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Is Google Panda affecting other countries besides USA? SEOCharlie, Costa Rica This change has now launched for additional languages.

Matt Cutts and Othar Hansson discuss how to connect authors with their content using authorship markup.

Matt Cutts and Othar Hansson discuss how to connect authors with their content using URL parameters. For more information about authorship at Google, please visit our Help Center: google.

What are the best practices around PDF (and other document) optimization and when does Google choose to show these files over other web pages?

Why are paid directories not held to the same standards as paid links?" Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA Learn more about link schemes here

Hi Matt I understand that the recent farmer update (Panda) gives a penalty for poor content. Given the penalty scrapers have been outranking original sites.

When you notice a drastic drop in your rankings and traffic from Google, what process would you take for diagnosing the issue?

How does Google determine page speed? In GWT some pages are listed as very slow (8+ seconds). But I have tested on older computers/browsers and they do not take anywhere near that long to load.

Matt Cutts discusses ranking reports.

Matt Cutts answers the question: "Does Google consider SEO to be spam?" New to SEO?

What are the 3-5 most important things I should pay attention to in Google Webmaster Tools?

Please walk us through the reconsideration request process from Google's perspective. Has anything about the reconsideration process changed recently?

Matt Cutts explains the difference between how Google interprets underscores and dashes in a URL. Have a question?

Matt Cutts discusses malware detection at Google, including what to do if Google says your site has been infected with malware.

Keeping your domain name but moving to a new IP address? Check out this video: youtube.com/watch?v=PfqKKquA_R0 Have a question?

Matt Cutts gives advice on how to change your website's host and what to keep in mind regarding SEO. Have a question?

Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? How about how many redirects I can chain together?

Hi Matt, Is Caffeine indexing is really helpful for SEO? What is Caffeine indexing exactly? Manvesh, India Have a question?

Hey Matt, Thanks for doing this again! I'm changing the platform of my blog. All old URLS will redirect to new ones.

I manage 3 websites that sell the same products across 3 domains. Each site has a different selling approach, price structure, target audience, etc. Does Google see this as spammy or black hat?

On a website, if a page B implements a rel="canonical" link tag with URL of page A, do robots follow every links in page B? Ad, Paris Have a question?

From last few months there are no PR updates from Google. Is Google removing the Page Rank feature to avoid Link Trade that is very popular currently in the industry?

If someone buys a text link from my website I add the nofollow tag so you know it's a paid link. Should I do the same for banner images also?

Hi Matt, With canonical tags can you point a page to itself.? So if google.com/webpage points to google.com/webpage will this cause a loop? Mark James, Yeovil UK Have a question?

Would you rather spend time with a perfectly optimized website or a barrel full of kittens? What signals would the kittens give you that made them rank higher than the website in this decision?

Hi, I'm noticing more people are using the API for their blog to pull the latest X posts up to the front page of their website.

Search for a physical product usually ranks Amazon #1, even though it may not provide the best user experience. What is being done to prevent large corporations from dominating search engine results?

More or less content on a homepage. There is certainly a difference of opinion here. Pete, UK Have a question?

Hi Matt, I've been having issues with the no index attribute. In some instances I placed the attribute to block a page but it still seems to get indexed.

Is the same content posted under different TLDs considered content duplication? We are an international company with a similar website in several countries, all in English.