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<\/p>\nMonday, March 15, 2010<\/p>\n
\n Members of the Google Search Quality Team have participated in site clinic panels on a number of
\n occasions. We receive a lot of positive feedback from these events and we’ve been thinking of ways
\n to expand our efforts to reach even more webmasters. We decided to organize a small pilot site
\n clinic at Google in Dublin, and opened the invitation to webmasters from the neighborhood. The
\n response we received was overwhelming and exceeded our expectations.\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n Meet the Googlers who hosted the site clinic: \n It was fantastic to see the large turnout and we would like to share the These are some questions we came across, along with the advice shared:<\/p>\n I have 3 blogs with the same content, is that a problem?<\/i><\/p>\n \n If the content is identical, it’s likely only one of the blogs will rank for it. Also, with \n \n No one can make that promise; therefore the short answer is no, you should not. However, we \n \n Depending on the topic of your site and expectations of the target group, you might consider Would you advise to use the rewrite URL function?<\/i><\/p>\n \n Some users may like seeing descriptive URLs in the search results. However, it’s quite hard If I used the geo-targeting tool for Ireland, is Northern Ireland included?<\/i><\/p>\n \n Google Webmaster Tools geo-targeting works on a country basis, which means that Northern Is there any preference between TLDs like .com and .info in ranking?<\/i><\/p>\n No, there is none. Our focus is on the content of the site.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n \n .so<\/span> is the Internet country code top-level domain for Somalia. \n We would like to thank all participants for their time and effort. It was a pleasure to help you Monday, March 15, 2010 Members of the Google Search Quality Team have participated in site clinic panels on a number of occasions. We receive a lot of positive feedback from these events and we’ve been thinking of ways to expand our efforts to reach even more webmasters. We decided to organize a small pilot site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":85317,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[665],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-24336","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=24336"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=24336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Anu Ilomaki<\/a>,
\n Alfredo Pulvirenti,
\n Adel Saoud<\/a>,
\n Fili Wiese<\/a>,
\n Kaspar Szymanski<\/a>
\n and
\n Uli Lutz<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\n slides<\/a>
\n presented as well as the takeaways.\n<\/p>\n\n
\n this scattered of an effortwith this scattered of an effort chances are your incoming links
\n will be distributed across the different blogs, instead of pointing to one source. Therefore
\n you’re running the risk of both users and search engines not knowing which of your blogs is
\n the definitive source. You can mitigate that by redirecting to the preferred version or using
\n the
\n cross domain canonical<\/a>
\n to point to one source.\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n Should I believe SEO agencies that promise to make my site rank first in Google in a few
\n months and with a precise number of links?
\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n
\n have some great tips on how to find a trustworthy SEO
\n in our Help Center<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n There are keywords that are relevant for my website, but they’re inappropriate to be shown
\n in the content for example, because they could be misunderstood, slang or offensive. How can
\n I show the relevance to Google?
\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n
\n actually using these keywords in a positive way, for example, explaining their meaning and
\n showing your users you’re an authority on the subject. However if the words are plain abusive
\n and completely inappropriate for your website, it’s rather questionable whether the traffic
\n resulting from these search queries is interesting for your website anyway.\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n to correctly create and maintain rewrites that change dynamic URLs to static-looking URLs.
\n That’s why, generally speaking, we don’t recommend rewriting them. If you still want to give
\n it a try, please be sure to remove unnecessary parameters while maintaining a dynamic-looking
\n URL and have a close look at our
\n blog post on this topic<\/a>. And
\n if you don’t, keep in mind that
\n we might still make your URLs look readable<\/a>
\n in our search results no matter how weird they actually are.\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n Ireland would not be targeted if the setting was Republic of Ireland. One possible solution
\n is to create a separate site or part of a website for Northern Ireland and to geo-target this
\n site to the United Kingdom in Webmaster Tools.\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n I have a website on a dot SO (.so<\/span>) domain name with content
\n meant for the Republic of Ireland. Will this hurt my rankings in the Irish search results?
\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n
\n This is one factor we look into not pointing to the desired destination. But we do look at a
\n larger number of factors when ranking your website. The extension of the domain name is just
\n one of these. Your website can still rank in the Irish search results if you have
\n topic-specific content. However, keep in mind that it may take our algorithms a little bit
\n longer to fully understand where to best serve your website in our search results.\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\n and we hope that it was beneficial for you, too. For any remaining questions, please don’t
\n hesitate to join the
\n community on our GWHF<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n