The other day, Steve Plunkett asked Matt Cutts of Google, what percentage of penalties/filters are based on violations of Google’s Quality Guidelines versus technology issues or bugs on the webmaster side?

Here is Steve’s question as he posed it to Matt:

Matt Cutts responded that “almost all for quality violations.” Matt added that “violations of tech guidelines typically just result in those pages being pruned” instead.

Here is Matt’s tweet:

I don’t think this comes to any as a surprise but good to have in writing.

Forum discussion at Twitter.