A new Google Webmaster help video with DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts brings up a topic that most webmasters don’t think about – whether stock photography versus original photography has any impact on search engine rankings.
Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and webmasters braced for the worst. In other words, the webmasters are removing the links and keeping the page active.
It's no conspiracy that Google wants to make profits, but Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts has come out swinging against an often repeated "conspiracy theory," arguing that all Google updates are designed only to improve the user...
Even with the Interflora penalty, more webmasters have been utilizing advertorials and other types of paid promotional content for search engine ranking benefits, so Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts is bringing the issue up and alerting...
Well, according to Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts, which was shared by John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, webmasters should be tackling URLs for the disavow tool with a machete instead of a scalpel.
Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts recently stated that Google is actually pulling back on Panda because of too many false positives. While discussed many times, webmasters still struggle with shifting their link building activities to real...
Webmasters have been watching for Penguin 2.0 to hit the Google search results since Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts first announced that there would be the next generation of Penguin. Webmasters first got a hint of the next generation...
The latest Google Webmaster video features DistinguishedEngineer 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...
Well, Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts brings up the topic of the many Google patents in his latest Google Webmaster Help video, which was an answer to the question about the latest SEO misconception he would like to put to rest.
In a new Webmaster Help video, Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts reveals five of the biggest basic SEO mistakes webmasters make, and suggests a few ways to improve your website. Not getting the search traffic you were hoping for?
In this video, Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts explained that a Google employee won't open an external file or visit an unknown website for fear of picking up malware. It’s one thing to say that you have emailed 600 webmasters, but it's...
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. What does this mean for webmasters and SEO professionals?
Although Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts hasn't written about social signals as part of Google Plus Your World since January 2012, there is evidence that Google is paying close attention to social signals, on and off Google properties...
This led Tober to dispute a statement by Matt Cutts, Google's DistinguishedEngineer. As knowledge of SEO practices moves from the cubicles of search engine optimizers to the boardroom, the standard metrics used by a group of very talented techies...
A new video by Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts announces that Google will soon begin supplying example links that were detected as being untrustworthy. While many methods for identifying unnatural links have surfaced, Google’s new...
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.
Google’s DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts announced the new Google Webmaster Tools feature today during his PubCon keynote, urging all SEOs and webmasters to proceed with extreme caution. Check out the URL here: https://www.google.com/webmasters...
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. The past month has been a painful one for thousands of webmasters hit by the Google...