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Will Adding My Twitter Feed to My Website Increase my PageRank?

By James Martell on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Matt Cutts: The answer to the first two questions is no. Just adding more content doesn’t get you anymore links. Duplicating your Twitter page on your website doesn’t earn you any more juice.  Now that’s not to say that it can’t be a useful addition to your website. Adding more content can attract links but [...]

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Can You Make the Real Time Results More Conspicuous?

By James Martell on Monday, September 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Matt Cutts: That’s been the heated area of controversy over in Google because sometimes we have that real time results where they actually scroll upwards. That’s not something that you would typically see on the search results pages. Some people think that the real time search results are too visible when they are scrolling. So [...]

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Where Do You See Google in 5 Years?

By James Martell on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Matt Cutts: Well let’s talk a little bit about the philosophy of Google. I think of Google as an advocate for our users. So, I hope that in 5 years people, including me can still see Google as an advocate for our users. That we’re making the right long-term decisions that make users happy so [...]

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Should I Remove Widgets that Increase My Sites Load Time?

By James Martell on Monday, August 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Matt Cutts: My rough answer is do what’s best for the user. That’s what’s first and foremost because that is what’s going to attract more users, more loyalty, more buzz, people linking to you, people talking about you, that’s the main thing you want to care about. Whenever Google talked about using page speed or [...]

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How Can A Photographer’s Image Focused Site Gain PageRank?

By James Martell on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Matt Cutts: That’s a fantastic question because Google really doesn’t understand the content of images yet. We’re getting better. We have Google Goggles that can take a picture of a landmark and recognize it as a landmark, but understanding in general what an image is, is one of the hardest problems in computer science. The [...]

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What is the Benefit of Using the Change of Address Tool in Google Webmaster Tools?

By James Martell on Saturday, August 21st, 2010 | No Comments

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 [...]

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Can A Purchased Domain’s History Affect Its Trust In Google?

By James Martell on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Matt Cutts: Well Dave I think the answer to your question is yes. In general if you’ve had a domain for 7 months and you search for that domain, maybe even the exact url like www.example.com and it doesn’t show up in Google at all it might be safe to conclude that the site does [...]

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What Is the Best Way to Check Your Own Site for Keyword Rankings?

By James Martell on Sunday, August 15th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Matt Cutts: Okay, you’re going to get a little bit of a rant from me here. In one sense yes the band’s best answer is to do the search, scroll through, and see if you see yourself. That’s the short answer. The long answer is you really shouldn’t be doing that. That’s the wrong attitude [...]

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Is PageRank Calculated Differently for Domains Registered Before 2004?

By James Martell on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Matt Cutts: That is completely false. There is absolutely no difference between 2004 domains, 2005 domains, 2006 domains; they all acquire reputation in the same way. There is literally no value to getting a pre-2004 domain or pre-Google IPO domain or whatever conspiracy theory you want to spew out. Please we have enough crazy SEO [...]

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How Does Google Handle a Page Containing Multiple Languages?

By James Martell on Monday, August 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Matt Cutts: Well the short answer is we try to handle things as best we can. So even if you mix different languages on a page we’ll try to interpret that correctly, identify the language of the page and then return it when we think it’s most appropriate, whether it be for Italian language searches [...]

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