Do pop-unders affect ranking?

21 April 2010

Do pop-unders affect ranking?
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. Does Google reward or penalize for a pop-under, directly or indirectly?

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Should I spend time on meta keywords tags?

21 April 2010

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

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Can I exclude certain words from Googlebot?

21 April 2010

Can I exclude certain words from Googlebot?
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?"

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Can I use rel=canonical when publishing articles on different sites?

21 April 2010

Can I use rel=canonical when publishing articles on different sites?
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 to confirm which site we would like to index for a given piece of [...]

Which games do you play?

21 April 2010

Which games do you play?
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"

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What is the future of semantic search?

21 April 2010

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

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What gadgets have you bought recently?

21 April 2010

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

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How does URL structure affect PageRank?

21 April 2010

How does URL structure affect PageRank?
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/ ? Has this to do with how PageRank flows within a site?"

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What should we do about IE 6?

2 April 2010

What should we do about IE 6?
jimmyb from London, UK asks: "I hate IE6! How would you propose we rid the Internet of this outdated browser? (Both serious and humourous ideas would be welcome)"

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Are there any negatives to generating a short list of ‘related posts?’

2 April 2010

Are there any negatives to generating a short list of 'related posts?'
Alain-Christian in Queens, NY asks: "Are there any negatives to generating a short list of 'related posts?'" Thisvideo is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We're not currently taking new video [...]