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Matt Cutts on Google removing PageRank from extinct links

By Sam Langdon on February 5, 2010

In an interesting video from Google Webmaster Central today, Matt Cutts clears up the matter of how Google deals with PageRank from websites that have gone out of business. In reply to the question: “Does Google remove the PageRank coming from links on pages that no longer exist?”,  with reference to Geocities closure, Cutts says: [...]

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How Google Ranks Links from Social Media websites

By Sam Langdon on January 17, 2010

Google’s Matt Cutts explains in the video below how links from social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter are treated. In summary, they’re treated exactly the same as links from any other website, in that each additional link contributes to the perceived importance of the destination page proportionately to its own importance. There’s an important caveat [...]

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