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What ranking signals would you say SEOs worry about too much? What ranking signals should SEOs should focus on the most.

Breadcrumbs are a great way to tell Google about your site's structure.

You mentioned that site speed is a factor in ranking. On some pages, our site uses complex queries to return the users request, giving a slow pagetime.

A lot of European languages, like Spanish or French, have special characters (ç, á, è, ñ, and so on). Would you recommend to use them in the URLs? What about capital letters?

Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters Want your question to be answered on a video like this?

In the wake of the demise of Yahoo Site Explorer, does Google Webmaster Tools plan to take up the reigns this product once provided to SEO's everywhere? Brian, Lynchburg, VA Have a question?

How will Google treat the new nTLDs where any Top Level Domain is possible e.g. for corporations e.g. portfolio.mycompanyname regarding influence on ranking and PageRank?

Maile Ohye from Google covers the five most common errors she finds in SEO, and then concludes with six quick tips to make sure you're on the right track.

How much time should I spend on meta tags, and which ones matter?

If I recently overhauled my site and changed a number of URL paths, how can I get Googlebot to notice the 301 redirects quickly and deindex the old pages? Matt, WI Have a question?

According to "In the Plex," the last Google Dance and everflux switch came with update "Bart" but, in an earlier post you said it was "Fritz".

Google's Maile Ohye examines the issues webmasters face with paginated content: paginated articles, product category listings, etc.

Does Google have any guidelines on tracking cookies or tracking pixels. Can a site drop too many cookies? Biz, USA Have a question?

Freehosts: you recently mentioned that Google reserves the right to take action on an entire freehost if a very large fraction of the sites on the freehost are spammy or low-quality.

Using video sitemaps is a recommended way to give us information about your videos.

The most common factor preventing the appearance of Rich Snippets in search results is the use of hidden markup.

Once you've implemented markup, we highly recommend that you test your site using the Rich Snippets Testing Tool ( google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets).

Application markup allows you to provide Google with information about the software applications discussed on your site.

Event markup allows you to provide Google with information about the events presented on your site.

Recipe markup allows you to provide Google with information about the recipes on your site.

Review markup allows you to provide Google with information about the reviews and ratings that exist for content on your page.

Product markup allows you to provide Google with specific information about the products on your site.

Schema.org markup is the recommended method for providing Google with information about the types of content on your page. Using it requires only a few non-visible changes to your web page.

If you are using an on-page markup such as schema.org, Google will update video data when the page is crawled.

Rich Snippets are markup tags that webmasters can put in their sites in order to tell Google what type of content they have on their site so that we can better display it in search results.

If your video isn't being indexed and served properly, most likely it's because Google doesn't have enough data about it.

Country restrictions are a feature in schema.org, video sitemaps and mRSS that allow you specify where your videos are allowed to play. Read more about the schema.org VideoObject at schema.

If you are using video sitemaps, you can limit what kind of devices your video result will appear on with platform restrictions.

Testing and submitting videos is easy with both on page markups like schema.org and and video sitemaps or mRSS feeds.

While we recommend that you use the schema.org markup and the video sitemaps specification to provide video metadata to Google, we do support Facebook share, opengraph, and Yahoo searchmonkey RDFa