Google’s Bodiless Matt Cutts On Importance Of Body Content For Search Engines

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a fun video where fellow Googler, Michael Wyszomierski, cropped out his body in the video to make a point. The statement Matt made was that there is importance of content in the body of a page and not just the header, such as the title tag. If…

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SearchCap: Google’s Secret Translate Service, Animated 3D Maps & Bing Wake Times

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing: The Earliest & Latests Searchers By City Microsoft Bing posted data on the earliest risers by city based on Bing usage data. Bing said they…

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Advanced SEO Experiments: Google’s Title Tag Changes

Do you accept standard SEO practices? Or do you prefer to evolve beyond the basics? Before I get too far, let me state that just because you can apply advanced optimization techniques does not mean you should. In most cases, SEO essentials will provide more and speedier improvements long before…

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SearchCap: Recapping Google’s “Step Inside AdWords” News Event

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Marketers: Keep Calm, Carry On Everybody loves progress, but nobody likes change. This adage is particularly true any time Google announces major upgrades…

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Google’s Matt Cutts Explains How Google Search Handles 404 & 410 Status Codes

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today explaining the difference in how Google handles 404 and 410 error status codes. Both 404 and 410s are errors for a web page or document not being available, however a 410 is defined as “gone” forever. So 410s are more…

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SearchCap: SSL Ranking Boost, Cortana Compared & Google’s Lobbying Efforts

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Matt Cutts Explains How Google Search Handles 404 & 410 Status Codes Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today…

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Google’s Matt Cutts Lobbying To Reward Secure Sites With Better Rankings

Rolfe Winkler on the Wall Street Journal blog reports on “private conversations” that Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts has within Google about rewarding sites with higher rankings in the search results that have better security. This is news that has come out of SMX West,…

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Google’s Penguin Algorithm Comes In Different Levels Of Degrees?

It may be the case that some sites impacted by Google’s Penguin update may not be as impacted as the next. Meaning, Google’s algorithms may apply a different degree of the Penguin update (which may feel like a penalty) to one site over an other. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: We Can Improve Our Algorithms For Authorities On Topics

In an interesting video released by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of webspam, Matt answers the question on how Google separates the concept of popularity from authority? The truth is, he answered that question quickly by saying popularity and authority are two different things. The example he…

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Live Blog: Google’s Amit Singhal At SMX West 2014

Good evening/afternoon (or early morning for our European readers!) from sunny San Jose, Calif., where day one of our SMX West conference is almost finished. We’re wrapping up the Marketing Land Digital Marketing Summit with a keynote conversation between Google’s Amit Singhal and Danny…

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