Jan 18 2012

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 …

Dec 19 2011

Matt Cutts Talks Keyword Density

Google has put out a new Webmaster Help video, featuring (as usual) head of web spam Matt Cutts. This time, Cutts is answering his own question, rather than a user-submitted question. The question is: What is the ideal keyword density: …

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 30 2011

Matt Cutts, Bendable Robots & A Land-Walking Octopus

Today’s video round-up comes with some advice from Google, some interesting animals, and of course a robot. View more daily video round-ups here. Google’s Matt Cutts takes on the topic: “Will my site’s ranking be hurt if I use HTTPS …

Nov 11 2011

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 …

Oct 31 2011

Matt Cutts Has Some Halloween Fun

Matt Cutts posted a video today for Halloween. It’s not a webmaster help video though. It’s a video showing his Halloween costume. He says this is the product of him asking people on Google+ what he should be. He’s dressed …

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 …

Oct 12 2011

Tips for Diagnosing A Drop In Google Rankings, From Matt Cutts

Google has posted a new Webmaster Help video. As usual, Head of Web Spam Matt Cutts has answered a user-submitted question. The question is: “When you notice a drastic drop in your rankings and traffic from Google, what process would …

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

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 …