Monthly Archives: January 2014

YouTube Gives New Comment Management Page To Connect With Audience

Google’s video-sharing website has fast-tracked the development of a new comment management page that will let you view, respond to, and moderate your YouTube comments under one hub.

The new page is also designed to remove comments, flag comments for spam or abuse, give a thumb up, or click over to the video watch page and reply. There will also be able to click through to access the watch page of videos commented on.

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YouTube creators noticed an unfavorable increase in comment spam, among other things, forcing YouTube to issue a service-wide update that would fix the problem. YouTube also promised to issue more updates in the future for managing comments. With today’s update, however, YouTube has launched an improved comment management experience.

Google is also set to add some new options to the comment management page, including replying inline or expanding all replies. These new options will be available within the new page in a near future.

Article original Source: searchengine-marketing.in

Matt Cutts Released a Video on How to Handle Minor Duplicate Content Issues

Matt Cutts answers a question about duplicate content in his latest webmaster help video where a user writes in to ask “If you had to deal with short-term duplicated content on a news site (perhaps publishing a story on two different URLs over one day), what would you do in order to avoid any penalty from a duplicate content filter?”

Google’s major search engine function is to offer a customer the best possible results for a search, based upon the search term (keywords) that the customer has used in the Google search box. While the story is breaking Matt says it’s understandable that you’ll have multiple instances of that story spread across the web. When things settle down, having a “rel=canonical” tag in place indicates the preferred location on the web where you would like that information to sit.

Cutts also did say that 25% of the web is duplicative, so you really don’t have to worry about it.

For more information to the question in his own words, see the video below: