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| bio | website | johnmu.com |
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| location | Switzerland | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 10 months |
| seen | May 14 at 20:08 | |
| stats | profile views | 1,276 |
Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Switzerland. I work together with the web-search engineers and the webmaster-support team to help webmasters to make awesome content that search engines can understand and recommend.
I primarily post in the Google Webmaster Help forums (in English & German). You can also catch me on Google+, occasionally even in live hangouts :-).
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Oct 3 |
answered | SEO - Hidden content before main site content |
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Sep 26 |
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Does loading images from a server that disallows robots affect SEO? The Instant Preview for that page will probably break or not be visible, but otherwise there shouldn't be any effect on the web-page (the images just won't be indexed). |
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Sep 25 |
answered | How to Keep SEO Score from Dropping with Duplicate Content |
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Sep 25 |
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Why did my Feedburner feedcount reset to zero and how can I restore it? Feedburner is not shut down. |
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Sep 25 |
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Does google contribute ranking from cdn.example.com to example.com? Yeah, it's not going to change things either way. Don't do the CDN for SEO, do it for your users. |
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Sep 19 |
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Incorrect Google Profile Results You'd probably need to ask (and provide the details) in the Google+ help forum: productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-plus-discuss |
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Sep 12 |
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How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name? Also, these things are generated algorithmically. Over time, as users "demand" to see this website directly (ignoring the suggestion), the algorithms will learn not to provide those kinds of suggestions. |
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Sep 12 |
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Robots.txt: do I need to disallow a page which is not linked anywhere? Also, social media buttons (Like/Share/+1/various bookmarks) also fetch the content and may display the URL, title, and snippet in a public way, even if the URL has a noindex on it (or is disallowed by robots.txt). The only way to prevent that is to use authentication. |
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Sep 12 |
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Robots.txt: do I need to disallow a page which is not linked anywhere? One thing to keep in mind is if this is really something confidential, then "hiding" it with a URL is a bad practice regardless of the method that you choose. Using proper authentication is really important in a case like that. |
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Sep 12 |
answered | Subdomains vs. subdirectory – status as of 2012. |
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Jul 28 |
answered | I'm using a vanity ccTLD, can I persuade Google to geotarget a different region? |
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Jul 18 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jun 19 |
answered | Why do my Google sitelinks show gibberish for a PDF link? |
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Jun 7 |
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Can Google tell the difference between a link in a blog post and a link in a blog comment? Recognizing different sections on pages is definitely possible in some cases. However, trying to determine the weight of links in those sections is over-thinking it in my opinion. If you're a blog owner, and people post links in their comments, then you can add the rel=nofollow if you don't want to vouch for those links. Past that, keep in mind that comments can also be very important content (including their links). |
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Jun 7 |
answered | How to remove spam links from google? |
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Jun 2 |
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Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial? @Franz There are sometimes details involved which make it hard to reproduce the indexed URL count with site:-queries. For example, there are situations where we might combine multiple URLs and only show one of them for a site:-query. So if you see a difference there, it's usually not worth worrying about. |
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May 30 |
awarded | Editor |
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May 30 |
revised |
Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial? added some notes about issues discovered when crawling a site to find URLs for a Sitemap file. |
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May 30 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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May 30 |
awarded | Mortarboard |
