Comments on: Sign up for our webmaster chat

By: Best Web Designs

Best Web Designs — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:14:30 +0000

I’ve missed this, Is there a way to find all chat logs?

By: Ankit

Ankit — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:06:12 +0000

I have some takeaways, myths and questions from last night session .. can be seen at:
http://ankitrawat.com/blog/takeaway-myths-questions-junetune/
waiting for a comment from you !!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:52:30 +0000

I really enjoyed the session thanks.

Sadly my questions were never answered, but it was still very useful all the same.

By: Harith

Harith — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:58:52 +0000

Barry Schwartz has recorded the event. He has Also exported the full Q&A session as text: Recording & Coverage of Google's Second Live Chat Session

By: TheBlackhatCoach

TheBlackhatCoach — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:04:42 +0000

Dang! I missed it! That’ll teach me to read your blog more often, (I hope).

Is there a video around?

@Dave, You were joking, right? “little to no content” means nothing. The page has something useful.

thanks,
Bompa

By: TomG aka NavyCS

TomG aka NavyCS — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:30:48 +0000

I actually enjoyed the conference call very much. Thank you!

By: Joseph Hunkins

Joseph Hunkins — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:10:43 +0000

Sorry I missed this again Matt – I think these online chats are a great idea, especially for the folks who don’t / cannot make search conferences to enjoy your wise remarks in person (& wisecracks, & wise guy SEO jousts).

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:58:46 +0000

My complaint with past “chats” is that there was too much noise, I find it hard to concentrate on multiple conversations going on via, live chat, the presentation and other enabled widgets.

By: Zafar Ahmed

Zafar Ahmed — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:46:05 +0000

Screenshots available here:

http://zafarahmed.com/Google%20Chat.JPG

http://zafarahmed.com/MattCutts.JPG

By: Morris Rosenthal

Morris Rosenthal — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:18:13 +0000

Matt,

Didn’t realize we’d be able to ask questions on the Webmaster Chat so I was left shooting from the hip. Afterwards, I realized I just don’t seem to have any general problems with Google these days, so I should probably keep my mouth shut. Since that’s impossible, a quick follow-up on the Google Academic question you answered.

Why not look to every possible Google source that might contribute to quality scoring for sites? Juried papers in Academic are a reasonable filter, unless they happen to be about “bad websites”. Patents might turn up some interesting URL’s in the prior art references, etc. They cost too much for people to file for SEO purposes:-)

And although somebody explained how upper/lower case issues came about, I still don’t see why Google would bother treating them differently. I never quite got the canonical domain name bit either, though I used the Webmaster Console to pick one. Why wouldn’t Google just default all of them to one type, at least for Google usage?

And thanks for the patience and lightning round.

Morris