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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 "Page Speed":

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1. Improving website performance with Page Speed 1,114
2. Should I disallow Googlebot from crawling slower pages? 515
3. If I use Google Analytics to track conversions on my ecommerce website, would that have a negative effect in Google SERP? 448
4. PHP performance tips 447
5. What impact do site load times have on Google rankings? 444
6. Optimizing web graphics. 432
7. Since we're hearing a lot of talk about the implications of Page Speed, I wonder if Google still cares as much about relevancy? 429
8. HTTP caching 423
9. With the recent news about website speed being included in the Google metrics, how will Google allow for slow third party ad servers (including AdWords) dragging a site's load speed down? 410
10. How gzip works 407
11. Many SEOs are obsessed about your speed comments, but I get the feeling speed will be a very minor component in ranking. Am I right, or should I be obsessing about load times as well? 392
12. I'm trying to make my site faster, but I noticed that Facebook widgets slowed them down. Should I remove them? 381
13. Optional HTML tags 352
14. What impact does "page bloat" have on Google rankings? 348
15. Google announced page load speed matters for ranking. Should we be doing content-only pages for Google bots? 347
16. Optimizing the order of scripts and styles 343
17. Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? 327
18. Prefetching resources 323
19. Minimizing browser flow 319
20. Are Chrome's 'usage statistics' used in evaluating site speed? 255
21. How does Google calculate site load times in the data it exposes in Google's webmaster statistics? 230

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