Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts: What factors influence video results in Universal Search?
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Matt Cutts, Google’s head of Google’s webspam team, answers a question many SEOs are wondering these days: What factors influence video results in Universal Search?
His answers shouldn’t surprise anyone:
High quality links
Pagerank
Topicality
Text description
Reputation of the page
As the video description notes, the video is part of a “Grab Bag” series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google’s [...]
Another Paid Links Article – With A Twist
Thursday, October 4th, 2007When Andy Greenberg at Forbes writes an article called “Google Purges The Payolaâ€, it is bound to make search engine marketers take notice. It is a well-balanced article that uses the recent penalty that Google apparently applied to certain directories as catalyst to explore the whole question of paid links. The usual experts were consulted; [...]
Matt Cutts On NoFollow & Link Directories
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Matt Cutts, the Google guy, sometimes lets the world know what Google is thinking. And we’re paying attention. In his latest thoughts, he talks about no follow, seo directories and link farms. Good stuff.
Here’s a summary from SEOmoz.
Here are the big takeaway points from my perspective:
* Nofollow is now, officially, a “tool” that power users [...]
Are Paid Links Evil? I’m Sick Of The Question
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Some of the biggest buzz out of SES San Jose revolves around the panel named “Are Paid Links Evil?” Our own Mike Murray is speaking at the conference and he reports several attendees let it be known they have a problem with Google’s stand on paid links. Matt Cutts was on the panel as [...]
How Much Are ‘Link Condoms’?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007The paid link controversy got deliciously nasty yesterday at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose.
Google’s Matt Cutts joined other industry leaders on a panel called “Are Paid Links Evil?”
Google basically wants web sites to avoid passing along PageRank if they sell links. In other words, if a page has a good reputation (an authority [...]
