Matt Cutts answers SEO related questions

Google’s Matt Cutts faced some “website downtime” and “voice search” questions in this week’s one-to-one. Someone asked whether a website will be suffering a lot, particularly in its ranking and SEO, if it stays down for a period of 24 hours. The man from Google answered that it won’t be a big concern if it […] Continue reading

Attributing Source Content with SEO

While writing the original contents for a blog, people always wonder as to how the sources used should be attributed. In other words, it can be said that they want to learn how to place the resources in an article that were used for writing it. Recently, one webmaster contacted Matt Cutts, Google Engineer, to […] Continue reading

Considering SEO with web-spam

Google’s Webmasters Guidelines are an important resource for developers and administrators of websites throughout the World. It provides insight into illicit practices and beneficial techniques in SEO. There are several techniques that benefit websites and many that adversely affect. One among the latter is content violation, which reduces visibility of websites leading to decline of […] Continue reading

Some of the most common mistakes webmasters do

Over the years one of the most debated topics has been the relevance of freshness of contents. While a blog can be updated on a regular basis it is difficult for a company website for being updated on a regular basis. Recently the algorithm changes and updates by Google has expressed that the websites which […] Continue reading

SERP subjectivity and Advertorial questions answered by Matt Cutts

Google’s webspam team head, Matt Cutts shared his views regarding advertorials recently in his YouTube channel. They may look like age-old advertising but advertorials are more like editorials or natural content. The problem associated with this is that when people go through an advertorial content piece, they draw a quick conclusion that the content is […] Continue reading

SEO in coming months from Google’s perspective

It is time again to analyse one of the videos of Mr. Matt Cutts and extract useful information from it by dividing it into smaller, itemised sections. One of the users asked Matt Cutts, the leading engineer at Google, where SEO could be in coming months from Google’s perspective? One of the key things that […] Continue reading

Google rolled out Penguin 2.0

As per Matt Cutts blog post, Google started rolling out the newest version of the Penguin webspam algorithms on May 22, 2013. Only 2.3% of US queries will be affected  and the goal of the recent update is to more impact the webspammed sites. During the roll out of Penguin 2.0 some websites have been […] Continue reading

Head of Google’s Webspam answers some SEO related questions

Matt Cutts of Google, widely considered to be the best when it comes in dealing with SEO problems, faced three particular questions affiliated with the concept. The first one was 301 redirects and it’s effects on PageRank, as many consider that it aids the user in preserving valuable PageRank, more than what normal links offer. […] Continue reading