Streamed live on Oct 29, 2012 Click More for topics & timeline:

• 00:31 Question from Hangout user: I optimized my website for devices using user agent....are there signals to let google know this? John discussed responsive design or separate site.... using rel=alternate is best way to let Google know it is smartphone content
• 04:10 Question Posted: question on coding
• 05:16 Question Posted: discussion about traffic sources being used for ranking
• 06:07 Question Posted: Can you fix penalized sites...John: yes
• 06:50 Question Posted: are duplicate descriptions penalized...no the tag is ignored at worst
• 09:13 Question Posted: will Google ever make a sitemap generator to help webmasters? John: no we are indexing the site to generate the map
• 12:40 Question from Hangout user: discussion of advantage to using a sitemap
• 16:29 Question from Hangout user: myth of sitemap being harmful
• 17:57 Question Posted: should I worry Google doesn't index my home page daily....not every site is indexed daily...depends on changes
• 20:24 from Hangout user:do spammy pages get crawled at same rate as other pages .... John: yes
• 22:55 Question Posted: does Google Page layout algo affect only sites with ads above the fold? "primarily" ads John: would not discuss if Google could tell what was an ad.... lots of pussyfooting
• 24:35 Matt Storms basically admits to ratting on a Joomla plugin developer
• 24:44 Question from Hangout user: does Google use cookies...John no it blocks the bot
• 25:41 Question Posted:  could you tell us how Google decides to ignore links or penalize? John: I don't know!
• 25:56 Question Posted: discussion about multiple H2 tags is good or bad.... really?
• 25:56 Question Posted: discussion of using flash instead of images for GooPLA affected sites... John: now talks about content above the fold not just ads...                             Editor.... CONFUSING as FCK!
• 31:34 Question Posted: discussion of href lang
• 32:09 Question from Hangout user: is page rank sculpting still recommended...never was... it was never needed... we figure it out...
•  33:49 Question from Hangout user:  is it better to use noindex or just 404? depends on if useful for user...