Matt Cutts: Great question. First off let start off by saying we’ll put a link in the description of this video that points to a blog post. It was done by a bunch of people who have experience with this particular topic from the Japan team who talked about SEO, mobile, all that stuff and
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Matt Cutts: Well, the entire page of web rankings is there that out of town people can compete on so the idea of the local universal results is to show local businesses. So in some sense there’s not really a way where if you’re out of town you can sort of show up within our
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Matt Cutts: Well, the second part of what I said at Pubcon is that Google is trying to figure out what users want and so rather than you as an SEO chasing after Google, and Google chasing after what users want, if you chase directly after what users want, then both you and Google are
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If you do a site:website.com on Google, on what basis are the results ranked? Is this the order in which Google gives importance to each and every page in the website? Because most of the time the top listed pages get more search traffic.
Matt Cutts: Great question. In general we don’t promise that site: queries
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Matt Cutts: I’m making a little bit of assumption here but I think what you are saying is you have one page of Q&A with 10 questions and answers or links to 10 questions and answers and then that links to page 2 and then that links to page 3, 4, and 5. So you
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Matt Cutts: Good question. I’m glad somebody asked about this because it gives me a chance to clarify. There is a patent, and I think my name is on it along with a bunch of other people that talks about different signals that we can use in terms of search quality related to time. So
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Matt Cutts: I actually want to answer the Holiday change part of this question because it seems like if Google makes any kind of change anytime in the fourth quarter of the year then people say, “Oh it’s a Holiday change. Google’s trying to make me buy ads or do whatever.”
The fact is we go
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Matt Cutts: This is something where search engines can change their policies over time because we might see the web evolving or we might see how webmasters have issues or those sorts of things. I can tell you about my experience from moving MattCutts.com to Dullest.com and then Dullest.com back to MattCutts.com.
Whenever I decided to
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Matt Cutts: I understand the question but you have to be a little bit careful. You don’t want to throw everything in the kitchen sink into the Robots.txt file. The Robots.txt predates even Google and it’s really well established and there are parts of that txt code that a lot of people rely on. So
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