Expanding your site to more languages
Google covers best practices for expanding your site to new languages or country-based language variations. We discuss use cases of
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Should I use the nofollow attribute on internal links?
Regarding “nofollow” on internal links: Does it hurt? Does it help? I read different comments from Matt on this matter
What’s your take on “addon domains”?
What’s your take on “addon domains?” Does Google penalize someone for having one or more addon domains on their main
When would someone use “noindex, follow” in a robots meta tag?
Can you give us an example of a situation where you would recommend using a NOINDEX, FOLLOW robots META tag?
Does Google still need text to understand my site?
I have removed a lot of text from my site and replaced it with images. My bounce rate has dropped
Quick fixes in mobile website performance
How to make quick fixes in mobile website performance and compare your site to the competition. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CeZtuz2Tn3EdxYtTRzPGCXMOs3flk__YuLr4g0SnsGw/ This video
Unnatural links from your site
Matt Cutts and Sandy explain what it means if your site has a manual action labeled as “Unnatural links from
Is it necessary for every page to have a meta description?
Is it necessary for each single page within my website to have a unique metatag description? Walter, Leiden, Netherlands Learn
Googlebot and Web Hosting (WMConf MTV ’19)
Jin Liang, Software Engineer at Google, gives a brief overview on Googlebot and web hosting. Find out more about robots.txt,
If I use multiple versions of a phrase, would it be seen as keyword spam?
HVR asks: “I noticed that, for example Texas widget and widget Texas, return different results. I think the gist is
How can I get my business to become known online?
What do you suggest for new website owners who are starting their business online? Why other webmasters link to that
Is my website showing in Google Search? – Search for Beginners Ep 5
In this episode of Search for Beginners, we explain how to check whether your website is showing in Google Search
Can I disallow crawling of my CSS and JavaScript files?
On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on