Is speed more important than relevance?
Lumenbeing from Los Angeles asks: "Since we're hearing a lot of talk about the implications of Page Speed, I wonder if Google still cares as much about relevancy? Or are recentness and page load time more important?"

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Is Google Analytics data a factor in a page's ranking?
A, from San Francisco asks: "Are stats from Analytics (bounce rate, time on site) a factor in a page's or domain's ranking?"

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2010 search predictions
Matt Cutts gives his predictions for search and SEO in 2010.

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State of the Index 2009
Matt Cutts talks about what Google has done for users, web developers, and webmasters in 2009. See the slides here: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

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How many bots does Google have?
Jacob in Denmark asks: "How many bots/spiders does Google currently have crawling the web?"

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Does Google remove the PageRank coming from links on pages that no longer exist?
Robert Enriquez from Charlotte asks: "Websites lose back links due to other websites going out of business or closing (Geocities, AOL, member pages). Does Google remove the back link juice that once came from these pages?"

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Is the order of links on a page important for SEO?
Matt from Lexington, KY asks: "Is first link priority an on-page SEO factor? If so, should we modify CSS or javascript to show the correct link first?"

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Is cross-linking websites bad?
Linda from Lakewood, NJ asks: "If I have 3 websites, is there a problem to cross link websites?"

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Why would an FAQ page rank above a site's homepage?
Alex asks: "Sometimes, when you search for a company or so, you won't get the main page as a search result. For example, you search for *example-company-name* and get their FAQ page listed first. How does that happen and how can we avoid it on our [...]

How can I remove old content from Google's index?
Sebastian from Germany asks: "We still have old content in the index. We block them via robots.txt, use 404 and delete them via Webmaster Tools, but Google keeps it. What can we do to quickly delete content from the index?

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