Matt Cutts is maybe the most popular member of Google WebSpam team, with strong relations in the SEO community. He is responsible fo the Search Quality Google in Google. He has also the reputation of being the one trying to promote the Google Webmaster rules. Matt wrote also the first version of SafeSearch, the family frienldy Google filter.
He has also the reputation of not telling the whole side of the story. Because of the nature of his job he is probably forced to keep away from our ears some “details”. Bellow you can find some of the interviews and Q&A sessions with Matt Cutts.
Answers related to on-page SEO and website structure:
- How to structure a site?
- What’s a preferred site structure?
- What do I do after being hacked?
- Can I tell Google not to use the posting date in my snippet?
- Is excessive whitespace in the HTML source bad?
- Can I disallow crawling of my CSS and JavaScript files?
- Do ids in heading tags affect search engines?
- More than one H1 on a page: good or bad?
- Matt Cutts Discusses the Importance of alt Tags
- Does the ordering of heading tags matter?
- Should I use nofollow in links to my disclaimer and privacy policy?
Answers related to Search Engine Optimization:
- How can I optimize for
- How do I optimize an e-commerce site without rich content?
- Should I tweak my titles and descriptions to improve my CTR?
- Two questions about nofollow
- Is redirecting a large number of domains suspicious?
- Qualities of a good site
- Optimize for SE or Users?
- Some SEO myths
- How to Get Better Visibility on Google
- Which SEO agency do you recommend?
- Will SEO still exist in five years?
- Will domain registration changes ding me in Google?
- Can you talk about the change in Google’s referrer string?
- How can new pages get indexed quickly?
- What are your views on PageRank sculpting?
- Can product descriptions be considered duplicate content?
- Why is the @ character ignored in search queries?
Answers related to urls-s:
- Does the position of keywords in the URL affect ranking?
- Does anchor text carry through 301 redirects?
- Should I strip file extensions from my URLs?
- Should I use underscores or hyphens in URLs?
- Static vs. Dynamic urls
Answers related to Google Analytics:
- Is SearchWiki or Analytics data used for ranking?
- Does Google Analytics work with Web 2.0 and social media?
- Does Webspam use Google Analytics?
Answers related to social media:
- Has Google changed the relevancy it awards to social media?
- Is Google doing anything different for Twitter results?
Answers related with the way Google is indexing your website:
- Should we expect more spelling corrections in search results?
- Why does Google index blogs faster than other sites?
- Are Google SERPs moving to Ajax?
- What can I do if a competitor is spamming?
- Is Google putting more weight on brands in rankings?
- Matt Cutts Discusses Snippets
- Supplemental Results
- Reinclusion requests
- Hotel Travel Industry Search Trends by Google’s Matt Cutts – Part 2.1
- Hotel Travel Industry Search Trends by Google’s Matt Cutts – Part 2.2
- State of the Index 2008
- My tips for SES
- Crawl dates in the Google cache
- Recap of SES San Jose 2006
- Do site load times have an impact on Google rankings?
- Why is the @ character ignored in search queries?
- Do not buy links for SEO
- Can I publish 100+ pages at once?
- Will DiggBar create duplicate content issues?
Answers related to canonical rel:
- Can rel=”canonical” index my hostname and not my IP address?
- Does rel=”canonical” make it safe to use tracking parameters?
- Canonical Link Element
- Matt Cutts Explains Canonical Tags from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft
Answers related to other Google products:
- Matt Cutts Discusses Webmaster Tools
- Two questions about the link: operator
- Will Google add guest accounts to Webmaster Tools?
- Will Google use non-link references as a signal?
- Will Google provide a rank-checking service?
- Google Datacenters
- Google Webmaster Tools
- How are load times displayed in Webmaster Tools calculated?
- Why aren’t penalized sites notified in Webmaster Tools?
- Datacenter comments
- Matt Cutts, Google, discusses mobile search
- Preventing Virtual Blight
- Interview with Matt Cutts
- Google Terminology
- Lightning Round!
how can raise my page rank ?
Dear Matt,
I am reading your blog and recently joined youtube channel as well. The tips you give are invaluable sometimes.
I couldn’t find much certain answers regarding my html coding questions so I am hoping that you maybe will have a chance to answer it in blog or video.
The question is in short: table vs div html elements in layout coding and their affect on SEO. Is there any difference coding non tabular data, in other words layout of the page (blocks) in table html elements from SEO point of view?
Thank you for your time
Kind regards
Sergii
Hello,
You don´t need to rise your page rank to promote your website. In fact, the page rank is only 1 criteria for google and not the most important factor to rate a site. The most important factor is the quantity and quality of your backlinks.
Don´t pay too much attention to the PR, just to the backlinks your website has.
Sometimes you can see for a given search keyword a lower page ranked site placed better than a higher page ranked site, why? because page rank is not all what you need.
I am not Matt Cutts but believe me
Best regards