MattCutts admitted it on video back in 2009, and my colleague Caragh McKenna spoke about it at SES London. Google is the web's most discerning user – MattCutts, March 2013: "What Google wants is what users want" and Bing is very close behind (if...
In a new Webmaster Help video, Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts reveals five of the biggest basic SEO mistakes webmasters make, and suggests a few ways to improve your website. Pay close attention to your titles and descriptions...
In fact, Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts is on record saying that .edu TLDs don’t carry more weight than other extensions. When it comes to link acquisition, SEO professionals and link builders have this long-standing infatuation with...
MattCutts, Google's Distinguished Engineer, posted answers to a couple of questions on the YouTube GoogleWebmasterHelp channel: One page out of millions gives Mozilla trouble with Google. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade...
MattCutts, 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 - The Actual Answers To Every MattCutts Video
Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts answered a couple of questions on the YouTube GoogleWebmasterHelp channel: A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA...
In this video, Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts explained that a Google employee won't open an external file or visit an unknown website for fear of picking up malware. In this video, Cutts explains that if you have manual action taken on...
As MattCutts cited at SES San Francisco last year, if you're looking for poison control in an emergency, it makes sense that Google immediately provides you with the local number at the top of the page, rather than making you click through to...
Google's MattCutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. MattCutts was back on the YouTube GoogleWebmasterHelp channel answering questions: Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko.
To paraphrase Google’s web spam lead MattCutts the algorithm filter has "iterated" to date but there will be a "next generation" coming that will have a major impact on SERPs. Unless you've had your head under a rock you've undoubtedly heard the...
Google's MattCutts answers SEO questions. Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts answered a trio of questions on the GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube Channel: Bing hits back on AdWords enhanced campaigns.
In fact, here's what Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts said about it in my last interview with him, when I asked him if he felt the concept of link building was itself problematic: This was also featured in my interview with Cutts.
A former member of MattCutts' search quality team was recently quoted as saying:
getting a link from a high PR page used to always be valuable, today it's more the relevance of the site's theme in regards to yours, relevance is the new PR.
Yes, the Penguin update has demoted the rankings of sites, but as Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts has explained, Penguin is an algorithmic change, not a penalty. Google’s next iteration of Penguin could lower the tolerance level for...
What Would MattCutts Do (WWMCD)? Panda and Penguin, Google's major algorithmic updates targeting thin content and unnatural linking practices respectively, have forced us to evolve. In this new world where human engagement is a growing factor, how...
Google Panda will soon evolve from monthly (or so) manual refreshes to a constant part of Google's real-time algorithm, according to Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts. Rather than having some huge change that happens on a given day, you’re...
You can expect another Google Panda update to roll out this Friday or Monday, according to Google’s Distinguished Engineer MattCutts. Also, Cutts has revealed that Google is working on a significant change to the Penguin algorithm.
Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts has hinted at an upcoming Google update that is aimed at protecting searchers by lowering the rankings of merchants. It's all still pretty vague at this point, but here's what Cutts said Friday at SXSW...
A former member of MattCutts team said that “relevance is the new PageRank”, which makes sense. The SEO world continues to shift its collective focus to all things content: content strategy, content generation, content marketing, etc.
After Interflora and several UK newspapers were punished, it became clear in a Google Webmaster Central blog post by Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts that at issue were “advertorial” pages. UK flower delivery site Interflora, banished...