Google’s Matt Cutts: It’s Time To Take Action On SOPA
Google has blacked out its logo in protest of SOPA. The company has also put up a blog post calling for visitors to petition Congress. Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, who has been a vocal opponent of SOPA …
Google Demotes Chrome PageRank Following Paid Link Fiasco
Following the previously reported upon controversy surrounding a marketing campaign for Google’s Chrome browser, Google has apparently decided to devalue its Chrome landing page (in terms of PageRank). At least temporarily. Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land acquired a statement …
Google’s Matt Cutts Talks Duplicate Content And Different Languages
Google’s Matt Cutts has put out a video talking about duplicate content. He was responding to the following user-submitted question: Will multilingual translations of one [piece of] content across different websites attract [a] duplicate content penalty? “The simple answer is …
Google’s Matt Cutts Does Some Myth Busting
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of webspam, wrote a post on his personal blog telling people to beware of comments appearing on blogs and different sites around the web claiming to be from him when they’re really not. “A lot of …
Google Raters Guide: Ratings Don’t Directly Affect Rankings
Earlier this year, following the initial roll-out of the Panda update, Google’s Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal did an interview with Wired, in which they talked about people they had rating search result quality. Last month, the raters handbook was …
Steve Nash, The Winklevoss Twins & Matt Cutts
I’m going to test a video roundup-style article looking at some of the more interesting videos we come across in tech, marketing and business on any given day. If the response is good, we’ll continue to do this. There is …
Google Algorithm Testing – Search Giant Calls for Help Detecting Scrapers
Google announced that it is testing algorithmic changes for scraper sites – blog scrapers in particular. The company is calling on users to help them. “We are asking for examples, and may use data you submit to test and improve …
Google: Not Having Robots.txt is “A Little Bit Risky”
Robots.txt as you may know, lets Googlebot know whether you want it to crawl your site or not. Google’s Matt Cutts spoke about a few options for these files in the latest Webmaster Help video, in response to a user-submitted …
The Next Google Ranking Signal: Your Google Profile?
Long story short: if you’re looking to help your search engine rankings, you might need a Google Profile (the backbone of Google+). As previously reported, Google has a new series of tutorial videos, and in a new one, Google’s Matt …
Help Google Crawl Your Site More Effectively, But Use Caution
Google has introduced some changes to Webmaster Tools – in particular, handling of URLs with parameters. “URL Parameters helps you control which URLs on your site should be crawled by Googlebot, depending on the parameters that appear in these URLs,” …