Maile Ohye from Google covers the five most common errors she finds in SEO, and then concludes with six quick tips to make sure you're on the right track. … [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...]
Does the number of tracking pixels or cookies affect my ranking?
Does Google have any guidelines on tracking cookies or tracking pixels. Can a site drop too many cookies? Biz, USA 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...]
Pagination and SEO
Google's Maile Ohye examines the issues webmasters face with paginated content: paginated articles, product category listings, etc. She then explains the options available to those webmasters concerned about SEO, including rel="next" and rel="prev" … [Read more...]
Live Q&A September 21, 2011
Recorded from an earlier live broadcast. Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, answers user questions. … [Read more...]
If I don’t need to block crawlers, should I create a robots.txt file?
Is it better to have a blank robots.txt file, a robots.txt that contains User-agent: * Disallow:" or no robots.txt file at all?" Corey S, Pennsylvania Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be … [Read more...]
Submit to index via Google Webmaster Tools
Matt Cutts explains how to submit URLs to Google's index. Learn more about this feature in the Webmaster Tools Help Center: www.google.com Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a … [Read more...]
If I buy AdWords, will that cause my algorithmic search rankings to rise?
If I buy AdWords, will that cause my algorithmic search rankings to rise? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Read more: www.google.com 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...]
Should I block Googlebot from crawling a dynamically generated calendar?
Should I deny an access to a dynamically generated vBulletin calendar via robots.txt? Whenever I open my Who's Online?" page, I can always see more than 20 Google spiders indexing it." Uncle, Prague, Czech Republic Have a question? Ask it in our … [Read more...]
How can I identify causes of a PageRank drop?
I use the Google Toolbar to monitor PageRank. I read on the Internet that it gives old and quite unreliable data. Can I have reliable realtime PageRank information about the sites I administer? And how can I identify causes of a PageRank drop? … [Read more...]