And does Google have a spider to even crawl from foreign IP addresses anyway?
Matt Cutts: Google does not, right now, crawl any non US IP addresses so that’s one thing to know about. Right now we only crawl from the United States. And so we want to be treated just like a American United
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Is Google public DNS tracking all the websites we visit while using it? Google is going to get a heck of a lot of data.
Matt Cutts: As I recall they don’t track or after some very short finite period of time they either get rid of the data or minimize it very comprehensively. But the
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Matt Cutts: Great question. So first off let me just remind people that Google announced this year that we do use site speed in our rankings but it’s not a huge factor. So maybe one out of 100 queries, which would correspond to 1 out of 1000 sites, might be affected. So it’s not the
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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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