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.
Reinclusion in Google
31 Dec 1969 at 7:00pmThis article describes what to do when a SEO nightmare i.e being excluded from Google comes true. While the article focuses on the steps that are necessary to perform in order to be reincluded in Google's index, it also lists some of the possible reasons for being penalized.
Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?
15 hours ago
Posted by Matt Cutts
The other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar, so I can search for “haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)” and see when I’ve gotten my hair cut:
Then I was reading Google Apps Hacks and Hack 25 caught my eye: “Show the difference between two dates”. A [...]
Follow me on Twitter, FriendFeed, or RSS
14 May 2008 at 12:07am
Posted by Matt Cutts
I changed it so that anyone can follow me on Twitter or FriendFeed. The links to follow me are http://twitter.com/mattcutts and http://friendfeed.com/mattcutts .
And of course you can subscribe to my RSS feed if you want. You can subscribe by clicking any of the buttons below:
If aren’t a subscriber [...]
What Google Knows About Spam
12 May 2008 at 1:14am
Posted by Matt Cutts
If you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well.
The only thing I don’t like about conference speaking is preparing slides. When I use slides at a talk, I almost always make a custom [...]
Custom Search Engine adds new features
7 May 2008 at 1:21am
Posted by Matt Cutts
Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) just announced that they now power AdSense for Search. Another nice new change is that if you provide a Sitemap, Google will use that to improve the coverage of the custom search engine.
Now let me nip one idea in the bud, because I can already feel a few people thinking [...]
Back from Maker Faire
5 May 2008 at 12:05am
Posted by Matt Cutts
Man, I love Maker Faire. It’s almost as if Burning Man mated with Slashdot. Here are afew of the fun things I saw today.
In the Craft area someone showed the credit cards that they accepted, but the credit card sign was hand-made:
Also in the Craft zone was a “postcard machine.” It was a person sitting [...]
Maker Faire!
4 May 2008 at 1:25pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
I’m heading to Maker Faire today. It’s a fun event if you like robots, crafts, art cars, flame throwers, Coke ‘n’ Mentos shows, building your own electronics kits, knitting weird hats, Lego creations, plush monsters, power tool racing, or walking around outdoors in the California sunshine. Highly recommended if you’re in the Bay Area today.
Review: Google Apps Hacks
1 May 2008 at 2:50am
Posted by Matt Cutts
Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo I decided to walk the exhibition floor. Niall Kennedy and I checked out the inflatable Google booth, we gave feedback to the WordPress folks, and we came to rest in the Yahoo booth, where it was nice to see Jeremy Zawodny and catch up a little bit.
After a [...]
New WordPress version 2.5.1 includes security fix
25 Apr 2008 at 3:56pm
Posted by Matt Cutts
Read about WordPress 2.5.1 and download the new version here. It includes a security fix, so you’re going to want to upgrade. It’s well-known that older versions of WordPress get attacked by malicious bad guys, so I absolutely recommend upgrading as soon as you can to be safe.
By the way, if you subscribed to the [...]
Google Hacks: Pacman graph with Google Charts
25 Apr 2008 at 12:14am
Posted by Matt Cutts
This link was cool, but it generates a graph like this:
With a little modification, I made this graph:
I like my picture a little better. It was quite simple to make this diagram, and Google provides a free graph-drawing tool that you can use on your own site with a single url — no account or [...]
Trip report: Domain Roundtable Conference
23 Apr 2008 at 12:49am
Posted by Matt Cutts
This weekend I did a Q&A session at the Domain Roundtable Conference. It was an hour and a half of answering various questions. Rand Fishkin and John Andrews both did write-ups of the session. Rand and John were both on an SEO panel after me, which I enjoyed.
This was my first domain-related conference, and the [...]