Tips for Diagnosing A Drop In Google Rankings, From Matt Cutts
Google has posted a new Webmaster Help video. As usual, Head of Web Spam Matt Cutts has answered a user-submitted question. The question is: “When you notice a drastic drop in your rankings and traffic from Google, what process would …
Reasons Why Google Toolbar PageRank Would Drop, According to Google
Google’s Matt Cutts posted one of his webmaster help videos discussing Google Toolbar PageRank, why it’s only updated a few times a year, and why webmasters might see their PageRank drop. He also talks about how to get back in …
Google: Not Having Robots.txt is “A Little Bit Risky”
Robots.txt as you may know, lets Googlebot know whether you want it to crawl your site or not. Google’s Matt Cutts spoke about a few options for these files in the latest Webmaster Help video, in response to a user-submitted …
Google Gives an Update on How it Thinks About DMOZ
Google posted a new Webmaster Help video featuring Matt Cutts. This time around, he discusses the Open Directory Project, otherwise known as DMOZ. The video is Matt’s response to a user-submitted question, which said: “What role does being in DMOZ …
Google Launches New Series of Matt Cutts Webmaster Tutorials
Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, has been answering webmaster questions in short videos for quite some time now. The videos have often been quite informative, and have tackled numerous issues that common webmasters face on a day-to-day basis. …
Help Google Crawl Your Site More Effectively, But Use Caution
Google has introduced some changes to Webmaster Tools – in particular, handling of URLs with parameters. “URL Parameters helps you control which URLs on your site should be crawled by Googlebot, depending on the parameters that appear in these URLs,” …
Visits to Social Sites Surpass Those to Search Engines in U.K.
U.K. users visited social networking sites more than they did search engines during May, according to Hitwise.
Australians Spend Most Time on Social Networks and Blogs
Worldwide, Australian Internet users spend the most time engaging with social networking sites and blogs, according to data from Nielsen.
20% of U.S. Adults Use Twitter, Says Pew
New research from Pew Internet and American Life Project finds 45 percent of adult U.S. Web users use social networks, and 19 percent use Twitter or similar services.
Big Brands Missing from Social Media Ad List in June
Social media sites are gaining steam fast with about everyone but big-brand advertisers, according to June data from comScore.