Presentations from the recent Google Third Chat session
Google recently hosted their third webmaster chat event allowed some question time between webmasters and Google employees.
Below are a couple of the presentations from the event:
John’s slides on “Frightening Webmastering Myths”:
Jonathan’s slides on “Using the Not Found errors report in Webmaster Tools”:
Maile’s slides on “Where We’re Coming From”:
Much of the documents, in particular the frightening webmaster myths are pretty common sense, with only the following point standing out.
- Duplicate Content will penalise your site – Google say this is a myth. However I would add this is a very generalised way of looking at it. Whilst Google are good at establising internal content duplication – people aren’t – and when many people talk about duplicate content (well me anyhow) – it is the human factor that is important. After all Google isn’t potentially giving me valuable linkage back – a human is – and if he links to the wrong site, I stand the chance of getting no significant benefit at all. Secondly, if I have hundreds of duplicated pages (or even four or five), which one is authoratitive. Providing one copy to a user reduces the chance of that link going somewhere irrelevant – surely good for both users and search engines?
Duplicate content still doesn’t matter?
The Google Webmaster Central blog has announced they have posted a review of the live chat session.
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