The UK recently ran the "Make Your Mark With A Tenner" competition, where students were given £10 and challenged to make a profitable business with it. How would you bootstrap a business if you were given £10? Syne, Australia … [Read more...]
How does Google determine domain age, and is it important for ranking?
How does Google determine domain age? Do they look at the whois data or do they rely on the crawler? eg When it first indexed the website. In general, how important is it for website authority? Thanks! Maarten, Belgium … [Read more...]
Can I tell Google not to display the date in my site’s snippets?
Can I tell or request that Google not display the date in my meta description? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA … [Read more...]
Google Webmaster Tools
Introduction to Google Webmaster Tools. Learn more: www.google.com … [Read more...]
Why doesn’t the clickthrough data in Webmaster Tools match what I see in Google Analytics?
Why doesn't the click through data for the keywords in my webmaster portal report match my Google Analytics data? Paul, Washington DC … [Read more...]
How can I explain to clients that rankings can’t be guaranteed?
Read Google's help article about SEO here: www.google.com With a lot of my potential clients, the first words out of their mouth when building a site is "Can you make my site #1 on Google?" This question is extremely annoying to me... how can I … [Read more...]
Is there a widget to display my number of subscribers?
In GWT you can see subscriber stats. Can you all make a widget to display this number? SEO Jedi, Sarasota, FL … [Read more...]
Which types of Webmaster Tools errors should I report to Google?
Read about known issues here: webmaster-forum-announcements.blogspot.com How active is WMT (Webmaster Tools) monitored by Google, specifically when there is a system error (such as the recent error in reporting the # of pages indexed)? Does Google … [Read more...]
Does Webmaster Tools have an API?
API documentation: code.google.com Hi Matt, are there any APIs available from Google to pull out reports from Google Webmaster Tools? I know there are many APIs available for Google AdWords, Google Maps etc... Joydeep, Bangalore, India … [Read more...]
How long does it take for rich snippets to appear?
How long should it take for my RDFa markup to appear in search results as a Rich Snippet after completing the submission form? Paul, Washington DC … [Read more...]