Promoting Your Amazon Kindle eBook
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmAmazon Kindle has a huge earning potential. However, the competition is fierce, too. This is why you need to know how to make your Amazon Kindle eBook popular. Read this article and you will learn what to do in order to promote your Amazon Kindle eBook.
Google Adsense Alternatives
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmGoogle Adsense might be the most popular way to monetize a website but it certainly isn't the only one. Here are 10 Google Adsense alternatives to explore that could bring you more money than Google Adsense itself.
The Google Panda Update
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThe Panda update is one of the most serious changes in search engine algorithms in the last years. This update affected millions of sites (and their owners). If you want to learn how to make your site do well in post-Panda searches, read this article.
How to Analyze Your SEO Competitors
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmWhen your goal is to rank well with search engines, it is important not only what you do to optimize your site but also what your competitors are doing. This is why you need to keep an eye on your competitors' SEO activities, as discussed in this article.
How to Optimize for Baidu
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmBaidu is the most popular search engine in China, more popular than Google itself. This is why, if you have visitors from China, it makes sense to optimize your site for Baidu as well. The rules for ranking well with Baidu are similar to the rules of the other search engines, yet there are differences, as we show in the article.
SEO Musts for Local Business
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmWhen you are doing business locally, you need local traffic. Maybe you are asking yourself how this is possible, since search engines are global in nature. Read the article and you will learn what you can do to get targeted local traffic to your site.
How to Pick an SEO Friendly Designer
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmIt is very important to hire a SEO-friendly designer because if you don't and your site is designed in a SEO-unfriendly fashion, you can't compensate for this later. This article will tell you how to pick a SEO-friendly designer and save yourself the disappointment of low rankings with search engines.
How to Optimize your Website for Mobile Search
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmobile search is different from desktop search and if you have lots of mobile visitors, you need to make your site mobile-friendly. Shorter keywords, shorter pages, current info, and compliance with mobile standards are some of the key points to follow in order to make your site suitable for mobile searchers.
How to Boost your SEO with Google Adwords
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmIn addition to using AdWords for getting paid traffic to your site, it can also be used for SEO. This article shares some ideas on how you can use AdWords for SEO.
YouTube Traffic
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmYouTube is one of the best ways to promote your services and
products and to get free traffic. If your videos there manage to get
viral, this could make a real difference to you. However, in order to
be successful on YouTube, you need to know the ropes. This article
tells you the most important tricks for getting traffic from YouTube
and for successful promotion there.
It?s time to stop PROTECT IP
18 Jan 2012 at 7:47am
Posted by Matt Cutts
A couple months ago, I wrote this about SOPA: SOPA galvanized the tech community, from start-ups to venture capitalists to the largest web companies. SOPA was an unexpected shock and a wake-up call. Well, guess what? Now the internet is awake. And I don?t think it?s going back to sleep any time soon. We might [...]
Sharing a search story
11 Jan 2012 at 3:20am
Posted by Matt Cutts
I?ve been reading a lot of the coverage of the Search plus Your World launch and I wanted to share my story and then clarify something. I love to stay up until early in the morning playing Werewolf. In early December I went to a journalism conference called ?News Foo Camp? in Phoenix and played [...]
Larry Lessig on the corrupting influence of money
13 Dec 2011 at 4:37pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
Larry Lessig has a new book called Republic, Lost which discusses the corrupting influence of money on politics. I would highly recommend the book, because it gets to the heart of why things so many things in Washington, D.C. seem broken today and how to fix them. If you don’t have the time to read [...]
Beware of fake Matts leaving comments
11 Dec 2011 at 8:20pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
A lot of the time, I dispel misconceptions by leaving comments on blogs. That works great, except for the rare occasion when someone pretends to be me and leaves a rude, fake, or otherwise untrue blog comment. Over the previous decade, I’ve only seen 4-5 times where someone impersonated me. But in the last month, [...]
Progress against SOPA
21 Nov 2011 at 11:01am
Posted by Matt Cutts
When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few days. If you’re not familiar with SOPA (and the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate), here’s a video that covers [...]
I need your help?please. Call your congressperson?
16 Nov 2011 at 11:10am
Posted by Matt Cutts
(This is post is my personal opinion.) Normally I don’t like to ask people for help, but I could really use your assistance. If you’ve ever watched one of my webmaster videos, or if I’ve responded to you on Twitter, email, or somewhere else online, please take 5-10 minutes to help me out today. Here’s [...]
Grow a moustache and fight cancer!
1 Nov 2011 at 2:16pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
For my next 30 day challenge, I’ll be growing a mustache to raise awareness and money for men’s health issues, and specifically prostate cancer research. Men of search and SEO, please join our team. You can raise awareness, or raise cash. And it’s super simple: just don’t shave your moustache for 30 days. The name [...]
Halloween costume: stickman from xkcd
31 Oct 2011 at 1:16pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
For Halloween this year I asked people on Google+ what I should be for Halloween, and someone suggested going as the blackhat stick man from xkcd. You know, this guy: That sounded like a good challenge. I finished the costume and taped a video, but unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to get the video [...]
Halloween Pumpkin: Portal Turret!
24 Oct 2011 at 11:26am
Posted by Matt Cutts
I made a Portal turret for my Halloween pumpkin! I was trying to think of things to carve: vampire Android? R2-D2? Zoidberg? Then I thought: I could do a character from Portal 2! I was going to carve something like GLaDOS or Wheatley, but then I realized that a portal turret would be perfect: To [...]
New 30 day challenge: going vegan!
2 Oct 2011 at 1:58am
Posted by Matt Cutts
Okay, I’m starting up a new 30 day challenge: I’m going to eat vegan for the next 30 days. That means no meat, dairy, or eggs. I’m curious to see how it will go.