Jan 29 2012

Beware The Fake Matt Cutts

One or more people are going around impersonating Google’s head of web spam (and now “Distinguished Engineer”) Matt Cutts, leaving comments on various articles on the web. It’s been going on for a while. Usually, if you pay close enough …

Jan 25 2012

Matt Cutts Offers ‘Above the Fold’ Clarification

When Google announced their algorithm change to penalize sites using too many ads, ones that appear above the fold, the first, if not only response was, “how much is too much?” The first, best answer is, thanks to some clarification …

Dec 12 2011

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 …

Nov 9 2011

Google Pubcon Q&A: 24 Takeaways

At Pubcon in Las Vegas today, Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal, two key members of Google’s search team, took the stage to talk about Google search, and answer questions from webmasters. Here are 24 takeaways from what they said: 1. …

Oct 28 2011

Matt Cutts and Duane Forrester To Grow Moustaches For Men’s Health

At risk of sounding like a writer for ESPN’s First Take, there’s a search-related moustache story worth mentioning. Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester will participate in the “Movember” initiative designed to raise awareness for men’s health. On the …

Oct 19 2011

A Panda Meaner Than Google’s, Page Speed & The Beardo

There’s a lot of Google going on in today’s edition of the daily video round-up. That includes a Panda reference, Matt Cutts talking about Page Speed, the Galaxy Nexus and even Eric Schmidt’s wife. But if I’m being honest, Michael …

Oct 17 2011

Google Panda Update: Cutts Confirms Another Tweak

As previously reported, Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted out on October 5 to “expect some Panda-related flux in the next few weeks, but will have less impact than previous updates (~2%).” SearchMetrics has since shared numbers for sites it found to …

Sep 23 2011

Facebook Timeline Parodied, UARS, Matt Cutts Q&A, Robots & Stuff That Will Just Blow Your Mind

We have some very interesting videos for you today. I won’t give away too many spoilers. Just peruse them at your leisure. View other daily video round-ups here. First off, the stuff that will blow your mind. UC Berkeley scientists …

Sep 14 2011

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 …

Sep 14 2011

Reasons Why Google Toolbar PageRank Would Drop, According to Google

Google’s Matt Cutts posted one of his webmaster help videos discussing Google Toolbar PageRank, why it’s only updated a few times a year, and why webmasters might see their PageRank drop. He also talks about how to get back in …