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Matt Cutts: I believe the answer is yes. I believe we have support to crawl FTP but really that’s pretty far off the beaten path. So if at all possible I would try to make sure that your pages are HTTP or HTTPS.
We did build a crawler way back in the day with the support
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Matt Cutts:I can think of at least a couple so I will start with those and then I will fill it out with some other misconceptions. The biggest one that makes me want to bang my head against the wall was the idea that somehow if you do negative things towards your customers so they
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Matt Cutts: Here are the things to be aware of; number one let’s sketch out the bad side first. The bad side is if your dropdown is 1 pixel long and 1 pixel deep and the thing that gets revealed when you click on it is 8 pages filled with keyword stuffed anchor text and
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Matt Cutts: This is a great question. Let me back up a little bit to answer this by talking about algorithmic vs. manual. We have confirmed that Google’s Web Spam team is willing to take action manually, for example if we get a spam report for off topic, porn, and things like that. But of
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Matt Cutts: Okay, it’s a little bit arbitrary but if you have an HTML site-map and for whatever reason you don’t want Google to actually return the site-map itself. So maybe you have a couple hundred links on that page and you’re worried Google might think it looks spammy but you want users to see
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Matt Cutts: So this is great in that someone, or I’m saying, is there anything that you have said over the past several years that is now obsolete or that needs to be updated? I can think of two things off the top of my head.
The first one is I did a video back in
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Matt Cutts: I’m really glad that somebody asked that question. The original reason for recommending 100 links per page was pretty simple; at one point Google would only index 101 kilobytes per page and so we needed heuristic to say, “Don’t make a page so incredibly long that we’ll truncate it and not index the
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Matt Cutts: That’s a good question. Just as a refresher on the NOFOLLOW, it’s a general mechanism introduced in 2005. Essentially when we see a NOFOLLOW link going from one page to another page we say, “This page won’t flow PageRank and it’s dropped out of our link graph so it doesn’t flow any anchor
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