What should I do if my competitors are using webspam techniques?
White hat search marketers read and follow Google Guidelines. What should they tell clients whose competitors use black hat techniques […]
Can nofollow links hurt my site’s ranking?
I’m building links, not for SEO but to try and generate direct traffic, if these links are no-follow am I
How does Google consider site-wide backlinks?
Are sitewide backlinks considered good or bad by Google? Or do they just count as 1 link from the whole
What’s a preferred site structure?
On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on
Does a site rank better if it has a lot of indexed pages?
Does a website get a better overall ranking if it has a large amount of indexed pages? Leah, New York
Snippets and Titles
Matt Cutts explains how Google generates snippets and titles in search results. source
Should I be obsessing about load times?
Ryan in Dearborn, MI asks: “Many SEO’s are obsessing about your speed comments, but I get the feeling speed will
Why isn’t my site’s PageRank changing?
Our website is not improving in Google PageRank despite having regular updates and foolproof content authorized by proven editors. What
Which ranking signals do SEOs worry about too much?
What ranking signals would you say SEOs worry about too much? What ranking signals should SEOs should focus on the
Does conference attendance affect rankings?
Ryan in Dearborn, MI asks: “I haven’t been to any conferences yet this year, I don’t live in the valley,
Client-side JS Redirects: Can Googlebot Detect Them?
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller discusses whether or not Google Search can detect client-side JavaScript redirects
English Google Webmaster Central office-hours from December 27, 2019
This is a recording of the Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout from December 27, 2019. These sessions are open to
How Google Search crawls pages
Discover the steps that go into how Google Search “crawls” or finds and fetches web pages to display on Search,
Does Google use data from social sites in ranking?
Hello Matt, a recent article of Danny Sullivan suggests that Google uses Twitter and Facebook links as a ranking signal.
How long does it take for Googlebot to recrawl a page?
claytonseo in South Africa asks: “Say your index page has been cached by Google and you then you change the