What are some of the things on your radar, or some of the trends in search you'd like to talk about? -Danny Sullivan 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 … [Read more...]
Does Google use data from social sites in ranking?
Hello Matt, a recent article of Danny Sullivan suggests that Google uses Twitter and Facebook links as a ranking signal. Can you confirm this? Can you elaborate a little bit more on this? -WebSEOAnalytics Read the article: searchengineland.com Have a … [Read more...]
How can I get my business to become known online?
What do you suggest for new website owners who are starting their business online? Why other webmasters link to that new website? Why someone link to new business who has no brand at all? And also links are important for him to improve his online … [Read more...]
How does Google handle special characters?
How does Google handle ligatures, soft-hyphens, interpuncts and hyphenation points? In general, is it ok to be typographically correct or does this impose problems? Stecki, Delingsdorf, Germany … [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...]