Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Want to know what's new on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:
As part of Google's goal to make the web faster, we uploaded several video tips about optimizing the speed of your website. Check out the tutorials page to view the tutorials and associated videos.
Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:
- What are some best practices for moving to a new CMS?
- Is over-optimization bad for a website?
- Will having my software listed in low-quality directories harm my website's ranking?
- Can the geographic location of a web server affect SEO?
- Will I be penalized if all of my Sitemap URLs have the same priority?
And during Adam Lasnik's visit to India, he was interviewed by Webmaster Help Forum guide Jayan Tharayil about issues related to webmasters in India. We have the full three-part interview right here.
We'll get you started on this batch of videos with Matt's tips for targeting your site to a specific region:
Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the Webmaster Help Forum.
6 comments:
Having listened to Matt confirm what has already been assumed for quite some time I am completely baffled by Google's decision to factor the server location into ranking factors.
Being the owner of a site using a .co.uk tld since 2001 I believe I am penalized by Google to a certain degree for having such a domain.
When the domain was first registered I knew no better. My site content is global and isn't aimed specifically at any one region.
Another mistake from knowing little was my hosting company - be it all branded UK - actually hosts the servers in Germany.
Again another negative.
Now I could correct all this via webmaster tools, allowing me to inform Google my site has a global audience, however, the geographic target setting is locked to the UK and have never had the option of setting or changing this.
My #1 complaint is the site ranks pretty well on most google tld's and country specifics (.co.uk .fr etc) except the USA or google.com
I'd love to hear some official feedback on this.
Thanks
Mick
What about local results? When I host my domain at GoDaddy, it may be in California but my company is in Florida... Does that matter?
Also I have FR (Fast and Reliable, not FRENCH) in my domain name it is at the beginning of the domainname, will Goog think this is a French site even though I have selected US in WMT?
Thanks!
thanks a lot,
some clear answers about known SEO issues
thanks Matt
hi
Nice article and youtube video clears the issues of the seo.
I would interested to hear how this would affect sites using content distributions networks (CDN) like Akamai. Is a CDN going to cause ranking issues in this instance?
Thanks Matt.
could you explain sometime, why a google sitemap.xml getting error or google is unable to detect this.
Hope to hear from you.
Please send me the link of answer at my email ram@jobs2india.com
Thanks again.
Ram Ashish,
Global Associates,
Kolkata, India
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