What are the top 3-5 SEO areas where webmasters make the most mistakes? How can we do better on those?
Warren Redlich, Boca Raton, FL
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Super helpful and informative. Thanks for this
Matt, Love your videos
There are a lot of agencies who sells you "First position in the search results", like a shortcut, like a magic wand. How truth could it be? What if you pay for that but your site has not a good html structure??? Still magic wand works?
Companies put so much effort into backlinking that they limit themselves to not doing real marketing of their company. Just following what this guy is saying has produced the same results as a $1500/mo backlinking campaign.
Hello Sir
I am a beginner and I am learning digital marketing.
Please tell me what strategies should I follow to learn digital Marketing.
Excellent thanks, I have actually share this with clients for them to understand more about SEO and best practices.
Hey Matt, I love the Panda, pengiun and other Gogle Updates 🙂 Years ago I used to provide Local and Small Buiness SEO services and couldn;t compete with the 1000,s of Spammy Links the cheap Indian SEO companies were using. Now those companies are offerig a new way to get around the New Rules, but it's so much easier to explain why fewer qality links and Engaging Content is a longer term Strategy and their willing to wait for results (and much easier to convince them that Link Farms and poorly Spun, unreadable content is damaging their reption rather than improving it).
1 question though, I promote a UK based eCommerce site which has a link from a similar site based in Holland. It get's plenty of clicks, but no sales and the Bounce Rate is very high since the postge costs make it innefective to buy from the UK and have it delivered to Holland. Does this hgh bonce rate affect my rankings now, and would Disavowing the link solve this problem? I could also ask the Dtch Webmaster to set the links to No-Follow. #any sggestion?
is this official google webmasters channel?
To the point and precise. Thanks!
I've seen that background before, he about to give confession.
Question: Assuming that everyone are aware of the mistakes in SEO engineering and also is doing the right improvements for better SEO results, how then google will rank pages? I mean, if there are too much sites which are doing everthing right for a good ranking, how google will handle it?
I give Matt major props. Hes caught between helping the average person and working for a major company.
Great video, but for small business like myself, would be really helpful to know some of the free resources you are talking about. I am not a developer or website builder, not everybody can afford to pay marketing and a website developer/builder.
Thanks for these videos they really help!
This is a good video with useful information 😉
Thanks 😉
are you at chipotle?? that background!
What if I buy a domain name and register the domain before a company creates a company name. Can they take the domain name away from me?
He is so cute. 🙂
Thanx Matt !!!!
Hmmm. Thanks but, I don't really think this covers 'mistakes' webmasters make.
Another mistake which Webmasters can make is by not utilizing Google Webmaster and Bing webmaster as a tool to monitor their website. These two tools will give you great insight into your own website. It will help you identify technical issues and various other issues.
When is Matt back from vacation, it's been years now….
These mistakes are very basic, but very critical in digital marketing.
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hahaha… I see these SEO mistakes all the time!
These are basic key points but so very important to understand and doing it right.
I guess start with titles, meta tags and description first.
This great video by Google.com with Matt Cutts discuses what they believe are some of the biggest SEO Blunders.
for a collection of SEO related infographics see http://www.pinterest.com/info4u2use/seo-search-engine-optimisation/
2014 and there are business's without a website?
good thoughts!!
Priceless advice direct from a Google Exec on top mistakes of business marketing
Appreciate these tips! This video is very informative and helpful.Straight forward and points were laid out and easy to understand. Keep it up!
nice Information from Google's +Matt Cutts
Great tips. Thanks for the info!
Thats a cool background Matt..what exactly is it?
Wtf? The biggest mistake webmasters make is not having a website/domain? Hmmmm.
sometimes the basic are KEY. Nice work like always.
I think naming the channel Google Bushbeaters would be more accurate. Oh look, Google Bushbeater just posted a new video "How To Say Something and Not Say Thing at the Same", yay!
Great overall advice on Marketing, and for people to stop being so Search Engine Focused. Agree with your advice on Search Engines though as well