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Recorded from an earlier live broadcast. Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, answers user questions.

Is it better to have a blank robots.txt file, a robots.txt that contains User-agent: * Disallow:" or no robots.txt file at all?" Corey S, Pennsylvania Have a question?

Matt Cutts explains how to submit URLs to Google's index.

If I buy AdWords, will that cause my algorithmic search rankings to rise? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Read more: google.com/honestresults.html Have a question?

Should I deny an access to a dynamically generated vBulletin calendar via robots.txt?

I use the Google Toolbar to monitor PageRank. I read on the Internet that it gives old and quite unreliable data. Can I have reliable realtime PageRank information about the sites I administer?

Can too many redirects/multiple hops for a given URL(301 as well as 302) can have negative impact in crawling/indexing/ranking? Arpit Srivastava, Gurgaon, India Have a question?

How does SafeSearch (both for text and images) work?

Google's approach to customer service, and why it uses algorithms instead of people. Cale McNulty, Canada Have a question?

Will Google offer the feature to search with reg exp? When, or why not?

What is the ideal keyword density: 0.7%, 7%, or 77%? Or is it some other number? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California Have a question?

Will multilingual translations of one content across different websites attract duplicate content penalty? Yo, New Delhi, India Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: google.

Should I care about mixed content if I offer my pages on HTTPS? Gary Tamás, Zurich, CH Have a question?

Knowing that the keywords in a url is one of (many) factors used to rank a site, what about the impact of the filename suffix.

Hi Matt, Webmaster tools allows site owners to specify a geo location for targeting. How can this be done for multiple locations? Serious, UK Have a question?

By design, HTTPS is slower than HTTP. Considering Google's focus on speed, does that mean that my site will be penalized if I switch to HTTPS?

Google would appear to favour sites that are built by those who know all the SEO 'best practice' techniques (and follow your tips!).

Hi Matt, I have heard something about authors/content creators, getting a notification if their name is written somewhere, or searched for.

There has been a lot of hype about the .co TLDs, there are many people posting that Google will accept them as the new .com, although it's the TLD for Colombia.

Hi Matt. If we add more than one links from page A to page B, do we pass more PageRank juice and additional anchor text info? Also can you tell us if links from A to A count?

Why does Google take so long to naturally remove 404 urls? John Heard, Kansas Have a question?

How does Google determine the canonical source for a piece of content? Willy F., Chicago, IL Have a question?

There are a lot of rumors about whether or not slash at the end of a domain makes a difference. Is there a difference between getting a backlink pointing to website.com" vs " website.com/" ?

Hi Matt. At the moment Geotargeting from Webmaster Console is available only for Generic TLDs.

Do spelling and grammar matter when evaluating content and site quality? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA Have a question?

What role does being in DMOZ play in rankings? I see some websites in my niche ranked No. 1 and the only reason is because they are in DMOZ as their content is at best poor.

Matt Cutts talks about cloaking. Learn more in our Help Center: google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66355 Have a question?

Can you talk a bit about ranking signals like trust? We hear these mentioned from time to time by Googlers but there's no official documentation available from Google on the topic.