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At this year’s WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference in Boston, I had the opportunity to talk to Matt Cutts from Google a few times and when I posted my recollection of comments about Google and user or toolbar data for rankings he wanted to clarify. That presented an opportunity for a mini interview about Google’s position on […]
In a previous post, I wrote about Google’s possible foray into radio advertising with the acquisition of dMarc. However, offline advertising with Google is already becoming a reality with the advent of Google’s new auction for print ads in some magazines.
There’s a newsletter that I get from time to time from Google called the “Google Friends Newsletter”. The content is farily good, but out-dated for anyone who has 200 search engine related RSS feeds or that runs a SEO agency. That represents, what .005% of the population? For everyone else, it’s good info. Here’s […]
Since the acquisition by Google of Urchin earlier this year, pricing has been $199/mo and now Google has decided to change Urchin over to Google Analytics and offer it for free!
The free version is limited to 5 million pageviews a month but the limit is is removed if you’re also an active AdWords […]
It looks like Google is now sending out “You’re Banned for 30 Days” notices to sites that are deemed to have certain levels of quality content, but that violate aspects of Google’s guidelines. Via Search Engine Forums and Threadwatch
Example slightly edited of specific names:
From: Google Search Quality DO NOT REPLY
Date: 8 September 2005 23:10:04 BDT
To: […]
Moderated by Search Engine Watch editor, Chris Sherman, the first session (out of 5 to pick from) of the Search Engine Strategies conference dealt with patents filed by the major search engines how they “might” affect the way web sites can be optimized for better rankings. Ranging from fairly general to breaking down information retrieval […]
There’s been speculation for a while in the SEO community that Matt Cutts is the “googleguy” that provides the voice for Google in WebmasterWorld and Search Engine Watch forums. If he’s not “googleguy” he’s certainly “Google’s Guy” as he is the consumate PR professional when answering questions about all things Google.
Matt Cutts has now started […]