Recorded from an earlier live broadcast. Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, answers user questions. … [Read more...]
If I don’t need to block crawlers, should I create a robots.txt file?
Is it better to have a blank robots.txt file, a robots.txt that contains User-agent: * Disallow:" or no robots.txt file at all?" Corey S, Pennsylvania Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be … [Read more...]
Submit to index via Google Webmaster Tools
Matt Cutts explains how to submit URLs to Google's index. Learn more about this feature in the Webmaster Tools Help Center: www.google.com Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a … [Read more...]
If I buy AdWords, will that cause my algorithmic search rankings to rise?
If I buy AdWords, will that cause my algorithmic search rankings to rise? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Read more: www.google.com 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 block Googlebot from crawling a dynamically generated calendar?
Should I deny an access to a dynamically generated vBulletin calendar via robots.txt? Whenever I open my Who's Online?" page, I can always see more than 20 Google spiders indexing it." Uncle, Prague, Czech Republic Have a question? Ask it in our … [Read more...]
How can I identify causes of a PageRank drop?
I use the Google Toolbar to monitor PageRank. I read on the Internet that it gives old and quite unreliable data. Can I have reliable realtime PageRank information about the sites I administer? And how can I identify causes of a PageRank drop? … [Read more...]
Can too many redirects from a single URL have a negative effect on crawling?
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...]
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...]