What’s the latest SEO misconception that you would like to put to rest?
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Do sending email blast as a company affect your google ranking if some of the emails come back as spam
so true.. I came to this channel to try and get helpful information and all I've found so far is damage control/sales pitch for google 🙁
Yes, i likes the mistakes indicated from Search Engine Optimization with thanks..
Where is the answer, Matt u take lots of question but fail to provide proper answer
Great question
lol …
Another misconception: Matt Cutts answers straight questions with straight answers.
great
HAH!
I have a friend that works at a major corporation and his job is to take two ideas and merge them and patent that idea. That doesn't mean they use it.
A lot of this is defensive patenting. Google comes up with something they would like to maybe add to their algorithm, but they don´t patent it. Bing comes along and patents the mechanisms,, and then Google can´t use it. It is very ´corporate´ way to do things.. but after what Apple just did to Nokia, is it any wonder why these guys patent anything as soon as they think of it? They are playing defense against losing it later, not necessarily so they can implement it now.
+ Matt Cutts I would like to thank you for making these videos! they are extremely useful
Thanks for the update Matt0 always look forward to your videos!!
What a waste of a question! 😛
*Cough* Author Rank *Cough*
Matt the Police Man: Nothing to see here, keep moving along, nothing to see here.
I heard we may or may not be doing this….
Matt, I honestly cannot believe that the the "Transition Rank Algorithm" is not already integrated in the pool of the algorithms. But I do question the assumptions of many SEOs about its purpose, functionality and effect in rankings.
all i hear was, we dont yet but we will soon… anyone else get that?
Well what's the truth behind "Google Agent Rank Patent"? That's just on documents or Google already implemented that in algorithms without others knowing that… For sure sings of its effect in search result has been already seen by many webmasters.
Don't know whether its also a misconception or their is something behind that which no one knows except Google 🙂
Google's SEO propaganda officer at his best in corporate double-speak.
Bare in mind its less expensive when you employ a team of lawyers anyway… and are extremely well versed in the process. But also, even if they don't decide to use it, the patent stops their competitors using it to improve their results
they patented the implementation of that idea in the field of aggragating, displaying and ranking 3rd party websites for a search query. Quite a bit of difference from what you're talking about.
Okay…I get that. But to file a patent, that means you suspect something's going to work, and you need at least a prototype to do that. Filing a patent isn't an inexpensive process.
How can you patent the idea of looking at a domain's age? How is there any 'mechanism' at all? Surely you are just adding a number to a formula.
Great! Thanks for putting that to rest Matt. I know of some people who watch the patents like hawks and then base a whole line of theory around them. I'm assuming a better way would be to watch Google's public announcements? The Webmaster's blog?
Sometimes developing ideas, even ones that don't work out in the end, lead you to ideas that DO work out in the end.
This doesn't make sense. Google has an idea. Google goes through the trouble of developing the mechanism for the idea, which they would have to do to some extent in order to apply for the patent in a first place. That's got to cost in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars. Why go to all that trouble for something you don't use?
A patent on factoring in the length a wesite has been registered for? Seriously? What's next? Google filing a patent on breathing air?
Google's been going on a patent warpath over algos….
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Sure it doesn't mean that they're using it. But it doesn't mean they're not…
So, how are you supposed to know?
You jelly bra?
Is Matt's hair going gray?
first!! I win