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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. Prepared by Search Engine Genie Team, You not only see Google experts but there are some pretty good SEO industry experts who have taken part in this large discussion. Enjoy the script and feel free to leave feedback or comments in this post 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 ROCKS 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? from Matt Cutts to All Participants:gaurav doshi, it's safe to assume that Google is going to reduce the influence of links that we consider bad for users over time. My advice is to look at getting editorially-given links because of he quality of the content/site. from Eric Martindale to All Participants:And Blogger is cumbersome for SEO!\ from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:adam uses expression engine =) from John Honeck to All Participants:It.s actually 43.2342 which rounds to 42% from Rabin to All Participants:wordpress from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:ah, i stand corrected from Eric Martindale to All Participants:The platform doesn't matter, it's the template from chris to All Attendees:How long should a reinclusion request take? from Laurent to All Participants:Why proxies appear in SERPS with copies of pages ? from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:matt, what you dressing up as on April 1st? from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Look for templating systems that allow customization!g to reduce the influence of links that we consider bad for users over time. My advice is to look at getting editorially-given links because of the quality of the content/site. from gaurav doshi to All Participants:thanks matt from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Ian M, it doesn't hurt to use a meta tag for language, but we're more likely to trust our own language identification. from Rabin to All Participants:i think Matt one day said WP is the best from SEO point of viere more likely to trust our own language identification. from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:WP gets hacked way too often from Rabin to All Participants:i agree with him because of its excelled CMS from webado - Christina to All Participants:I don't think proxies can be identified programmaticlaly as easily as by just eyaballing them from Ian M to All Participants:Matt - which meta language tag is the key question? (and thank you for answering)balling them from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:yeah, wp is easy, but long term requires lots of maintenance... PITA from Darren Wyles to All Participants:it does seem that way barry with WP, from the amount of my site got hacked on the forum from Eric Martindale to All Participants:WP and Blogger both allow URL customization, WP is more powerful - what's MOST important is the template! from DaveN to All Attendees:hahah Barry it's the xmlrpc thats makes WP awesome from Jeganathan to All Participants:thanks Matt. from Fábio Ricotta to All Participants:Matt, why Google does not penalize big sites that uses hidden links and uses a lot of crosslinking? I saw it into real estate so much. There are a lot of big websites that uses those tatics from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:drupal... anyone else like it? from Ian M to All Participants:meta name=language, html lang=, http-header-equivalent content-language (or even dublin core stuff) I saw it into real estate so much. There are a lot of big websites that uses those tatics from Jesse Craword to All Participants:I use drupal some. not a huge fan though. from gaurav doshi to All Participants:Matt, i m not getting exact images of mine when i search my name in google images. Websites are perfects but images are not from pratt to All Participants:I really like Drupal, but am more familiar with WP. I think that is what gives WP the edge, more help available online. not from Nick Wilsdon to All Participants:drupal is way too open out of the box - Earl got his new install hacked within 5mins from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Barry, I dress up for Halloween, but I haven't decided what to do for April 1st yet. Any suggestions from the chat? :) from Swaroop to All Participants:Akismet saves me from all the drugs :) from Doug to All Attendees:Matt dress up like an American Gladiator from Doug to All Attendees:Matt dress up like an American Gladiator from Ian M to All Participants:Matt - you are scary enough as is ;) from Rabin to All Participants:may be we should just deactivate the comments from John Honeck to All Participants:I haven't even got the April 1st tree up yet! from Jeremy to All Participants:Nick Wilsdon, Not as open as WP from Eric Martindale to All Participants:How about forums and SEO? from Jesse Craword to All Participants:Forums and SEO would interest me, too from Jaan Kanellis to All Participants:Can you say that PR Sculpting is important for most all websites to use? from Nick Wilsdon to All Participants:@Jeremy depends what you are good at. from Rabin to All Participants:embedded videos and SEO \ from Matt Cutts to All Participants:The April 1st tree? I love it! from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:ha, nice jaan... let's talk about paid links too from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:@matt emailed you from Ian M to All Participants:With the Q&A - post it live on the group from Darren Wyles to All Participants:public chat would make a good, attachment to the forum. \ from Jaan Kanellis to All Participants:with the recent firestorm of some SEOers saying sculpting does or does not work it would help to get a definitive answer from your team from Swaroop to All Participants:Plz put a Google Talk back widget on the group' from pratt to All Participants:I thought Matt had already talked about it on his blog. \ from John Jones to All Participants:For whoever is speaking... Thank you for answering this question! from Rabin to All Participants:may be capitalization of word will help: EMBEDDED VIDEO & SEO? from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:and some interviews from Laurent to All Participants:What is Google doing to prevent Climate Change ? Your servers are not helping the planet from John Honeck to All Participants:Oh boy.... from Laurent to All Participants:Even the Lava Lamp is not a good idea from jtbandes to All Participants:Laurent, google.org from Darren Wyles to All Participants:lol from Swaroop to All Participants:G OS ? from Jacque to All Participants:What would be a link that floats a Page Ranks, Does this mean the links are on that of a high PR page? from Jeganathan to All Participants:Matt, we are gallery2 for our gallery sites with SEO friendly urls (short urls enabled) enabled. Google image is hardly indexing the images. Which type of url is recommended for galleries? from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Google can't possibly be causing the ice caps on Mars to melt... ;] from gaurav doshi to All Participants:jacque, page rank has got different criterias as well other than high PR links from Swaroop to All Participants:@Eric - possible that its already gone.. from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:PR "sculpting" should be standard site optimization, but if it takes more than 2mins time isn't worth it. Something bigger is obviously wrong w/the site. from Nick Wilsdon to All Participants:agree with rhea there from pratt to All Participants:@Rhea good point from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Yeah, Rhea, very good point from Fábio Ricotta to All Participants:Matt we see a lot of pages in the web just copying RSS Feeds from other websites and using it to gain more Adsense. How Google plans to deal with? from Liviu Taloi to All Participants:when will be the next update on IBL? from Eric Martindale to All Participants:So, on the note of tree structure, forums are in good shape, right? from Laurent to All Participants:I read google.org, but no direct answer to how save energy about servers use from Richard Hearne to All Participants:any commentary on downsides to PR sculptinh? Tell us ow it can hurt our sites? \ from gaurav doshi to All Participants:Whatz the future of Google Knol? from Eric Martindale to All Participants:When does Google Dating launch? Is that coming in April? from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:when is matt cutts getting a mac? from Ian M to All Participants:April 1st ;) from John Honeck to All Participants:what is a mac? from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:speed dating w/webmaster central? from Ian M to All Participants:When will Matt Cutts be the CEO of Microsoft? from Swaroop to All Participants:good work :) from Brian Harnish to All Participants:LOL from Jeremy Rivera to All Participants:If it's not a paid link should I use a no follow to keep page rank on my page, or should I let it flow out to other sites? from Swaroop to All Participants:@Matt Cutts - Is famous !cipants: from Ian M to All Participants:Jeremy - latter, don't be a dead end, that is bad too from Laurent to All Participants:Dan Sullivan got a Mac :)cipants: Dan Sullivan got a Mac :) from John Honeck to All Participants:Oh I think some people here know what a splog is.. from Jeremy Rivera to All Participants:"The Link Juice Must Flow" from Aaron Chronister to All Participants:What is the average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow? from DaveN to All Attendees:hackers broke the mac os in 2mins today lol from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:HAHA from Raffi to All Participants:does anyone know - if nofollow is used on a link, is the anchor text ignored, or still taken into account? from pratt to All Participants:lol from Eric Martindale to All Participants:What about community blogs that republish author content in a favorable fashion? Will they be punished too? from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Jaan, I'm heading out now. Thanks for giving me a chance to try to clarify the role of sculpting vs. good information architecture from scratch vs. spending your time just making great content that naturally attracts links. from Brian Harnish to All Participants:Is that a european or african swallow? from Laurent to All Participants:Good the quota of OS X hacking is done for 2008 from Ian M to All Participants:Bye Matt \ from Jaan Kanellis to All Participants:thanks for more info on the topic Matt from Swaroop to All Participants:Ciao Matt ! from Matt Cutts to All Participants:I've got to head out. Thanks for hopping on the chat, everyone--this was a lot of fun! from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Thanks Matt! T from Darren Wyles to All Participants:thanks from Brian Harnish to All Participants:Later Matt- thank you for your time in facilitating this awesome chat. from Matt Cutts to All Participants:Talk to folks later.. from Laurent to All Participants:Merci MC from Linda Farm to All Participants:See you later! from gaurav doshi to All Participants:ok matt from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:paid links... while it continues, what other factors can be considered to counter as some good sites get taken down w/mass updates? from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:any consideration of relevancy vs blanket no-no? from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants::) from Nick Wilsdon to All Participants::D from John Jones to All Participants:Thanks John Mueller for your time and attentiveness to my Q&A questions that I've directed to you specifically. from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:but rhea is in the chat from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:haha from Rabin to All Participants:SPAM AND QUALITY, thats an oxymoran! from Eric Martindale to All Participants:Sharing is good. We trust Google to decide what to share, but of course we want more info, faster. :) from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:;-) from Gary Campbell to All Participants:Perhaps do the opposite, reward good sites and webmasters with details from Jeremy Rivera to All Participants:How much weight does domain age have on my rankings? Should I change my primary domain name from a new name to an older domain name? Or would that be suicide? from Gary Campbell to All Participants:er details of potential issues. from Fábio Ricotta to All Participants:Matt, what are the plans of Google to detect webspam into another language like Portuguese(im Brazillian)? We see a lot of duplicated content, spammy titles and hidden content. How Google is dealing with minor languages like my Portuguese? from Jeremy to All Participants:Spam, great for breakfast from Rhea DrysdalePC to All Participants:gotta head out, have fun and great job Googlers!!! from MattD to All Participants:One more time, here's the link to the feedback thread. http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-chit-chat/browse_thread/thread/1542e1682e7a1a4e/996878822f95bb96 from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:excellent from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:u guys rock from MattD to All Participants:Thanks again to everyone for coming! from Raffi to All Participants:thanks all! from Barry Schwartz to All Participants:down with yahoo and microsoft from Ian M to All Participants:Here's a question - for the "you are a virus" messages, I get those often when doing SEO audits on sites due to the complex wueries - can you please use capcha more? from Jim McNelis to All Participants:Thanks Google! from zach to All Participants:Hey Matt. 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