Archive for May, 2009


Google SEO Tip #29 – How many pages can Google index from a single site?

TweetMatt Cutts: Wow, good question. Not that I am aware of. We will index millions of pages if we think a site is sufficiently good and has a sufficient amount of content. You are very unlikely to bump up against a limit in our index. It’s purely how useful we think your pages are, which [...]

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Google SEO Tip #28 – How can new pages get indexed quickly?

TweetMatt Cutts: Well the simplest answer is to get more links. We can index a page within second, certainly within minutes, if we find, for example, that CNN is linking we’ll crawl that very, very quickly. So we can find new content quite quickly. If you have a blog or something like that we’ll come [...]

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Google SEO Tip #27 – More than one H1 on a page: good or bad?

TweetMatt Cutts: Well, if there’s a logical reason to have multiple sections it’s not so bad to have multiple H1s. I would pay attention to overdoing it. If your entire page is H1, that looks pretty cruddy right? So don’t do all H1 and then use CSS to make it look like regular text. We [...]

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Google SEO Tip #26 – Why is the @ character ignored in search queries?

TweetMatt Cutts: Well, historically, that was a deliberate choice because we didn’t want to index an email address, at least I think it was a deliberate choice. You don’t want somebody scraping Google to find a bunch of email addresses. So it’s kind of nice not to index the @ sign. It depends. I could [...]

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Google SEO Tip #25 – What impact does server location have on rankings?

TweetMatt Cutts: Well, way, way back in the dawn of Google it was funny because people would rank in different countries based only on the tld, .fr meant you were French but that’s all that they knew. Back in 2001-2001 type time frame we started to look at where a server was located, it’s IP [...]

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Google SEO Tip #24 – Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?

TweetMatt Cutts: Frankly I wouldn’t worry about it. We see tables, we see CSS, and we have to handle both. We try to score them well no matter what kind of layout mechanism you use. Frankly I would use what’s best for you. A lot of people these days tend to like CSS because it’s [...]

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Google SEO Tip #23 – Will domain registration changes ding me in Google?

TweetMatt Cutts: My answer is no, probably not. Certainly people need to change their information. Sometimes they change registrars. That’s completely normal. That’s completely expected behavior. The only times that we try to really keep an eye on that is if we think someone as a spammer might be trying to buy someone’s domain only [...]

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Google SEO Tip #22 – Can the geographic location of a web server affect SEO?

TweetMatt Cutts: Yes it does because we look at the IP address of your web server. So if your web server is based in Germany we’re more likely to think that it’s useful for German users. That’s not the only country we’re going to return you for and we also look at the TLDs. So [...]

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Google SEO Tip #21 – What are your views on PageRank sculpting?

TweetMatt Cutts: Well I wouldn’t say it’s unethical, because it’s stuff on your website you’re allowed to control how PageRank flows around within your site. I would say that it’s not the first thing that I would work on. I would work on getting more links, having higher quality content, those are always the sorts [...]

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Google SEO Tip #20 – Star Wars or Star Trek?

TweetMatt Cutts: Star Wars! Sorry Star Trek folks but there’s like 50,000 movies. Admittedly, Clone Wars, okay well I can see both sides. I’ve always been a bit of a Star Wars fan and I don’t even know all the Star Trek trivia, but there are good points to both sides.

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