Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts answered a trio of questions on the GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube Channel: App rankings suffered as Google had some technical issues fetching iTunes pages. Google's Matt Cutts answers SEO questions.
Yes, the Penguin update has demoted the rankings of sites, but as Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts has explained, Penguin is an algorithmic change, not a penalty. Portent, a Seattle-based Internet marketing agency, has released a report...
Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts has hinted at an upcoming Google update that is aimed at protecting searchers by lowering the rankings of merchants. Google Seller Ratings is the obvious way Google could influence merchant rankings in SERPs.
After Interflora and several UK newspapers were punished, it became clear in a Google Webmaster Central blog post by Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts that at issue were “advertorial” pages. As Dan Barker noted on Google+, Interflora has...
This led Tober to dispute a statement by Matt Cutts, Google's DistinguishedEngineer. However, he said that the cumulative number of all relevant keyword rankings for your market or industry will show you important trends – especially after updates...
Here is what Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts had to say in my recent interview with him: The purpose was to get links to drive search rankings. What follows are 10 of the most common link problems that have resulted in link related...
Live in Las Vegas it actually brought cheers from the audience before DistinguishedEngineer 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 DistinguishedEngineer. 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...
Google’s DistinguishedEngineer 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...
After successfully scaring the crap out of many business, along came Google’s DistinguishedEngineer, telling everyone not to panic and assuring everyone this was just a case of Google trying to be more transparent and not a warning that a penalty...
Even Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts said that a domain could be totally dipped by Penguin and a recovery could not be possible in certain situations. Your rankings weren't affected. If your rankings dipped, no doubt you've been faced...
Find out what Matt Cutts, Google DistinguishedEngineer, said about directories this past April. Reverse Engineer Set your goal of getting the content top rankings. Remember the goal is to get that content top rankings so it will attract more...
Matt Cutts, Google DistinguishedEngineer and head of the web spam team, tackled the subject in a Google Webmaster Help video blog yesterday, in response to a question submitted by SEO AJ Kohn. The actual influence of these human raters is...
If you want to report spam that Google is missing, fill out a spam report and add the word penguin,” Cutts, Google’s DistinguishedEngineer who leads the web spam team, tweeted yesterday. For those who believe their search rankings have been...
Google’s DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team, yesterday announced that Google had pushed out the new algorithm. Cutts said this “improvement” better identifies websites using “aggressive web spam tactics” (that have been...
Rather, it was a bug involving Google’s classifier for parked domains, as Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts explained and apologized for on Google+. However, this isn’t the first time websites have lost search rankings due to Google...
More here from Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts. There is nothing worse for a webmaster/site owner than to wake up one day and find Google Armageddon has taken out all of their site's rankings and traffic.
Google’s DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts, in a blog post, reported that the “Page Layout algorithmic improvement” will effect 1 percent of searches globally – which is no small number considering Google powers at least 3 billion searches per day...
Ben Gomes, DistinguishedEngineer at Google, had a great phrase to summarize the announcement, "Google Instant seems so obvious, that in retrospect, you'll wonder if search could have been any other way.
One of the inventors listed in the following patent application, Tomas Gunnarsson, is a Google Desktop Software Engineer according to a post he made in the Google Blog on a "quick search" for Desktop Search.