02.11.10 2:40 How can I get my business to become known online?
What do you suggest for new website owners who are starting their business online? Why other webmasters link to that new website? Why someone link to new business who has no brand at all?
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01.11.10 2:19 How does Google handle special characters?
How does Google handle ligatures, soft-hyphens, interpuncts and hyphenation points? In general, is it ok to be typographically correct or does this impose problems?Stecki, Delingsdorf, Germany
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27.10.10 1:39 How would you bootstrap a business if you were given £10?
The UK recently ran the "Make Your Mark With A Tenner" competition, where students were given £10 and challenged to make a profitable business with it.
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26.10.10 3:20 How does Google determine domain age, and is it important for ranking?
How does Google determine domain age? Do they look at the whois data or do they rely on the crawler? e.g. When it first indexed the website. In general, how important is it for website authority?
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25.10.10 3:02 Can I tell Google not to display the date in my site's snippets?
Can I tell or request that Google not display the date in my meta description? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA
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20.10.10 2:13 Why doesn't the clickthrough data in Webmaster Tools match what I see in Google Analytics?
Why doesn't the click through data for the keywords in my webmaster portal report match my Google Analytics data? Paul, Washington DC
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19.10.10 2:41 How can I explain to clients that rankings can't be guaranteed?
Read Google's help article about SEO here: google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35291 With a lot of my potential clients, the first words out of their mouth when building a
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18.10.10 0:58 Is there a widget to display my number of subscribers?
In GWT you can see subscriber stats. Can you all make a widget to display this number?SEO Jedi, Sarasota, FL
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13.10.10 2:23 Which types of Webmaster Tools errors should I report to Google?
Read about known issues here: webmaster-forum-announcements.blogspot.com How active is WMT (Webmaster Tools) monitored by Google, specifically when there is a system error (such as the
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12.10.10 1:47 Does Webmaster Tools have an API?
API documentation: code.google.com/apis/webmastertools Hi Matt, are there any APIs available from Google to pull out reports from Google Webmaster Tools?
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11.10.10 1:28 How long does it take for rich snippets to appear?
How long should it take for my RDFa markup to appear in search results as a Rich Snippet after completing the submission form? Paul, Washington DC
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06.10.10 1:32 What are some of your favorite websites?
Out of all the websites throughout the world - what are your favourites which you can recommend?Tommo, London, UK
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05.10.10 1:50 Is it still important to offer a site map to users?
In addition to using Webmaster Tools to submit an XML Sitemap to Google, how important is it to also have a sitemap for users? It seems like nobody does this anymore. Is it still important in Web 2.0?
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04.10.10 2:24 Why does Google give SEO advice?
Why Google supports SEO specialists with advice? Google business is to sell text ads ad space so bad optimized web sites are the target of Google, aren't they?
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29.09.10 3:57 Does Google see automatically generated content as a bad thing?
Does Google see automatically generated content as a bad thing (i.e. spam)?
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28.09.10 1:52 Does the number of subdirectories in a URL affect its ranking?
How much of a difference does the number of levels in the URL make?Does ' domain.com/keyword' give much higher rankings on 'keyword' than domain.com/blabla/blabla/keyword?
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22.09.10 2:26 Should I be worried about ad servers affecting my site's speed and ranking?
i Matt, With the recent news about website speed being included in the Google metrics, how will Google allow for slow third party ad servers (including AdWords) dragging a site's load speed down?
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21.09.10 2:24 How precise is the number of results in a site: query?
How reliable is the 'site:domain.com' query in determining the number of pages in the Google index?Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA
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20.09.10 2:07 How can a site rank for keywords that aren't anywhere on its pages?
A site for my client's competitor shows up on a SERP for keywords that never show up in the site anywhere (not even hidden in the source code). How is this even possible, and isn't this spam?
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15.09.10 0:56 Which character in Dilbert do you mostly identify with, and why?
Which character in Dilbert do you mostly identify with, and why? Konc, Sweden
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14.09.10 3:09 How is Google finding pages which don't have any links to them?
How can Googlebot crawl and index pages that don't have any links to them on my website? I find each day two or three pages in the index that don't have any links to them on my site.
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13.09.10 3:10 Are there any SEO certification programs you are aware of?
There are a lot of "SEO Experts" that preach myths you have debunked here. Are there any industry certification programs you are aware of?Nick Y, Vancouver BC
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07.09.10 2:11 Is it OK to sell links as long as we use the nofollow attribute?
Is it OK to sell links as long as we use the nofollow attribute? Lost faith, Australia
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01.09.10 2:13 Why are links used in ranking when they all have the nofollow attribute?
How can linking remain a major part of a search algorithm when the majority of Internet users are unable to post a 'followed' link on the World Wide Web? For example Twitter, Facebook, wiki etc.
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31.08.10 2:43 How should I configure If-Modified-Since on database-driven pages?
Following your interview with Eric Enge - you mention about "If Modified-Since." We worked on many websites whereby the actual file timestamp doesn't change but the content does as the pages are
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30.08.10 1:48 What's a good way to kick off a new RSS feed?
Is there a good way to kick off a feed in Google Reader by doing something like temporarily making the feed include a whole bunch of old content? Is it desirable to do something like that?
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26.08.10 2:20 How do PageRank updates work?
On what basis you are increasing the PR for each PR update? Made, London
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25.08.10 2:01 Is it better to have keywords in the URL path or filename?
It seems that having relevant keywords in URLs is very helpful. Does Google give higher importance to keywords in the path vs filename? E.g.
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24.08.10 1:52 How are sitelinks generated?
When you search for something, lets say "LinkedIn," you will notice there are some quick links on the search result such as "Jobs, About, Advanced" etc, how does that work?
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18.08.10 3:08 Which Chrome extensions are popular at Google?
What extensions for Chrome are popular around the Google offices?
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