SEO Tip #43: Will a “coming soon” page negatively impact my site?

SEO Tip #43: Will a “coming soon” page negatively impact my site?

Matt Cutts: No. I think a coming soon page can be pretty smart. I think it’s good for users so that they don’t just end up on a black hole page that it doesn’t resolve or something like that. If you have some content that’s coming out I don’t think there is any harm from having
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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
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SEO Tip #41: Does the size of a website affect its authority in Google?

SEO Tip #41: Does the size of a website affect its authority in Google?

Matt Cutts: I think the answer is basically zero. It’s not the size of your website that determines the authority in terms of the number of pages that you have indexed. Instead the authority is typically determined by the links that we see coming into those pages and the links that we see in the PageRank
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SEO Tip #40: How many pages can Google index from a single site?

SEO Tip #40: How many pages can Google index from a single site?

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
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SEO Tip #39: How can new pages get indexed quickly?

SEO Tip #39: How can new pages get indexed quickly?

Matt Cutts: Well the simplest answer is to get more links. We can index a page within second, certainly within minutes, if we find, for example, that CNN is linking we’ll crawl that very, very quickly. So we can find new content quite quickly. If you have a blog or something like that we’ll come back
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SEO Tip #38: More than one H1 on a page: good or bad?

SEO Tip #38: More than one H1 on a page: good or bad?

Matt Cutts: Well, if there’s a logical reason to have multiple sections it’s not so bad to have multiple H1s. I would pay attention to overdoing it. If your entire page is H1, that looks pretty cruddy right? So don’t do all H1 and then use CSS to make it look like regular text. We see
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SEO Tip #37: Why is the @ character ignored in search queries?

SEO Tip #37: Why is the @ character ignored in search queries?

Matt Cutts: Well, historically, that was a deliberate choice because we didn’t want to index an email address, at least I think it was a deliberate choice. You don’t want somebody scraping Google to find a bunch of email addresses. So it’s kind of nice not to index the @ sign. It depends. I could imagine
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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
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SEO Tip #35: Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?

SEO Tip #35: Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?

Matt Cutts: Frankly I wouldn’t worry about it. We see tables, we see CSS, and we have to handle both. We try to score them well no matter what kind of layout mechanism you use. Frankly I would use what’s best for you. A lot of people these days tend to like CSS because it’s easy
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