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

• 00:38 Question from Hangout user: Does Panda take links into consideration....John: no it is more about quality of content...don't focus on links
• 01:25 Question Posted: How long to wait for rel=alternate and page level annotations to be found...have to crawl all variations of the pages before can use it in search results
• 03:16 Question Posted: will back links lose value over time? John: yes and rate of decrease depends on type of site link is coming from
• 04:38 Question from Hangout user: is buying an aged domain a good idea? depends
• 06:47 Question from Hangout user: more about buying domains and old sites linking to you
• 10:08 Question from Hangout user: are there signals about age of domain and relevance of page? no not really but depends on site and type
• 11:40 Question from Hangout user: do Google look at domain purchases...yes but not really at the ownership level
• 12:40 Question from Hangout user: question about 301 redirects how long does it take.... depends
• 14:45 Question Posted: Can banned domains be fixed?... yes it is possible
• 21:42 Question Posted: if I loose access to webmaster tools does the data remain in disavow file
• 22:36 Question Posted: do EMD update only hit certain queries with transactional volume
• 26:00 Question from Hangout user: discussion of the length of time between updates
• 27:11 Question from Hangout user: question about drupal urls
• 29:33 Question Posted: are some domains banned for life...no Google likes to admit all back