Google Webmasters

Last year, one of my client's webservers went down for over a day. Would this have affected the site's PageRank at all?

Can I use robots.txt to optimize Googlebot's crawl? For example, can I disallow all but one section of a site (for a week) to ensure it is crawled, and then revert to a 'normal' robots.txt?

An orphanage website I work on is showing up for searches on "girls in bathrooms" because they have an article about renovating the girls bathroom!

Does PageRank take into account cross-browser compatibility? If a site isn't compatible with certain browsers, does that make a difference for Googlebot?Land Lubber, Colorado

How come the search queries report in Webmaster Tools shows some keywords ranking and when we search for them they are nowhere to be found?   SurfVoucher, Costa Rica

My SEO client is using shared hosting for one of their websites. When I checked other sites hosted on their server, I found some spammy websites. Will that affect ranking of my client's website?

Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO? (or do they have no effect)? sppro, New York

Are Chrome's 'usage statistics' used in evaluating site speed?Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA

An SEO suggested that I take all the content on my Twitter page and auto-feed it into a section on my website. Will this really help my site's PageRank?

Love the new "real time" results displaying on SERP. Is it possible to distinguish these from the other results with a different background colour or surrounding border?

I'm trying to make my site faster, but I noticed that Facebook widgets slows down download, should i remove them? I think that it's usefull for users see how many people likes a page, don't you?

Where do you see Google in 5 years? If there was one thing you would or could dispense/destroy/enhance/create/change on the internet, what would it be and why?Feb Sontain, London

How would a photographer gain any significant PageRank for his or her site when the subject that really matters—images—has no anchor text?

What is the benefit of using the Change of Address tool in Google Webmaster Tools, compared to just setting up the required 301 redirections to the new site?

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I bought a domain 7 months ago. The website I put on it still doesn't show in the SERPs. Since 2000 it's had different owners - used by a co.

What is the best way to check your own site for keyword rankings, e.g if I wanted to target a new phrase and wanted to check the progress of its ranking - what is the best way to check it?

Is it true that domains registered before 2004 have a totally different way of getting PageRank? i.e.

"How would Google consider (and rank) a site that uses meta data and URLs in a language (Italian) and has the h1 of the pages in another (English) considered more appealing for users?

How can a website compete for high rankings using only white hat techniques in industries that are dominated by spammers if Google takes months to react to spam reports and by that time new black

Do your SERPs return the exact same results on all browsers? (i.e. Same results on IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, Opera, Chrome, etc)?Land Lubber, Colorado

Regarding "nofollow" on internal links: Does it hurt? Does it help? I read different comments from Matt on this matter over time. What's the latest?Roland, Bangkok

Google announced page load speed matters for ranking. Should we be doing content-only pages for Google bots? (By removing images and loads of CSS & JS)Remiz Rahnas, Kerala, India

It's not good for security when I have to ask clients to share their Google credentials with me so I can help edit their Google Places listings.

Some people are under the impression that blogs are good for SEO only if they're updated frequently. How much does frequency play into PageRank for blogs & other dynamic sites?

I just visited your blog. I noticed it was built with WordPress. How do you keep it safe from hackers? Ever since I got PR 5 last month - I've got dozens of hack attempts a minute.

Are you going to do another 30 day challenge? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA

What's your take on "addon domains?" Does Google penalize someone for having one or more addon domains on their main website, (or if they're self-hosting)? e.g.

AdWords keyword tool gives an estimate of search traffic for a specific (or broad) keyword - How much (%) of this traffic do you believe are search marketers, SEO's, analysts and even business

Any updates on "Site hierarchies display in search results" (AKA breadcrumbs)? My site has clear breadcrumbs, but Google isn't using them in search results.