Matt Cutts (Google, webspam) For example, an entire SEO community has sprung up along Matt Cutts and his brand-establishing videos as the face of Google. Even though other Googlers are now in the media limelight, Matt Cutts continues to remain a...
We started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. The scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g.languages with more webspam will see more impact.
In fact, if the site eluded the Google Webspam team's manual reviews, good spinner (algorithmically written) content could take the place of human written content and a person could generate sites as fast as you could say Matt Cutts (OK, well...
Matt Cutts, the head of webspam at Google, has recorded an enormous amount of videos offering suggestions to help website owners create quality websites that perform well in the search. The Short Cutts compiles and organizes these videos as well as...
However, anger or threats won't win over or bully the webspam team member who reads your request. The webspam team doesn't care about this. Once you have filed your reconsideration request, it will get read by a webspam team member.
Ex-Googler Andre Weyher, who worked on Google’s webspam team with Matt Cutts, was recently interviewed by Jayson DeMers and asked about the “biggest misconceptions or myths that he had seen about ‘bad links’ and link profile penalties in the SEO...
Late last week, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced a “small,” upcoming algorithm change meant to reduce the amount of low quality exact match domains in search results. Cutts also tweeted, “New exact-match domain (EMD) algo affects 0.6...
Late Friday, heading into the long weekend, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced a Penguin data refresh now known as Penguin 1.1. Every so often, Cutts throws webmasters a bone via tweets framing algorithm updates or data refreshes as...
SEW Director Jonathan Allen just took a look into one such case; a webmaster suffered a loss of traffic and business post-Penguin, largely due to his over-reliance on Google and a penchant for webspam.
Article spinning, a form of webspam, violates Google’s guidelines. However, in defense of Harbour, arguably Google rewarded him temporarily for engaging in webspam. In a nutshell, the two months that he had commissioned article spinning, March and...
This week, we finally learned about the new Google webspam algorithm, an all-out offensive aimed at detecting spammy tactics such as keyword stuffing, link spam, and spun content. Meanwhile, a firestorm of industry speculation erupted after Matt...
Webspam Algorithm Update Cutts specifically noted that websites likely to lose rankings are those that practice keyword stuffing and sites that have “unusual linking patterns,” such as links from spun content with anchor text that is completely...
On his blog, Matt Cutts, who heads Google's Webspam team, points out how his query for general tso's chicken is improved by social links. Manjoo cites an example mentioned by Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts of where the presentation of...
Matt Cutts, head of webspam at Google, appeared on AOL.com this morning as part of their "You've got:" series of videos in which well known talking heads and commentators suggest an idea to readers. The 90 second long video is called "You've got...
He added, "As 'pure webspam' has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to 'content farms,' which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. On the Official Google Blog, Singhal and Cutts said these were "sites which are low-value...
Google promptly set up an interview with Matt Cutts, the head of the Webspam team at Google, and a man whose every speech, blog post and Twitter update is parsed like papal encyclicals by players in the search engine world," the newspaper noted.
Matt Cutts notes "As "pure webspam" has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to "content farms," which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. Okay when Matt Cutts speaks the search industry listens.
Now, I know Matt Cutts, the head of Google's Webspam team. If you do a search on Google for "Matt Cutts," the Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO blog ranks #1. According to the Google "Similar" feature, the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog...
That's why Google has invested so much time and money in Matt Cutts' WebSpam team. Periodically some person will publicly speculate that SEO is dead, dying, or useless. The reasons for this are many and varied.
Two weeks ago, Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, told search marketers that Google had changed the way it handles the nofollow attribute. This week, Cutts followed up that disclosure with a post on his blog, revealing that the change...
