Comments on: Matt Cutts: Straight from Google – SEO, What You Need to Know

By: Jane K Elvisky

Jane K Elvisky — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:45:05 +0000

I totally agree with Nigel about WordPress, amazing CMS and I am using it on each of my sites. I would love to mention, that everybody should listen to Matt Cutts regarding Google, as he says great things between the lines, you just have to think a little.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:15:55 +0000

Really useful stuff, although it was done in 2009 it is totally relevant today. WordPress just keeps getting better and so do the plugins. WP rules and let’s hope it continues as so many of us have invested a huge amount of time with this open source code.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:59:29 +0000

MAtt is the bomb. He always has some good tid bits.

I am partial to the httaccess mods and the adsense code!

Thanks for this video

By: Raymi Rodriguez

Raymi Rodriguez — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:56:58 +0000

Matt always does his best explaining everything in a very simple matter in order for people who have a hard time understanding can.. thanks alot

By: Josh Anderson

Josh Anderson — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:27:16 +0000

With the launch of my new WordPress site this video was very helpful. I wouldn’t watch anyone but Matt Cutts and Joost de Valk for WordPress + search best practices.

By: Josh Malone

Josh Malone — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:42:48 +0000

Matt does a great job of providing important information and at the same time not being so overly technical that it is completely over most of our heads. Great job Matt.

By: Calgary Web Design

Calgary Web Design — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:47:07 +0000

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!

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:10:58 +0000

Thanks only found out about this video now in 2010 – but still relevant and learned a lot.

By: BFIPakistan

BFIPakistan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:41:32 +0000

Hey Matt Cool, I am the big fan of your training videos Thanks for this excellent tips on wordpress.

Keep updated us

Thanks

By: Mal Gordon

Mal Gordon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:40:43 +0000

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.

By: WordPress and Search Engines | iamronen

WordPress and Search Engines | iamronen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:20:45 +0000

[...] of manually building web pages we now have WordPress which creates quality, search-engine compatible web-pages. A lot of knowledge, care and effort is required to make good web-pages that are clear for search [...]

By: Jim Adams

Jim Adams — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:32:35 +0000

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.

Jim Adams

By: SEO Mumbai

SEO Mumbai — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:18:40 +0000

Excellent video..

By: memory foam

memory foam — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:30:35 +0000

Great presentation, and one couldn’t ask for a better and more authoritative source. I learned a lot.

By: Leslie Trosset

Leslie Trosset — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:27:08 +0000

Excellent video, Matt. Picked up on some great wordpress plugins.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:48:59 +0000

Great video.

By: Michael Russell - @planetrussell

Michael Russell - @planetrussell — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:37:54 +0000

Blog post about Matt Cutts’ great preso… and some other meaty questions, too:

Google, Maslow and Yoda
(Katamari …or Calimari?)

http://tr.im/wMF5

By: Nollind Whachell

Nollind Whachell — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:07:10 +0000

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.

By: raja

raja — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:58:28 +0000

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.

By: jessie

jessie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:36:52 +0000

Matt is cute but his cat looks better. lol! Great effort Google Team!

By: Barry Shereshevsky

Barry Shereshevsky — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:07:47 +0000

Fantastic, entertaining talk with some great yips that make sense. Perfect!

By: Elaine Lahey, I.T. Director

Elaine Lahey, I.T. Director — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:23:22 +0000

Delightfully entertaining and informative! Definitely worth watching for anyone using WordPress!

By: uneekGrafix

uneekGrafix — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:15:22 +0000

This is a great video. Simple and to the point with a little bit of humor! Great info and great find.
Thanks
uneekGrafix

By: Allahverdi Suleymanov

Allahverdi Suleymanov — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:44:43 +0000

Nice stuff. Thanks Matt!

By: Paul, copySnips.com

Paul, copySnips.com — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:12:34 +0000

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!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:15:00 +0000

This is a great video with tons of useful information…thanks Matt!

By: RateBrain

RateBrain — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:20:10 +0000

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

By: George Manlangit

George Manlangit — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:04:50 +0000

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.

By: Sam Hamilton

Sam Hamilton — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:58:28 +0000

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.

By: agry Ashton

agry Ashton — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:33:46 +0000

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

By: Anni Taylor

Anni Taylor — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:25:19 +0000

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.)

By: Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:09:31 +0000

Dude, Matt Cutts is the epic son of Jesus! Great presentation and very valuable video for the WordPress community.

By: manny

manny — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:38:03 +0000

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

By: Nicknick

Nicknick — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:18:32 +0000

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.

By: Michael Russell - @planetrussell

Michael Russell - @planetrussell — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:35:03 +0000

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.

By: chiendent

chiendent — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:31:57 +0000

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!

By: Myrddin

Myrddin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:31:49 +0000

Thanks a lot for this video! Very informative and even for me a lot of interesting hint sI haven’t thought of before! thanks!

By: worldphoto360

worldphoto360 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:13:15 +0000

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.

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:09:27 +0000

Some really brilliant tips from Matt and a nice resource video.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:18:20 +0000

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.

By: wpthemesweb

wpthemesweb — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:42:54 +0000

Excellent!

By: Ben Maden

Ben Maden — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:06:15 +0000

Excellent all the way through Furniture furniture!

By: Redbrickstock

Redbrickstock — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:55:27 +0000

I liked the video tip, especially the hot or not test !

By: BobinOz

BobinOz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:45:43 +0000

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.

By: Marvin Hernandez

Marvin Hernandez — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:33:17 +0000

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

By: Free Things to Do in Chicago

Free Things to Do in Chicago — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:57:52 +0000

Thank you for such an informative video presentation, especially the Adsense tip — this should make for better ads.

Steve

By: Jay Berkowitz

Jay Berkowitz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:42:32 +0000

Awesome preso Matt, I’ll be tweeting and blogging this one!

Jay

By: Kiki

Kiki — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:17:23 +0000

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.

By: dinu

dinu — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:46:11 +0000

entire video is great !! awesome !!

By: Henderson

Henderson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:17:38 +0000

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.

By: malarkyman

malarkyman — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:11:27 +0000

Good tips for optimization indeed.

By: Jacob Elliott

Jacob Elliott — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:50:19 +0000

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!

By: Web Design Glasgow

Web Design Glasgow — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:58:53 +0000

Excellent vid – probably the only vid of such length that i’ve watch in entirety online. Matt, you’re the man!

By: Arnold Shields

Arnold Shields — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:45:02 +0000

It is great to see such a comprehensive video. As you go through it, it keeps getter better.

By: TechThem

TechThem — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:44:45 +0000

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,

By: wormeyman

wormeyman — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:34:07 +0000

This was soo informative and helpful. The “expert sex change” was a funny joke.

By: Suburban Blend

Suburban Blend — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:30:03 +0000

Great vid, well worth watching if you have a Blog.

By: Zack Katz

Zack Katz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:23:34 +0000

I wish Matt Cutts had been at WordCamp Denver!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:15:38 +0000

Great presentation.

It’s nice to laugh as well as learn.

By: David Coakley

David Coakley — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:22:04 +0000

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!

By: doruman

doruman — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:19:47 +0000

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

By: helpstring

helpstring — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:51:24 +0000

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…

By: Ed Coyne

Ed Coyne — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:11:03 +0000

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!

By: David Lakins

David Lakins — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:59:45 +0000

Matts Cutts does it again. A great video on the “Google-take” on WordPress and how to optimise your WordPress site for best results.

By: Elizabeth Kraus

Elizabeth Kraus — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:16:26 +0000

This is such valuable information. Thanks so much for posting this!

By: Mike T

Mike T — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:10:49 +0000

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

By: Ayush Kumar

Ayush Kumar — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:50:47 +0000

WOW, WordPress Rock. WordPress is one of those most search engine friendly Blog.

By: Santoo

Santoo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:58:03 +0000

thanks to matt cutts

By: pundit

pundit — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:20:41 +0000

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!

By: John Chen

John Chen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:51:06 +0000

Very good information. Especially for Word Press users, but also some good SEO tips in general.

By: roger moore

roger moore — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:23:15 +0000

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!

By: Michael Russell - @planetrussell

Michael Russell - @planetrussell — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:30:22 +0000

Be Relevant, be reputable. Write daily. Quality stuff.

By: Alexander Moya

Alexander Moya — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:50:26 +0000

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.