Matt Cutts and Othar Hansson discuss how to connect authors with their content using URL parameters. For more information about authorship at Google, please visit our Help Center: www.google.com … [Read more...]
What are the best practices for PDF optimization?
What are the best practices around PDF (and other document) optimization and when does Google choose to show these files over other web pages? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA Want to hear more about the history of PDF ranking at Google? Listen to this … [Read more...]
Are paid directories held to the same standards as paid links?
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Should I spend more time on improving my content or on fighting scrapers?
Hi Matt I understand that the recent farmer update (Panda) gives a penalty for poor content. Given the penalty scrapers have been outranking original sites. Should webmasters spend time in fighting scrapers directly or work on the poor content? Thx" … [Read more...]
What steps can I take to diagnose a drop in ranking?
When you notice a drastic drop in your rankings and traffic from Google, what process would you take for diagnosing the issue? Ryan, Dearborn, MI Learn how to diagnose ranking issues: www.google.com Site: search and other operators: www.google.com … [Read more...]
How does Google determine page speed?
How does Google determine page speed? In GWT some pages are listed as very slow (8+ seconds). But I have tested on older computers/browsers and they do not take anywhere near that long to load. Why might Google show such high numbers? … [Read more...]
Ranking reports
Matt Cutts discusses ranking reports. … [Read more...]
Does Google consider SEO to be spam?
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What are the 3-5 most important things I should pay attention to in Google Webmaster Tools?
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How do reconsideration requests work at Google?
Please walk us through the reconsideration request process from Google's perspective. Has anything about the reconsideration process changed recently? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California For more reasons why your site may not be showing up well in … [Read more...]