How reliable is the site: query and why does the total count sometimes change from page 1 to page 2? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: groups.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like … [Read more...]

At a search conference, someone said that earlier this year, Google sent out 700K warnings to websites about shady links. True? Not true? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: groups.google.com Want … [Read more...]

If two terms are used essentially interchangeably, does Google realize that the terms are interchangeable? Should you be trying to use both terms, or just focus on one term to get the best search engine traffic? An example is EMR and EHR techguy, Las … [Read more...]

If two terms are used essentially interchangeably, does Google realize that the terms are interchangeable? Should you be trying to use both terms, or just focus on one term to get the best search engine traffic? An example is EMR and EHR techguy, Las … [Read more...]

Google gives penalties to sites who do paid links, but doesn't penalize site with other ads such as AdSense, Chitika, etc. Why? They both are source on income to a site, a site needs money to grow or sustain. Net4earning, India Google's guidelines on … [Read more...]

I'm getting errors from Google Webmaster Tools about the Googlebot crawler being unable to fetch my robots.txt 50% of the time (but I can fetch it with 100% success rate from various other hosts). (On a plain old nginx server and an mit.edu host.) … [Read more...]

Have you learned something about SEO that you wouldn't know if you haven't had your blog? diCrox, Madrid, Spain Visit Matt's blog: www.mattcutts.com Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: groups.google.com Want your question to be … [Read more...]

Hi Matt, do you think that search engine optimization is descriptive in the way it is used today? Do you think we need to call it something else? Mads, Copenhagen Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: groups.google.com Want your … [Read more...]

I've been waiting for 2 months to hear back regarding a reconsideration request. Is this normal? There is no one I can contact about it. Laura, Manchester, UK Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: groups.google.com Want your question … [Read more...]

Will Google interpret links to URLs ending with a campaign tag like ?hl=en (www.example.com?hl=en) as a link to www.example.com or to a completely different page? What about the SEO effect of inbound links? Per-Erik Skramstad More about … [Read more...]