The guys over at WebProNews have published a series of questions and answers about SEO with Google’s Matt Cutts and company — basically, about what affects a website’s rankings on Google’s search results. Questions like… - does a website/domain’s age affect its rankings? Although it’s just the teeniest of clues if you consider Google uses about 200 factors in their ranking algo and that the interviewees were less direct in some of their answers, it’s definitely worth a look because every bit of advantage over your competitor is crucial in SEO. Go check it out - link.
- do backlinks from bad sites negatively affect my PageRank?
- can sharing IP address with a bad site get mine penalized?
- do links from .gov and .edu sites carry more weight?
- does having more comments on my blog affect indexing?
- have links from directories and article sites been de-valued?
