Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts recently stated that Google is actually pulling back on Panda because of too many false positives. Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0, a large algorithmic update promising to go “deeper” than the 2012...
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 MattCutts (OK, well...
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...
Google's MattCutts answers SEO questions. Google's Distinguished Engineer MattCutts answered a trio of questions on the GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube Channel: If a site linking to mine gets caught sellinglinks, what happens to my site?
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: I can't project the exact best strategy for sites that I...
A former member of MattCutts team said that “relevance is the new PageRank”, which makes sense. Are the sites that link to your pages relevant, trusted, and credible domains, or are they chiefly derived from $50 guest post bio links in irrelevant...
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. Google advised anyone who receives a warning for...
For many years, MattCutts of Google has been providing a lot of helpful information on search engine optimization (SEO). MJ: Everything else being equal (links/social, etc.just talking about on-site…If website A has 1,000 pages of (unique) content...
This is why SEO professionals greeted Google's Distinguished Enginner MattCutts with cheers as he announced the release of the Disavow Links tool, which allows webmasters to ask Google not to take certain links into account when assessing your site.
Follows MattCutts rules for advertising It was about bad SEO practices, like keyword stuffing links and titles, link buying, link selling – the gamut. We optimize our content, websites, pages, forms, click paths, designs, strategies, links, and so...
Find out what MattCutts, Google Distinguished Engineer, said about directories this past April. Some quality signals to consider are the quality of other sites listed, recent Google cache of page, their backlinks, age of site, and if they're...
In my calculations I am not factoring in the evaporation of weight that occurs with every link (MattCutts discussed this at second 40 in his video here). To put this in the context of internal links, a link from the homepage of a site or another...
MattCutts posted his own example of “spun content” on the Official Google blog in the announcement of the algorithm update later dubbed “Penguin. In a nutshell, the two months that he had commissioned article spinning, March and April 2012, just...
Well, it’s not something I would ever recommend unless MattCutts himself emailed to say, “Yeah, that’s solid, go for it. Buying or sellinglinks that pass PageRank Buying or SellingLinks that Pass PageRank
You would thus focus in on the likes of Matt McGowan, MattCutts, Rand Fishkin and other high-profile SEO influencers and work out ways to get them to +1 my eBook. Do you really think when these networks share the links with their circles that they...
It would likely require solid accounts to rank well over time; however, I've found many long tail phrases that bring up profiles for people like MattCutts. Immediately, services selling high PageRank links in high volumes sprung up.
Search Engine Watch contacted Google engineer MattCutts, head of the web spam team, but he dodged answering any questions, instead referring us to the Google Press department. Assuming the site outed in The Atlantic, and other sites such as...
However, there are ways if you attack it within the first 24-48 hours, or maybe if you're lucky and can get to MattCutts and plead your case. Did you honestly examine your site (and link building) and are 100 percent sure that you aren't suffering...
During the Spam Police session at SMX, Google's MattCutts and Bing's Sasi Parthasarathy both confirmed this. How to Build Links with Infographics - SEOmoz Another website has suffered the wrath of Google after it was exposed for using doorway...
MattCutts, in his recent dialogue with Eric Enge, confirmed the well-known existence of the "crawl cap" that will be placed on a site based upon its PageRank (internal Google scoring, not toolbar PageRank), and how duplicate content can present...