A question was posed to Matt Cutts of Google the other day through Google Webmaster Central, “Are links in footers treated differently to paragraph links?” An interesting question indeed. If you look back to Google’s original Page Rank documents they say that the Page Rank was distributed uniformly throughout the web page. However, Google’s algorithm …
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Whiteboard Friday – Matt Cutts on NoFollow
Jen Lopez gets a quick interview with Matt Cutts and asks the question on the NoFollow rule. There has been much debate on the NoFollow rule of late since the publishing that there is proof that Google is indexing websites through Wikipedia, which has all outgoing links set as NoFollow. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Matt …
Google testing next-generation infrastructure
Google has released a statement in their blog that their team of Googlers have been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. The search engine attempts to increase the size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. There isn’t a noticable difference between searches as the infrastructure sits “under the …
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