What if a website is down for a couple of days and loses its Google ranking? Matt Cutts has come up with a comprehensive answer on a recently uploaded Google Webmaster Help video.
YouTube has announced that their search are now a part of Google Trends. To try YouTube Trends search, visit Google Trends, enter a search keyword, on the search result page select “YouTube” under the “limit to” option on the left. That will provide you with the current search trend of the keyword on YouTube search.
The latest webmaster help video by Matt Cutts, Head of Search Spam Team at Google, focuses on the need for text to index content on the website. Matt Cutts answers a question regarding the importance of text in getting Google to index the site. The per son who has asked the question has a website that has mainly image content, and informs that users like it much better, the bounce rate is lowered and the conversion rate is higher.
Webmasters have always relied upon the ability of Google Webmaster Tools to keep themselves updated with detailed reports about the visibility of their websites on Google. It has provided them with detailed information regarding link as well as query traffic. This system has provided the webmasters with an easy understanding of how Google's indexing method works. Now this system has been upgraded to increase ease of management for webmasters.
John Mueller, Google's Webmaster Trends Analyst, has informed that in an attempt to make it easier for webmasters to optimize their websites the 'Recommendations for smartphones, feature-phones, tablets, and Googlebot-friendly sites' are now available in 11 more languages. The new languages included are Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.
Lot of online users realized that Digg went missing from the Google search results on Wednesday morning. It has returned in Google now. In just a matter of few hours lot of speculation followed with many concluding that Digg has been penalized for various reasons. So what really happened?
There is a ton of news and talks floating around the web about Google and paid links. Naturally, Matt Cutts picks this as the topic of his most recent webmaster help video on Youtube.
The following is the question asked by a webmaster:
In the latest Webmaster Help video, Matt Cutts clarifies Google’s take on single page websites. He had specifically responded to a user-submitted question –
What does Google think of single-page websites? They are becoming more complex and there are some great websites using only a single page (+lots of CSS and JavaScript) bringing the same user experience as a regular website with many subpages.
Google has posted a first steps SEO cheat sheet for newbie website owners and bloggers who are enthusiastic about their property, but never put aside a thought for search. The post is written by Kaspar Szymanski a Search Quality Strategist based in Google’s Dublin office.
Google has advised three steps –
For site owners perplexed by hacking, help has arrived. Google, the giant among the search engines, has created a valuable hacked site resource, aimed at hand-holding the victim to recovery. It is an 8 step walk through with instructions and videos outlining each part of the process.
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