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#10, RE: What is SEO/SEM?
Posted by Johlum on Dec-18-07 at 08:56 AM
In response to message #9
I'm putting a few relevant comments from a recent conversation with Matt Cutts of Google here rather than starting anew thread.

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Question:

If I own a VPS (virtual private server) and I have a bad neighbor or neighborhood (of porn sites or something) on the same Class-C will that close proximity pollute my domain.

Matt:

Great Question.

No.

If we were to take on relationships at the class-c subnets level, we would be overwhelmed. It is too difficult for us to determine what is really going on because it is changing so much.

However

If you are the ONLY clean person in that area, and there are twenty five thousand porn sites, you may need to be careful.

Google does not look at class-c IP subnets, unless someone is hitting us with a TON of queries.

Question:

Number of redirect chains in a row, will that dilute pate rank?

If I do a 301 redirect 4 times will it dilute Page Rank juice?

Matt:

Good question and, no.

There is no limit to the number of 301 redirects on chain.

But you may want to remember that is may not be a good idea to have five 301 redirects chained in a row or the bots will start to get tired. It is not so much a question of page rank, but the speed of parsing the redirects.

You will not lose any juice (page rank) by daisy chaining 301s.

Question:

Why do you keep Dmoz around.

Matt:

Yahoo does reject things even when paid.

Paid directories have no discernment.

We recommend yahoo because they really to sensor.

DMOZ is very high quality.

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Ernie