Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) Google's SEO Report Card

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Google's Matt Cutts | How to Get Better Visibility on Google
USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham interviews Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your site to the top of Google with 5 basic, common sense SEO tips. Matt Cutts guests on the USA TODAY Talking Tech web video show. New episodes air weekly at tech.usatoday.com

Can you give us an update on rankings for long-tail searches
"Many are talking about losses of traffiic with long tail searches: www.webmasterworld.com I was wondering if you could give us an update on what is happening with Google right now? Caffeine update? Algorithm change? Temporary?" Brian, Seattle, WA

Matt Cutts Discusses the Importance of alt Tags
Google guru Matt Cutts discusses how best to optimize your site for Google

Google's Matt Cutts gives tips to small business owners
www.reachd.com Rodney Bartlett interviews Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2007 in Las Vegas. Matt had some excellent tips for small business owners and answered a few great questions.

Is Google putting more weight on brands in rankings
On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Monica from Madison, WI asked: Can you verify that Google is putting more weight on "brands" in search engine rankings? If the answer is "Yes" -- what is Google's definition of a brand? Inspired by Aaron Wall's post: www.seobook.com

How do you rate links from sites like Twitter and Facebook
Mani from Delhi asks: "Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like Twitter, FB to a website?" Thisvideo is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We're not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related search issues is to head to our help forum: www.google.com

Matt Cutts Discusses Snippets
Google guru Matt Cutts discusses how best to optimize your site for Google. Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. He is currently the head of Google's Webspam team

Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) Google's SEO Report Card
Ignite SMX West (3/2/10) was the first Ignite at an SMX (Search Marketing Expo) and appropriately enough, we had a special edition "search" lineup of speakers made up of the who's who in the search industry today. Must see bite size bits of search enlightenment and pure awesomeness for all search geeks.

How do PageRank updates work
On what basis you are increasing the PR for each PR update? Made, London

Matt Cutts Discusses Webmaster Tools
Google guru Matt Cutts discusses how best to optimize your site for Google

Why are links used in ranking when they all have the nofollow attribute
How can linking remain a major part of a search algorithm when the majority of Internet users are unable to post a 'followed' link on the World Wide Web? For example Twitter, Facebook, wiki etc. are all 'nofollow'. It seems only a very small percentage of links count. Ed, Caribbean

Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking
For more information, please see the our blog post: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

SMX Seattle: Matt Cutts on Duplicate Content and Paid Search
videos.webpronews.com WebProNews caught up with Matt Cutts from Google and asked him about his thoughts on his Q and A Keynote from the SMX Search Marketing Expo in Seattle, and also his feelings on duplicate content and paid search with Google. To hear what he has to say, tune in to WebProNews.

Canonical Link Element
Matt Cutts of Google introduces the canonical link element. Resources: Blog post on Google webmaster blog: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com Yahoo blog post: ysearchblog.com Microsoft: blogs.msdn.com Ask: blog.ask.com Google Help Center documentation: google.com Joost de Valk: WordPress, Magento, and Drupal yoast.com

Google's Matt Cutts on Site Speed and the Caffeine Update
At PubCon in Las Vegas, Matt Cutts updates us on some recent developments at Google. He talks a bit about the impending arrival of the 'Caffeine' upgrade and touches on a new emphasis on site speed as a ranking factor. From the sound of it, speed is going to be a huge factor in SEO moving in to 2010. A number of people within Google consider speed to be very important to the web, as such we will likely see load speed take on increasing importance as a ranking factor. According to Cutts, speed hasnt played a role in rankings in the past but apparently they will in the future. Watch the video for more details about Caffeine and Googles resources for helping webmasters improve site speed.

Matt Cutts Announces Google Caffeine Live
searchengineland.com Google's new Caffeine indexing system was long expected. At SMX Advanced Seattle 2010, it was finally announced by the head of Google's spam team, Matt Cutts. In this video, he explains how it works.

Interview with Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, speaks about Webmaster Central, his first encounter with spam, and challenges for search engines in the future.

How Google Social Search works
Matt Cutts from the search quality team explains how Google Social Search works.

Matt Cutts Explains Caffeine Update
Google recently announced that it has been working on a project called Caffeine. Caffeine will essentially re-write the architecture for Googles Web search. As Matt Cutts shares exclusively with WebProNews, Caffeine is comparable to the Big Daddy Update back in 2006, which consisted of changes to the way Google crawls and indexes websites. How much of an impact will Caffeine have on results? Matt says there will, hopefully, not be a big difference. Google will integrate Caffeine slowly and take user feedback into consideration. Matt says, If we push forward as fast as we can, double down on innovation and try to do the best that we can, [and] do the right thing for users, everything else will work out. This infrastructure modification will lay the foundation for future indexing changes and will also allow for the expansion of website speed and size. Incidentally, it could even provide a stronger architecture for potential real-time and semantic efforts. If you would like to try Caffeine, you can check it out at: www2.sandbox.google.com.

Does the position of keywords in the URL affect ranking
On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Adeel from Manchester, UK asked: Does the position of keywords in the URL have a significant impact: example.com/keyword/London is better than example.com/London/keyword?