Matt Cutts: Straight from Google – SEO, What You Need to Know
Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google showcases the good and the bad of WordPress as seen through the eyes of Google, including basics on how Google search works and how you can boost your blog’s results in Google searches.
Video produced by John P and Dave Curlee.
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97 responses to “Matt Cutts: Straight from Google – SEO, What You Need to Know”
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Great tips! specially the one for adsense, I didn’t know about the adsense tags and how it can really help ad content and targeting.
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Be Relevant, be reputable. Write daily. Quality stuff.
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In case I’ve given anyone the (mistaken) impression I was trying to be sarcarstic, or create link bait, I’m not. My point was that Matt’s simply reminding us that successful bloggging and SEO are ultimately more about doing the basics well. The secret sauce is that there is no secret sauce. It’s about good work, good info, self-discipline and a desire to help others.
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Blog post about Matt Cutts’ great preso… and some other meaty questions, too:
Google, Maslow and Yoda
(Katamari …or Calimari?)
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This is such a great presentation by Matt. A lot of good information from Matt on how to be effective on Google.
The moral of the story is, be yourself and enjoy what you write! -
Very good information. Especially for Word Press users, but also some good SEO tips in general.
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This is one of the most fun talks I’ve seen on wordpress.tv! Matt (C) has an engaging style that seamlessly mixes amusing anecdotes and tidbits of insight.
I am one of those people who write “Check out this cool picture of my cat!”-level content just for the fun of it, and even I learnt something from this talk. I now realise that I should pay more attention to the variety of words I use to express ideas if I want to reach a wider audience.
That, and we need more references to singular value decompositions in tech talks!
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thanks to matt cutts
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WOW, WordPress Rock. WordPress is one of those most search engine friendly Blog.
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More entertaining than I would have guessed. I was initially just going to skim through this but I ended up watching the entire thing.
I’ve gotta say though, Matt’s page on Google has fallen to the second page (for ‘matt’). He needs to step it up 🙂
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This is such valuable information. Thanks so much for posting this!
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Matts Cutts does it again. A great video on the “Google-take” on WordPress and how to optimise your WordPress site for best results.
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Excellent presentation. I was able to gather some great pointers about how to optimize my blog and how to blog better. Great information for newbie bloggers. Thanks, Matt!
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Presentation didn’t go to much into detail but still good fun. The good thing for me: I was reminded of one or two things I already had forgotten or ignored…
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It`s a real pleasure to see the direct point of view of Google explained by Matt Cutts, the right information, directly from source, not a “guru” or SEO “specialist” who try to sell something to you.
Many thanks for all these great informations
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Matt’s presentation was great. He kept it interesting and I learned quite a few things that will help me out with numerous sites I have running on WP. Thanks for sharing the info with those of us who couldn’t make the trek to SF!
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Great presentation.
It’s nice to laugh as well as learn.
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I wish Matt Cutts had been at WordCamp Denver!
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Great vid, well worth watching if you have a Blog.
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This was soo informative and helpful. The “expert sex change” was a funny joke.
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Its always been worth reading the Matt Cutt’s Article.
I learned many new things from him. Plus i’m a huge fan of Larry Page, sergey brin and matt cuttsThanks,
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It is great to see such a comprehensive video. As you go through it, it keeps getter better.
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Excellent vid – probably the only vid of such length that i’ve watch in entirety online. Matt, you’re the man!
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Fantastic video about why WordPress is the way to blog, build websites, and optimize them for SEM. I really appreciate the quality information Matt discussed.
Thanks Matt!
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Good tips for optimization indeed.
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I use /%postname%.html is there any reason why one would not use an extension on the /%postname%/ tag? It would sure be nice if Google would make the Captcha on the Adwords Keyword tool shorter and easier to read. I appreciate the tip about using keywords in the URL in addition to the Title as I have always just left the url code that WordPress creates.
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There is not much difference between /%postname%.html and /%postname%/ so either can be used.
Don’t forget that if you have an adwords account then login and use the keyword tool inside to avoid the captcha.
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entire video is great !! awesome !!
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Great presentation (again!) Matt. Always interesting and entertaining. Unfortunately now I am addicted to fml.com and am giving up work for the next half hour! lol! Keep it up.
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Awesome preso Matt, I’ll be tweeting and blogging this one!
Jay
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Thank you for such an informative video presentation, especially the Adsense tip — this should make for better ads.
Steve
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This is one of the best FREE lessons I’ve found on blog SEO ! Straight from the source. Thanks Matt, Thanks Word Press for the education. Much appreciated
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A great presentation and very helpful advice. I didn’t realise that the www. or not thing was still a problem. But it is and Matt offers two solutions.
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I liked the video tip, especially the hot or not test !
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Excellent all the way through 🙂 Furniture furniture!
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Excellent!
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very informative indeed. i will definitely try all the nice plugins for wp and thanks a bunch for the useful tips for SEO. thanks and more power.
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Some really brilliant tips from Matt and a nice resource video.
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Great presentation,
I suspect if you attended the presentation you are savvy enough to know most of the tips that were presented in his talk.
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Thanks a lot for this video! Very informative and even for me a lot of interesting hint sI haven’t thought of before! thanks!
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Really fantastic presentation, you are a master for that! It is always good to have a good talk about all that. For example, I don’t update! I was not seing the point to do it but now I know! Thank you!
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This was a great presentation Matt. The way you put things makes them very easy to get across. You’ve definitely improved how I will be explaining things to clients in the future. This was a great video to watch.
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One question.
Matt mentioned to get better rankings you need relevant (keywords on your page) and Reputable.
My question about the links you get from other sites: does the link have to come from a good site that has PR and it is reputable, or also from a page that the content is relevant to my page? or it is enough that the page linking to me is a good page, and the anchor text they are using to link to my page is the keyword I want to rank for?
Thanks for your input 🙂
Manny
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Dude, Matt Cutts is the epic son of Jesus! Great presentation and very valuable video for the WordPress community.
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Hey! I’m going to blog this as essential viewing if you’re new to blogging.
The bit about ‘Do you have BO?’ is pure gold. Backlink Obsession is pretty silly when you could be spending that time & energy on better content (and people will link to you naturally.)
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Great viewing! I was directed to this as I’m trying to get in the blogging side of things to help with my real estate business. Gary 🙂
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Matt, you rock. Good SEO points. BO – very funny.
BTW, John P and Dave, thanks a bunch for producing this video. We would not have the chance to watch and catch up with Matt.
Reputation vs Relevance. That’s new. Nice to learn about the adsense code tag, and the htaccess on the wp-admin folder. That’s a good power tip.
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Matt – excellent video. The part about AdSense targeting and .htaccess limiting access to your own specified IP addresses was great. Is there an admin tool to update the IP addresses or do you have to modify the file each time you want to change the IP list?
thanks
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This is a great video with tons of useful information…thanks Matt!
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Great video. Didn’t think I’d watch it all, but I did.
Matt surprised me that he didn’t mention things like the All In One SEO pack, plug-in, which I thought was necessary to *optimize* my WordPress blog, but I guess that’s not true. However, I’m glad to see that I’m getting things mostly right.
Anyway, a very entertaining and informative video. I’ve never seen Matt before, but he was very different from what I imagined. I bet Google is a fun place to work!
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Nice stuff. Thanks Matt!
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This is a great video. Simple and to the point with a little bit of humor! Great info and great find.
Thanks
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Delightfully entertaining and informative! Definitely worth watching for anyone using WordPress!
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May 30, 2009
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