Archives Tag: Google Webmasters
Does Google Use Social Networking Sites for Ranking?
The short answer, yes, it does — now. It didn’t earlier in the year, but today’s world, it certainly does. Here’s a short 3 minute clip from Matt Cutts explaining it.
Full StoryGoogle Reminds Webmasters that Low-Quality Backlinks Don’t Matter
Susan Moskwa wrote on the Webmaster Central Blog about how Google deals with low-quality and spammy backlinks. Finally, keep in mind that low-quality links rarely stand the test of time, and may disappear from our link graph relatively quickly. They may even already be being discounted by our algorithms. If you want to make sure [...]
Full StoryGoogle Webmaster Tools Introduces “Labs”
Google Webmaster Central announced a new feature of Google Webmaster Tools: Labs. So far, there are only two features available in Labs. “Fetch as Googlebot” which will do a couple of things. It will first see if Googlebot is even allowed to fetch the page. Then it will make sure it returns a 200 status [...]
Full StoryMatt Cutts Explains How Robots.txt Actually Works
Here is a great explanation of how robots.txt actually works. A secret tip that I’ve learned through a few SEO sessions with some ex-Googlers, is to use the Noindex: tag. It looks like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /contactus Noindex: /contactus By doing this, you both disallow the crawler from crawling the page and you also [...]
Full StoryHow Does REL=Canonical Actually Work?
Googler Greg Grothaus gave spoke at SES San Jose last month and did a follow-up post to the Google Webmaster Central blog with similar content. Here are some great tips for understanding how rel=”canonical” actually works. rel=canonical Questions and Answers Q: Does this work across hosts (aka: subdomains)? A: Yes. So zeta.zappos.com could suggest www.zappos.com [...]
Full StoryHas Google Changed to Mold to Social Media?
Matt Cutts provides a great video clip explaining how Google is handling the rush of social media sites and content in the past 6 months.
Full StoryGoogle Wants to Help Make Sure You’re Secure
Google’s own Matt Cutts recently posted an article about how Google is helping you stay secure. To kick off the security enhancement efforts by Google, they are focusing on WordPress, the same software that powers this blog and the same software that I recently hosted a conference about; WordCamp NY.
Full StoryGoogle Helps Break the Language Barrier
Language has been a common barrier between people on the web. Whether you’re talking on Instant Messenger (IM), writing a blog post, writing an e-mail, or posting on a forum, a common problem has been the language barrier. A very small fraction of the world understands and can coherently read or speak another language than [...]
Full StoryGoogle Webmaster Tools Needs Improvement
Here is just one aspect of Google Webmaster Tools that I feel needs some more love. Pages with external links is a great tool to have, simply because it provides an easy-access breakdown of all the links going to individual pages. But, a huge big but, the data is provides is not displayed in a [...]
Full StoryMatt Cutts and Sex Sites
Alright, so the title is a little misleading, but check out this interview of Matt Cutts for the Google Webmaster Germany blog. The title is not completely irrelevant because Matt talks about his early exposure to the family safe filter, filtering out the porn, but Matt diggs digs into search and the future of search. [...]
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