Google's Matt Cutts Stops By WebmasterWorld After Three Years Of Silence

Google's Matt Cutts Stops By WebmasterWorld After Three Years Of Silence

The last time Matt Cutts of Google posted something at WebmasterWorld
was over three years ago on January 4, 2011. He broke his silence
there yesterday posting in a private member-only WebmasterWorld thread.

Why does this matter? I am not sure but he was the infamous GoogleGuy at WebmasterWorld
for years and years. Not posting there, which was like a home to
Cutts, for three years, is a pretty long time. Of course, Matt is busy
helping webmasters at a larger scale with his videos and blog posts.

What
did Matt post? I won't share all the details of the thread exactly,
since it is a private thread. But I will say a large site (which was
unnamed) accidentally blocked themselves with a robots.txt file and was
looking for ways to get reindexed quickly. Matt suggested to use the
Fetch as Googlebot feature to expedite things.

Here is a screen cap of what Matt wrote:



So the tip is useful in that we know Fetch as GoogleBot can expedite some indexing.



by Barry Schwartz