Google Wants You To Tell It Specific Sites To Rank Better

Assuming that Matt Cutts’ Twitter account wasn’t hijacked, Google wants you to tell it if you know of any small sites that should be doing better in Google rankings.

Do you think Google will really listen to this feedback? Do you think many will suggest sites they’re not affiliated with? Let us know what you think in the comments.

If you’ve ever thought Google is giving too much weight to big brands, I guess this is your chance to weigh in on the better alternatives, wait, and see if your suggestion did any good.

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If there's a small website that you think should be doing better in Google, tell us more here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Czwk15Yc_-zcnnlvqTuspEnz2Sn3Aw2JxhkWvoVxVS4/viewform …

12:51 AM - 29 Aug 2013

Cutts points to a form, which says, ‘Google would like to hear feedback about small but high-quality websites that could do better in our search results. To be clear, we’re just collecting feedback at this point; for example, don’t expect this survey to affect any site’s ranking.” Emphasis added.

You simply enter the site, and then in a box, explain to Google what makes it better. Here’s what it looks like:


Hope this information will help you in some way or the other.

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Dumping A Ton Of Pages On The Web, Do It Gradually, Says Matt Cutts

By Amit Rawat

Google posted a new Webmaster Help video today. This time, Matt Cutts addresses a question posed by fellow Googler John Mueller, who asks:

A newspaper company wants to add an archive with 200,000 pages. Should they add it all at once or in steps?Cutts says, “I think we can handle it either way, so we should be able to process it, but if we see a lot of pages or a lot of things ranking on a site all of a sudden, then we might take a look at it from the manual web spam team. So if it doesn’t make any difference whatsoever to you in terms of the timing of the roll-out, I might stage it a little bit, and do it in steps. That way, it’s not as if you’ve suddenly dropped five million pages on the web, and it’s relatively rare to be able to drop hundreds of thousands of pages on the web, and have them be really high quality.”

“An archive of a newspaper is a great example of that,” he adds. “But, if it’s all the same to you, and it doesn’t make that much of a difference, I might tend to do it more in stages, and do more of a gradual roll-out. You could still roll them out in large blocks, but you know, just break that up a little bit.”

So it doesn’t sound like you’re going to have any major problems if you do it all at once (provided you’re not actually spamming Google with low quality content), but you might be raising a red flag with the web spam team, so it’s probably better to err on the side of caution, as Cutts suggests.

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How Google Works - Matt Cutts Video

By Amit Rawat

Matt Cutts in this video explaining how does Google works. The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here's how it all works.

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Does Google still need text to understand my site?

Google’s latest Webmaster Help video discusses Google’s need for text in indexing content. Matt Cutts responds to a question about how important text is in getting Google to understand their site. The user has a site that is mostly made up of images, and says that users like it better, bounce rate has declined, and conversions are up.

“Google does still want text,” he says. “So there’s a couple options. One is: if you have an image that you’ve made of some text that’s really beautiful, you can include some textual content there. You can sort of say, ‘alt,’ you know, or the title – that sort of thing. So you can say, for an image, here’s some text to go along with that, and that can help.”

He goes on to say that one reason a site might be having more user interaction, time on site, conversions, etc., is because it’s prettier. “And we see that,” he says. “Better design can help people enjoy and use your site more.”

He also suggests considering Google Web Fonts.

By Ami Rawat

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Google: PageRank Dilution Through A 301 Redirect Is A Myth

Just under three years ago, we reported that 301 redirects don’t pass full PageRank and that you should try to link through a normal link versus using 301 redirects.

The truth is, a 301 redirect and a link pass the same amount of PageRank. There is no more dilution of PageRank with a 301 redirect when compared to using a normal link.

Matt Cutts squashed this myth that I believe many SEOs thought to be true, today in a video:



Here Matt Cutts says:

The amount of Page Rank that dissipates through a 301 is currently identical to the amount of PageRank that dissipates through a link.

So the myth that you should not use 301 redirects because it will dissipate more PageRank than using a normal link is not valid.

Posted by: Amit Rawat on 26th Feb'2013

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How does Google search work?

Matt Cutts, explain how Google's ranking and website evaluation process works starting with the crawling and indexing.....

Posted by: Amit Rawat on 12th Feb'2013

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Matt Cutts - 2012 Korea Webmaster Conference

The 2012 Webmaster Conference was held in Korea on Jan 30, 2012. Matt Cutts was the main guest speaker and gave a presentation

Posted by: Amit Rawat on 12th Feb'2013

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