Hi, Matt. Which aspect of Google updates you think the SEO industry simply won’t get? Where do you see many SEOs spending too much energy on when they could be taking care of other things?
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Does google strips of part of the url which is not a query string and treat the url like a directory and generate invalid urls and say it is 404 or not indexed.
Some website are designed for good user experience with Jquery .load. This penalise the SEO while it gives a very good Ux
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Still despite of Google's penguin update, many seo companies still doing same thing that they were doing in past. And its true that those tactics still works for some people.
Its true that google improved a lot in their search results because in the past we remember that if I was searching for a web designer, I got results of sites selling landing pages and affiliate websites.
And yes, Google always says that Create Good Websites, not links.
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I have a question: Matt, how come you see all these knobs in the air you are always turning with your hand? But I can't. Is there something wrong with my eyes?
I have a great user experience website, no links, no content and no traffic what am I doing wrong?
Thanks Matt, the video talks about common sense optimization which are more user friends, I beleive if the site is user friendly we cover most of our bases in SEO.
I got it! soon we'll need to update site design / UI every 3 months, then every 1 month – in order to engage visitors. More usability fun – more Top10 SERP's!
because their organic search result is so good after update that people don't need to click google's ads – the part of the screen that makes google money.
In many ways you are right djdaniel; I tried out a few searches after the Penguin update and still found top spots going to websites which I think are unsavory, tho' legit. You can report spam sites to spam guy Matt Cutts from this video using the Penguin Spam Report.
Great info Matt. Thank you!
Thanks Matt, great response
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I hear what you are saying about "Entertainment" (better known as user experience) but I would disagree about the shiny Cadillac.. wikipidia is still doing well.. nothing shiny about that site at all.. 🙂
So We must follow the intention of Google after all.
nice this
If you give the searcher what they want, Google will reward you. Plain and simple.
The revenue misconception actually makes sense: they cracked down on a lot of adsense-heavy sites, which would have decreased their revenue.
There's one thing I don't understand…how can a decrease in revenue be directly attributed to an algorithm update?
I have been working on focusing on the UX (user experience) of clients websites and can say that it has been working for traffic, ROI and rankings. Google seems to be rewarding "good SEO" unlike before when black hat ruled. Keep up the good ALGO updates Matt!
I believe he is only pointing out that one thing you could focus on more to get better positioning (then say only focus on link building) is the experience users have on your site… A better experience leads to longer visits, more recommendations, incoming links and return visitors. And that is pretty straight forward if you ask me… Thanks for the vids!
Hi matt, Everything you people make it as systematic it’s fine. When will we expect google updating option also comes under systematic?
I disagree with these top comments. Google's primary product is and will always be "the quality of its search results" and they will always strive to deliver that organically. Off course Google is always finding ways o make more money via Ads. As an SEO I truly believe that these updates Panda and Penguin came to make organic search results even better and punish those who try to game the algo. Prove to that is that I've always played by their rules none of my were ever affected by algo updates
I'm a victim of a negative seo campaign. (Yes it does seem to work in a small niche) Why when I'm white hat and follow all the guidelines does google not follow through on my disavow requests? Why can the algo not recognise that we have never needed or bought links and that a sudden surge in links to a #1 serp is obviously not an action on our part?
Wow, this one is the best cutts video for sure. Don't remember any other video that described the subjects this in-depth. Thanks Matt!
Your positioning in SERP's is as a result of LINK BUILDING. Matt you are lying about almost everything you say. The 'experience' as you put is is never a factor in your ranking a site. If it was, you would care more about bounce rates instead of how many links they have. Seriously pal, stop lying. Its short term benefit, but you have lost your soul, which is long term
Your 'users results' suck
It takes more than a shiny site to compete with CraigsList. What he's saying is that Google like everything to be an entertaining experience. They preach that good content is what they want, but what they like as content has more to do with how many pictures and videos a site has, not whether the text helps people do things right.
Google attach too much importance to "glossy" sites. Given a row of used cars, they'd pick the shiny Cadillac, even if there was no engine.
not when you look at prompter.
4:52 – According to Psychologists when you look down your lying!