Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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Interview with Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, for over a half hour last week at Pubcon. I invite you to download the audio recording (31 minutes, MP3) and peruse the transcript, which follows below... Stephan Spenc… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 12/17/2007 | Permalink

Comments (46)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines google, matt cutts, podcasts, seo            

Tips, props, and new revelations from Matt Cutts of Google

Google engineer Matt Cutts presented at WordCamp 2007 last weekend. (Session notes available from Stephanie Booth, Lisa Barone, and P Havens.). Matt's session was recorded... when the video is posted, I'll let you all know. Matt will hopefully be posting… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 07/26/2007 | Permalink

Comments (3)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines google, matt cutts, seo, wordcamp            

The practicalities of buying and selling links

If you are an SEO and you are not aware of Matt Cutts' strong opposition to buying links, you must have been living under a rock. However, my hunch is that most businesspeople (at least those who don't live and breathe SEO) are naive to Google's tough st… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 01/31/2007 | Permalink

Comments (0)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines google, link buying, link selling, matt cutts, pagerank            

See who's cutting off link flow (e.g. PageRank) using nofollow

Matt Cutts from Google last week posted a handy tip on his new blog about how, in Firefox, to emphasize links that have the rel=nofollow attribute, which negates the vote that the web page is making by linking. Sometimes people will say they have got… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 08/31/2005 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines, Web Design css, firefox, google, link flow, link gain, matt cutts, nofollow, nofollow attribute, pagerank            

Buying links - Google's perspective

Following on from yesterday's post on link buying and how it's a legitimate practice in many circumstances... I found a blog comment posted just a few days ago by Google engineer Matt Cutts (yes, I've been blogging a lot about him lately... honestly,… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 08/29/2005 | Permalink

Comments (5)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines google, link buying, matt cutts, nofollow, oreilly, oreilly network, pagerank, selling link ads, text links            

Googlebot, parameters and dynamic sites

I previously mentioned that Matt Cutts from Google gave some advice to webmasters of dynamic (database driven) web sites. For one thing, Matt advised that if you have a dynamic web site, you should minimize the number of parameters in the URL. You’r… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 08/27/2005 | Permalink

Comments (0)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines complex urls, dynamic web site, google, googlebot, matt cutts, parameters, url variations, urls            

Coverage of SES San Jose: Search Engine Q&A On Links

I'm a bit behind on my conference session blogging. Waaay too many parties going on; doesn't leave much time for blogging. The Google Dance last night. Yahoo! party at Great America the night before. And tonight I've got another party to go to. Yesterday… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 08/10/2005 | Permalink

Comments (4)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines ask jeeves, backlinks, google, kaushal kurapati, matt cutts, pagerank, search engine q&a on links, search engine strategies, ses, tim mayer, yahoo