How does SafeSearch (both for text and images) work? Gary Tamás, Zurich, CH If you're a website owner and you think that your content is mistakenly being filtered by SafeSearch, you can let us know here: support.google.com Have a question? Ask it in … [Read more...]
What is Google’s approach to customer service?
Google's approach to customer service, and why it uses algorithms instead of people. Cale McNulty, Canada 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 … [Read more...]
Will Google implement the ability to search with regular expressions?
Will Google offer the feature to search with reg exp? When, or why not? I feel that sometimes you really want to be able to write very specific search queries where the normal operators and operands aren't enough. Jimmy @Feldon Wirsborg, Stockholm, … [Read more...]
What is the ideal keyword density of a page?
What is the ideal keyword density: 0.7%, 7%, or 77%? Or is it some other number? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California 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...]
Does translated content cause a duplicate content issue?
Will multilingual translations of one content across different websites attract duplicate content penalty? Yo, New Delhi, India Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like … [Read more...]
How can I target parts my site to different locations?
Hi Matt, Webmaster tools allows site owners to specify a geo location for targeting. How can this be done for multiple locations? Serious, UK Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a … [Read more...]
Will my site’s ranking be hurt if I use HTTPS instead of HTTP?
By design, HTTPS is slower than HTTP. Considering Google's focus on speed, does that mean that my site will be penalized if I switch to HTTPS? Gary Tamás, Zurich, CH Learn more about making the web faster: code.google.com SPDY: www.chromium.org … [Read more...]
How can good sites that don’t know about SEO rank well?
Google would appear to favour sites that are built by those who know all the SEO 'best practice' techniques (and follow your tips!). There must be many technically poor sites that actually have fantastic content - surely these shouldn't be penalised? … [Read more...]
How can I be notified when my name is mentioned on the web?
Hi Matt, I have heard something about authors/content creators, getting a notification if their name is written somewhere, or searched for. How does this work, and how can I be "known" as a content creator? Best Regards, Morten Madsen, Denmark Google … [Read more...]
Does Google treat .co as a generic TLD?
There has been a lot of hype about the .co TLDs, there are many people posting that Google will accept them as the new .com, although it's the TLD for Colombia. Will Google treat the .co as generic like .com or .net or as a local TLD? Thanks Matt! … [Read more...]