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
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Matt Cutts: Just to go back in time and give a little context on this we used to have in our Webmaster guidelines something like, “It is impossible for a competitor to hurt you.” And Then if you look at the history of, for example, Sex.com people would even send in a fax and pretend
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Matt Cutts: In general I love when new search engines launch. It’s always cool to run a few queries and see how do they score things differently than we would score things. There is Blekko. There is also a slightly smaller search engine called DuckDuckGo if you guys haven’t checked that out.
So I
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Is returning a 200 instead of a 404 considered spam?
Matt Cutts: I wouldn’t necessarily consider it spam. A lot of the time it’s not done on deliberately because if it were then people would return a 404. We do have a name for this at Google. I’m not sure whether we’ve talked about it externally
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Yay or Nay: putting a canonical tag on individual product review pages that each points to the ‘all reviews for this product’ page for the particular product. Assuming we’re not really that keen on the individual review pages ranking.
Matt Cutts: If I understand what you are saying, imagine that you have a product page for
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Matt Cutts: This is a little bit of a “have you stopped beating your wife” type question in that there is an assumption baked in that is not necessarily true. Specifically you are saying, “many webmasters are linking only in No Follow and that’s killing the natural way of links.”
Whenever we look at the percentage
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Matt Cutts: What Mcdot is referring to in this question is that if you’re registering a new domain name and you want to try and compete in some particular niche in SEO you can take a couple different strategies. You can go for something really brandable like Twitter that people will remember but isn’t necessarily
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Hi! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. Today’s tutorial is about setting your plugin options. The reason for this is that some plugins have an administration page that allows you to set options for that specific plugin. Please note that not all plugins have this. Depending on what the plugin is, it may have a settings page where
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Matt Cutts: Great question. So, let’s start off by pretending that you really do control everything within the website and you’re a really smart SEO and you have complete buy in from your CEOs, CTOs and all that sort of stuff. One thing I would pay attention to is optimizing for speed.
It is a slight
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