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This is a collection of all videos in which the famous Matt Cutts answers Google user questions. These videos are a must for every webmaster even if they are a bit outdated. The questions Matt Cutts is going to answer in his videos are listed above each one so that you can decide if you want watch it or not. They are also listed in a chronological order so that you can easily skip the video to the point you are interested in.

Supplemental Results

• Should I worry about result estimates for supplemental results using the “site:” operator with negated terms and special syntax such as “intitle:” ?
• Why do “301″ redirects take so long to be reflected in supplemental results?
• I started appearing in supplemental results in May, should I be worried?

SEO Myths

• What happens if I have to many sites on the same server? Or if the sites have similar IP adresses?
• I’m having trouble understanding the problems we face every time we launch a new country. Tipically we launch a new country with millions of pages at the same time. Aditionally thanks to our ambitious PR team we get tons of links from a networ of sites. So why am I not doing well everytime I launch a website in a new country?
• I’m wondering about the statuses of Google Images and if we can expect to see an update of the indexing technology in the future.

Qualities of a good site

• Does Sitemaps depend on pageviews?
• What are the top things to do in SEO?
• How does Google decide to use a DMOZ snippet versus the description of a meta tag?
• Should I use bold or strong tags?

Static vs. Dynamic urls

• Does PageRank flow the same to both?
• What pitfalls should I avoid with dynamic urls?
• Can Sitemaps alert webmasters when their site has been hacked?
• Can I do geo-targeting within Google’s Quality Guidelines?

Lightning Round

• Is it possible to surf just for homepages?
• Will we ever see kitty posts again?
• What are Google SSD, Google RS2, and all those other things Tony Ruscoe found?
• Does Google rank blog sites any differently than regular websites?
• Does Google treat “.gov.pl” links with the same weight as regular “.gov” links?

Google Terminology

• What’s the difference between an index update, an algorithm update, and a data refresh?

Google Datacenters

• Can you tell us a little bit about Google datacenters?
• Should all datacenters on the same Class C block be roughly the same?

How to structure a site

• How to create a site architecture with themes and keywords?
• My urls have too many parameters, can I serve up static HTML to Googlebot instead?
• How to do split A/B testing?

Optimize for Search Engines or Users?

• Which is more important: search engine optimization (SEO) or end user optimization?
• What spam … all » detection tools would you recommend?
• Does cleanliness of code (W3C) help at all?

Does Webspam use Google Analytics?

• Does Google Analytics play a part in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages)?
• When does Google detect … all » duplicate content, and how wide is the range?
• I want to mark my page as porn in SafeSearch, what do you recommend?
• Is it okay to make hyperlinks in option elements?

Reinclusion requests

• How do I do a reinclusion request?
• What should I put into a reinclusion request?
• What does Google need to know before it reincludes a site in its index?

My tips for SES

• What tips and tricks do you recommend for Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose?

That should be all video answered questions by Matt Cutts. Enjoy them and I hope I saved you a lot of time