Hi Matt, What resources (textbooks, online PDFs etc) would you recommend to people interested in learning more about LSI, search engine algorithms etc? Tristan Perry, Cardiff, UK The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine … [Read more...]
What hardware and software powers Googlebot?
Hi Matt, Could you give any insight into the sort of hardware and/or server-side software which power a typical Googlebot (web crawler) server? Tristan Perry, Cardiff, UK Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your … [Read more...]
Will Google remove a page that I don’t like from its search results?
There's a page about me on the web that I don't like. Will Google remove the page from its search results? Why or why not? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Read Matt's blog post: www.mattcutts.com Remove a page or site from Google's search results: … [Read more...]
2012 Korea Webmaster Conference
The 2012 Webmaster Conference was held in Korea on Jan 30, 2012. Matt Cutts was the main guest speaker and gave a presentation called "Search Inside" about how Google works and the importance of the open web. About 350 webmasters and developers … [Read more...]
Video Sitemaps
Using video sitemaps is a recommended way to give us information about your videos. Submitting a sitemap pushes your video metadata to Google and reduces the time it takes for us to discover your video. Learn more about video sitemaps here: … [Read more...]
Notifying Google of Video Updates
If you are using an on-page markup such as schema.org, Google will update video data when the page is crawled. If you are using a video sitemap or mRSS feed, Google will periodically re-download the sitemap or feed from your site. … [Read more...]
Common Video Indexing Pitfalls
If your video isn't being indexed and served properly, most likely it's because Google doesn't have enough data about it. Find out some best practices for video indexing in this help article: www.google.com … [Read more...]
Video Country Restrictions
Country restrictions are a feature in schema.org, video sitemaps and mRSS that allow you specify where your videos are allowed to play. Read more about the schema.org VideoObject at www.schema.org and about video sitemaps at www.google.com … [Read more...]
Video Platform Restrictions
If you are using video sitemaps, you can limit what kind of devices your video result will appear on with platform restrictions. Find out more about the video sitemap specifications at www.google.com … [Read more...]
Testing Your Video Markup
Testing and submitting videos is easy with both on page markups like schema.org and and video sitemaps or mRSS feeds. Use the rich snippets testing tool (www.google.com for on page markups and Google Webmaster Tools (www.google.com for sitemaps and … [Read more...]