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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 "Social Media":

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1. Organic link building, according to me is one of the most difficult tasks for SEOs of SMEs. Can you please list 5 effective ways of organic link building other than building great content? 1,534
2. Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic and acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like Twitter, Facebook to a website? 547
3. Whitehat linkbait 463
4. Is there such a thing as building too many links, if you're following Google's webmaster guidelines exactly? 456
5. Is data about the sites that users block being used in ranking? 449
6. An SEO suggested that I take all the content on my Twitter page and auto-feed it into a section on my website. Will this really help my site's PageRank? 428
7. How can linking remain a major part of a search algorithm when the majority of internet users are unable to post a 'followed' link on the World Wide Web? 399
8. Which search media returns more reliable information: Google or Twitter? 389
9. I'm trying to make my site faster, but I noticed that Facebook widgets slowed them down. Should I remove them? 381
10. What are the factors that go into determining of PageRank of a Twitter page, e.g. it is the followers, backlinks? 381
11. I'm seeing Google PR for some Twitter profiles, even a PR of 4 for someone with less than 50 followers and 100 tweets, whereas for some more meaningful profiles there is no PR. Does PR of Twitter profile pages matter? 368
12. When you search for something, let's say "LinkedIn", you will notice there are some quick links on the search result such as "Jobs, About, Advanced" etc. How does that work? 334
13. Will DiggBar create duplicate content issues? 274
14. Any reason why Google search does not treat the @ symbol differently given the rise of Twitter? 257
15. Is Google doing anything different when it comes to serving up Twitter results? 251
16. I haven't been to any conferences yet this year, I don't live in the valley and I'm not an attractive female. Will my ranking be negatively affected? 224

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