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Google's Matt Cutts answers SEO questions

Matt Cutts works for the search quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He is well known in the SEO community for enforcing the Google Webmaster Guidelines and cracking down on link spam.

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All questions about the topic "Meta Tags":

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1. Does Google use the "keywords" meta tag? 2,633
2. Uncrawled URLs in search results 533
3. How do meta geo tags influence the search results? 518
4. In the search results, Google will often display a snippet appropriate to the specific search query - often disregarding the meta description. Is Google doing away with meta description use like they die with meta keywords? 517
5. How would a photographer gain any significant PageRank for his or her site when the subject that really matters-images-has no anchor text? 480
6. Can you think of any reason whatsoever to validate spending more than 5 minutes creating meta keywords? 460
7. It seems that having relevant keywords in URLs is very helpful. Does Google give higher importance to keywords in the path vs. filename? 411
8. Specifying an image's license using RDFa 394
9. Can Google provide a way to mark a section of our pages as being less important for being indexed/snippeted by Google? 393
10. Say your index page has been cached by Google and then you change the meta description. How long does it take for a Google bot to recrawl that page? 366
11. If Google crawls 1,000 pages/day, Googlebot crawling many dupe content pages may slow down indexing of a large site. In that scenario, do you recommend blocking dupes using robots.txt or is using Meta Robots noindex,nofollow a better alternative? 351
12. How would Google consider (and rank) a site that uses meta data and URLs in a language (Italian) and has the H1 of the pages in another (English) considered more appealing for users? 324
13. Does Google take into account the URL of an image when searching e.g. could domain.com/cats/lolcatz/m.jpg appear in a Google search for 'lolcatz'? 319
14. An orphanage website I work on is showing up for searches on "girls in bathrooms" because they have an article about renovating the girls' bathroom! What do you think of the idea of a negative keyword meta tag to block irrelevant searches? 299
15. If search engines rely primarily on textual analysis, how can a site that focuses on audio, video, or other non-textual content improve its rankings? 282
16. Will DiggBar create duplicate content issues? 277
17. In some queries I can see the date of the post/article in the description snippet (at Google search). Can I tell Google not to use it? 271

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