Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and webmasters braced for the worst. For example, you might have a worksheet for directories, another for comment spam, another for article sites, etc.
Then you should pay close attention to what Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts said about disavowing links: It will always possible for people to name reasonable exceptions, except, for one fact – Google is not building spam fighting...
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: Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really...
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...
News of the refresh came today via a tweet from Matt Cutts, Google’s Distinguished Engineer. Google’s Penguin Update, originally known as the Web Spam Algorithm Update, was first released in April and impacted 3.1 percent of English queries.
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. Besides which, brand building in this era of the...
Matt Cutts, Google Distinguished Engineer 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. Is it spam?
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. SEO by the Sea has a good rundown of Google’s patents related to combating web spam.
More here from Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts. Content: Spam/keyword stuffing, hidden text, duplication/scraping. Spy On Web: Check for suspect sites on your server. In most cases, mayhem ensues as they scramble around to try and figure...
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.
