Can too many redirects/multiple hops for a given URL(301 as well as 302) can have negative impact in crawling/indexing/ranking? Arpit Srivastava, Gurgaon, India Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to … [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...]
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...]
Do multiple links from one page to another page count?
Hi Matt. If we add more than one links from page A to page B, do we pass more PageRank juice and additional anchor text info? Also can you tell us if links from A to A count? WebSEOAnalytics Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: … [Read more...]
How does Google determine the canonical source for a piece of content?
How does Google determine the canonical source for a piece of content? Willy F., Chicago, IL 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 and look for … [Read more...]
If I get links to a URL with and without a trailing slash, will my PageRank be split?
There are a lot of rumors about whether or not slash at the end of a domain makes a difference. Is there a difference between getting a backlink pointing to www.website.com" vs "www.website.com/" ? if you get links to both would your pr be split?" … [Read more...]