Bing Optimization
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article deals with the differences in the algorithms used by Bing and Google.
Top 10 SEO Mistakes
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmList of the 10 most common SEO Mistakes
Choosing SEO as Your Career
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThe article deals with the advantages and
disadvantages of choosing SEO as your career.
How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article explains how to harness the power of social bookmarking in order to reach the front page off major social bookmarking sites like Digg, Netscape, StumbleUpon, Reddit etc. and drive a lot of traffic to your site.
Choosing a SEO Company
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article explains how to select a SEO company and it includes
advice on important points to watch for when making the decision
whether to choose a particular company or not.
Keyword Difficulty
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article focuses on one often forgotten aspect of keyword selection, namely how difficult it would be to top the results for a particular keyword. The article also gives ideas what to do when all your keywords seem to be occupied by your competitors.
Optimizing for MSN
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article explains the different approach for optimizing for
MSN, in comparison to optimizing for Google and Yahoo!. The factors
that are of primary importance for MSN SEO - keywords and
metatags - are described in detail.
Web Directories and Specialized Search Engines
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article gives ideas of some of the Google/Yahoo alternative
for getting popular on the Web - namely submitting to Web
directories and specialized search engines. The article explains in
brief what is good about Web directories and specialized search
engines and what their limitations are.
Importance of Sitemaps
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article explains what sitemaps are, why use them, how to
generate a sitemap and submit it to Google and the other search
engines.
How to Build Backlinks
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article concentrates on how to build backlinks in a natural way or via different programs and forums. The article also mentions some of the dangerous practices in building backlinks and strongly recommends to avoid them under all circumstances.
30 day challenge begins: biking to work
1 Jul 2009 at 11:28am
Posted by Matt Cutts
The overwhelming winner in my 30 day poll was “Bike to work” so that’s what I’m doing during the month of July. In the third week of July I’ll be out in Boston to speak at SIGIR, but any time I’m heading into the Googleplex during July, I’m planning to bike there.
Is there something good [...]
Funny spam email, June 2009
30 Jun 2009 at 10:57pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
I enjoy posting some of the funny emails that I get. This one made me laugh:
You don?t need to %SI3_rnd10 rod?s %SI3_rnd11 and %SI3_rnd12 %SI3_rnd13? jokes!
This is a %SI3_rnd14 for %SI3_rnd15 your %SI3_rnd16! It will %SI3_rnd17 in seconds after she %SI3_rnd18 and %SI3_rnd19 as good as if it was a %SI3_rnd20 rod!
No more jokes ? [...]
Natural links are better than non-natural
24 Jun 2009 at 2:25pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
I got a spam email that I thought about blogging about, but decided not to. Then they spammed me *again*. Sheesh.
So here goes. If you get an email with a subject like “Affordable Link Building Outsourcing,” think twice. Any email that starts out
Make your links appear Natural
Link Building is one of the most significant [...]
30 days
22 Jun 2009 at 11:43pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
30 days is enough time to build a habit. Last month, I started trying to walk 10,000 steps a day for 30 days. I didn’t walk 10K steps every day, but I did keep at it until I’d walked over 10K steps for at least 30 days. In the process, I discovered that walking [...]
My review of the iPhone 3GS
22 Jun 2009 at 12:22am
Posted by Matt Cutts
Disclaimer: This post is entirely my personal opinion. I also own an HTC T-Mobile G1, which runs Google’s Android operating system.
I picked up the new iPhone 3G S this Friday and I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts:
The Good:
- The iPhone 3GS is considerably faster than the iPhone 3G. Especially in the browser, you’ll [...]
How to read Persian (Farsi)
19 Jun 2009 at 1:57am
Posted by Matt Cutts
Google just added machine-translation of Persian (Farsi):
This means you can now translate any text from Persian into English and from English into Persian ? whether it’s a news story, a website, a blog, an email, a tweet or a Facebook message. The service is available free at http://translate.google.com.
Is the translation going to be perfect? No. [...]
Watch my site review session from Google I/O
16 Jun 2009 at 1:27am
Posted by Matt Cutts
At Google I/O a few weeks ago I did a site review session with fellow Google colleagues Brian White and Greg Grothaus. The video from that session is live now and I’ll include it below:
About 38 minutes in, the session morphed into a general Q&A. So even if you don’t care about site reviews, the [...]
PageRank sculpting
16 Jun 2009 at 12:34am
Posted by Matt Cutts
People think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page. Other people think of the web as an link matrix in which the value at position (i,j) indicates the presence [...]
Add Custom Search to any site in two minutes
10 Jun 2009 at 2:25pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
By the way, you might have missed it at Google I/O, but the Custom Search Engine team has made it really easy to add custom search to any site. Google recently introduced Web Elements, which are simple snippets of code you can copy/paste into your site’s HTML.
From the Custom Search Element web page, I copied [...]
Android barcode scanner in 6 lines of Python code
9 Jun 2009 at 5:53pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
After my last video about using a barcode scanner to add and search books in your library, I was feeling pretty happy. Bar code scanners are pretty cheap--mine cost about $65. But then Google released the Android Scripting Environment (ASE) and it turns out that you don’t even need a bar code scanner. Instead, you [...]