It’s that time once again where we look at questions posed to chief of Google’s webspam team, Matt Cutts, and round up his answers. It’s a SEO Q&A and hopefully it helps budding and experienced webmasters alike find greater success in their optimization efforts. The first question Matt Cutts addressed this week has to do …
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Well, Google has done it again. They have updated their search engine in an effort to provide more accurate results for complex search queries. The update just rolled out and it’s called Hummingbird and may dramatically affect how we approach SEO from here on out. This latest update is actually slated to be the biggest …
We’ve come to that time once again where we’re going to discuss some common SEO questions put forth to chief of Google’s webspam team, Matt Cutts. First up is a question about no-follow links. Specifically, the user wanted to know if no-follow links could hurt their site. Cutts answers straight away with “no,” these types …
If you keep up to date with all things search optimization (like you should be!), you know that the rel=author tag is really important for establishing yourself as an authority in Google search results. Declaring authorship presents the articles you write in the search results with your photo positioned next to them. This makes your …
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Recently, a user on YouTube asked Matt Cutts, chief of Google’s webspam team a question about when the company will support webmaster questions and not just provide automated responses. This user in particular was lamenting the fact that he has only ever received automated responses to his reconsideration requests, even though he always wrote out …
When you’re trying to optimize a website, much of your focus is on the content you create. That is, you spend you’re time thinking about how to rank well for specific keywords or making sure your site doesn’t have any duplicate content. This is all fine and well but it leaves a huge gap in …
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Today we’re going to discuss the latest video from chief Google engineer, Matt Cutts, who offers up regular tips and tricks to webmasters. The topic for today is penalty link examples. When you manage a website, it’s important to have an understanding of your linking strategy. This means you need to know what sites link …
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We have another confirmation that with right amount of effort the manual spam action taken by Google for unnatural/spam links can be revoked. It took us a significant amount of time spent on reviewing our client’s website for unnatural linking, contacting many webmasters for removing unnatural links and utilizing Webmaster disavow tool for links/domain we …
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We’re going to talk about some information given out by SEO expert and Google engineer, Matt Cutts today. As you know, he’s the go-to source for everything having to do with webspam and site optimization, so without further adieu, let’s discuss some questions and answers. First up, a user wanted to know how Google treats …
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The Webmaster Guidelines put out by Google help people who build websites learn what to do and what not to do in terms of designing and creating their homes on the web. Basically, there are some things you can do that might penalize you in the eyes of the search engine. Webspam content violations are …
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