Dec 22 2011

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

Aug 28 2011

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 …

Aug 24 2011

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 …

Aug 9 2011

Google Launches New Series of Matt Cutts Webmaster Tutorials

Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, has been answering webmaster questions in short videos for quite some time now. The videos have often been quite informative, and have tackled numerous issues that common webmasters face on a day-to-day basis. …

Jun 21 2011

Google on Duplicate Content Concerns Regarding Blog Posts on the Home Page

As you may know, Google’s Matt Cutts often posts videos on the company’s Webmaster Help YouTube channel, answering user questions. He linked to one today about duplicate content concerns and having blog posts on your home page. The question was, …