How Search Works website



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38 thoughts on “How Search Works website”

  1. This must be good news for little people like me who have to fend for themselves. I'll be satisfied once I learn some of the dynamics that would give my sight a fair amount of exposure. (Without having to be so hotsie-patootsie about 'page rank'.)

  2. Hey Matt and Google great video. Lots of neat tidbits of information. I especially liked the part about only 5% of the group responding back to you on reconsideration efforts! I also appreciate how over the years you've been more willing to share you information with us web guys. Not all of us are evil and do want to help our clients achieve success with their businesses on the internet. Keep up the great work guys!

  3. Hello Matt, I want to know how Google handle links to 404 pages? My forum somehow was attacked by pure spam creators so i deleted a whole forum but it was in example.com/forum directory so now my domain shows more than 1500 irrelative linking domains to my site. Should I disavow them? Or Google doesn't take in to count the links that point to 404 pages?

  4. Time for google to actually engage with webmasters. You make the tools better all the time but it's impossible for site owners not involved with seo to always adhere to your version of the right thing. When us down here people get hurt by negative seo campaigns, you just don't get it. Why not allow us to disavow bullshit links with a click in wmt rather than having to submit a txt file which may or may not be in the correct format. If we do manage to do that, why not at least respond with a message indicating that the file was received or not and that the format was accepted or not? Hardly difficult for google, but surely useful for us non professional seo people who's only desire is to do good. We're all trying to get to the same place, but we're not all trying to beat you. Help us more Matt. jpl

  5. Or, some of these webmasters have no clue that they have been hit by a manual action from the webspam team. There are a lot of webmasters that do not know how to use webmaster tools or that it even exist. Some people just start a website, hire a SEO company, get hit by a penalty but think they still rank well because of personalized search results.

    Trust me, it's not that far fetched. Of all the websites on the web, how many have verified their site with Google webmaster tools?
    It's not all spammers that just give up. 

  6. So embarisingly beginner question. You say you contact owner of a site if you think something is wrong with their site, how do you do that? Is there a pace where I register all the domains I oversee? Are you using whois data?

    Thanks for this insight

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