Comments on: Matt Cutts On SEO Rockstars

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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:10:10 +0000

[...] After all of the bashing and hijack-attempts from the seo angels, angels Friesen and http://google.webguerrilla.com/matt-cutts-on-seo-rockstars/>Boser have interviewed Matt Cutts and the topic of the contest came up. Matt is a stand-up guy who doesn’t let himself get lured into games of politics being played in the seo world. [...]

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:23:44 +0000

Three major questions I want to ask.

How much influence does Page Rank have in determining the SERPS?

How does google treat links that are redirected through a script? I.E. http://www.mysite.com/linkto.php?http://www.yoursite.com

What factors does Google look at to determine if a site should be in the sandbox, and how does Google decide it should come out of the sandbox?

By: gsyi

gsyi — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:24:08 +0000

>> Where can I send my donation so they can have a pizza and beer?

Google Inc.
(DOM-258879)
2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Mountain View
CA
94043
US

By: Joe Hunkins

Joe Hunkins — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:12:47 +0000

Larry and Sergey only make one dollar a year in salary.
Where can I send my donation so they can have a pizza and beer?

By: DaveN

DaveN — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:00:30 +0000

Ask him what he really feels about people like ME, YOU and the Monkey

By: gsyi

gsyi — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:55:16 +0000

How does the duplicated content filter exactly work?
When will copied content influence my ranking?
Where (city) will the german google engineering center be opened?

Is your honorarium really higher than the honorarium of Larry Page ?
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312506010016/d8k.htm

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:01:50 +0000

If I’m really not up to anyhing fishy, and staying white hat legit as an seo/web developer/web host, must I really go through the pain in the neck and expense of hosting myself and my customers on a few different servers? I’ve read quite a bit saying this is important, but doing so seems like THEN I’m trying to hide something.

I host about 130 domains, and I do various degrees of SEO on a couple of dozen of them, and I want to give my clients every legitimate advantage. I also want to my own SERPs to do well, of course.

Might things really improve if I were to move a few of these key domains off my own server, and set up separate hosting accounts at a few different IP blocks?

If so, that seems ridiculous in light of the fact that I have my own server, and would be like trying to TRICK the SE’s into not knowing the truth.

By: caveman

caveman — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:00:13 +0000

Why is G still penalizing sites with great content, but with some pages that are similar? Is it because G THINKS that ALL sites having pages that are similar are spammers? If so, a hard look is warranted, still.

By: Brian Turner

Brian Turner — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:09:48 +0000

Question for Matt Cutts –

“Do you think that Google as a company has considered seriously enough the ethical dilemnas of attempting to create artificial intelligence?”

By: David Zuls

David Zuls — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:46:06 +0000

All other things being equal:
If one website uses H1 tags and the other uses CSS to format the text in a way that appears to be identical to the eye, which website is more likely to rank better?

If I reformat my H1 tags with CSS to change the size, etc… will that negatively impact my ranking?

Does Google weigh the amount of traffic a video receives from being embedded into websites when ranking popular videos? Does freshness count?

What factors are most important when evaluating how images are ranked for a given query?