bflicker from Los Angeles, CA asks: "If we were to syndicate my written content (entire articles) to multiple domains then would we be able to use the imminent cross-domain link rel="canonical" tag to confirm which site we would like to index for a … [Read more...]
Is there a way to mark a section of a page as being less important for snippets?
Dan W. from San Francisco, CA asks: "Can Google provide a way to mark a section of our pages as being less important for being indexed/snippeted by Google? Sort of like the AdSense section targeting comments. The snippet that Google SERPs often shows … [Read more...]
Are the webspam reports read by anyone?
Bilgehan from İstanbul asks: "Does anyone at google read web spam reporting messages?" Learn how to report webspam here: www.google.com … [Read more...]
How does URL structure affect PageRank?
Chris. F. Masse from the World-Wide World asks: "On your WordPress.org blog (mattcutts.com), why did you switch from domainname.com/year/month/day/sample-post/ to domainname.com/postname/ ? Has this to do with how PageRank flows within a site?" … [Read more...]
Do pop-unders affect ranking?
Biz, from the USA asks: "We got rid of a profitable pop-under ad (since we thought it the concept was user unfriendly), but then pages-per-visit and time-on-page dropped - along with our rankings. Does Google reward or penalize for a pop-under, … [Read more...]
Why doesn’t Google use reCAPTCHA?
Alain-Christian from Queens, NY asks: "Why doesn't Google use reCAPTCHA for word verification? As it says on their website, 'Answers to reCAPTCHA challenges are used to digitize textual documents.' Imagine how many more documents could be digitized … [Read more...]
Do links to non-canonical URLs pass any value to the canonical version?
Stav Zilbershtein from Israel asks: "Hi Matt, what if there are external links to a URL that is not the canonical one? Does the power of links passes on to the original URL or does links pointing to a non orinigal URL gets lost when using canonical … [Read more...]
Are there any negatives to generating a short list of ‘related posts?’
Alain-Christian in Queens, NY asks: "Are there any negatives to generating a short list of 'related posts?'" Thisvideo is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We're not … [Read more...]
Can I make sure Google always uses my meta description tags for snippets?
Youser from Siegen, NRW asks: "I use "description tags". Still Google search results often start with a date or alter the description snippet. Is there any way of controlling this?" … [Read more...]
How can I get Google to index more of my Sitemap URLs?
Bill from Stuart, FL asks: "The Sitemap.xml file states there are 10000 URLs but only 1500 have been indexed. After numerous crawls it does not appear Google is going to index these additional detail pages. What can I do to get Google to index my … [Read more...]