Acquiring a domain is one of the first steps for most webmasters. What happens if you buy a domain, however? What happens to the link juice from that domain? If you buy a previously owned domain name, is all the “link equity” that name has gained lost? Google has said that buying an established domain [...]
Matt Cutts on Domains
September 23rd, 2009It’s Official – Google Disregards Meta Tags
September 22nd, 2009Google has finally said outright what many SEOs have suspected for years – They ignore the “keywords” meta tag when assigning web search ranking. Google’s Matt Cutts comments on the Google Webmaster blog: Q: Does Google ever use the “keywords” meta tag in its web search ranking? A: In a word, no. Google does sell [...]
Google Asks Webmasters for Help
August 7th, 2009Google needs helpful videos for webmasters, and is asking webmasters to step up and add content to the Webmaster Central YouTube channel. This channel has always been a great place to get information, with innumerable valuable videos for search engine marketers and webmasters to help improve their site’s performance. Matt Cutts who has uploaded many [...]
Matt Cutts on Linking
March 26th, 2009Matt Cutts commented recently about Google’s suggestion in the webmaster guidelines to: “Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).” Matt said, to preface his longer explanation: The original reason we provided that recommendation is that Google used to index only about 100 kilobytes of a page… These days, [...]
Google Webmaster Videos Show the Way
March 13th, 2009Google is now using video to present ideas, tips and information about SEO and SEM. Matt Cutts is as always prominently featured. The top three vids to watch are as follows: Matt Cutts dos an in depth talk about how 301 redirects (which herald the permanent change of the URL of a page) and how [...]













