Matt Cutts: There is this spectrum where on one side a site w3c validates, it’s very clean and I encourage it but you don’t get a ranking boost. On the other end of the spectrum there are people who make really, really sloppy errors. They are coding a site by hand and might not close their tables, they might have lots of nested tables.
So what we try to do, we
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Matt Cutts: Wow, good question. Not that I am aware of. We will index millions of pages if we think a site is sufficiently good and has a sufficient amount of content.
You are very unlikely to bump up against a limit in our index. It’s purely how useful we think your pages are, which is determined in large part by how much PageRank you have, how many people link to
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Matt Cutts: We always try to maximize the relevancy and accuracy of our index. And you’d want to make a distinction between crawling and indexing because sitemap submission does not guarantee that we will crawl the URLs on that list.
It is helpful to help us discover new URLs or to make canonicalization decisions, but we don’t guarantee you that if you submit a sitemap we’ll go and crawl it.
There have
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