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Avatar Posted By: Harith 1 day 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google
Matt posted today on his blog the following question:
"What are the metrics that argue for having someone engage with a community, listen to feedback, and push for changes? Any smart person intuitively knows that good community relations are a soli read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.google.com)
Category: Google SEO
Recently you might have noticed what could be considered a shift in the right direction in Google attitude towards SEOs ;-)

Webmaster Trends Analysts (John, Jonathan, Susan) wrote on 30th June 2008 on Google Webmaster Central blog:

"You may ha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 3:21 pm
Posted By: Harith 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoish.com)
Category: SEO
"In addition to being smart, gorgeous, ridiculously talented, and pig kissing yummy, Lisa Barone is also one year older."

Happy Birthday! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 13 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts has illustrated in his latest post "Review: Kitt-In Box" (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/review-kitt-in-box/), what he meant by "links that will stand the test of time". And he mentioned in a comment on the same post (http://www.mattcutts read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google
Barry Schwartz continue to report porn on Google over Search Engine Roundtable, at Search Engine Land, via email to Googlers, via Twitter and Plurk and so on. But it seems that this is a battle Google is not winning. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 1:36 am
Posted By: Harith 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.usatoday.com)
Category: Google SEO
Certainly, achieving visibility in Google's search rankings can be a mystery. To help solve the riddle, USA TODAY sat down with Google's Matt Cutts, an engineer and active blogger, who has five easy tips on how to "optimize" your site so Google (GOO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 11:19 am
Posted By: Harith 21 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts has issued a warning on twitter to those who lie in their reconsideration requests to Google:

"Don't lie in a reconsideration request. Just don't go there at all. Makes Matt *angry*! Matt smash spam!"
https://twitter.com/mattcutts
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM
Happy Father's Day fathers! SERoundtable have a special video edition for you, where you can win schwag from Google, Yahoo, Live Search and others. Only dad's can win today's schwag! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
I'm getting at the moment a 404 Not Found when attempting to access Matt Cutts blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ .

Furthermore I see at the moment http://www.mattcutts.com/ redirecting to pair Networks Web Hosting http://www.pair.com/.

The read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: SEO
"This year a lot more black hat material leaked into the regular conference sessions. Lots of people seemed to notice. Danny did a reflective post about this. He also left a comment on Lisa’s original thread that said "The conference had content tha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Danny asks about the Lyndon Antcliff incident where he got a lot of exposure for a fake story. Was this link bait that went to far? Matt says they don't want to be the "truth" police. Matt says it was different than a prank like April Fools. It was read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
"I really don’t view Google’s role as judging the truthiness of the web. That is, after all, what Stephen Colbert is for. :) But if someone is sloppy enough to get caught (or to admit!) making up a fake story, I don’t think Google has to blindly tru read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: Harith 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
"I thought this was kinda funny. Someone thought that Google was taking stronger action on excessive reciprocal links. So did they ramp down their reciprocal linking? Nope. Instead, they put their offer into an image thinking that Google wouldn't no read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google
"I have nothing but the highest respect for the people that do search marketing for Performics, but I think this is the best decision. People hold Google to a unbelievably high standard, and I think it’s important that we try very hard to avoid any read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 8:05 pm
Posted By: Harith 119 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts writing about some ways to get high-quality links without emailing, paying, or even paying attention to search engines.... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: SEO
Life is more than SEO and SEM.
If you are a kitty lover SEO, and wish to start your busy week with something refreshing, Matt Cutts has posted today a very nice photo of his second cat Ozzie “The Winner Of SMX Search Bowl 2008” :-)
If you have a S read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Online Marketing
".... if you have absolutely no interest in TrafficJam or Blogrush, I strongly suggest you read this post, especially if you are interested in viral marketing techniques that are guaranteed to build you an email list." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Jeff Revoy from Yahoo, Mike Grehan, Andrew Goodman from Page Zero, and Adam Lasnik from Google are on this panel.

From a marketers perspective universal search is doing some pretty interesting things. Users are now clicking on the ads more in u read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 9:34 am
Posted By: Harith 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google
"I thought I’d play hooky from a meeting and talk about how the newest version of the Toolbar handles 404 pages for users, because I see some people writing about it this morning.

We tried to give a heads-up in a couple places. The Toolbar beta 5 read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blog.marketmou.com)
Category: SEO
If You’re Not Monitoring Traffic, You’re Falling Behind!
Staying abreast of the growth of your blog or website online can be easier than you think, and it needn’t cost you anything. I’ve noticed that lately there has been a sharp rise in the number read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 10, 2008 - 7:36 pm
Posted By: Harith 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEO
"I love getting to know fellow SEOs a little better by reading
interviews of them. So I went on a quest to find as many SEO interviews
as I could. No doubt I’ve also left some out, but if so, then it’s
completely unintentional (blame the search e read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 149 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
There have been a lot of talk about Matt leaving Google. But I have not
noticed anyone predicting Matt's next destination or when would that happen.
So I have spent recently little time "analyzing" the situation. And I
can see very clear indicati read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Google
Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! Shouldn't necessarily be seen as the solution which will somehow save us from Google's domination, but rather as something which could add a little spice to the search engine equation. Do we even need to be protected from read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 153 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
There is no doubt that Google has substituted what was once friendly communications with SEO/SEM community by very adversary accusations and ignorance attitude to publishers legitimate concerns.

And it seems Google has recently intensified its read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 155 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
I wish to draw your attention to a seriously deceptive item in Google Webmaster Guidelines:

- Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.

As you kn read more »
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