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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 "SERPs":

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1. Should I disallow Googlebot from crawling slower pages? 522
2. Can you confirm if the Google SERPs are moving to AJAX, if so how do you think it will affect analytics which rely on the keyword information being in the URL? 520
3. Can I tell Google not to display the date in my site's snippets? 507
4. Will Google remove a page that I don't like from its search results? 464
5. Is it good to put a "coming soon" page for new domains? 461
6. Does Google try to return results based on signals other than popularity? 456
7. If I use Google Analytics to track conversions on my ecommerce website, would that have a negative effect in Google SERP? 450
8. 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? 425
9. A site for my client's competitor shows up on a SERP for keywords that never show up in the site anywhere (not even hidden in the source code). How is this even possible, and isn't this spam? 419
10. Can Google provide a way to mark a section of our pages as being less important for being indexed/snippeted by Google? 391
11. Google is showing breadcrumb URLs in SERPs now. Does the delimiter matter? 368
12. Does stripping file extensions from URLs (site.com/folder/page.html versus site.com/folder/page) have demonstrable benefit in the SERPs? 367
13. Do your SERPs return the exact same results on all browsers? 359
14. If it appears that your site has been penalized in SERP position, but you have done nothing wrong and cannot diagnose what the problem is, how do you proceed? 355
15. Why are the UK SERPs still really poor with irrelevant non UK sites (US/AUS/NZ) ranking very high Google.co.uk since early June? 345
16. Any updates on "site hierarchies display in search results" (aka breadcrumbs)? 314
17. I bought a domain 7 months ago. The website I put on it still doesn't show in the SERPs. Since 2000 it's had different owners - used by a co. in Oz, it's then served ads, then "for sale" with a company for 4ish years. Will it have trust issues in Google? 296
18. Is there a minimum number of spam complaints about a domain and/or SERP before Google reviews the complaint? 220
19. Love the new "real time" results displaying on SERP. Is it possible to distinguish these from the other results with a different background colour or surrounding border? 217
20. What's the deal with the state of the UK SERPs? 22

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