Matt Cutts: Good news, we’ve always had the ability to, for example with backlinks, to download things in a CSV form. In fact many different features within Google Webmaster Tools provide the ability to download things and comma separate a value, or CSV file, or various text files and things like that.
However, we also have an API. If you search for Google Webmaster Tools and then GData, as in Google
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Matt Cutts: That’s a good question. To give you a little perspective the Google Analytics team is separate from the Google Webmasters Tool team. In fact they are in different locations. They use different code basis. They’re really sort of completely different silos within Google. So it’s not as if a ton of data sharing goes on between those two areas of Google.
I’ll give you one example way in which
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Matt Cutts: This is a really good question. Certainly you can leave the 301’s in place but there are a couple differences between the change of address for and 301 directs.
The first one and the biggest one is that the change of address form is at the site level. Whereas the 301 redirects are at the page level. So for example what if you move one directory to another directory?
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Matt Cutts: There are a few reasons why this might happen. First off, maybe you’ve got personalized search and maybe you’ve clicked on things or not clicked on things and so you’re getting different search results than a lot of other people might be seeing.
The second thing is it can depend on the country so maybe the query bank returns you number one in Australia but