Keeping your domain name but moving to a new IP address? Check out this video: www.youtube.com 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 and look … [Read more...]
Changing your website’s host
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 and look for an announcement when we take new questions: twitter.com More videos: www.youtube.com … [Read more...]
Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site?
Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? How about how many redirects I can chain together? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Other things to watch out for with chained redirects: - Avoid infinite loops. - Browsers … [Read more...]
How to Play a YouTube video on a WordPress Web Page Using Embed Code
This is a short description and demonstration of how to embed a YouTube video on a WordPress web page using embed code. Step 1. Locate the video on line or copy the URL provided to you. Step 2. If you have a URL Address, paste it into your … [Read more...]
Local Businesses Find Social Media as Most Effective Marketing Channel- Small Business News
Local Businesses Find Social Media as Most Effective Marketing Channel - Small Business News Social media even beats out paid search. Even though small businesses have found social media to be effective, one of the early setbacks with it was … [Read more...]
How Much Text Content Does Google Recommend on Home Pages?
How Much Text Content Does Google Recommend on Home Pages? Google recommends having content on the home page along with captions for images for Googlebot to find,. But Google does not recommend having too much content on the home page, such as … [Read more...]
Does Google Penalize Combining Text and Video Content?
Recently the question came up on how Google views serving (creating and submitting) a word-for-word text transcript in place of a video and is it considered a negative form of cloaking which could result in a penalty? In short Google does not … [Read more...]
What is Caffeine indexing?
Hi Matt, Is Caffeine indexing is really helpful for SEO? What is Caffeine indexing exactly? Manvesh, India 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...]
Will changing the code and layout of my pages while moving to new URLs affect their rankings?
Hey Matt, Thanks for doing this again! I'm changing the platform of my blog. All old URLS will redirect to new ones. But, since the HTML code and layout of the pages are different, do you lose Search Engine Rankings? Richard, New York, NY Russian … [Read more...]
Does selling the same product on three different domains look spammy?
I manage 3 websites that sell the same products across 3 domains. Each site has a different selling approach, price structure, target audience, etc. Does Google see this as spammy or black hat? Josh K, Dallas, TX Have a question? Ask it in our … [Read more...]