The latest Google Webmaster Central video has been released. This time it deals with why robot.txt blocked Urls still sometimes show up in the search results. Matt Cutts from Google says that they get lots of complaints from webmasters on this issue. Webmasters use the robot.txt to keep the search engine crawlers from crawling [...]
According to Google’s latest video content scrapers can actually help you out. You heard that right. When someone steals your content and posts it on their site it can help you if you have links in thecontent leading back to your site. You might want to reconsider cracking down on the scraper if they [...]
While this may be old news for some, there are still plenty of people who believe Google uses “Keyword” meta tags for ranking purposes. According to the latest video released on Google’s Webmaster Central this is simply not true. Google does however use the “keyword” meta tag for their Search Appliance. This matches keywords, but [...]
It has been the thought for awhile now that Google penalizes a site for having duplicate content. Webmasters have debated time and time again whether their ranking in Google was hurt because of the duplicate content. There was no concise answer, until now. Google has released a new video on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel [...]
Google has released a new video answering questions about plans to let webmasters know if they have violated one of Google’s guidelines. It was interesting to hear the answer. What do you think? Do you think there is a better way to let webmasters know they are breaking the rules? Do you think it [...]
