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 …
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 On Targeting Parts Of Your Site To Different Locations
Google recently put out a new webmaster help video with Matt Cutts discussing how to target parts of a site to different locations. The exact question Matt addresses in the video is: “Webmaster tools allows site owners to specify a …
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: …
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 Algorithm: New Updates Announced
Google has been making a big deal about wanting to be more transparent about its search algorithm lately (without revealing the secret sauce too much of course). And so far, I have to say they’re making good on that promise …
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 …
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. …
Google: Page Speed Affects Rankings In 1 Out Of 100 Searches
With PubCon going on, Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted out a link to what he calls “a special webmaster video for #pubcon”. It’s about how Google determines page speed. Specifically, it’s Matt’s response to a user question: “How does Google determine …
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 …