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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 "Snippets":

Question Views
1. Does Google use the "keywords" meta tag? 2,607
2. What role does being in DMOZ play in rankings? 783
3. Uncrawled URLs in search results 531
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? 514
5. Can I tell Google not to display the date in my site's snippets? 505
6. Can you think of any reason whatsoever to validate spending more than 5 minutes creating meta keywords? 458
7. How long should it take for my RDFa markup to appear in search results as a Rich Snippet after completing the submission form? 440
8. Are title and description tags helpful to increase the organic CTR - clicks generated from organic (unpaid) search - which in turn will help in better ranking with a personalized search perspective? 408
9. Can Google provide a way to mark a section of our pages as being less important for being indexed/snippeted by Google? 389
10. How does Google handle ligatures, soft-hyphens, interpuncts and hyphenation points? 374
11. I use "description tags". Still, Google search results often start with a date or alter the description snippet. Is there any way of controlling this? 290
12. When do you reckon Rich Snippets will be made widely available? 276
13. 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? 267

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