Great interview! I appreciate the information that you gave on make “quality” sites for the search engines. With the algorithms changing every day, it seems like it’s beneficial to only create sites which provide users with good information that they’re looking for.

Keep up the great work!

Scott

nice interview and found good information on making search engine friendly websites, how to market them and how to increase traffic. Thanks for matts to provide such a nice interview.

thnaks
Ms.Thulasi SVNL

I have just been listening to the radio show and I would like to ask a question about 301 redirects v refresh tags.

The problem is that 3 months ago I changed the location of a lot of my pages. Google still hasn’t dropped those pages or indexed my new pages.

I create my site in Frontpage which does not allow .htaccess so I can’t do a 301 redirect.

The only redirect I can do is:

Would my site be branded “black hat”?

The only other option I see to get my pages properly indexed is to pay for quality directory listings like yahoo. This way google bot will crawl my site more often and deeper.

Do you have any advice?

Thanks
April

Appreciate it Matt.

Thanks

If you get a chance, there was one other question that I would have liked to get your input on as I have heard different reasoning. There are certain organic listings that show multiple page listings (no description) beneath the main listing. Why does this show up for some and not others? Are all of these pages ranking on first page or top 20 so for simplicity and space you list them together? For instance type in “karaoke” and you will see the first listing is set up this way. Thanks in advance.

In response to Adam’s inquiry about the music. All segment music is taken from songs from an instrumental/compilation album by Beastie Boys called “The In Sound from Way Out”. Glad you like it, but I think it’s time for a change, so we’ll be mixing it up soon. Stay tuned

Thanks for the great insite during the interview and we would love to have you back on the eMarketing Talk Show in the future.

Cindy T, I had a good time. I’ll update the post with the links.

Harith, they’re pretty close. A data push is a superset of a data refresh (that is, a data refresh is an instance of a data push). Typically a data refresh is something with a well-established history, e.g. we have automatic tests in place and the data to be sent out is sent out automatically (assuming that all the automatic sanity checks pass). A data push may tend to be less automated and thus may undergo more evaluation. But the terms are often used interchangeably by Googlers, because we know what we mean, so you’re pressing for a pretty fine connotation.

KJ, I’m a big fan of the sorts of things you mentioned. The trick would be finding the sweet spot where people see an impact from participating, but the results are still trustworthy.

Great interview ! Good questions and well answered yet more useful insights for site owners that care about providing a quality resource and useful content for the site users.

It’s great to know that the search engines and webmasters are working towards the same common objective of delivering quality relevant sites and user experiences to visitors.

Love the sound of your project to further explore and the detect the elimination of webspam in the google engine.

Google is only a representative window on the web and as such it they have a huge task to try to keep up the mass of new content that explodes onto the web daily and deliver the most relevant results to searchers.

But 99.9% of the time Google gets it right! It’s the dirty tricks that unethical webmasters try to utilise to trick the engines that must cause you guys such a headache, but the net is closing week on week as google weeds them out and closes out the tricksters that try to game them .

Keep up the good work guys! your constant commitment to delivering relevant results from quality sites across all subject areas no matter how diverse is appreciated by webmasters who work hard at thier sites/ blogs/ forums and content to deliver good user experiences.

Improved reporting mechanisms to flag sites that violate the webmaster guidelines – would be great. But its enough to know that you are watching, developing tools and listening to the community.

I would be interested for google to explore subdomain use ( spam? some of it certainly views that way and is being used to obtain rankings) it is rife in the industry that our site operates in.

I have a research document on this if you would like more info – happy to supply it

Thanks