Comments on: Google webmaster chat: tons of fun! http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/ neat fun stuff Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Alin http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129555 Alin Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:36:07 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129555 Oh my god Ryan, that's exactly what happend to me, and i am going CRAZY. Why can't we reinclude our sites? I'm sorry to say it but Webmaster Tools sucks! Oh my god Ryan, that’s exactly what happend to me, and i am going CRAZY. Why can’t we reinclude our sites? I’m sorry to say it but Webmaster Tools sucks!

]]> By: Alan Rothstein http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129437 Alan Rothstein Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:24:32 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129437 I can't get enough of the Google Live Chats, and really enjoy the real answers to tough questions. Can you guys do it every month instead of every quarter? Even if you didn't have everyone participating in the panel? Either way love them, keep it up! I can’t get enough of the Google Live Chats, and really enjoy the real answers to tough questions. Can you guys do it every month instead of every quarter? Even if you didn’t have everyone participating in the panel? Either way love them, keep it up!

]]> By: ryan http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129385 ryan Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:34:12 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129385 has anyone complained about the "re-include URL" function not working in google webmaster tools? holy pain in the buttox, batman. is this tool a trick? i know it isn't, but c'mon. if there is one place i need trust in webmaster central, it's in the remove/re-include tools area. i removed a URL because google had spidered and indexed all sorts of unnecessary and soon to be non-existent URLs for a domain of mine. in doing so, i had faith in the description of the tool. now, i'm stuck a month later with the "Oops! We couldn't do that because of an error." message and a site that won't be indexed for 6 months, as that is when the removal request will expire. this is not cool. i guess my only hope is that one of these days, when i click the re-include button, i won't get the oops message. do i have another option? has anyone complained about the “re-include URL” function not working in google webmaster tools? holy pain in the buttox, batman. is this tool a trick? i know it isn’t, but c’mon. if there is one place i need trust in webmaster central, it’s in the remove/re-include tools area. i removed a URL because google had spidered and indexed all sorts of unnecessary and soon to be non-existent URLs for a domain of mine. in doing so, i had faith in the description of the tool. now, i’m stuck a month later with the “Oops! We couldn’t do that because of an error.” message and a site that won’t be indexed for 6 months, as that is when the removal request will expire. this is not cool. i guess my only hope is that one of these days, when i click the re-include button, i won’t get the oops message. do i have another option?

]]> By: Maurice http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129293 Maurice Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:25:23 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129293 Good lord the sound quality is a bit sub par loads of mic noise and banging and some AGC keeps choping in and out making it hard to listen. Did Google record it at your end with better kit to get a cleaned up version ? Good lord the sound quality is a bit sub par loads of mic noise and banging and some AGC keeps choping in and out making it hard to listen.

Did Google record it at your end with better kit to get a cleaned up version ?

]]> By: Kun Dang http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129233 Kun Dang Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:50:29 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129233 Thanks for spending the time to answer everyone's questions in the Chat. It was really helpful to hear best practice ideas directly from Google. Love the range of topics going from PR sculpting to sitemap optimisation. Looking forward to the next one! Thanks for spending the time to answer everyone’s questions in the Chat. It was really helpful to hear best practice ideas directly from Google.

Love the range of topics going from PR sculpting to sitemap optimisation.

Looking forward to the next one!

]]> By: Paimonia http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129104 Paimonia Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:14:59 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129104 Now it works... I think you should pay attention to 1 + 4 combination. :) Now, seriously, I thought there may have been some JS messing underneath so I tried it in IE7, FF3, Opera 9.5 (too tired to look beneath). Anyway, Matt, the point is - I think this post will make me visit your blog more often. Damn it... Yes, I missed it, I missed Google webmaster chat. To be more precise, I didn't know about it until know. Of course, there's always the bright side - now I do know about it. And if I knew about it just a few days ago, I'd probably have tried to talk with any of you guys from Google about nofollow microformat. Here's the problem I see with it... At this moment, not many people know about nofollow. Some people are paying for links assuming they are actually buying a portion of their future PR. I know Google discourages this type of purchases but people do that, nevertheless. To make this short - the word in my mind is fraud. If you continue ignoring anchors with rel="nofollow" in it, in a couple of years time, many people will learn about this microformat and we'll have another horde of webmasters obsessed with covering all the links that lead out somewhere - anywhere away from their precious websites. I thought robots.txt was just fine. Webmasters, in most cases, needed to damage the content if they really wanted to remove all such links. Sorry for any typos and weird phrases or sentences. English is not my mother tongue and I haven't slept for more than thirty hours. Cheers! Now it works… I think you should pay attention to 1 + 4 combination. :) Now, seriously, I thought there may have been some JS messing underneath so I tried it in IE7, FF3, Opera 9.5 (too tired to look beneath).

Anyway, Matt, the point is – I think this post will make me visit your blog more often.

Damn it…

Yes, I missed it, I missed Google webmaster chat. To be more precise, I didn’t know about it until know. Of course, there’s always the bright side – now I do know about it. And if I knew about it just a few days ago, I’d probably have tried to talk with any of you guys from Google about nofollow microformat.

Here’s the problem I see with it… At this moment, not many people know about nofollow. Some people are paying for links assuming they are actually buying a portion of their future PR. I know Google discourages this type of purchases but people do that, nevertheless. To make this short – the word in my mind is fraud.

If you continue ignoring anchors with rel=”nofollow” in it, in a couple of years time, many people will learn about this microformat and we’ll have another horde of webmasters obsessed with covering all the links that lead out somewhere – anywhere away from their precious websites.

I thought robots.txt was just fine. Webmasters, in most cases, needed to damage the content if they really wanted to remove all such links.

Sorry for any typos and weird phrases or sentences. English is not my mother tongue and I haven’t slept for more than thirty hours.

Cheers!

]]> By: eydryan http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129070 eydryan Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:05:11 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129070 Matt I was wondering if you would agree to giving me a small comment on what I believe to be the future mission and vision of Google. This is for my Bachelor's Degree project, where I'm discussing the business model of Google. Please reply to me via email if you're ok with that and I'll make sure to give you and your blog readers a free copy of the paper once it's done and has been presented. thanks for reading adrian Matt I was wondering if you would agree to giving me a small comment on what I believe to be the future mission and vision of Google. This is for my Bachelor’s Degree project, where I’m discussing the business model of Google. Please reply to me via email if you’re ok with that and I’ll make sure to give you and your blog readers a free copy of the paper once it’s done and has been presented.

thanks for reading
adrian

]]> By: Laurent http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129068 Laurent Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:34:33 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129068 Hi Matt, Unfortunately, I was only able to log in the audio chat, which was not of very good quality. I had to put volume at max to understand half of the voices. If most of the people didn't complain, I guess it comes from my computer... To be honest, I prefered the first edition of Google Webmaster Chat. Withing the first edition, I found that site audits were very interesting. Why didn't you do it this time ? Furthermore, I think that the advices given in case a site dropped from SERPS were useless. The right question is how to get rid of penalties ? Au revoir Hi Matt,

Unfortunately, I was only able to log in the audio chat, which was not of very good quality. I had to put volume at max to understand half of the voices. If most of the people didn’t complain, I guess it comes from my computer…
To be honest, I prefered the first edition of Google Webmaster Chat. Withing the first edition, I found that site audits were very interesting. Why didn’t you do it this time ?
Furthermore, I think that the advices given in case a site dropped from SERPS were useless. The right question is how to get rid of penalties ?

Au revoir

]]> By: Laurent http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129067 Laurent Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:32:57 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129067 Unfortunately, I was only able to log in the audio chat, which was not of very good quality. I had to put volume at max to understand half of the voices. If most of the people didn't complain, I guess it comes from my computer... To be honest, I prefered the first edition of Google Webmaster Chat. Withing the first edition, I found that site audits were very interesting. Why didn't you do it this time ? Furthermore, I think that the advices given in case a site dropped from SERPS were useless. The right question is how to get rid of penalties ? Unfortunately, I was only able to log in the audio chat, which was not of very good quality. I had to put volume at max to understand half of the voices. If most of the people didn’t complain, I guess it comes from my computer…
To be honest, I prefered the first edition of Google Webmaster Chat. Withing the first edition, I found that site audits were very interesting. Why didn’t you do it this time ?
Furthermore, I think that the advices given in case a site dropped from SERPS were useless. The right question is how to get rid of penalties ?

]]> By: Dave (Original) http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/#comment-129060 Dave (Original) Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:02:38 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=968#comment-129060 H, re-read my post. I'm praising the question as the only question that cannot be answered by common sense, not condemning it. H, re-read my post. I’m praising the question as the only question that cannot be answered by common sense, not condemning it.

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