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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 "Sitemaps":

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1. Introduction to Video Sitemaps 481
2. HTML sitemap vs. XML sitemap. Which one is yummy for Google search engine spider? 474
3. Why does Google crawl/index blogs (specifically sites notified by "WordPress XMLRPC pings") so much faster than a "normal" site submitting a revised Sitemap. What is the impact of that on the overall "quality" of the index? 432
4. In addition to using Webmaster Tools to submit an XML sitemap to Google, how important is it to also have a sitemap for users? 400
5. Will I be penalized for having every file in my XML sitemap listed with the same priority? 398
6. The Sitemap.xml file states there are 10,000 URLs but only 1500 have been indexed. After numerous crawls it does not appear Google is going to index these additional detail pages. What can I do to get Google to index my unique and current detail pages. 396
7. What are Google's plans for indexing the deep web? 360
8. Does Googlebot use inference when spidering - having crawled site.com/article/page1.htm and /page2.htm, can it guess at the existence of a /page3.htm and crawl it? 281
9. What is the best way to deal with BIG sitemaps.xml (e.g. more than 1,000,000 pages)? 271

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