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 video like this? Follow us [...]
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 us on Twitter and look [...]
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 channel: www.youtube.com Read a recent [...]
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 question to be answered on [...]
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 us on Twitter and look [...]
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 like this? Follow us on [...]
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? Follow us on Twitter and [...]
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 an announcement when we take [...]
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 in our Webmaster Help Forum: [...]