The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
Matt Cutts, Google's Distinguished Engineer, posted answers to a couple of questions on the YouTube GoogleWebmasterHelp channel: Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page penalized due to 12...
Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts answered a couple of questions on the YouTube GoogleWebmasterHelp channel: Your Links On Pinterest May Be Stopping Traffic In Its Tracks – Marketing LandIf you're using a URL shortener on Pinterest, beware...
In this video, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts explained that a Google employee won't open an external file or visit an unknown website for fear of picking up malware. If no manual action was taken, then you'll receive an automated...
You can expect another Google Panda update to roll out this Friday or Monday, according to Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts. The Penguin algorithm, initially released last April, was designed to reduce web spam and also hit website that...
Live in Las Vegas it actually brought cheers from the audience before Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts even said what it was Google was launching, because the audience hoped the announcement was a long-rumored link disavow tool.
News of the refresh came today via a tweet from Matt Cutts, Google’s Distinguished Engineer. The goal of the update was to clean up link profiles relying on heavily sculpted exact match anchor text (sites where 60 percent of anchor text was for...
But if you don’t believe me, look what Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts had to say when asked at SMX Advanced 2012 whether Google hates SEOs. As the saying goes, SPAM just stands for Sites Positioned Above Mine.
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts was the headline attraction this morning as SES San Francisco 2012 Day 2 kicked off. Panda came from the last name of the engineer who worked on it. Since Google’s Penguin engineer wasn’t named after an...
Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts confirmed this with me in a recent interview: Google's Penguin update, and Panda a year earlier, marked the advent of a whole new approach to spam fighting. With Penguin, it is likely that they manually...
Even Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts said that a domain could be totally dipped by Penguin and a recovery could not be possible in certain situations. Still, there are some major gaps in their algorithms that can be exploited (you can...
If you want to report spam that Google is missing, fill out a spam report and add the word penguin,” Cutts, Google’s Distinguished Engineer who leads the web spam team, tweeted yesterday. Google has named its latest web spam algorithmic update...
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team, yesterday announced that Google had pushed out the new algorithm. Except Google called it an algorithmic update that’s targeting web spam – a.k.a.keyword stuffing and link...
More here from Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts. Content: Spam/keyword stuffing, hidden text, duplication/scraping. For most people this is usually the first one – link manipulations. Link manipulation: Paid links, hidden, excessive...
So I asked Google's Distinguished Engineer and spam expert Matt Cutts who confirmed the program doesn't exist and said to use the link in the reply dropdown box to report phishing. If you've received an email offering you access to the Google...
Gary Flake as a distinguished engineer, the first such external hire for a distinguished engineer for the company. See also Updated Research Paper: A Taxonomy of Web Spam, which looks a bit more closely at one of them.
Andrei Broder, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of the Institute for Search and Text Analysis, part of the IBM Research Division, explains that queries can be divided into three categories: informational, navigational, and transactional.
