Matt Cutts Quotes

#1. Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

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#2. The objective is not to "make your links appear natural"; the objective is that your links are natural.

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#3. So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!

Swami Vivekananda

#4. My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.

Roz Chast

#5. Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called 'heightened interrogation'. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.

Robert Harris

#6. With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

Adam Beach

#7. Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.

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#8. Make your links from blog comments genuine.

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#9. What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

George Will

#10. Though every community is different, my personal rule is pretty much the same: It's O.K. to feel like an idiot going in as long as you don't sound like an idiot coming out.

Katherine Boo

#11. If you have an outstanding product, world class content, or something else that sets you apart, then you can step back and start thinking about how to promote it.

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#12. Everybody thinks their website is above average.

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#13. The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

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#14. Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

Emily Dickinson

#15. The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.

Claire Trevor

#16. We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we'll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.

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#17. Later, when I'm on the edge of sleep, I hear him whisper, "You'll see. One day, you'll see what I've seen all along." And then I'm gone.

T.J. Klune

#18. I think the show [Grimm] became a little more procedural following the pilot, and I didn't know that would happen. Recently more of the mythology has crept in, and the characters are starting to bloom.

David Giuntoli

#19. On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

Timothy Keller

#20. When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

Margery Allingham

#21. Think about what a user is going to type.

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#22. Mobile is important, and coming faster than most people in this room realize.

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#23. When you've got 5 minutes to fill, Twitter is a great way to fill 35 minutes.

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#24. SEO is not synonymous to JUNK E-MAIL.

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#25. Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.

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#26. That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.

Megan Whalen Turner

#27. It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.

Brandon Stanton

#28. You are confusing two notions, "the solution of a problem" and "the correct posing of the question". Only the second is essential for the artist.

Anton Chekhov

#29. I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.

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