Julian Newman asked on Facebook: Does Google favor sites that have AdSense Ads? The answer is a resounding no. Google’s search rankings are not influenced in any way by their advertising products. In fact if you start using AdSense a little too heavily on your site, Google will penalise your rankings for not having enough […]

Myles Harris asked on Facebook: When redesigning a site and optimising it for SEO, is changing over poor URL’s like ‘/depnum=812’ to ‘/about’ as simple as 301 redirecting?   The short answer Myles is yes. All you need to do to change over old poor URL’s like the one mentioned to a more descriptive and […]

Today’s question comes from Josh Rowe on Twitter who asked: If we’re talking about something similar to the fake profiles you can find anywhere across Twitter then the answer is no. Google+ Pages’ Additional Terms of Service state: “Any Google+ user may create a Google+ Page, but only users with authority over the subject matter […]

Hi Jim, If you built a webpage and blocked it from Google bot via robots.txt file and that same landing page was used for an Adwords campaign, does Google still read that page regardless of the disallow instruction in robot.txt? Is there a separate bot for Adwords and for standard search (SEO)? I assume Google […]