How Google Rate Links From Twitter and Facebook
How Does Google Rate Links From Sites Like Twitter and Facebook?
Links from relevant and important websites have always been a great way to get traffic and acceptance for a website in Google. So how doe’s Google really rate links from new platforms like Twitter and Facebook to a website?
In this New Video by Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, answers this question and more.
He brought up a good point in this video. Many people on Facebook has their privacy settings set to “Private” but if you want Google to crawl your FB profile then you should have it set to “Public”
Another interesting thing that Matt said was, a link back to your site from a .gov (Goverment Site) or .edu (Education Site) Does Not carry more weight and will not boost your rankings.
Thank’s Matt for clarifying this up for us.
Carl Kmetz.
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Google’s Matt Cutts Video – Learn More About Robots.txt
If you want to Block or Remove pages from appearing in Google’s search results Google tells you to use tags such as the “ noindex” or “onfollow”. Basically A robots.txt file restricts access to your site by search engine robots that crawl the web.
These bots are automated, and before they access pages of a site, they check to see if a robots.txt file exists that prevents them from accessing certain pages.
You only need to use a robots.txt file only if your website includes content that you don’t want search engines to index. If you want search engines to index everything in your site, you don’t need a robots.txt file (not even an empty one).
So why do many URL’s show up in Google when you blocked it in robots.txt? and How can you make that url disappear from Google?
Matt Cutts who is ahead of Google’s Webspam Team shows you why in this video explaining how Uncrawled
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