AideRSS Rebrands as PostRank, Launches New Features, API
louisgray.com — ... from December 2007: AideRSS Judges Feed Posts as Good, Great, Best) PostRank Shows Posts With Audience Engagement Have Higher Score The first major enhancement to the new PostRank is keyword filtering. As Ilya Grigorik wrote, users have asked for the ability to customize and filter any RSS feed with specific keywords. For example, you could get all posts from The Unofficial Apple Weblog that mention iPhone, or posts from Matt Cutts that mention SEO. I Tagged TUAW as iPhone and Filtered for ...

Web 2.0 Summit: Google, Wikipedia's Tips On Thwarting Spam Abuse
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... panel "Defending Web 2.0 From Virtual Blight" on Wednesday morning, representatives from Google, Reddit, Pramana, and Wikipedia discussed strategies and tactics for dealing with the spam and abuse that follows online success. "If you provide a service where people get links, you will be hit," said Matt Cutts , head of Google's anti-spam team. Cutts identified three major forms of Web spam: spam links, which spammers use to promote their sites; parasitic landing pages, where legitimate sites that allow users to upload content get used to host malicious code or spam links; ...

Text Links from .edu or .gov Domains Are Not Special to Google
Digital Inspiration Technology Blog — ... Matt Cutts said that websites "don’t get any PageRank boost from having an .edu link or .gov link automatically. If you get an .edu link and no one is linking to that .edu page, you’re not going to get any PageRank at all because that .edu page doesn’t have any PageRank." ...

Refresh Your Google Search Skills In 5 Minutes
Digital Inspiration Technology Blog — ... and Matt Cutts will help you quickly recap some useful tips for searching Google more efficiently. You may know a lot of these Google tricks already but refreshing skills once in a while should be fine. ...

Google USB Flash Drive
GeekAlerts — Somehow I get the feeling that this Google USB Flash Drive is not what Matt Cutts and the rest of the team will get for Christmas this year. I hope I didn’t spoil the surprise… ...

Scrape, Scrape, Scrape, Let's All Scrape Our Way to Profit!
CenterNetworks — ... At the end of the day, the only one who may be able to start to save us is Google. If Google stops indexing the sites that regularly scrape content, we may just start to see real change. I'd love to get Matt Cutts' take on this topic. ...

Google Updates Toolbar PageRank on New Year’s Eve
Digital Inspiration Technology Blog — Matt Cutts just confirmed that Google has updated PageRank values that are displayed on the Google Toolbar. CNN.com is now part of the elite Google PageRank 10 club while both Twitter.com and WordPress.com domains have climbed to Level 9. Check your Google PageRank It’s important to note that the PageRank displayed on Google Toolbar is only an external (and sometimes outdated) number - it may not have any relation with your internal PageRank that is used by Google to determine your current search ...

What Do You Do When Google Says You're a Zero?
louisgray.com — ... So what can he do? I think our typical response is to cry out to Matt Cutts and hope that he can swoop in like the white knight to save the day. But as you can guess, Google is very big, Matt is very busy, and that sort of thing won't scale. ...

Admiring Companies That Don't Blink
louisgray.com — ... ? Despite their many blogs and the ever-present Matt Cutts, it's not all that transparent. Most Google employees don't blog about their at-work exploits, and product development isn't usually that give and take. ...

How to Find Google Employees at Google Webmaster Help Forum
Search Engine Journal — ... List of recent forum posts by Evan; Evan’s full profile. Jonathan Simon (Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google) List of recent posts by Jonathan; Jonathan’s full profile. Matt Cutts (Head of the Webspam Team at Google) Google Employee’s forum account; Personal forum account; Matt’s full profile; Matt’s blog (if anyone is still unaware of it); Follow Matt on ...

The Great Video SEO Frontier
NewTeeVee — ... Google is quick to point out that getting a video to the top of its results is not that easy. “[M]arketers shouldn’t expect video SEO be some sort of magic bullet,” said Matt Cutts, Google software engineer in charge of web spam, via email. Because video production is expensive and intensive, and watching a video takes time, which may cut down on conversion, it’s most appropriate for visual industries and branding efforts, not direct response. Cutts also warned, “[I]f Google believes that users are getting a low-quality search experience, we always ...

Google's Matt Cutts new video at Webmaster Central
SEO and Tech Daily — Late yesterday, the Google Webmaster Central team posted a video by Matt Cutts to their blog. The video is essentially a 're-cut' and updated commentary of Matt's presentation at PubCon last November and includes lots of interesting info for those interested in the Google Index, Search and well, just Google. It's a must watch for newbies as well as a refresher for others. The 'State of the Index' video is embedded (and can be played) below or you can visit the page (with access to slides, etc.) at the Google Webmaster Central blog here ...

Google AdSense With Matt Cutts Banners
Search Engine Roundtable — ... Matt Cutts is the head of Google's web spam team. I am not sure how many sales this type of banner would lead to, since those who are looking for SEO services, may not know Matt. But it might lead to conversion for those prospects that do their homework. In any event, this was a funny thread to spot. Forum discussion at ...

Kara says “no Google deal” for Twitter
Scobleizer — ... It’s funny, last night I had dinner with Matt Cutts, Google’s best known blogger. He said Google wasn’t buying Twitter as far as he knew, but I figured that Matt might not know whether discussions were happening or not so I didn’t report that to see what else fell out on the blogs after Arrington reported a rumor that Twitter was in discussions. After all, if you don’t want the world to know something you shouldn’t tell your #1 blogger. But ...

Drupal to Wordpress: The Good, The Bad and the Exploited
CenterNetworks — ... been a fan of Drupal (along with a variety of other CMS systems) and selected it because I wanted a system that could expand past a simple blog. Last week, I switched CenterNetworks to utilize the Wordpress CMS and I’d like to share some of my thoughts regarding the change. I’d like to first thank several people who have helped tremendously in the conversion and post-conversion efforts. They include Terry Smith, Zach and Rob La Gesse from Mosso, Matt Cutts from Google and Mark Jaquith. Each of them went way above-and-beyond to help ...

Matt Cutts Uses His Blog To Mess With Google Search
Search Engine Roundtable — In August 2005, Matt Cutts, the head of search quality at Google, launched his blog at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ . Notice, if you click on that URL, you are redirected to ...

Barcode-scanning Your Bookshelf for Google Books
Google Blogoscoped — ... Google’s Matt Cutts shows how he adds books to his Google Books “My library” feature... using a below-70 bucks barcode scanner which he USB-connected to his computer. Why would you want to do that? One reason is to make your book shelf searchable. If you don’t have a barcode scanner you could also search for the book title to add the book of course... I could imagine it’s not that much slower. ...

Google adds more Free SEO content
SEO and Tech Daily — ... Many of the videos feature Matt Cutts who (modestly) refers to himself as the 'head of Google's Webspam team' but factually has become the industry voice for the company on SEO-related and other issues. ...

Real-time Search: What's Most Important Now, Not Most Accurate
louisgray.com — ... Google's Matt Cutts, who has been at the company since 2000, said "we have always talked about freshness of content." He relayed a history of his time at Google, saying they once had a "war room" of how they could refresh their search index as frequently as a month. By 2003, the company had moved from monthly updates to daily updates, and a few years later, in 2007, integrated the company's Blog Search product into its main search results. "We have rearchitected our system to be as recent as possible," Cutts said. ...

MyTracks: For Runners, Hikers, Bikers and More!
Android Phone Fans — ... His post was titled “30 Day Reports” and Matt made it his goal to do 1 new thing each month for the entire month. In May he didn’t watch TV. In June he took evening walks. August’s goal is to read 30 books (Okay, Doogie!). What about July? He biked to work every single day and his favorite companion was an Android application called MyTracks! ...

MyTracks: For Runners, Hikers, Bikers and More!
Planet Android — ... His post was titled “30 Day Reports” and Matt made it his goal to do 1 new thing each month for the entire month. In May he didn’t watch TV. In June he took evening walks. August’s goal is to read 30 books (Okay, Doogie!). What about July? He biked to work every single day and his favorite companion was an Android application called MyTracks! ...

Why Link Exchanges and Paid Text Ads Are a Waste of Time
Digital Inspiration Technology Blog — ... That, according to Matt Cutts, has changed and Google can treat links in different places differently. For instance, if a link is placed in the footer or is repeated all across the site (like in the case of text ads), it might not carry the same weight as a link that’s in the actual paragraph of a text. ...

Google Says Pages That Validate Do Not Get Ranking Boost
Search Engine Roundtable — The question of having valid HTML and would it help your rankings in Google or other search engines is not new. Most SEOs believed that it made no impact on your rankings, unless Googlebot has serious issues crawling your site. In a recent YouTube video , Google's Matt Cutts explained why Google.com does not validate ( historically has not) and also added that Google doesn't "give any sort of boost to web pages that validate." He explained because "the vast majority of pages on the web don't validate," including Google.com. Here is the video: For those ...

The SEO's Toolkit Part Three of Three: Resources
WebProNews Feed — ... the years I've read many blogs and to be honest – I still do. Below are some of the key blogs I reference on a regular basis. SEO Book Blog Aaron Wall over at SEO Book has an excellent blog worth reading on a regular basis. I have yet to visit his blog and not find some tid-bit of information that was worth reading either because of the information itself or because often he's just entertaining. Another to add to your weekly reading list. Matt Cutts Blog It's nice to get it from the horse's mouth. For those ...

Google Search Gets Personal: Social Search Launches in Google Labs
ReadWriteWeb — ... , search evangelist Matt Cutts, and Maureen Heymans (the Technical Lead for Social Search) and Murali Viswanathan (the Product Manager for Social Search) earlier today and the team was obviously excited about this launch. The Social Search team was especially excited about the fact social search will now make your friends' knowledge far more accessible than ever before and that this will make it easier to find trusted product reviews and local search results. ...

Google's Matt Cutts Goes a Year Without Posting at WebmasterWorld
Search Engine Roundtable — ... over a year without posting anything at WebmasterWorld. His last post was on November 2, 2008 in a thread named Google.com SERP Changes - November 2008 . His last post was in response to changes at Google, where Matt said "Nope, it wasn't a test, whitenight." Since then, we have covered monthly WebmasterWorld Google related threads on these topics, including the November 2009 report . Of course, Matt is incredibly involved in webmaster communication. He is active on his blog , he publishes daily videos over here , writes at the Google Webmaster ...

The SEO's Toolkit Part Three of Three: Resources
WebProNews Feed — ... read many blogs and to be honest – I still do. Below are some of the key blogs I reference on a regular basis. SEO Book Blog Aaron Wall over at SEO Book has an excellent blog worth reading on a regular basis. I have yet to visit his blog and not find some tid-bit of information that was worth reading either because of the information itself or because often he's just entertaining. Another to add to your weekly reading list. Matt Cutts Blog It's nice to get it from the horse's mouth. For those who don't know ...

Is SEO Dying? How will it Evolve?
SearchEngineWatch Experts — ... viewpoint, it's easy to see why people would want to conclude that SEO is a dying medium. Google and Microsoft make billions of dollars in revenue from their search engines, and protecting that revenue stream is a critical activity for them. Poor quality search results lower customer satisfaction, and become an enticement for the user to try a different search engine that gives them better results. Definitely not desirable. That's why Google has invested so much time and money in Matt Cutts' WebSpam team . Others believe social media will replace SEO. These people argue that ...

7 Ways to Legitimately Build Backlinks
Quick Sprout — ... the easy route of just buying text links, but going with the natural route is a more long term strategy that truly provides better results. Whatever method you use, just make sure the content you are creating is related to your website. For example if you are going to go with the quiz route, make sure the quiz is 100% relevant to your website unlike the Mingle2 example I used above. On a final note, here is a video with 7 more tips on building links from Google engineer, Matt Cutts. ...