Q&A With Google’s Matt Cutts On How Google Choose Title While Searching?

Excellent explanation by Google’s Head of Search Spam Matt Cutts on the question –  How Does Google Choose Titles for Search Results?

To hear Matt’s full explanation, please see the video below

Here, Pierre Far, explains why Google may pick a different title tag

In a Google+ post he gives the short version:

▬ Our algorithms generate thee alternative titles so that your page is no longer constrained with having just the one title for all the different queries your page ranks for. This has the nice side effect of making the result look more relevant to our searchers and..

▬ On average, the alternative titles increase the click through rate on the results, i.e. more traffic for you.

▬ The <title> tag is still a primary source for titles we show so all our advice about make them concise and useful and enticing still very much apply. Keep an eye on the HTML Suggestions page in the Diagnostics section in Webmaster Tools for title suggestions.

Bottom Line

The shorter a title, the better is its chance to be displayed in the SERPs. Good to know for the SERP CTR fetishists among us.

Checked with reference to the documents mentioned below…

• YouTube Google Webmaster: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp
• Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
• Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Alok Raghuwanshi is an India-based SEO Professional, and author of an SEO and social media marketing blog. Take a look and let me know what you think by including your comment below. Thank you and have a great day.

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Video: Matt Cutts On SEO Drawbacks Using Responsive Design Vs Separate Mobile URLs

Is there an SEO disadvantage to using responsive design instead of separate mobile URLs?

Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts from discussing it further in a new Webmaster Help Video in response to the user-submitted question:

Does a site leveraging responsive design “lose” any SEO benefit compared to a more traditional m. site?
John E, New York

Here is the video for you all to watch:

RT @mattcutts: New video: “Is there an SEO disadvantage to using responsive design instead of separate mobile URLs?” http://t.co/zrEQbM3AJu

— Alok Raghuwanshi (@araghuwanshi6) November 7, 2013

Video Transcription

Whenever you have a site that can work well for regular browsers on the desktop as well as mobile phones, there’s a couple completely valid ways to do it. One is called responsive design, and responsive design just means that the page works totally fine whether you access that URL with a desktop browser or whether you access that URL with a mobile browser. Things will rescale, you know, the page size will be taken into account, and everything works fine. Another way to do it is, depending on the user agent that’s coming, you could do a redirect so that a mobile phone – a mobile smartphone, for example – might get redirected to a mobile dot version of your page, and that’s totally fine as well.”

Read our guidelines for mobile-optimized sites: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/

This includes things like having a rel=”canonical” from the mobile version to the desktop version, and stuff like that. In general, I wouldn’t worry about a site that uses responsive design losing SEO benefit(s) because by definition, you’ve got the same URL, so in theory, if you do a mobile version of your site, if you don’t handle that well and you don’t do the rel=’canonical’ and all those sorts of things, you might, in theory, divide the PageRank between those two pages, but if you’ve got responsive design, everything is handled from one URL, and so the PageRank doesn’t get divided. Everything works fine, so you don’t need to worry about the SEO drawbacks at all.

Checked with reference to the documents mentioned below…

• YouTube Google Webmaster: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp
• Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
• Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Bottom Line

I am thankful that he confirmed my some doubts on this. Having a good responsive design won’t harm your search engine results. But, however, if you use a separate mobile version in the form of m.domain.com, unless you manage every thing accurately, you could possibly harm your ranking.

I saw this news on Matt Cutts on Twitter  and then “SHARE” it on Google+…I received excellent information,  he explained this point very well….!!

Alok Raghuwanshi is an India-based SEO Professional, and author of an SEO and social media marketing blog. Take a look and let me know what you think by including your comment below. Thank you and have a great day.

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Video: Matt Cutts On Lots of Index Pages Can Change the Rank better

Does a site rank better if it has a lot of indexed pages?

Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts from discussing it further in a new Webmaster Help Video in response to the user-submitted question:

Does a website get a better overall ranking if it has a large amount of indexed pages?
Leah, New York

Here is the video for you all to watch:

RT @mattcutts: New webmaster video: “Does a site rank better if it has a lot of indexed pages?” http://t.co/jHzkLyPK5t

— Alok Raghuwanshi (@araghuwanshi6) October 28, 2013

Checked with reference to the documents mentioned below…

• YouTube Google Webmaster: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp
• Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
• Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

I saw this news on Matt Cutts on Twitter  and then “SHARE” it on Google+…I received excellent information,  he explained this point very well….!!

Alok Raghuwanshi is an India-based SEO Professional, and author of an SEO and social media marketing blog. Take a look and let me know what you think by including your comment below. Thank you and have a great day.

Video: Matt Cutts On In Term of SEO How you Can Differentiate Strong From B Tags

Is there a difference between the  “strong”and & “b” tags in terms of SEO?

Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts from discussing it further in a new Webmaster Help Video in response to the user-submitted question:

In terms of SEO, what is the difference between strong tag and bold tag for emphasis on certain words of text. From the user perspective, both tags have the same effect (words in bold). Which tag should we use, in which circumstances? Jean-Marc G, Paris, France

Here is the video for you all to watch:

Today’s webmaster video: “Is there a difference between the ‘strong’ and ‘b’ tags in terms of SEO?” http://t.co/iL7nKlCPKv

— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) October 21, 2013

Checked with reference to the documents mentioned below…

• YouTube Google Webmaster: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp
• Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
• Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

I saw this news on Matt Cutts on Twitter  and then “SHARE” it on Google+…I received excellent information,  he explained this point very well….!!

Alok Raghuwanshi is an India-based SEO Professional, and author of an SEO and social media marketing blog. Take a look and let me know what you think by including your comment below. Thank you and have a great day.

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Video: Matt Cutts On How can I guest blog without it appearing as if I paid for links?

Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts from discussing it further in a new Webmaster Help Video in response to the user-submitted question:

How can I guest blog without it looking like I pay for links?
Ben Holland, Phoenix, AZ

Here is the video for you all to watch:

Today’s webmaster video: “How can I guest blog without it appearing as if I paid for links?” http://t.co/bWuRZZs58u

— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) October 16, 2013

Checked with reference to the documents mentioned below…

• YouTube Google Webmaster: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp
• Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
• Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

I saw this news on Matt Cutts on Twitter and then “SHARE” it on Google+…I received excellent information,  he explained this point very well….!!

Alok Raghuwanshi is an India-based SEO Professional, and author of an SEO and social media marketing blog. Take a look and let me know what you think by including your comment below. Thank you and have a great day.

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