If one wanted to combine 4 different sites into one site, how would you go about doing this? Ryan, Dearborn, MI 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...
Does PageRank flow through image links? Watch the video for an in-depth answer from Matt Cutts. Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: groups.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on Twitter and look for an announcement when we take...
Just to confirm: does Google take manual action on webspam? Does manual action result in a removal or can it also be a demotion? Are there other situations where Google will remove content from its search results? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Read our quality guidelines here: support.google.com Have a...
Hi Matt, could you please explain how Google’s ranking and website evaluation process works starting with the crawling and analysis of a site, crawling timelines, frequencies, priorities, indexing and filtering processes within the databases etc. RobertvH, Munich Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: productforums.google.com Read publications...
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: support.google.com Have a question? Ask it...
How effective is Google now at handling content supplied via Ajax, is this likely to improve in the future? Ant, Lancaster 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...
Watch this video to learn how to remove an undesirable image from Google Images search results. Learn more about requesting the removal of an image: support.google.com
Can you provide more details on how Google uses ‘human raters’ as part of their algorithm? AJ Kohn, SF, CA Read more about search evaluation at Google: googleblog.blogspot.com Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: productforums.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this?...
Some websites use their Twitter account as an RSS like service for every article they post. Is that ok or would it be considered a doorway? Adel Saoud, Dublin, Ireland Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video...
How does Google view font replacement (ie. Cufon, SIFR, FLIR)? Are some methods better than others, are all good, all bad? Flemming, Denmark Google Web Fonts: www.google.com Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: productforums.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow...
Does Google feel a responsibility to the public to return results that are truly based on a page’s quality (assuming quality is determined by the accuracy of info on a page) as opposed to popularity? Jack, UK Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your...
Matt, your webmaster help videos are a big success and I think everybody loves them. It’s a great help for webmasters. But can some Googlers make the same kind of videos for Adwords and Analytics? That would be very useful and a great success too. James, Netherlands Google Analytics YouTube...
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 question to be answered on a video like this? Follow...
I have a news website. I heard Google doesn’t like duplicate content, but I can’t make up news! What can I do to stay in Google’s favor? John Mueller, Zurich, Switzerland Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: productforums.google.com Want your question to be answered on a...
Site A links to Site B because Site B has content that would be useful to Site A’s end users, and Google indexes the appropriate page. After the page is indexed, Site B’s content changes and becomes spammy. Does Site A incur a penalty in this case? MrTVTL, Toronto Have...
We have listed the major algorithmic changes that made the biggest impacts on search. Understanding these updates can help with search engine optimization. Panda 3.5 — April 19, 2012: Panda 3.5, like all Panda updates, was to improve the quality of the results Google shows. If you have lots of...
We all know the benefits of social media and its expanding importance all over the world. With each passing day, social media are achieving new heights. What strategies should be adopted to enhance the marketability of the businesses? Social media has become the destination of almost all the small and...
Google’s Matt Cutts had announced about the major updates in Google’s Panda. He also mentioned the dates of updates in his speech. He said that, the result will be seen either on 15th March, Friday or 18th March, Monday. The version 24 of Panda was released seven weeks ago. Since...
