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Matt Cutts: Straight from Google – What You Need to Know
Description
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.
WordCamp Location
Event
Language
Producer
Speakers
Matt Cutts
Date
May 30, 2009
Tags
Google (3), optimization (13), permalinks (2), relevance, reputation, Search (7), SEO (16), spam (2)
August 19, 2009 at 4:50 am
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.
August 19, 2009 at 5:30 am
Be Relevant, be reputable. Write daily. Quality stuff.
August 20, 2009 at 5:35 pm
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.
August 27, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Blog post about Matt Cutts’ great preso… and some other meaty questions, too:
Google, Maslow and Yoda
(Katamari …or Calimari?)
http://tr.im/wMF5
August 19, 2009 at 6:23 am
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!
August 19, 2009 at 6:51 am
Very good information. Especially for Word Press users, but also some good SEO tips in general.
August 19, 2009 at 8:20 am
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!
August 19, 2009 at 8:58 am
thanks to matt cutts
August 19, 2009 at 12:50 pm
WOW, WordPress Rock. WordPress is one of those most search engine friendly Blog.
August 19, 2009 at 2:10 pm
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
August 19, 2009 at 3:16 pm
This is such valuable information. Thanks so much for posting this!
August 19, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Matts Cutts does it again. A great video on the “Google-take” on WordPress and how to optimise your WordPress site for best results.
August 19, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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!
August 19, 2009 at 7:51 pm
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…
August 19, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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
August 19, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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!
August 19, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Great presentation.
It’s nice to laugh as well as learn.
August 19, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I wish Matt Cutts had been at WordCamp Denver!
August 19, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Great vid, well worth watching if you have a Blog.
August 19, 2009 at 10:34 pm
This was soo informative and helpful. The “expert sex change” was a funny joke.
August 19, 2009 at 11:44 pm
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 cutts
Thanks,
August 19, 2009 at 11:45 pm
It is great to see such a comprehensive video. As you go through it, it keeps getter better.
August 19, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Excellent vid – probably the only vid of such length that i’ve watch in entirety online. Matt, you’re the man!
August 20, 2009 at 12:50 am
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!
August 20, 2009 at 1:11 am
Good tips for optimization indeed.
August 20, 2009 at 2:17 am
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.
August 21, 2009 at 2:58 am
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.
August 20, 2009 at 2:46 am
entire video is great !! awesome !!
August 20, 2009 at 3:17 am
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.
August 20, 2009 at 3:42 am
Awesome preso Matt, I’ll be tweeting and blogging this one!
Jay
August 20, 2009 at 3:57 am
Thank you for such an informative video presentation, especially the Adsense tip — this should make for better ads.
Steve
August 20, 2009 at 4:33 am
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
August 20, 2009 at 4:45 am
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.
August 20, 2009 at 5:55 am
I liked the video tip, especially the hot or not test !
August 20, 2009 at 6:06 am
Excellent all the way through
Furniture furniture!
August 20, 2009 at 6:42 am
Excellent!
August 20, 2009 at 7:18 am
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.
August 20, 2009 at 8:09 am
Some really brilliant tips from Matt and a nice resource video.
August 20, 2009 at 11:13 am
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.
August 20, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Thanks a lot for this video! Very informative and even for me a lot of interesting hint sI haven’t thought of before! thanks!
August 20, 2009 at 1:31 pm
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!
August 20, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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.
August 20, 2009 at 6:38 pm
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
August 21, 2009 at 12:09 am
Dude, Matt Cutts is the epic son of Jesus! Great presentation and very valuable video for the WordPress community.
August 21, 2009 at 1:25 am
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.)
August 21, 2009 at 2:33 am
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
August 21, 2009 at 5:04 am
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.
August 21, 2009 at 8:20 am
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
August 21, 2009 at 10:15 am
This is a great video with tons of useful information…thanks Matt!
August 21, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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!
August 21, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Nice stuff. Thanks Matt!
August 21, 2009 at 5:15 pm
This is a great video. Simple and to the point with a little bit of humor! Great info and great find.
Thanks
uneekGrafix
August 21, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Delightfully entertaining and informative! Definitely worth watching for anyone using WordPress!
August 22, 2009 at 12:07 am
Fantastic, entertaining talk with some great yips that make sense. Perfect!
August 22, 2009 at 9:36 am
Matt is cute but his cat looks better. lol! Great effort Google Team!
August 24, 2009 at 6:58 am
Love the video. I think the biggest takeaways are:
1. the katamari slide – start with niche and expand.
2. the one about the keyword tool – finding related keywords.
3. Finding the most popular posts and updating them (or adding others similar to them)
4. The friendly URL with the keywords in the url.
5. The “related posts” suggestion.
Great Job Matt! love wordpress.
August 26, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Agree with everything except with “Write daily”. As soon as you starting “forcing” yourself to blog daily, you’ll kill your passion which is a critical component. Instead, I’d change it to “Write with a regular frequency”. So ya, if you’re super excited about your topic and can write daily, do so. If not, don’t worry about it but still try to write regularly (i.e. once a week or once a month on the first day of the month). The passion with which you write and the quality of your content will keep people coming back to your post and continually linking to it for years to come.
September 4, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Great video.
September 17, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Excellent video, Matt. Picked up on some great wordpress plugins.
September 18, 2009 at 3:30 am
Great presentation, and one couldn’t ask for a better and more authoritative source. I learned a lot.
November 10, 2009 at 6:18 am
Excellent video..
January 24, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Thank you Matt, your call for relevance and reputation have had a tremendous impact on my web development. I can’t thank you enough. Thank you for all your contributions to the new world of web.
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March 5, 2010 at 3:40 am
Thank you so much for this video. It helped me to validate many theories I have held over the years on how to boost your page rank.
March 15, 2010 at 12:41 am
Hey Matt Cool, I am the big fan of your training videos Thanks for this excellent tips on wordpress.
Keep updated us
Thanks
August 4, 2010 at 11:10 am
Thanks only found out about this video now in 2010 – but still relevant and learned a lot.
August 17, 2010 at 2:47 am
Great video of Matt. I’m becoming quite a fan of this guy – not only is it interesting to listen & watch, it’s compelling – without the need to go overboard with details. Very nice! (and no… I’m not a cat fan… just stick with the dogs!). Thanks for the video post WordPress.tv!