Matt Cutts

What’s Optimum Keyword Density for Better Ranking

June 21, 2012

SEO some time sounds like rocket-science as there are so many things comes in SEO for example: Keyword research, On Page optimization, Image alt tag, Outbound links, nofollow and many more which sometime makes us feel, can’t we just blog instead of writing content for better search engine visibility. Sadly, search engine is an algo and you have to help them understand about our content and site, you need to work on search engine optimization for ...

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Google Penguin 1.1 Launched : Minor Update

May 30, 2012

After one month of launch of Google Penguin update, Google has rolled out another update on Penguin on 26th-27th May 2012, as confirmed by Matt Cutts in a Tweet. If you are new to Google algo updates, you can check out this infographics, which shows all the major update from Google team, since they launched. According to Matt Cutts Google Penguin 1.1 is data refresh and it will impact only <0.1% of English searches. Which is ...

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How to Rank#1 in Google Search : Video by Matt Cutts

May 15, 2012

We all know what does it mean to rank#1 in Google and real keyword fights being, when you are targeting ranking position 1-2 or least 3rd. One thing, which I often talk to my students in SEO consultancy and that is about Why can’t you Rank #1 in Google. When you are producing high-quality content and still you are no where to be seen in first few pages of Google, it’s a waste of time and ...

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SEO Over Optimization Penalty : The Axe Hangs but over whom ?

March 22, 2012

Since last year, Google has made some major changes in search engine algorithm, which starts with Google panda updates, search plus your world and moved to Page layout algo and many more yet to come. If you follow SEO news, you’ll no doubt know that Google are preparing a number of changes to their algorithm which are going to “level the playing field”. What does this mean? Well, it means that Google are preparing to ...

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Page Layout Algo : Too Many Ads Above Fold Bad for SEO

January 20, 2012

Page layout algo is the term given by Google search team for the new tweak they added in their search engine algo today. We all know that, too many advertisements above the fold or when you have to scroll down a lot to see the content or when content is full of advertisement and you find it hard to see the real content, it’s a bad user experience. Google new Page layout algo, will lower ...

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Use Post Excerpt on Homepage to Avoid Duplicate Content Issue

June 24, 2011

We all know that Google hates duplicate content. Now if you are wondering what is duplicate content, in SEO terms when a post is accessed via two different permalinks, it’s considered as duplicate content. For example, if you are showing complete post on Homepage, tags, category page and keep them indexed, you have created lots of duplicate content of your own post. When ever I search for my latest content in Google, I see my ...

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Google Farmer Algo or Panda a Followup of Google Caffeine Project

March 5, 2011

Most of the webmasters are aware of Google Farmar algo which was introduced last month to downgrade the ranking of websites with high no. of content but with low quality. Though we also know that many websites are affected which has mix quality content. (High quality + low quality). Webmasters around the globe have given mixed reaction about this algo change and many businesses has to layoff their employee as their businesses are deeply impacted ...

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Google Cracks Down Even Further on Content Theft

January 22, 2011

This is a guest post by Oliver who blogs at Thisisfreelance. If you would like to write for ShoutMeloud, check our guest posting guidelines. I recently wrote a post on how Google Adsense was going to remove those who stole content from the Google Adsense program. It seems however that Google are going one step further. This interview from Matt Cutts talks in depth about some of the big changes coming from Google. One of the ...

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