Comments on: Solved: another common site review problem http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/ neat fun stuff Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dreiden http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-345086 Dreiden Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:16:27 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-345086 I know I'm reviving the dead here, but I have a question regarding Google and forms. I have a client who is re-coding their site and for some reason, the developer has wrapped all the content within a form tag. Can wrapping the entire contents of your site in a form tag have a negative impact on the existing SEO? Would this affect crawl rates? The content and presentation is staying the same - and all the links are straight forward hrefs, the submit for the form is triggered by some new functionality. Example: Initial code Heading content Revised Code Heading content -- Cheers I know I’m reviving the dead here, but I have a question regarding Google and forms.
I have a client who is re-coding their site and for some reason, the developer has wrapped all the content within a form tag. Can wrapping the entire contents of your site in a form tag have a negative impact on the existing SEO? Would this affect crawl rates?

The content and presentation is staying the same – and all the links are straight forward hrefs, the submit for the form is triggered by some new functionality.

Example:
Initial code
Heading
content

Revised Code

Heading
content

– Cheers

]]> By: Matt's Fan http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-131268 Matt's Fan Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:13:21 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-131268 One last question: When Googlebot try "search queries," does it use internal search queries data from Google Analytics? Matt's fan One last question:

When Googlebot try “search queries,” does it use internal search queries data from Google Analytics?

Matt’s fan

]]> By: Thomas Hofmann http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-126596 Thomas Hofmann Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:20:58 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-126596 Hello, did you ever hear the german tale of Serch Engine Robot and Webdesigner? It might be difficult to read to many in German. But lets test how good is Google Translation ;-) in German http://www.woodshed.de/publikationen/dialog-robot.html Translation http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodshed.de%2Fpublikationen%2Fdialog-robot.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 have fun! regards, Thomas PS: Would you rate the translated storry readable and understandable? Hello,

did you ever hear the german tale of Serch Engine Robot and Webdesigner? It might be difficult to read to many in German. But lets test how good is Google Translation ;-)

in German
http://www.woodshed.de/publikationen/dialog-robot.html

Translation
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodshed.de%2Fpublikationen%2Fdialog-robot.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

have fun!

regards, Thomas

PS: Would you rate the translated storry readable and understandable?

]]> By: Russ Jones http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-126512 Russ Jones Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:20:19 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-126512 If you are really bent on keeping that drop down menu but want to make it accessible (both to the search engines and to people who need assistive technology such as screen readers), you can use Javascript to transform a regular div tag filled with links into a drop down menu. I have posted the sample script at http://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/really-solved-another-common-site-review-problem/ If you are really bent on keeping that drop down menu but want to make it accessible (both to the search engines and to people who need assistive technology such as screen readers), you can use Javascript to transform a regular div tag filled with links into a drop down menu.

I have posted the sample script at http://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/really-solved-another-common-site-review-problem/

]]> By: Matt Cutts http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-126387 Matt Cutts Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:09:20 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-126387 Jason, we do have the ability to spot e.g. full urls that are in JavaScript. We've done that for a very long time now, I think. My rule of thumb is "If you can copy-and-paste a url into the address bar and get a page back, there's a chance that a search engine could discover that url somehow (e.g. a referrer page could link back to it)." If you don't want a particular url showing up, block it in robots.txt or add an .htaccess file to password protect that directory. Jason, we do have the ability to spot e.g. full urls that are in JavaScript. We’ve done that for a very long time now, I think.

My rule of thumb is “If you can copy-and-paste a url into the address bar and get a page back, there’s a chance that a search engine could discover that url somehow (e.g. a referrer page could link back to it).” If you don’t want a particular url showing up, block it in robots.txt or add an .htaccess file to password protect that directory.

]]> By: Chris Hunt http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125951 Chris Hunt Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:01:29 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125951 Just re-read my comment above and see that it's swallowed the HTML element I was asking about. What I meant was: Would the Googlebot follow regular links in a [noscript] element that JS-using browsers would not see? Just re-read my comment above and see that it’s swallowed the HTML element I was asking about. What I meant was:

Would the Googlebot follow regular links in a [noscript] element that JS-using browsers would not see?

]]> By: freelancer http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125928 freelancer Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:40:07 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125928 Will there be some tags to advice a bot which forms could be of use to crawler and which should be skipped? Will there be some tags to advice a bot which forms could be of use to crawler and which should be skipped?

]]> By: Deborah http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125915 Deborah Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:47:47 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125915 Matt, This hits very close to home for us. Since Feb 14, 2008 we have seen 4 Google IP addresses enter 50,000 search terms into our internal search engine. An example IP address is 66.249.67.3 I'm not sure what to make of it, but that seems awfully drastic compared to this post. Can you shed any light on this? I can provide the log file if necessary. Thanks for your help, as we are extremely anxious to figure this out. Matt,

This hits very close to home for us. Since Feb 14, 2008 we have seen 4 Google IP addresses enter 50,000 search terms into our internal search engine. An example IP address is 66.249.67.3 I’m not sure what to make of it, but that seems awfully drastic compared to this post. Can you shed any light on this? I can provide the log file if necessary. Thanks for your help, as we are extremely anxious to figure this out.

]]> By: rishil http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125899 rishil Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:47:23 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125899 @ Ankit - PM me via moz the site url. regarding Spam submissions - these guys get hundreds if not thousands - which means its a slow process, and manual. I have one report which is months old... @ Ankit – PM me via moz the site url.

regarding Spam submissions – these guys get hundreds if not thousands – which means its a slow process, and manual. I have one report which is months old…

]]> By: Ankit http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125890 Ankit Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:09:46 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/#comment-125890 rishil @ I had already did that but no action its more then months now !! Also asked this question at SEOMOZ they were surprised themselves ... may be its ok with google terms to have same content on multiple domains if you have some strong backlinks and lot of trust on all domains having that content .... just want to confirm this thing !! rishil @ I had already did that but no action its more then months now !!
Also asked this question at SEOMOZ they were surprised themselves … may be its ok with google terms to have same content on multiple domains if you have some strong backlinks and lot of trust on all domains having that content …. just want to confirm this thing !!

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