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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 "Submission":

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1. What role does being in DMOZ play in rankings? 786
2. Tips on requesting reconsideration 493
3. Introduction to Video Sitemaps 483
4. How long should it take for my RDFa markup to appear in search results as a Rich Snippet after completing the submission form? 442
5. Are there any APIs available from Google to pullout reports from Google Webmaster Tools? 440
6. 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? 434
7. How does Google determine domain age, and is it important for ranking? 433
8. In addition to using Webmaster Tools to submit an XML sitemap to Google, how important is it to also have a sitemap for users? 402
9. How can Googlebot crawl and index pages that don't have any links to them on my website? 394
10. 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? 283
11. We sell a software product, and there are 100s of software download directories of the web of varying quality. Could submitting our product to all of them hurt our rankings or domain trust/authority? 268

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