Vic from Utah asks: "Matt, can we feed Googlebot a version of a page that does no contain any advertising code (JavaScript or otherwise)? Same exact content, navigation, images, etc, but just no ad code. Thanks, Vic." … [Read more...]
Does Google think the world will end in 2012?
James asks: "Does Google think the world will end in 2012?" … [Read more...]
Should I block duplicate pages using robots.txt?
Halfdeck from Davis, CA asks: "If Google crawls 1000 pages/day, Googlebot crawling many dupe content pages may slow down indexing of a large site. In that scenario, do you recommend blocking dupes using robots.txt or is using META ROBOTS … [Read more...]
Does Google treat “brandname” and “brandname®” differently?
Ryan in Dearborn, MI asks: "Many corporate legal departments insist on using registered and trademark symbols on brand keywords in titles and on page. Does Google treat "brandname" and "brandname®" differently?" … [Read more...]
Does the PageRank of Twitter profiles matter?
Mani in Delhi asks: "I'm seeing Google PR for some Twitter profiles, even a PR of 4 for someone with less than 50 followers and 100 tweets, whereas for some more meaningful profiles there is no PR. Does PR of Twitter profile pages matter?" … [Read more...]
What are some effective techniques for building links?
Pulkit Agrawal from Ahmedabad, India asks: "Organic link building, according to me is one of the most difficult tasks for SEOs of SMEs. Can you please list 5 effective ways of organic link building other than building great content?" … [Read more...]
Are you on the Google PR team?
Marto K from Sofia, Bulgaria asks: "Are you sure you're still in the web spam team and not in the Google PR team?" … [Read more...]
Does conference attendance affect rankings?
Ryan in Dearborn, MI asks: "I haven't been to any conferences yet this year, I don't live in the valley, and I'm not an attractive female. Will my rankings be negatively affected? What about my status in the SEO community?" … [Read more...]
Should we create a mobile version of our site?
Tommo from London, UK asks: "We work on a well established website. Mobile web seems to becoming more and more popular - should we create a mobile version of the site. If yes, what are your recommendations on this?" See the blog posts here: … [Read more...]
How will Google search work with pages built with GWT?
Rokesh from Den Haag, The Netherlands asks: "How will Google search work with dynamic HTML pages (and I don't mean JSP or other Web1.0 technologies), like application that are built with GWT? Is it possible to index parts of these pages?" Read about … [Read more...]