Video: Matt Cutts, former head of Google web spam, on his days at Google, current work at US Digital Services

An old industry colleague and friend in the White House is working to improve government websites — and is hiring.

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Former Google search chief Amit Singhal joins Uber

Singhal will become a senior vice president of engineering, overseeing Uber’s Maps & Marketplace departments. The post Former Google search chief Amit Singhal joins Uber appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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Former Googler: Links That Change Are Trusted Less By Google’s Algorithms

A former member of the Google search quality and web spam team, Pedro Dias, said publicly on Twitter yesterday that “Google is less likely to trust a link once it has changed from the first time it was seen.” So if you changed the anchor text or URL path of the link, the value and…

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A Former Googler’s Routine For AdWords Management

It’s been seven months since we launched Optmyzr’s first tool  at SMX Advanced in Seattle – the Quality Score Tracker – and we’ve been busy adding tools, reports and optimizations since then. Now, one of the most common questions we get is when to use various…

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