Comments on: Watch my site review session from Google I/O

By: Get Right Music

Get Right Music — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:14:49 +0000

Thanks for this video Matt! This was the first “review my site” session that I’ve ever seen. Definitely some great tips in this video. Hopefully people make good use of everything you said. Thanks.

Jesse

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:37:22 +0000

This is a great example of building your site for the end user, but I always wonder if that is the reason one site appears higher than another, or if all the links etc are the reason. Anyway, great video and hope to see some other examples of how to get your website better visibility from Google.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:33:09 +0000

I’m glad that Matt touched on the vulnerability of WordPress to be hacked and that Google is aware of this. Mine was hacked last April and I didn’t notice until several days later. In fact, my blog was already getting listed in Google for some of these spam terms, until I made the fix!

Like Matt said, if you’re running WordPress it is very important to stay on top of the updates.

Also, do occasional site searches for popular spam terms just to be sure…
site:www.yourdomain.com vioxx
site:www.yourdomain.com xanax
site:www.yourdomain.com etc…

By: Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:48:15 +0000

I liked the part where you showed the website and asked the audiance what this webpage is about. Looking at my website made me realize that the homepage did also not give a clue that it was about.

Sometimes it is healthy to get reminded of the simple things.

By: Djoko

Djoko — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:14:36 +0000

Hey,

I wanted to ask about url’s that contain UTF-8 characters, say Cyrillic.

I the form of:

http://www.yourwebsite.com/продукт/ауди-80

Anyways, does google index’s these?

Do you possibly get penalized due to this?

And what about different home page based on the language the person choose?

My concern is that the url is the same but the content is different. Is that a problem considering that the page will have a different content-language meta tag?

What about AJAX?

Are you able to index an ajax content? I assume not, so what do you do when you have Ajax content? You do not execute the javascript code? you execute it but you do not index it?

What about region access ? You have ip based search results… and the hl=en or what ever in the google search query…

Can we webmasters show different content based on from where the user is or based on cookies or user preference made on my website.

I can’t really find an answer to this.

By: SEO Mark

SEO Mark — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:12:05 +0000

Hi Matt

I was always worried that you can be punished for too much internal anchor keyword linking.

In better words I have sites where the internal linking has words that match what the page is about but is also my keywords.

In order not to be seen as spamming, I put nofollow tags on many of the intrenal linking not to sculp page rank (because these pages are importnat to me), but to ensure Google did not think I was spamming my internal link structure.

I would be delighted to remove these nofollow tags, but first I need to know if Google will be happy with a few thousand internal anchor text links within my menu.

Mark

By: Simon Colley

Simon Colley — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:40:59 +0000

Hey Matt,

Great video, you touched upon websites being indexed with and without http://www., funnily enough if i type my website name in google’s search it’s first in the results but the display url is shown without the http://www., although when you click the link it does re-direct to my main domain….so am i right in thinking this is cool and i just need to change the setting in webmaster tools so the www. are shown?

Cheers Simon.

By: Nevalex

Nevalex — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:42:27 +0000

Matt,

I would disagree with nofollow a bit. I do believe it’s up to a webmaster to decide wich page to label with nofollow attribute. It is not all about login pages, you can mark every single page you believe has less value on the site. So if a webmaster considers lets say Terms of Use or Contact, or any other page of less importance – it is quite obvious to mark it with no follow, to let the page rank flow to other “more” important pages.

Thats the was y I see this…

By: will

will — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:03:35 +0000

crap I posted that in the wrong blog post!

By: Get A Trip.com

Get A Trip.com — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:17:22 +0000

This is fantastic. I wish though I could just rent you for an afternoon. What do you think Matt — auction you on Ebay? So, settling with just videos and your blog, I am getting a lot of useful information, though do not know where to go for say “best practices for link building.” Also the truth to starting off with an old domain name. I was talked into buying a premium domain name because supposedly the older the domain the better. Then, I read you saying something about resetting old domains that change hands back to zero page rank. Have I been duped? If my page is parked while in web development and links come through will they still count? Answers to these questions are where?