Do links to non-canonical URLs pass any value to the canonical version

Matt Cutts: Here's a question from Stav Zilbershtein in Israel who asks: 'Hi Matt, what if there are external links to a URL that is not the canonical one? Does the power of links pass to the original, original URL or do links pointing to a non-original URL get lost when using a canonical tag on a website?'

How can I add more than 1,000,000 URLs to a Sitemap

CUTTS: Here is a question from Magico in London who has an issue that lots of people would like to have. Magico asks, "What's the best way to deal with big sitemaps.xml, for example, more than a million pages?" So, a Sitemap file can have up to 50,000 entries.

Does Googlebot use inference when crawling

CUTTS: We have a question from Leon inthe UK. Leon asks, "Does Googlebot use inference when spidering--having crawled a URL page1.htm and /page2.htm, can it guess at the existence of a page3 and crawl it?

Is speed more important than relevance

Lumenbeing in 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?

What will happen to paid links implemented using JavaScript

We have a good question from Majico in London, United Kingdom. Majico asks, "Now that Google can call JavaScript links, what is going to happen with all those paid links that were behind JavaScript code, will Google start penalizing them?" So I answered this at XMX Advance Step in Seattle, but let me answer it again.

Should large corporations use rel=canonical

All right, Terry Cox, from Orlando Florida asks, "In regards to the new canonicalization tag, does it make sense for large corporations to consider placing that tag on every page due to marketing tracking codes and large levels of duplicate URLs like faceted pages and load balancing servers?"