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Full Chat transcript of the Live chat session between webmasters and Google webmaster central team. This is a Raw unedited version we are inprocess of picking some quality answers from this but its gonna take a week and we dont want to delay in reaching this file to you. We took all our best effort to get this to all webmasters around the world. Thought difficult to navigate due to the massive size more than 700 lines you will be able to pick good answers if you see posts from Matt Cutts ( Google's Senior Quality Engineer ) , Adam Lasik ( Google Tech Evangelist ) etc.

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You not only see Google experts but there are some pretty good SEO industry experts who have taken part in this large discussion.

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Wysz to All Participants:Hello, webmasters!
from John Mueller to All Participants:Hi everyone!
Matt Cutts to All Attendees:Howdy, everybody. :)
MattD to All Participants:Welcome to the chat. We're working on the permissions right now.
from MattD to All Participants:Looks like the Q&A portion will be working soon. It's separate from this chat box.
from Adam Lasnik to All Participants:Hey everyone
from jtbandes to All Participants:Chat is working now, it seems :)
from Adam Lasnik to All Participants:we should be be starting soon :)
from Adam Lasnik to All Participants:and yep, jtbandes, chat is working
from vijay to aaron (privately):hello aaron , are you aaron from SEObook
from John Honeck to All Participants:Hello people
from Adam Lasnik to All Participants:We should be starting in just a few minutes...
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:Hello
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:Hello
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Looks like chat to "All Participants" is working now..
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:hey everyone
from cristina wood to All Participants:hi all :)
from Rey Colon to All Participants:Whats up to all my SEO People
from Laurent to All Participants:Bonjour tout le monde
from Cassiano Travareli to All Participants:hello everyone
from John Jones to All Participants:Hello Barry glad to see you on this chat. Can't wait to see what highlights you write later today and maybe tomorrow. :-)
from jimbeetle to All Participants:hi folks
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:Hello everyone :)
from Anderson to All Participants:hi everyone
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:i have to write highlights?
from Laurent to All Participants:this is very exciting
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants::)
from vijay to All Participants:Hello Everyone, Good to see you people ere,
from Marjory Meechan to All Participants:Hello
from John Jones to All Participants:Barry - Well you have to copy and paste quotes and add your valuable thoughts on the matter.
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:can someone say something on the phone so we know ur there
from John Honeck to All Participants:Barry, you could just do lowlights
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:okay, ill take notes
from Anderson to All Participants:now it is working
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:Ditto: can someone say something on the phone so we know ur there
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:google reader interfers with webex
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:Hello
from Mark to All Participants:hi everyone
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:in fact, Matt Cutts, tell Google Reader people they have a major delay
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:something is wrong today
from John Honeck to All Participants:Is this the Yahoo webmaster chat?
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:yay
from Korpis, LLC to All Participants:Hello All Webmasters!
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:hey john h!
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:spam the Q&A!
from John Honeck to All Participants:Hi Barry
from Manish to All Participants:hi all
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Do not spam the Q&A. :)
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:oh, my bad, :)
from Manish to All Participants:hi matt gud to see u ehere
from Jeremy Rivera to All Attendees:Howdy guys
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:camera?
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:where?
from jtbandes to All Participants:I don't see one eitherfrom Phil Peterman to All Attendees:oh god, I'm blind
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:No camera for me. :(
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:we dont see u
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:video option is turned off
from John Honeck to All Participants:I have video, I think JohnMueller fell asleep
from Rey Colon to All Participants:I have video
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:where do you see the video option?
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:so it's just some of us that are blind
from jtbandes to All Participants:apparently
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:hmm
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:ill close out and reopen
from John Honeck to All Participants:I had to click the Panels, then the arrow to open it
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:tell us if it works
from Evan to All Participants:Sometimes the video does not work on macs.
from jtbandes to All Participants:that doesn't account for everyone though
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:yeah, I'm on WinXP
from John Honeck to All Participants:A/S/PR?
from Caleb Queern to All Participants:Are we allowed to submit our questions for Q&A yet?
from Laurent to All Participants:Could you post the URL of the site ?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Caleb, I'd go ahead and submit if you have a Q for the Q&A.
from jtbandes to All Participants:pictureline.com is what I heard them say
from Caleb Queern to All Participants:Thanks Matt
from jtbandes to All Participants:It's pretty..
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:let me try firefox :)
from Laurent to All Participants:thanks
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Yup, pictureline.com is the site that I'm checking out. :)
from Laurent to All Participants:Yes no camera for me (Mac)
from John to All Participants:I'm on Firefox as well
from Gary Campbell to All Participants:Can you push us to the website or screencast it ?
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:I'm on FF, no video
from Wysz to All Participants:We are looking at www. pictureline.com today
from jtbandes to All Participants:Safari (mac), no video
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:I'm not sure that we can screencast the url, but we're looking at it.
from John Honeck to All Participants:no need for the www ;( whoops
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:ok, in FireFox I see the shared brower
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:no video yet
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:ha, i saw all his email
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:Note that the system req's for webex list Firefox 2 and a slew of Safari versions as supported, so that shouldn't be an issue
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:where would i see the video?
from jtbandes to All Participants:How many people are getting video? Press "yes" above so we can see
from John Honeck to All Participants:wow, whatever they just did messed everything up
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:John, in the lower right there are orange buttons to see the chat, participants, etc.
from Lee to All Participants:I can see the space image but have no sound?
from Jay to All Participants:Please restate the URL thanks
from jtbandes to All Participants:pictureline.com
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:pictureline.com
thanksfrom Barry Schwartz to All Participants:okay, again, so where would the video be if I saw it? :)
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:not seeing the lower right buttons.
from jtbandes to All Participants:nope, no buttons
from John to All Participants:I lost my video
from Kiowa to All Participants:Are we supposed to see the site in the interface?
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:what was that?
from jtbandes to All Participants:no idea
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:i m back 2 the chat panel
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:We moved from screencasting back to the normal interface.
from Anderson to All Participants:ok
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:ok
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:I'd say for everyone to just look at pictureline.com in their own browser.
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:lol
from Linda Farm to All Participants:anyone having trouble with verifying site on google's website tools?
from Ian M to All Participants:They have the non-www vs www issue :)
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:linda, its a problem google is fixing
from Linda Farm to All Participants:so if my site was removed and i need to be able to verify to re-submit my site, how do i do that?
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:linda, more details at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016705.html
from Linda Farm to All Participants:so it's a google issue and not our issue?
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:most likel
Schwartz to All Participants:
from Linda Farm to All Participants:well our website disappeared from google completely. how do i get it back on or is this a glitch?
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:ah, then that isnt goodfrom Linda
Farm to All Participants:tell me about it. any ideas?
from Rhea Drysdale to All Participants:linda, disappeared from serps or webmaster central... if serps something else is going on
from Linda Farm to All Participants:serps
from Ian M to All Participants:Reinclusion request... but check no spamming happened firstrps something else is going on
from MattD to All Participants:Linda, can you give me your site?
from Rhea Drysdale to All Participants:eh, find problem, fix and then reinclusion
from Linda Farm to All Participants:www.laborlawcenter.com
from Ian M to All Participants:e.g. if you hired someone to do SEO
from Linda Farm to All Participants:PLEASE HELP
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:yea, not good http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.laborlawcenter.com
from Linda Farm to All Participants:I can't resubmit for reinclusion because the verifying is not working on google tools
from Ian M to All Participants:pictureline.com also has index.php dup content e.g. pictureline.com/index.php vs pictureline.com/
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:verify will work soon, i think
from Linda Farm to All Participants:it was just working on wednesday, now it's goneplease use our website as an example for today on how to get your site relisted. good topic everyone wants to know
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, not to turn this into a "review my site forum", so let's take just your case and not do general reviews for everyone.
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:But for your site, I have bad news. Looks like you might have gotten hacked.ur case and not do general reviews for everyone.
f rom Matt Cutts to All Participants:But for your site, I have bad news. Looks like you might have gotten hacked.
from Laurent to All Participants:I see more and more proxies getting indexed; creating dup content with pages. Are you going to get them out of the index ?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Looking on my side, we sent you a message about the site in our webmaster message center.
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Check out blog.laborlawcenter.com/2006/08/03/colorado-mileage-reimbursement-law
from Ian M to All Participants:Are they talking about pictureline.com still?
from Doug to All Participants:Matt would it be possible to take a look at vacationrealty.com. I would greatly appreciate it
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:As of a day or so ago, you had hidden text/links such as Discount Generic Tenuate Online Tenuate Tenuate No Prescription Tenuate Diet Pills Buy Tenuate Cod No Rx For Tenuate Tenuate Cheap Ohio Buy Cheap Tenuate Tenuate Buy Diet Pills Tenuate Tenuate 25mg Tenuate Dospan 75mg Tenuate Dospan Online Buy Tenuate Dospan Online Buy Tenuate
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:Ian- yes
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:i cant see the video
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:whatz the procedure for thayt
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:So the short answer is that you may have been hacked.
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:ouch
from Adam Lasnik to All Participants: bodjie.homestead.com/
from Linda Farm to All Participants:what can we do???
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:We tried to warn you via email and a message in the message center.
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:matt, can i get that tool?
from Linda Farm to All Participants:should we redo the site? completely remove the blog section? blog link?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:On the bright side, once you fix the hacked stuff you should be able to get back into Google soon.
from JD to All Participants:I thought this stuff wasnt allowed in chatd stuff you should be able to get back into Google soon.
rom Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, you'll want to restore to a backup of the site if you have one. Your webhost may be able to help.
from JD to All Participants:everyone and their is going to be crying why their site isn't showing up in G
from webado - Christina to All Participants:Webado here - I made it :)
from Adam Lasnik to All Participants:learningguitarnow.comll Participants:
from Evan to All Participants:Welcome webado
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Once you get the site fixed, see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html
from Linda Farm to All Participants:If we completely remove the blog affiliation right now, will that help?
from John Honeck to All Participants:hi Webado
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:for some more tips to protect your site, e.g. patching your blog.
from Darren Wyles to All Participants:hello people
from Rahul Doshi to All Attendees:hello matts.. please check my site : www.indiagiftsjunction.com and ur comments would be great appreciated... :)
from Manish to All Participants:Matt I have removed all the external links or nofollowed them but still I am not getting my PR back ... can u plsssssss help newindiamodels.com , ktpl.com , kidiezone.com
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:That would help, but I wouldn't remove your entire blog just to get rid of the hacked stuff. Just take a little time and work with a computer-savvy person to remove the hacked content.
from Manish to All Participants:i hv sent reconsideration reqsts around 3 times
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, I think we might also be working on a post about "Hey, your site got hacked. Now what?"ust take a little time and work with a computer-savvy person to remove the hacked content.
rom Manish to All Participants:i hv sent reconsideration reqsts around 3 times
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, I think we might also be working on a post about "Hey, your site got hacked. Now what?"
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:heh, that'll be a fun post
from Laurent to All Participants:What URL are you talking about in the conference ?
from Laurent to All Participants:the dog site ?
from Evan to All Participants:Hi Manish, please ask questions directed toward panelists in Q & A
from Linda Farm to All Participants:In the meantime for a quick fix to make up, can i remove the link from laborlawcenter.com work on fixing blog and re-link back after it's fixed. at least I can get my business up in the meant time. our business was drastically cut due to the search engine
from John to All Participants:good idea about the feed
from John to All Participants:John
from Adam Lasnik to All Participants:digitalbase.eu
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:Matt cutts, you did a post on that, more details at seroundtable.com/archives/016096.html
from Evan to All Participants:Laurent - the dog site was bodjie.homestead.com
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:u guys should put me on ur payroll
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:digitalbase.eu, cool.l Participants:
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:lol @barry
from Brian Ussery to All Participants:work it Barry : )
from Manish to All Participants:I have tried my best to chk and remove any external links leaking PR on my sites that were facing PR0 penalty but still no PR ww.newindiamodels.com , w.ktpl.com , .kidiezone.com
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:LOL @ Barry :)
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, that could work. Normally it doesn't hurt to take the few extra hours to recover back to a fully clean state though.
from Linda Farm to All Participants:How do I inform you once the site is clean for inclusion back on serps?
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:What happens when someone takes over a domain and ip address that has a history of bad neighborhood links and may be penalized by Google?
from John Jones to All Participants:Barry aren't you already on someone elses payrol these days? (kidding)
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:it's googles fault Linda's site was hacked, they did it to spam google, ;-)
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:funny john jones
from John Honeck to All Participants:Did I just read something about PageRank leaking? must need more coffee
from TimDineen to All Participants:Blogs get hacked all the time... if you'd add a wildcard function to Webmaster Tools it'd be helpful for allowing us to remove bad stuff from your index quicker. Bad content doesn't always sit in a directory. thx.
from JD to All Participants:this chat is like a digitalpoint thread
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:no we are not
from John Jones to All Participants:I have a feeling i'll be logging into SE roundtable for the last time after that comment. You are already looking me up.
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:it's not ISS
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:what John?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, I'll keep an eye out for it myself.
from Ian M to All Participants:Why oh why do Microsoft not make IIS follow the standards.. sigh
from Gary Carpenter to All Participants:I setup a webmaster account an submitted my url. I also setup a Sitemap.xml file. Google reports that the url is indexed and the Sitemap file is OK yet when I google search my url the result is "No Documents Found". What have I done wrong???
from John Honeck to All Participants:JD, nice! It's not DP because nobody has asked about the next PR update yet.
from JD to All Participants:oh its coming
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:TimDineen, I think you can use a wildcard in robots.txt.:
from John Honeck to All Participants:Did I just read something about PageRank leaking? must need more coffee
from TimDineen to All Participants:Blogs get hacked all the time... if you'd add a wildcard function to Webmaster Tools it'd be helpful for allowing us to remove bad stuff from your index quicker. Bad content doesn't always sit in a directory. thx.
from JD to All Participants:this chat is like a digitalpoint thread
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:no we are not
from John Jones to All Participants:I have a feeling i'll be logging into SE roundtable for the last time after that comment. You are already looking me up.
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:it's not ISS
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:what John?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, I'll keep an eye out for it myself.
from Ian M to All Participants:Why oh why do Microsoft not make IIS follow the standards.. sigh
from Gary Carpenter to All Participants:I setup a webmaster account an submitted my url. I also setup a Sitemap.xml file. Google reports that the url is indexed and the Sitemap file is OK yet when I google search my url the result is "No Documents Found". What have I done wrong???
from John Honeck to All Participants:JD, nice! It's not DP because nobody has asked about the next PR update yet.
from JD to All Participants:oh its coming
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:TimDineen, I think you can use a wildcard in robots.txt.
from Doug to All Participants:you can
from Ian M to All Participants:It all went quiet...
from Anderson to All Participants:call lost
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Because standards are silly! That'd be silly...
from Dito to All Participants::(
from Doug to All Participants:I lost it too
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:deathly silence on the line
from webado - Christina to All Participants:No audio
from Amy Balliett to All Participants:me too
from Gary Campbell to All Participants:m2
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:And too easy. Yeah, lost the call?
from Darren Wyles to All Participants:well its gone quiet
from kasia to All Participants:m2
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:are we able to listen to a recording of this conference ?
from Jaan Kanellis to All Participants:i am lost as well
from Faris to All Participants:me2
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:gone
from Linda Farm to All Participants:The blog link is removed. I will clean up blog and put it back on after integrity is checked. lesson learned. can y ou see if this suite's google's needs
from MattD to All Participants:Our phone connection dropped, we'll be right back on
from Jeremy Rivera to All Participants:it's quiet....tooo Quiet...
from John Honeck to All Participants:And then it went silent...
from Ian M to All Participants:Matt Cutts trip over the cable? :)
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:We're getting the audio back.
from Rey Colon to All Participants:i do not here anythin
from webado - Christina to All Participants:oh-oh
from MattD to All Participants:haha
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:arrrgh
from TimDineen to All Participants:Thanks Matt - yes, that's what we ended up doing.
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:Ian- LOL
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Matt, jeez. What'd you do!
from TimDineen to All Participants:took longer that way I think
from jtbandes to All Participants:Should have just used a google talk group chat :)
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:thanks matt
from kasia to All Participants:still cant hear
from webado - Christina to All Participants:is it too late for me to ask nicely to get an opinion?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, I'll check it out.
from Phil Peterman to All Attendees:but heard the deep breathing for a sec
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:I think I might have heard a sea lion over there.
from MattD to All Participants:...and we're back
from Kevin Rogers to All Participants:and its back
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:There we are!
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:yay!
from John Jones to All Participants:yay!
from kasia to All Participants:back!
\from Dito to All Participants:woohoo
from Liviu Taloi to All Participants:oookiii
from Ian M to All Participants:yay
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:back
from webado - Christina to All Participants:yay
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:anyone know about bad ip bbuying
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:yay!!
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:I know that you're actively working on fixing the hacked blog, so I expect that you'll come back quickly.
from Wysz to All Participants::-)
from Linda Farm to All Participants:Thank you so much! You don't
from Scott to All Participants:testing
\ from Doug to All Participants:Matt I got alot of people relying on our site and I have done a full review to see why the site has a dampening penalty on it
from Linda Farm to All Participants:How can i just get the www.laborlawcenter.com on serps w/out the blog since I removed it. lesson learned no more need to discipline me. :)
from Manish to All Participants:any suggestion for me matt
from Jacque to All Participants:http://209.85.207.104/search?hl=en&q=link%3A+laborlawcenter.com&btnG=Searc
from John Honeck to All Participants:The only prescription is more cowbell
from Jacque to All Participants:Linda did you just recently have a link building campaign with an SEO company?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Cowbell!
from Scott to All Participants:^we just had an issue like that
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:Matt cutts, will there be a transcript of this call posted???h an SEO company?
rom Scott to All Participants:^we just had an issue like that
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:Matt cutts, will there be a transcript of this call posted???
from John Honeck to All Participants:Yeah Aaron!
from Darren Wyles to All Participants:Aaron Pratt is famous now lol
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Um, not sure Alan Rothstein. It may be something you have to dial in to experience. :)
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Go Aaron!
rom Linda Farm to All Participants:please help me i feel like a chicken these days a dead one or a cow with mad cow disease.
from dockarl to All Participants:nyone else lost sound?
from Doug to All Participants:mine is back
from Ian M to All Participants:I still have sound
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:Nope
from Phil Peterman to All Attendees:yes doc, but it's back
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:I am listening :) Just wanted to know for future reference
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:we have it back now, I think
from Linda Farm to All Participants:so to see if it goes back on serps, should i just keep googling laborlawcenter.com to see if i was put back on
rom dockarl to All Participants:hmmm... bugger... I'm podcasting :)
from John Honeck to All Participants:dockarl, we have sound here in this hemisphere
from webado - Christina to All Participants:Sound's OK, Maile is talking about Aaron's images
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Yup, I expect that if you can also get the hacked content removed from the blog, I can see that and get you back in 1-2 days.
from MattD to All Participants:If you've lost sound, you may try logging out and back in (classic tech support solution). It worked for a few people earlier.
from Andrea Frehner to All Participants:Dear John,
from Linda Farm to All Participants:THANKS! YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!
from John Honeck to All Participants:Did you wiggle the handle?
from Linda Farm to All Participants:do you have a date of when you noticed the hacked materials and I can back up the file from then?
from Liviu Taloi to All Participants:salut nelu
from Andrea Frehner to All Participants:I can see and hear you, Andrea
from Doug to All Attendees:how many people hear spent over 1 million to build their site?
from Andrea Frehner to All Participants:Dear John, sorry, I can not find you, Andrea
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:Image enhancement. Are we going to here about this and the pros...
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:We sent you emails and put a message on 3/27/2008 (yesterday), so the hack was probably pretty recent.
from devang to All Participants:Guys will you providing a overview/slides of this session ?), so the hack was probably pretty recent.
rom Gary Campbell to All Participants:Can we save the Q&A test ?
from Linda Farm to All Participants:I am trying to get it fixed.
from Linda Farm to All Participants:thanks
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:is anyone in here recording audio ?
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Is there any way to access the audio to this call over the PC? Google Talk...?
from Swaroop to All Attendees:Use Skype .. dial into the US toll free number
from Nelu Lazar to All Participants:yeah, it would be nice to see this session recorded video/audio
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Right, thanks. Google competitor, lol.
from Swaroop to All Attendees::)
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:whatever works :)
from John Honeck to All Participants:Oh Oh she said PR, let the blogging begin!
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:For now I'm just glad that things are mostly working in real-time. But down the road we could definitely think about how to archive the audio or more.
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:is this going to be an on going live chat session, Monthly, Quarterly?
from Ian M to All Participants:Audio plus presentation is good
from JD to All Participants:separate?
from jimbeetle to All Participants:Is Maile's image presentation going to be avaiable online?
from devang to All Participants:@ Matt Cutts - so not for this session?
from Linda Farm to All Participants:for search engine results if we change from .asp to .php and use 301 redirect, would that affect our serps
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Not positive, devang. I think worst case people can copy much of the chat text going on.
from Ian M to All Participants:ok - question related to this image session - do Google ever pay attention to title attribute as well as alt one?
from Evan to All Participants:Hi Everyone, for Q&A please put all your questions in one entry if possible, otherwise they will lose context and be confusing.
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, .asp vs. .php doesn't make ny difference to us.
from webado - Christina to All Participants:sorry my quesiton needed 5 messages - in case anybody even sees it
from John Honeck to All Participants:set up the server to serve PHP on .asp so you don't need to change the URLs
from aaron to All Attendees:anyone ever noticed a significant drop in ranks and have webmaster tools show that nothing is wrong??
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Matt, but what about .html? We serve our dynamic pages as HTML with variables.hat nothing is wrong??
from sawan to All Participants:Hi Matt, does the long URL matter, for any ecommerce site?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Ian M, good question. I think it would be fair to use other info on the page to help improve image search (e.g. text near an image
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:is anyone in here recording audio ?
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Is there any way to access the audio to this call over the PC? Google Talk...?
from Swaroop to All Attendees:Use Skype .. dial into the US toll free number
from Nelu Lazar to All Participants:yeah, it would be nice to see this session recorded video/audio
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Right, thanks. Google competitor, lol.
from Swaroop to All Attendees::)
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:whatever works :)
from John Honeck to All Participants:Oh Oh she said PR, let the blogging begin!
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:For now I'm just glad that things are mostly working in real-time. But down the road we could definitely think about how to archive the audio or more.
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:is this going to be an on going live chat session, Monthly, Quarterly?
from Ian M to All Participants:Audio plus presentation is good
from JD to All Participants:separate
from jimbeetle to All Participants:Is Maile's image presentation going to be avaiable online?
from devang to All Participants:@ Matt Cutts - so not for this session?
from Linda Farm to All Participants:for search engine results if we change from .asp to .php and use 301 redirect, would that affect our serps
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Not positive, devang. I think worst case people can copy much of the chat text going on.
from Ian M to All Participants:ok - question related to this image session - do Google ever pay attention to title attribute as well as alt one?
from Evan to All Participants:Hi Everyone, for Q&A please put all your questions in one entry if possible, otherwise they will lose context and be confusing.from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, .asp vs. .php doesn't make any difference to us.
from webado - Christina to All Participants:sorry my quesiton needed 5 messages - in case anybody even sees it
from John Honeck to All Participants:set up the server to serve PHP on .asp so you don't need to change the URLs
from aaron to All Attendees:anyone ever noticed a significant drop in ranks and have webmaster tools show that nothing is wrong??
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Matt, but what about .html? We serve our dynamic pages as HTML with variables.
from sawan to All Participants:Hi Matt, does the long URL matter, for any ecommerce site?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Ian M, good question. I think it would be fair to use other info on the page to help improve image search (e.g. text near an image).
from Linda Farm to All Participants:so if i'm in good ranking, if i changed my current address from .asp to .php, do i need to inform google somehow to know it's the same site/content just different .asp or .php?
from John Honeck to All Participants:Yay Maile
from sawan to All Participants:Thanks Maile, that was quite informative
from Ian M to All Participants:Specifically about the title attribute,if that's ok?
from webado - Christina to All Participants:Thanks Maile
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:gwing.net/remaeus-m4.html actually hosts dynamic content, dynamically rewritten from a .php file - is that any different from hosting the .php file directly?
from Swaroop to All Attendees:That was nice. We r looking for times where you'd say Google can find context on all the media available. Universally understood search :)
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Isn't title what is displayed to the user on:hover?
from Ian M to All Participants:yes
from Christi to All Participants:So should the alt and title mirror each other or be different?
from Ian M to All Participants:unless you use ie which does the same for alt (because microsoft ignore standards..)
from Brian Ussery to All Participants:Does Google extract exif from images?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Eric, for .php if stuff happens on the server side, we only see what the webserver dishes up. So it's fine to have some PHP executing but available in an .html file.
from sawan to All Participants:Hi Matt, does the long URL matter, for any ecommerce site?y see what the webserver dishes up. So it's fine to have some PHP executing but available in an .html file.
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:whatever works :)
from John Honeck to All Participants:Oh Oh she said PR, let the blogging begin!
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:For now I'm just glad that things are mostly working in real-time. But down the road we could definitely think about how to archive the audio or more.
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:is this going to be an on going live chat session, Monthly, Quarterly?
from Ian M to All Participants:Audio plus presentation is good
from JD to All Participants:separate?
from jimbeetle to All Participants:Is Maile's image presentation going to be avaiable online?
from devang to All Participants:@ Matt Cutts - so not for this session?
from Linda Farm to All Participants:for search engine results if we change from .asp to .php and use 301 redirect, would that affect our serps
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Not positive, devang. I think worst case people can copy much of the chat text going on.
from Ian M to All Participants:ok - question related to this image session - do Google ever pay attention to title attribute as well as alt one?
from Evan to All Participants:Hi Everyone, for Q&A please put all your questions in one entry if possible, otherwise they will lose context and be confusing.
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, .asp vs. .php doesn't make any difference to us.
from webado - Christina to All Participants:sorry my quesiton needed 5 messages - in case anybody even sees it
from John Honeck to All Participants:set up the server to serve PHP on .asp so you don't need to change the URLs
from aaron to All Attendees:anyone ever noticed a significant drop in ranks and have webmaster tools show that nothing is wrong??
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Matt, but what about .html? We serve our dynamic pages as HTML with variables.
from sawan to All Participants:Hi Matt, does the long URL matter, for any ecommerce site?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Ian M, good question. I think it would be fair to use other info on the page to help improve image search (e.g. text near an image).
from Linda Farm to All Participants:so if i'm in good ranking, if i changed my current address from .asp to .php, do i need to inform google somehow to know it's the same site/content just different .asp or .php?
from John Honeck to All Participants:Yay Maile
from sawan to All Participants:Thanks Maile, that was quite informative
from Ian M to All Participants:Specifically about the title attribute,if that's ok?
from webado - Christina to All Participants:Thanks Maile
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:gwing.net/remaeus-m4.html actually hosts dynamic content, dynamically rewritten from a .php file - is that any different from hosting the .php file directly?
from Swaroop to All Attendees:That was nice. We r looking for times where you'd say Google can find context on all the media available. Universally understood search :)
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Isn't title what is displayed to the user on:hover?
from Ian M to All Participants:yes\
from Christi to All Participants:So should the alt and title mirror each other or be different?
from Ian M to All Participants:unless you use ie which does the same for alt (because microsoft ignore standards..)
from Brian Ussery to All Participants:Does Google extract exif from images?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Eric, for .php if stuff happens on the server side, we only see what the webserver dishes up. So it's fine to have fome PHP executing but available in an .html file.
from sawan to All Participants:Hi Matt, does the long URL matter, for any ecommerce site?
from John Jones to All Participants:Thank you.
from sawan to All Participants:Matt, are you saying having .html file as output is much better than having .php?prod=asaa right?
from John Honeck to All Participants:sitemaps documentation states not to include images
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Okay, thanks Matt - will my page be treated differently for having a different extension? Or is an URL simply an URL, for example, if it were entirely without an extension?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Brian, I'm not sure, personally. I could imagine that any stuff embedded in an image file might be used, though.
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:sawan, there's two issues here. Extension (.php, .asp, .html) doesn't matter to us.
from Ian M to All Participants:I really don't see why Google bother with the opt-in for the image game
from John Jones to All Participants:Thanks for the direct address on that question guys. for the image game
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:I kinda see mirroring title and alt as keyword stuffing, personally.
from sawan to All Participants:Ok, then does the trailing paramters behind the .php matter....something like proddetail.php?prod=product_name same as product_name.htm ?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:But if you can steer away from tons of url parameters, that helps.
from richard to All Participants:do subdomains present a potential hotlinking issue?rs, that helps.
from Terence to All Participants:Is it possible to copy/paste or export everything in the Q&A box?
from Ian M to All Participants:re-geolocation, I hope that will be covered properly
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:sawan, I think a shorter URL is better in almost any case, the higher the ratio of your keywords in the URL, the better
from Swaroop to All Attendees:2 Matt's :)
from Ian M to All Participants:Simple "use x, we don't look at y" is all that iswanted
from sawan to All Participants:Thanks Matt
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:/page.php?page=keyword is less preferrable to /keyword.html or just /keyword
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:/keyword is likely the bottom-line best URL structure you could use.
from sawan to All Participants:Eric and I are on same page
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Eric, we don't have an explicit "how short is your url" signal, but clear categories often work better than tons of parameters. And they can be more memorable as well.
from sawan to All Participants:i think /keyword.html is much better
from Brian Ussery to All Participants:Thanks Matt
from Jon to All Participants:Matt Cutts YOU ROCK
from Linda Farm to All Participants:Hi Matt! - To summarize, I officially took that blog link off of my main www.laborlawcenter.com website and now I am currently having our database cleaned up to remove those spam from the Blog and then I will put it back on. Is this sufficient clean up work? Our company is in dire need of getting the serps listings back and so I want to know if this is the most efficient and quickest way to do so.
from Manish to All Participants:Is it true that the .com domains are ranked highr in SERPs than say .in domains ?
from John Jones to All Participants:haha!
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Yup, I'm on the same page with sawan/Eric. Easy to remember urls are better for users as well.
from John to All Participants:I've been recording from the last 15 minutes
from Brian Rutledge-GetPageOne.com to All Participants:I can't imagine no one here is geeky enough to have recorded it :)
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:i dont think im blogging thisrticipants:
from Caleb Queern to All Participants:lol
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Linda, that should get you in good shape quite soon with Google.
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:Hey! I am recording it in entiretyants:
from Ian M to All Participants:Maybe we should put it out as a torrent afterwards
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:not a geek, i dont think
from sawan to All Participants:Thanks Matt, direct information is always helpful... than working in Dark
from sawan to All Participants:Thanks Matt, direct information is always helpful... than working in Dark
from John to All Participants:That would be me. I'm an audio engineer
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:email it to me schoolgalore
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:yay! we love you, schoolsgalore
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Always focus on the user, that is after all your end result
from Ian M to All Participants:I cut off the boring start stuff
from Brian Rutledge-GetPageOne.com to All Participants:I've been trying to blog it live as we go, as much as I can keep up, anyway.
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:gimme emails
from sawan to All Participants:I think the idea of direct chat with Google R*O*C*K*S
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:barry @ rustybrick dot com Participants:
from Laurent to All Participants:Why are nofollow links showing in Webmaster Central ?
from Jesse Craword to All Participants:jesse @ ce-int.net would appreciate it.\
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:barry will you repost it on SER?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:This has been fun. :)
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Because a nofollow link is stil a link!
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:of coursefrom Rhea DrysdalePC
from jimbeetle to All Participants:Thanks SchoolsGalore and thanks Barry
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:Yeah :)
from Darren Wyles to All Participants:glad someone is saying about people posting urls in the forum lol
from Linda Farm to All Participants:definitely been really fun
from sawan to All Participants:It sure is Linda Farm
from Linda Farm to All Participants:i don't think this should be beta but permanent
from Doug to All Attendees:I am gonna post to the forum
from Laurent to All Participants:I thought that GG did not follow nofollow
from Laurent to All Participants:therefore not index
from John Honeck to All Participants:17? try 1700
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Laurent, the idea of links in the webmaster console is to show practically all of the links that we know of. That's why we even show nofollow links.
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Google does follow "nofollow" links, but it (should) treats them differently than normal links.
from Laurent to All Participants:Ok I get it
from aaron to All Participants:Why show the NOFOLLOW links?
from Linda Farm to All Participants:so does serps like content that is informative or content that has alot of relevant keywords?
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:matt, can those links be labeled in GWC?
\ from Laurent to All Participants:What kind of popularity do you give to no
followfrom Laurent to All Participants:?
from Rabin to All Participants:looks like i missed it
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:I will try to get it to all of ya who give email. Do my best.\
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Laurent, we don't follow nofollow links, but we do include nofollow links in the webmaster console just to give webmasters a full picture of all the stuff that's linking to them.
from Brian Rutledge-GetPageOne.com to All Participants:@ Schools, not judging, I am a geek :) Are you going to post it?
from Rabin to All Participants:is there any transcript that i can have or something!
post it?
rom Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:seriously, his is a great initiative from google webmaster team, keep up the good work !
from Caleb Queern to All Participants:I second that!
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:Matt, what can be done to prevent spammy images?
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:i'd like to see the nofollows labeled as such in GWC
from Ian M to All Participants:ditto
from Tim Taylor to All Participants:yah mon
from Aaron Chronister to All Participants:rhea, me too.
from John to All Participants:Yeah great information here
from Ian M to All Participants:(on both things)
from Darren Wyles to All Participants:good point rhea
from aaron to All Participants:yeah...label the NOFOLLOW links as something else!
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:guarav, do you mean on your own site?
from John Jones to All Participants:Who was the image presentation speaker of this call?
from Manish to All Participants:Is there anyway or tool that we can use to see which pages on our website are leaking PR
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Rhea, I'll pass that on but I'm not sure whether we can offer that.
from Aaron Chronister to All Participants:i'd also like to go back in time and un-buy some links.... :)
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:I want to, just need to figure out how. I am not a webmaster, i am a writer... but I will try to figure out how after this is over, OK?
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:yes
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:understood, but worth considering :_)
from Tim Taylor to All Participants:Maile Ohye gave the presentation.
from Laurent to All Participants:Thanks MC
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:thnx guys
from jtbandes to All Participants:Should we put it up as a torrent?
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:What can be done about "devaluation" link campaigns against competitor's sites, where thousands of links are provided
from bad neighborhoods to specific pages? This has been proven to lower competitors' rankings...
from TimDineen to All Participants:Excellent that Google is doing this chat. The Q/A was extremely helpful too.
from Ian M to All Participants:Matt Cutts - on geolocation,can you just quickly tell us what tags to use?
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:do you have the entire conference ?
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:as audio
from TimDineen to All Participants:Thanks to all of you! Please do it regularly?
from SchoolsGalore to All Participants:so far
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:John, that was Maile Ohye.
from Ian M to All Participants:and what not to usearticipants:
rom Jeganathan to All Participants:Matt, Is there a way we can submit bulk of urls to remove from google index in a single shot? we have hundreads of urls and submitting them individually is a pain.
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:yup would love to do this again, great idea adam!
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:It would be awesome to have a regular Google Help Group chat. Very useful :)
from Mark Kaufman to All Participants:Thanks all!
from Phil Peterman to All Attendees:anyone have a trick to save the q&a text, doesn't seem amenable to select all/copy/pasteshot? we have hundreads of urls and submitting them individually is a pain.
from Swaroop to All Attendees:hey Matt Cutts.. One Q.. its unanswered in the Q&A - Can you tell us about the pro's & con's in terms of SEO if we use the shortened URL's using TinyUrl or some other similar service
from John Jones to All Participants:Please send participants a survey to suggest how to make this better for next time and the time after that.
from Laurent to All Participants:Now about users. I think GG gives users a give note. For instance, if the user puts a site in bookmarks or clic an URL on a page. Am I wrong ?ng TinyUrl or some other similar service
from TimDineen to All Participants:Can you make the QA copy-able?
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:With javascript/AJAX/other stuff; always test with Javascript disabled! Also, view source - if it isn't in the source, even Googlebot can't see it. ;]
from John Jones to All Participants:Phill ... File >> Save
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Eric, we work very hard to prevent people from causing harm like that.! Also, view source - if it isn't in the source, even Googlebot can't see it. ;]
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:John, that was Maile Ohye.
from Ian M to All Participants:and what not to use
from Jeganathan to All Participants:Matt, Is there a way we can submit bulk of urls to remove from google index in a single shot? we have hundreads of urls and submitting them individually is a pain.
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:yup would love to do this again, great idea adam!
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:It would be awesome to have a regular Google Help Group chat. Very useful :)
from Mark Kaufman to All Participants:Thanks all!
from Phil Peterman to All Attendees:anyone have a trick to save the q&a text, doesn't seem amenable to select all/copy/pastefrom Swaroop to All Attendees:hey Matt Cutts.. One Q.. its unanswered in the Q&A - Can you tell us about the pro's & con's in terms of SEO if we use the shortened URL's using TinyUrl or some other similar service
from John Jones to All Participants:Please send participants a survey to suggest how to make this better for next time and the time after that.
from Laurent to All Participants:Now about users. I think GG gives users a give note. For instance, if the user puts a site in bookmarks or clic an URL on a page. Am I wrong ?from TimDineen to All Participants:Can you make
the QA copy-able?
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:With javascript/AJAX/other stuff; always test with Javascript disabled! Also, view source - if it isn't in the source, even Googlebot can't see it. ;]
from John Jones to All Participants:Phill ... File >> Save
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Eric, we work very hard to prevent people from causing harm like that.
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:John Jones, were u joking earlier?
from Manish to All Participants:Is there anyway or tool that we can use to see which pages on our website are leaking PR
from John Jones to All Participants:Barry absolutely man. I'll hit you up later via e-mail and explain my botched joke. Sorry boss.
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Ian M, look at ccTLD, IP address, and then use the geolocation feature of the webmaster console.
from Phil Peterman to All Attendees:John Thanks so much
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:Matt, i have created new blog in blogger that is related to mobile, it has been banned by blogger! what can be the reason behind it?
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:k, hard to see jokes here
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Manish, I agree - a Flash representation of our domains would be very nice, showing link flow and strength!
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:great job guys!from Swaroop to All Attendees:Loved it !. Bravo !
from Laurent to All Participants:Merci all
from webado - Christina to All Participants:thanks everybody :):
from Gary Campbell to All Participants:My suggestion to Webmaster tools - detail exact issues when penalized or non compliance - would help millinos of people and reduce requests on your side as well
from sawan to All Participants:Adam, you have been good host
from John to All Participants:It's been cool!
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:JohnMu should build an App to do this
from Linda Farm to All Participants:thanks!
from Ian M to All Participants:something that works on all search engines?
from Felipe Miyata to All Participants:Thank You !!!
from Gijs Nelissen to All Participants:webex should be recording this conferenceno ?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Jeganathan, if you can come up with a good pattern (subdirectory, subdomain, or wildcards) you can use our url removal tool.
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:no browser hijack!
from Darren Wyles to All Participants:be class if this was a regular event
from Mark to All Participants:Thanks guys!
from DaveN to All Attendees:Good Job guys
from sawan to All Participants:We are happy for GOOGLE to come close webmasters
from Doug to All Attendees:this was good
from Linda Farm to All Participants:Matt, if you can please take a look at my site in about an hour,everything will be fixed.
from Linda Farm to All Participants:THANKS MATT YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER
from Tim Taylor to All Participants:ty guys. I can't wait to see this posted on Youtube with a mashup of Yakkety Sax behind it.
from Ian M to All Participants:Matt - a quick question here would be is this valid or not? <meta name=language>
from John Honeck to All Participants:Thanks all involved
from Ian M to All Participants:see the question in the google groups thread
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Yeah, everyone give a round of applause to the Google team! Please! *claps*
from Marjory Meechan to All Participants:Thanks so much guys. It was great!!
from sawan to All Participants:You could be get more than 2 million Adam
from Alan Rothstein to All Participants:Thanks, helped tons!
from Tim Taylor to All Participants:*clapping*
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:woot!
from Doug to All Attendees:Matt i posted to the google.group, i need a life saver
from Brian Rutledge-GetPageOne.com to All Participants:@ Schools, We'll host it if you like.
from Brian Harnish to All Participants:*applause*
from Laurent to All Participants:When is the next conference ?
from Manish to All Participants:thanks for the great discussion ... hope next time its with Matt Cutts .... One to One :-)
from Ian M to All Participants:tomorrow
from dockarl to All Participants:Props to all the Googlers - this was excellent :D
from Manish to All Participants:he seems to be fav ofall\
from Swaroop to All Attendees:video Labeller :)
from Rabin to All Participants:can we embed videos from youtube to optimize our own site?
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Video and Image search needs content recognition, not just written text recognition. :/
from Doug to All Attendees:this is good for me i got over 40000 images on my site
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:manish all of 'em have good insight, matt's just pushier ;)
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:guys, please send me any audio or text u have for this, ill make sure to post it aroundfrom Jeganathan to All Participants:Thanks Matt! Is the removal tool in GWT accepts wilcards?
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Gary, we keep trying to provide more and more information in the webmaster console. We've gradually been increasing the number of people who get info about issues. Linda in the chat had a message waiting for her, for example, so she didn't need to catch me about this issue. :)
from DaveN to All Attendees:http://www.google.com/search?q=video&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=1Kx&start=10&sa=N
from DaveN to All Attendees:forbes
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:When is Google Video going to turn into a Video Search Engine?!?!?!
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone%20popcorn Search Engine?!?!?!
from Jonatas Leonel to All Participants:What is better to use and wich one have more power on google: the robots.txt or the meta tag robots?
from Jim McNelis to All Participants:you can add video to your google maps listing
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:Matt, still paid links carry the same importance for google rank as it was having before the last PR update
from aaron to All Attendees:Anyone have any tips on how can evaluate my links?
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:shameless plug barry ha
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Ian, I don't think we use meta tags for language right now.
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:lol
from Ian M to All Participants:any meta tags? or http headers?
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:im link dropping like mad, webex link spamnguage right now.
from Ian M to All Participants:we keep having pages with french words appearing as french language
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:at least it isn't ascii art drops
from Rabin to All Participants:i am wondering if we embed the video from youtube in my site, is there anyway, that i can have my site optimized!
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:jim... address, google local business center listing, etc
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:90% of a link's value is because of the content on the linking page, and the value of the page - which, in results, will flow more organic visitors, which is why links are valuable.
from DaveN to All Attendees:so asking people to remove the nofollow is fine if no money passes
from Swaroop to All Attendees:@JonathanSimon ! - I just guessed ... you'd have one :
from Ian M to All Participants:all support nofollow - ask took a bit longer to implement but also do
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:thanks Eric
from Jim McNelis to All Participants:Rhea, I mean beyond that
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Cut the linkjuice, cut the value of a link, and you're making the wrong issue out of the real problem
from MattD to All Participants:Her is the link to the feedback thread: http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-chit-chat/browse_thread/thread/1542e1682e7a1a4e/996878822f95bb96
from Rabin to All Participants:some bloggers, i am not going to name, they are just bashing this nofollow, so i am kind of confused
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Rhea, true dat. :) I'm holding back to let Adam tackle the subdomains vs. subdirectories question. :)
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:The real solution would be to improve content detection, and put less value on the links that don't match the page's (and target pages) "keyword set"
from Doug to All Attendees:I like both subdomains and subdirectories
from Doug to All Attendees:really have no preferences:
from chris to All Attendees:the question was, what happens if someone WON'T remove the links after you have contacted him
from Brian Rutledge-GetPageOne.com to All Participants:Why do subdomains work so well for Apartments.com then, they just have landing pages and they rank like mad
from DaveN to All Attendees:hmmm type in google ..
from DaveN to All Attendees:wouldn't sitelinks help
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:Matt, whatz the future of social bookmarking sites in google web search?
from TimDineen to All Participants:Speaking of subdomains -- the problem is that I agree subdomains are same as directories.. but we see other sites spamming the heck out of Google with useless subdoms all the time. It causes some to want to move in that direction.
from Rabin to All Participants:i am wondering how search within search feature google recently deployed is going to affect the subdomain conundrum!
from Jim McNelis to All Participants:why do digg articles rank so well since it just links to the original article
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:eh, but good sites like national geographic are built on subdomains, too.
from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Digg articles rank because of their link structure, particularly internally
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Jeganathan, I know that wildcards are supported in robots.txt. Not positive about the url removal tool though. It does support directories though.
from chris to All Attendees:so the NY Times content is less valuable b/c they sell the feed of their articles. that makes no sense
from Darren Wyles to All Participants:it does make sense
from aaron to All Attendees:can we talk about links???
from DaveN to All Attendees:so NO rss
from Laurent to All Participants:Why proxies appear in SERPS with copies of pages ?sell the feed of their articles. that makes no sense
from Doug to All Attendees:syndicating content should be done on a case by case basis
from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Jonatas Leonel, the robots.txt is very powerful because you can block vast swaths of urls. The meta tag is helpful though because it's so granular.
from Darren Wyles to All Participants:if you search for something and the first 200, results are for the same article from 200 different sites?
from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:i thought it was 42%
from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:and now google offers a robots.txt generator... yay
from gaurav doshi to All Participants:Rhea, where can i find that generator?