How can linking remain a major part of a search algorithm when the majority of Internet users are unable to post a ‘followed’ link on the World Wide Web? For example Twitter, Facebook, wiki etc. are all ‘nofollow’. It seems only a very small percentage of links count. Ed, Caribbean
Following your interview with Eric Enge – you mention about “If Modified-Since.” We worked on many websites whereby the actual file timestamp doesn’t change but the content does as the pages are database-driven. How should we deal with such situations? Tommo, London, UK
Is there a good way to kick off a feed in Google Reader by doing something like temporarily making the feed include a whole bunch of old content? Is it desirable to do something like that? Stephen B, Belton, MO
On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Mharris from New York asked: Does anchor text carry through all 301 redirects? Will there be a penalty for sites that do this as their sole way of link building?
It seems that having relevant keywords in URLs is
very helpful. Does Google give higher importance to keywords in the path vs filename? E.g. http://example.com/tools/hammers/acme-metal-pounder or http://example.com/tools-hammers-acme-metal-pounder? Alex Black, Waterloo, Canada
When you search for something, lets say “LinkedIn,” you will notice there are some quick links on the search result such as “Jobs, About, Advanced” etc, how does that work? Assuming my website is #1 on the search results, how can I do that? Mohamed M, Ottawa, Canada