Comments on: SES San Jose video interview

By: Paw Hellegaard

Paw Hellegaard — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:53:54 +0000

Hey Matt, i will just say.. you are one of the ones. I will call u the best and funnys guy on the internet, you way to talk and act is so cool.

This is one of the best interviews i had seen in long time, thank ouy.

/ Paw

By: Jacob Thimothy

Jacob Thimothy — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:54:50 +0000

I was wondering if categorize posts in to more than one category does it create duplicate content in wordpress, and does it count against my site?
Thanks
Jacob

By: Karina

Karina — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:36:25 +0000

Matt, I have a question if you were to see header h1 tags or keywords etc, behind an image on a website should you report them to google ? I thought that this was not allowed. or should i not worry about it and will they be dropped from the google search engine?

By: dasvidaniya

dasvidaniya — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:41:24 +0000

Good to hear that Google also faced the real startup heat..looking forward to hear some more talks about Google’s early days and also about the new features coming in….

By: Dave (originial)

Dave (originial) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:53:21 +0000

John, what you desribe often happens to many web pages. Best not to constantly check rankings (SEO who chaise their Tail do this) and focus on web page content.

By: john

john — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:46:25 +0000

Nice interview. Exciting things ahead.

But I’m worried about the way Google is indexing websites. You claim there’s no human intervention, but could you explain me why the following is happening to my site:

Webpage reaches first page, is dropped(meaning not ranked for the same keyword-still listed-other rankings remain unchanged) within a day or two, comes back on page 3. After weeks/months is back on page#1, to be dropped again within a couple of days; comes back on page 3, and once it reaches the first page it’s …dropped again. 3 times same scenario within the last 14 months.

When I’m on page 3 my listing remains virtually unchanged for weeks/months. When I’m dropped it can be weeks. But when I reach page 1 I’m dropped within a couple of days.

Note I’m not a SE spammer, the site in question offers original quality content.

Human intervention, or is the algorithm having second thoughts each time it ranks me up there with the big guys?

By: Chris Dowell

Chris Dowell — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:39:53 +0000

Great video! Love the new tools and what Google is doing with apps.

By: Dave (originial)

Dave (originial) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:11:58 +0000

Am I the only one who sees the ease of which anyone can start a web business as a bad thing? IMO, there are already more than enough scams and fake busineness since the advent of the Web, no need to celerbrate the fact it’s getting easier to steal from people.

By: Seo Rabbit

Seo Rabbit — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:51:47 +0000

Hello Matt,

I am not your biggest fan, but I sure need your myth-busting blog posts, and videos. Is there a chance for us in the SEO community to see more of your videos, like that about the alt tags for example? I am sure we would all appreciate that.

Respect,

Rabbit

By: xin chen

xin chen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:43:07 +0000

Matt, I have a technical question, I hope you can provide a recommendation, it is related to duplicate content.

In e-commerce site, there are often multiple category for a single item. users may get to this item from different categories.

ideally, I would have parameter that indicate which category users are coming from, so that I can show the correct category information. such as

http://abc.com/super-ipod.html
http://abc.com/super-ipod.html?category=1000
http://abc.com/super-ipod.html?category=2000

you see, now I create multiple version of same product which may result in problem of either PR or other problem for search engine

what is the best way to resolve this? many thanks in advance…