Posts Tagged ‘ matt cutts ’

Nothing Wrong with Guest Blogging (as Long as…)

November 13, 2012
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Publishing an article by a guest author hadn’t been invented by bloggers. It has subsisted a long time ago, way before the Internet was even some special experimental military project or something. In fact, old media publications like newspapers and magazines have been featuring guest articles since the dawn of……

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After Many Leaks, Google Considers Releasing Quality Rater Guidelines

November 2, 2012
Human Quality Raters

For the most part, Google’s search results are purely algorithmic without any human editorial touch. Except for cases where members of the search team are manually penalizing a website for violating Google’s guidelines (and recuperating if eligible), the rankings process is completely automatic. But Google also employs humans as “Quality……

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Google Denies (Again) Advertisers Prioritized in Organic Results or for Support

October 30, 2012
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There aren’t many industries where a nerdish man wearing a panda t-shirt and talking about algorithms can rouse a lot of heed and in some cases even some trepidation. But in the search industry (and in the wizarding world) such a powerful man does live and breathe. Matt Cutts, Google’s……

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Only Reconsideration Requests of Manual-Action Penalized Sites Reviewed by Humans

October 25, 2012
Sheldon Cooper Computer

I guess that after all the Pandas, Penguins, Page Layouts, EMDs, unnatural link warnings and more (and very possibly more), submitting a reconsideration request to Google is a burning issue for many webmasters. The problem is that often people don’t really understand this process and when they should approach it.……

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Quoting Won’t Result Duplicate Content Penalty if Adding More Value

October 23, 2012
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Sometimes it’s a bit saddening to hear about other bloggers that only scribble stuff based on what they think are the current whiffs of Google. Ideally, people don’t need to ponder on how a freakin’ machine will gauge their content, but just try to create it the best as possible……

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Gamemaker Cutts: Distrust Non-Editorial Links, Accept Mild Mix of Spammy Links

October 19, 2012
Gamemaker Matt Cutts

Links, links, links. You can’t live without them and you can’t live with too many bad of them. If you are an eager beaver site owner, that is. Many good links can take you up to the top of the rankings kingdom and many bad ones can throw you down……

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Google Disavow Links Tool Now Live – Use with Extreme Caution

October 17, 2012
Google Disavow Links

When Google’s most ferocious anti-spam deputy Matt Cutts had mentioned that the search team has been working on a tool which will allow webmasters to disavow particular spammy links back in June, it had incited some fuss and excitement around the SEO community. But as time went by, people began……

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Matt In Conference Land: Social, Transparency and Penguins

August 16, 2012
SES San Francisco Panel

Matt Cutts loves conferences. It appears that as the public face of Google’s search team, he doesn’t miss a chance for a relentless cross-examine in front of a wide audience. I guess there’s something about being candidly grilled that feeds lil’ Matt fetish needs. That’s a good quality to have……

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Matt Cutts: Links To Remain Strong Ranking Factor, Social Signals Will Wait

July 6, 2012
Matt Cutts On Links

Links from other websites (or “backlinks” in the unofficial SEO nerdish lingo) are a big part of how Google is ranking sites on its search results page. You know, this simple little page that can make site owners millionaires or frustrated bitter poor folks… Until recent years, the formula for……

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