Matt Cutts: There is a team of people who are working on being able to crawl and index AJAX and index JavaScript and parse and execute JavaScript as well as other types of rich content. The trend in 2011 is going to be the same as it was in 2010, which is improving our ability
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Matt Cutts: I’m going to take your question and answer the question that I want to answer, which is some people seem to think, “Oh how much PageRank do I lose or how much link juice do I lose if I do a 301 redirect.” You lose just a tiny little bit, not very much
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Matt Cutts: Let me give you the general answer, which might seem a little unsatisfactory but is the correct answer is to go the forum mentioned at Linked to called Google.com/webmasters. If you have something that is really visible like that where you can take a picture and say, “Hey this is being treated as
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Matt Cutts: Great question. Whenever rel canonical was first introduced we wanted to be a little careful. We didn’t want to open it up for potential abuse so you could only use rel canonical within one domain. The only exception to that was you could do between IP addresses and domains.
But over time we didn’t
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Matt Cutts: Unfortunately that’s not quite how it works. What we do is we crawl the web and as we discover new links form pages that we already know about we’ll follow those links.
You can submit a URL to Google so we have, Google.com/addurl.html where you can submit an individual page to Google but in
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Matt Cutts: There is this spectrum where on one side a site w3c validates, it’s very clean and I encourage it but you don’t get a ranking boost. On the other end of the spectrum there are people who make really, really sloppy errors. They are coding a site by hand and might not close
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Matt Cutts: Just to go back in time and give a little context on this we used to have in our Webmaster guidelines something like, “It is impossible for a competitor to hurt you.” And Then if you look at the history of, for example, Sex.com people would even send in a fax and pretend
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Matt Cutts: In general I love when new search engines launch. It’s always cool to run a few queries and see how do they score things differently than we would score things. There is Blekko. There is also a slightly smaller search engine called DuckDuckGo if you guys haven’t checked that out.
So I
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