SEO Tip #42: What impact does “page bloat” have on Google rankings?

SEO Tip #42: What impact does “page bloat” have on Google rankings?

Matt Cutts: I wouldn’t jump to conclusions. You know back in the early days of Google we used to truncate out about a hundred kilobytes, and so if you had a “page bloat” back then I could imagine that your content might get snipped off halfway through where you wouldn’t see all of it. But Google does a much better job of seeing the entire page now. We don’t truncate at
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SEO Tip #36: What impact does server location have on rankings?

SEO Tip #36: What impact does server location have on rankings?

Matt Cutts: Well, way, way back in the dawn of Google it was funny because people would rank in different countries based only on the tld, .fr meant you were French but that’s all that they knew. Back in 2001-2001 type time frame we started to look at where a server was located, it’s IP address to say, “Well it doesn’t end in .fr but it is located in France according
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