locations?
Hi Matt, Webmaster tools allows site owners to specify a geo location for targeting. How can this be done for multiple locations? Serious, UK Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a … [Read more...]
Will my site’s ranking be hurt if I use HTTPS instead of HTTP?
By design, HTTPS is slower than HTTP. Considering Google's focus on speed, does that mean that my site will be penalized if I switch to HTTPS? Gary Tamás, Zurich, CH Learn more about making the web faster: code.google.com SPDY: www.chromium.org … [Read more...]