Does Google consider SEO to be spam?



Matt Cutts answers the question: “Does Google consider SEO to be spam?”

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36 thoughts on “Does Google consider SEO to be spam?”

  1. Agreed +1. This particular video is very helpful for me thank you. Additionally I want to say that I utilize youtube to bring traffic to my website since I'm a marketer. Want to learn exactly how? In my channel you can watch a video about my course which is by far the best course on youtube marketing ever. You should go to my youtube channel to check it out. Take care!

  2. SEO and spam are 2 different things. Great video to watch if you’re still trying to differentiate SEO from spamming. Both SEO companies and small business owners can learn a lot from this video. They know what they’re talking about, it is from Google after all.

  3. This video from our Friend Mr Cutt’s may be a few years old now, but it’s still bang on regarding the benefits of a good SEO Agency.

    There are many ways to optimise a website, like making sure it's technically built to be search engine friendly and adopting a strong link building strategys, but the bottom line is content is king, get this right and you will 'organically' move up the search engine rankings.

    Keep it white hat and never move to the dark side!

  4. Awesome video. SEO is an important tool to aid the search engines in determining what your website is all about. There's definitely nothing wrong with that but if you over optimize or create your site in such a way that it's for the sake of the search engines, that where the problem starts.

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  6. You guys at google are a bunch of very bad people never take in consideration where us people who are investing our hard earned money to genuinely promote our business via seo you penalise the good ones and leave the sites that are doing blatant black hat seo, Contact me please!

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  8. Anything that Matt putts on video is worth watching. Our agency follows these tips and would be happy to provide you with a free website analysis for your business. Give us a call at 240-477-7085 if you would like to learn more.

  9. yea ok. In your blog (googlewebmastercentral blogspot) i was reading and send me here you writing "We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all)" ….. Or not SEO at all! wtf.. You can't be same on both blog and video?

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