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Should I be obsessing about load times?

Ryan in Dearborn, MI asks: “Many SEO’s are obsessing about your speed comments, but I get the feeling speed will be a very minor component in ranking. Am I right, or should I be obsessing about load times as well?” Related items Should I remove widgets that increase my site’s load time? Do site load [...]

Two questions about nofollow

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Vince Samios from the United Kingdom asked: Do you feel that the widespread and blanket use of nofollow tags is devaluing Google’s search algorithms? Examples such as Wikipedia, where ALL external links are nofollow. [...]

Two questions about the link: operator

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Sven Heß from Wiesbaden, Germany asked: How accurate is Google’s backlink-check (link:…)? Are all nofollow backlinks filtered out or why does Yahoo/MSN show quite more backlink results? San Diego Tim from San Diego asked: [...]

Should we be worried about a penalty if we quickly removed hacked content?

Maxster in Mexico asks: “Site hacks have been on the rise, especially on CMS platforms like Joomla and wordpress. If our site was hacked and damage was done by the hackers (doorway pages inserted and spammed) but removed within days do we have to worry about a penalty?” Related items Should I be obsessing about [...]

What do Googlers usually talk about?

Magico from London, UK asks: “What do people in Google usually talk about? What are the main topics of discussion?” Related items Can you talk about the change in Google’s referrer string? door64′s Matt Genovese Talks About His Popular Austin Tech Community Web Site Google Product Evangelist Frederick Vallaeys Talks About Google Products Dixon Jones [...]