Gus in MA asks: "Should an Hawaii tourist business (that wants to attract visitors from all over the world), specify Hawaii as a geographic target in Webmaster Tools?" … [Read more...]
Is a sale page duplicate content?
Linda in Lakewood, NJ asks: "Should a 'Sale Page' be in a robots.txt file, to avoid duplicate content? (these products are also on the site separately)" … [Read more...]
Site Performance For Webmasters
Maile Ohye gives an overview of site performance. … [Read more...]
How do you see search working a decade from now?
JimmyB in London, UK asks: "How do you see search working a decade from now?" … [Read more...]
How does a user’s location affect search results?
Brian in Rochester, MI asks: "How do a user's location and previous searches affect current and future search results?" … [Read more...]
Can you give an update on the state of the UK SERPs?
Shane Jones in Manchester asks: "You have probably had this question 10 times before but whats the deal with the state of the UK SERPS? There is (still) huge buzz around international results outranking country specific searches." … [Read more...]
How can people ask questions outside of conferences?
@Ed asks: "Matt, Please consider a live Q & A for disabled people who can't get to conferences, and therefore can't ask you 'hallway' questions, etc. Thank you." … [Read more...]
How many search algorithm changes were made in 2009?
Pulkit Agrawal in Ahmedabad, India asks: "Can you please tell us: a) How many changes did Google make to their primary search algorithm in 2009 till date? b) Is content still the king or something else (structure) has taken over? This is some big … [Read more...]
How does Google rank sites which run on non-standard ports?
Greiner Thomas from Austria asks: "How does Google rank sites which run on a different port than the standard port 80? (eg www.example.com:90/myplace) And would 'www.myplace.com' rank higher than 'www.example.com:90/myplace'?" … [Read more...]
Can I exclude certain words from Googlebot?
Youser in Siegen, NRW asks: "Is there a way to tell Google bots to exclude recurring words on a website such as 'leave comment' or 'print page' when indexing in order to improve the keyword density?" … [Read more...]