Matt Cutts: We always try to maximize the relevancy and accuracy of our index. And you’d want to make a distinction between crawling and indexing because sitemap submission does not guarantee that we will crawl the URLs on that list.
It is helpful to help us discover new URLs or to make canonicalization decisions, but we
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SEO Tip #16: Why does Google index blogs faster than other sites?
SEO Tip #15: What’s the preferred way to check for links to my site?
Matt Cutts: The “link:” operator is accurate. It only shows you a sub-sample of your links. My preferred way would be to log-in to Google Webmaster’s Tools and we will show you a very exhaustive list of all your backlinks, pretty much all the backlinks that we know of in Google’s Webmaster console.
The nice thing
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SEO Tip #14: How can I optimize my site on a small budget?
Matt Cutts: Well, I’ll give you the same answer, regardless if it’s real estate or any other industry. I think there are a couple things to bear in mind.
Start with a small niche. Don’t just say, “Ok I’m going to rank number 1 for blank real estate” or whatever your trophy phrase. It’s probably better
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SEO Tip #13: Is over-optimization bad for a website?
Matt Cutts: This is an interesting question and the example give was excessive use of no follow. First off if it is your website you can use no follow all you want. You don’t need to worry. There is no penalty for excessive use of no follow. You are not going in trouble because of
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WordPress Training: Writing and publishing a post
The thing you’ll probably find yourself doing more than anything with Wordpress is writing posts. So, how do you do it? Ok – assuming you’re starting with a new post, from your dashboard click on Posts > Add new and you’ll be taken to the main editor up at the top you have a place
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WordPress Training: Writing and publishing a post
The thing you’ll probably find yourself doing more than anything with Wordpress is writing posts. So, how do you do it? Ok – assuming you’re starting with a new post, from your dashboard click on Posts > Add new and you’ll be taken to the main editor up at the top you have a place
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WordPress Training: Using Quick Edit and Bulk Edit to manage your posts in half the time
If you decide you’d like to change the titles, tags, categories, or other details of a post or whole bunch of posts at once, head to the Posts menu and select “Edit”. To jump right into the full post editor, click Edit next to a posts name. If you’re just interested in changing the publish
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WordPress Training: Using Quick Edit and Bulk Edit to manage your posts in half the time
If you decide you’d like to change the titles, tags, categories, or other details of a post or whole bunch of posts at once, head to the Posts menu and select “Edit”. To jump right into the full post editor, click Edit next to a posts name. If you’re just interested in changing the publish
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WordPress Training: Speed up WordPress with Gears for Internet Explorer
Gear is a little addition to your regular web browser that speeds along the way you use web applications like wordpress, making them more like the application from your desktop like word, excel, iphoto, or keynote. It does that by copying essential files over from the web to your computer so that everytime you have
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