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Here’s what’s happened in the past 24 hours in the world of SEO and Internet Marketing: Google Acquires Fabric Matt Southern over on Search Engine Journal reports about the acquisition of Fabric, a popular mobile development platform, by Google. This come on top of their announcement of SMB website building tools (still in beta) earlier this […]
Back on July 3, 2014 Google’s Head Of Search Quality And Keeping SEO’s And Website Owners Placated (I don’t think that’s his official title 😉 went on leave. In his blog post on the subject he noted that it was time off to make good on a promise to his wife. He told her when […]
No, it’s not April Fool’s. You read that right. Matt’s post simply titled “On Leave”, which was posted to his personal blog earlier today states that he’s taking a much needed break from the search giant until the end of October. The post states that he’s long overdue for some rest and relaxation with his […]
In the latest video published on Google’s Webmaster Help channel, Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team) weighs in whether backlinks will lose their importance as a ranking metric in the near future. The answer? Ideally, overtime, yes. While Mr. Cutts states that links still have many years left in them, Google has made no […]
Last week, I reported on Google’s takedown of AngloRank, a supposedly solid link network used by black hats to boost their sites. It was amusing to follow AngloRank’s sales thread on BlackHatWorld, because Matt Cutts’ proud Tweet announcing the torch was actually seen as free publicity and the network saw an increased interest in their […]
On December 6, Google’s Matt Cuts sent out this cheeky tweet: “’There are absolutely NO footprints linking the websites together.’ Oh, Anglo Rank.” This was effectively an announcement that Google had busted the paid link service; when Search Engine Land’s EIC Matt McGee theorized that the network was “torched,” Cutts confirmed that Anglo Rank had […]
Oh the highlights from PubCon are sending tingles up everyone’s spines. So it should since it started of with a head to head in a David and Goliath face off; except in this case it was Goliath that wins. If your wondering what I’m referring to it is the Jason Calacanis and Matt Cutts Showdown. […]
Matt Cutts put out a good video today answer the question from Kenichi Suzuki of Tokyo, Japan when he asks, “Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) & I make another fishing site that solely focuses on lure fishing (B). Does linking to A from B violate guidelines? I’ll make sure both […]
Is Matt Cutts just goofing around or is he really trying to scare us? The statement in the title of this article, from Matt Cutts, has the SEO world looking for further information as to just how bad the next Penguin update will be. During the SES in San Francisco this week Matt Cutts got […]
