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248 official Google answers to common SEO questions

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 "Paid Links":

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1. What role does being in DMOZ play in rankings? 780
2. What happens if I link to a good page that later becomes spammy? 555
3. Will Google consider Yahoo! Directory and BOTW as sources of paid links? 502
4. Does PageRank flow through image links? 499
5. I have a client who was hacked. The SEO consultant said things were cleaned up, but they weren't correctly. All 30,000 viagra/cialis type and paid links have been removed, but no improvement in SERPs. We send reconsideration. What do we do now? 422
6. Now that Google can crawl JavaScript links, what is going to happen with all those paid links that were behind JavaScript code? 403
7. If a site owner has a personal relationship with another unrelated site in a different nice and adds a link to their site from his, this link looks a LOT like a paid link. Since paid links can harm your site, what is best practice in this situation? 331

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