SEO Tip #130: Which Websites Are Popular Among Googlers?

SEO Tip #130: Which Websites Are Popular Among Googlers?

Matt Cutts: You know Googlers tend to be a little tech savvy and a little bit towards the bleeding edge so I remember there were two different people at Google saying, “You need to check out this site called Digg. It’s really cool. I Dugg some articles.” It was a long, long time ago and I was wandering what this Digg thing they were talking about was. So Googlers tend
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SEO Tip #13: Is over-optimization bad for a website?

SEO Tip #13: Is over-optimization bad for a website?

Matt Cutts: This is an interesting question and the example give was excessive use of no follow. First off if it is your website you can use no follow all you want. You don’t need to worry. There is no penalty for excessive use of no follow. You are not going in trouble because of that. On the other hand, let’s look at over optimization. There is nothing in Google that
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Google SEO Tip #7: Can A Spammy Website Affect the Ranking of Other Sites Hosted on the Same Server?

Google SEO Tip #7: Can A Spammy Website Affect the Ranking of Other Sites Hosted on the Same Server?

Matt Cutts:Great question. On the list of things that I worry about, that would not be near the top. So I understand, and Google understands that shared webhosting happens. You can’t really control or help who else is on that IP address or Class C subnet.

The other thing is, if you were to take action just on that Class C subnet or IP address, the spammers


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