Google Webmasters

"Real-time Indexation" on Google, when we use, site: sitename.com; is this a possibility in the near future? If yes, when?

If I use Google Analytics to track conversions on my ecommerce website, would that have a negative effect in Google SERP? Linda, Lakewood, NJ

I see so many people asking "Will this increase my PageRank?". Could you tell them *once again* that ranking is not just about "PageRank" but also 200 different signals?

Matt, Is there such thing as building to many links, if you're following Google's webmaster guidelines exactly? Too many where you would get banned, even if you're following the rules?

"Many are talking about losses of traffiic with long tail searches: webmasterworld.com/google/4132195.htm I was wondering if you could give us an update on what is happening with Google

Hi Matt, AdWords allows (and it's pretty accurate) location targeting. Why can't you guys allow multiple country targeting in Webmaster Tools instead of just one?

Matt Cutts from the Bay Area, California asks: "What Chrome extension would you like to see?"

Chris in England asks: "With Google's size and many offerings, do you think Google is being seen as the new Microsoft by more and more people? Does this worry you as an employee and a web user?"

claytonseo in South Africa asks: "Say your index page has been cached by Google and you then you change the meta description. How long does it take for a Google bot to recrawl that page?

Billy F in Poway asks: "Why is Google still taking notice of DMOZ? Many have alleged that the editors are corrupt.

Ryan in Dearborn, MI asks: "Many SEO's are obsessing about your speed comments, but I get the feeling speed will be a very minor component in ranking.

Gus in MA asks: "Should an Hawaii tourist business (that wants to attract visitors from all over the world), specify Hawaii as a geographic target in Webmaster Tools?"

Linda in Lakewood, NJ asks: "Should a 'Sale Page' be in a robots.txt file, to avoid duplicate content? (these products are also on the site separately)"

Maile Ohye gives an overview of site performance.

JimmyB in London, UK asks: "How do you see search working a decade from now?"

Brian in Rochester, MI asks: "How do a user's location and previous searches affect current and future search results?"

Shane Jones in Manchester asks: "You have probably had this question 10 times before but whats the deal with the state of the UK SERPS?

@Ed asks: "Matt, Please consider a live Q & A for disabled people who can't get to conferences, and therefore can't ask you 'hallway' questions, etc. Thank you."

Pulkit Agrawal in Ahmedabad, India asks: "Can you please tell us: a) How many changes did Google make to their primary search algorithm in 2009 till date?

Greiner Thomas from Austria asks: "How does Google rank sites which run on a different port than the standard port 80? (e.g.

Youser in Siegen, NRW asks: "Is there a way to tell Google bots to exclude recurring words on a website such as 'leave comment' or 'print page' when indexing in order to improve the keyword density?"

Ryan in Dearborn, MI asks: "Can you think of any reason, whatsoever, to validate spending more than 5 minutes creating meta keywords?"

Tommo from London, UK asks: "What is the latest gadget you brought and would recommend?"

Magico from London, UK asks: "What is the future of semantic search?"

bflicker from Los Angeles, CA asks: "If we were to syndicate my written content (entire articles) to multiple domains then would we be able to use the imminent cross-domain link rel="canonical" tag

Dan W. from San Francisco, CA asks: "Can Google provide a way to mark a section of our pages as being less important for being indexed/snippeted by Google?

claytonseo from South Africa asks: "General question: PC or Console? Which do you like best, do you play games? Have you played COD MW2? Thanks"

Bilgehan from İstanbul asks: "Does anyone at google read web spam reporting messages?" Learn how to report webspam here: google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35265

Chris. F. Masse from the World-Wide World asks: "On your WordPress.org blog (mattcutts.com), why did you switch from domainname.com/year/month/day/sample-post to domainname.com/postname ?

Biz, from the USA asks: "We got rid of a profitable pop-under ad (since we thought it the concept was user unfriendly), but then pages-per-visit and time-on-page dropped - along with our rankings.