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Google SEO Tip #134 – How Would A Non-Optimized Site Outrank a Site Which has Done SEO?

By James Martell on Friday, June 24th, 2011 | 3 Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: Well the thing I want to avoid is the impression that it’s only the optimization that would make you rank. There are lots of different factors that would make you rank well but fundamentally we try to look at on page content as well as off domain links. And it’s not the case [...]

Google SEO Tip #132 – Why are Some of Google’s Products Not Available Outside the US?

By James Martell on Saturday, June 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

TweetMatt Cutts: I’m absolutely sympathetic to this. The fact is I think Google has one of the most internationalized websites in the world. We’re available in something like 100 different languages. But trying to be available in every language in every country and every market is really, really hard. Sometimes there are data signals or [...]

Google SEO Tip #131 – Do URL Shorteners Pass Anchor Text?

By James Martell on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 | 2 Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: Custom URL shorteners are just like any other redirects; if we try to crawl a page and we see a 301 or permanent redirect, which all well behaved URL shorteners like bitly or goo.gl will do, if we see that 301 it will pass PageRank to that destination. In general there really shouldn’t [...]

Google SEO Tip #130 – How Can I Make Sure That Google Knows My Content Is Original?

By James Martell on Thursday, June 9th, 2011 | 1 Comment

TweetMatt Cutts: I can get into a lot of interesting stuff about how to crawl the web. If you really want to know about a signal the inquest rate says you want to sample it two times that frequency but that fact is you can always change a webpage. So the perception of being able [...]

Google SEO Tip #129 – How Can I Learn About the Technologies Used At Google?

By James Martell on Monday, June 6th, 2011 | No Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: Wow, great question. A lot of people are like, “Oh Google is so secretive” but if you go back and look at the literature and papers that Google has produced we have actually documented a lot about the mechanics, our data centers and how Google operates. If you want to go back into [...]

Google SEO Tip #128 – Will Google Give A Higher Rank to A Website Which Runs AdSense?

By James Martell on Friday, June 3rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

TweetMatt Cutts: Good question. The answer is Google does not, NOT, repeat not, give a higher ranking to websites which run AdSense. They are completely independent. It’s not the case that if you run AdSense you get any kind of boost in ranking or anything like that. So it’s definitely not the case that you [...]

Google SEO Tip #127 – Why Aren’t Geographic Target and Query Parameters Specified in Robots.txt

By James Martell on Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 | 1 Comment

TweetMatt Cutts: I understand the question but you have to be a little bit careful. You don’t want to throw everything in the kitchen sink into the Robots.txt file. The Robots.txt predates even Google and it’s really well established and there are parts of that txt code that a lot of people rely on. So [...]

Google SEO Tip #126 – When I Change Domains How Long Should I Leave the Redirects In Place?

By James Martell on Saturday, May 28th, 2011 | 1 Comment

TweetMatt Cutts: This is something where search engines can change their policies over time because we might see the web evolving or we might see how webmasters have issues or those sorts of things. I can tell you about my experience from moving MattCutts.com to Dullest.com and then Dullest.com back to MattCutts.com. Whenever I decided [...]

Google SEO Tip #125 – Does Google Do A Holiday Change?

By James Martell on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 | No Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: I actually want to answer the Holiday change part of this question because it seems like if Google makes any kind of change anytime in the fourth quarter of the year then people say, “Oh it’s a Holiday change. Google’s trying to make me buy ads or do whatever.” The fact is we [...]

Archive for the ‘Matt Cutts’ Category

Google SEO Tip #134 – How Would A Non-Optimized Site Outrank a Site Which has Done SEO?

Google SEO Tip #132 – Why are Some of Google’s Products Not Available Outside the US?

Google SEO Tip #131 – Do URL Shorteners Pass Anchor Text?

Google SEO Tip #130 – How Can I Make Sure That Google Knows My Content Is Original?

Google SEO Tip #129 – How Can I Learn About the Technologies Used At Google?

Google SEO Tip #128 – Will Google Give A Higher Rank to A Website Which Runs AdSense?

Google SEO Tip #127 – Why Aren’t Geographic Target and Query Parameters Specified in Robots.txt

Google SEO Tip #126 – When I Change Domains How Long Should I Leave the Redirects In Place?

Google SEO Tip #125 – Does Google Do A Holiday Change?

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