SEO Truths Or Should That Be SEEO?
September 23, 2009 by Barry Welford · 14 Comments
The SEO Gurus and Experts have been somewhat less vocal than usual over the past few months. It can be traced to the revelation by Mark Cutts at SMX Advanced in Seattle as reported by many including Lisa Barone and Dan Thies that basically nofollow might not work like people expected for sculpting PageRank. You might have expected that, if it did not work, this might already have been spotted by some of the gurus. However there was no hint anywhere that this might be so.
Matt Cutts, Why Am I Still Being Punished?
January 24, 2008 by DazzlinDonna · 123 Comments
I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts. I switched to a different method of monetization (Scratchback) that serves Google-friendly, nofollowed links. (And btw, Google, that put a huge dent in my revenue, just so you know). Finally, after I cleaned up everything that might possibly make you hate me, I filed a reconsideration request about 5 weeks ago.
Watch Matt Cutts Zap a Spammer!
July 29, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 10 Comments
I secretly filmed Matt Cutts when I caught him zapping a search engine spammer into oblivion! Check it out!
The Internet Marketers Manifesto
April 20, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, Manifesto is defined as:
A public declaration of principles or intentions, esp. political ones.
Matt Cutts hacked as April Fools Joke?
April 1, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
DarkSEOTeam appears to have hacked Matt Cutts blog. Of course, it being April Fool’s Day, it’s possible that Matt himself did this as an April Fool’s joke, but it may also be DarkSEOTeam’s way of playing a joke on Matt. Here’s a screenshot of just part of the hacked page.
Matt Cutts defines data push vs. data refresh – kinda
October 26, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 4 Comments
Matt Cutts, in a comment on his blog, explains the differences between the Google terminology “data push” vs. “data refresh”. Of course, we really don’t get a clue as to what either of them actually is…but well, I’ll let you read it for yourself.
Adding too much at one time is bad…confirmed?
September 3, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
Matt Cutts in an update to this post says “We saw so many urls suddenly showing up on spaces.live.com that it triggered a flag in our system which requires more trust in individual urls in order for them to rank…“. Now, I might be misinterpreting this statement, but it sounds to me like a confirmation that adding too much at one time will trigger a flag. It’s possible that just adding too many new subdomains causes a problem, but I would guess it may apply to pages or folders as well.
And more Cutts SEO videos
August 3, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 6 Comments
Yes, Matt has two more videos today to answer those seo questions. He says he’ll stop for a few days. Anyway, these discuss various things, from datacenter watching, to whether or not .gov and .edu links hold more weight (and a few things in between).
But wait there’s more…from Matt Cutts
August 2, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
Matt is obviously taking advantage of serial link bait, since we have yet more videos from him answering webmaster questions. This time he discusses analytics and its effects on SERPs, duplicate content, safesearch, hyperlinks in option elements, and he even answers my question, which was to define some terms that may confuse the average non-Googler. He discusses the differences between index updates, algorithm updates, and data refreshes, and touches upon the data refreshes we saw in June and July.
More Cutts answers on video
August 1, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Matt Cutts has answered some more webmaster questions, again on video. These deal mostly with dynamic urls, 301s, and supplementals.
Cutts answers questions via video
July 31, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
As I recently mentioned, Matt Cutts took some webmaster questions, and has now answered them via video. His post is here, with links leading to the videos themselves.
Matt and Big Daddy
May 26, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
While I was gone, everyone was buzzing about Matt Cutt’s blog post, titled Indexing Timeline. I wanted to consolidate pieces of his post as well as his later comments in one place, so that those affected by the Big Daddy crawl/index issues wouldn’t have to wade through hundreds of comments to see everything. I have intentionally left some bits out that weren’t germaine to the issue, or were just repeats of things said elsewhere, or were obviously part of the original post, so they were easy to find. Feel free to go to the original post to see everything. So, here, in no rational order is my summary/compilation of Matt’s remarks.
Tidbits of Google knowledge
March 30, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
Most of you have probably read Matt Cutts’ answers to his Monday Q and A thread, but I like to document things for the future. I often come to my own site here to search for a phrase that I know I have discussed before, but can’t remember much about it. So, here’s a few tidbits from Matt’s answers.
