Google's Top SEO Advice By Matt Cutts

- Matt Cutts

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/business/media/11search.html?_r=1

Great piece of advice that is often ignored!

 

That's a pretty good - REALLY good - piece of advice. Sure, Google is important for your site, but it all boils down to your user's needs. After you get a forum started and have a decent amount of posts, just listen to your users and your site should start attracting more members. This is what Google loves.

 

Its really essential advice for all SEO i think sometime while doing SEO or SEM work we forgot the basics from the end user point of view and we follow behind Google strategy....I think it really important to focus on this which ultimately get counted by Google.Thank for sharing this buddy....

 

One piece of advice I give to S.E.O. masters is, don’t chase after Google’s algorithm, chase after your best interpretation of what users want, because that’s what Google’s chasing after.

Wow that's great. Thanks for sharing. Now I'm very sure what I have to do.

 

Most of people try to reverse engineer on the search algorithm. My SEO way is the create good content with quality backlinks and social buzz link to it

 

What's it got to do with a Forum? Blogs are just as easily accessible to users wanting to leave some feedback.

 

Here's what bothers me about threads like this — we don't have to choose between (1) such important things as good, user-appreciated content and (2) white-hat SEO. We can do both!

I spend countless hours writing original, readable content. My website exists for my readers. But I also spend many hours on such important SEO items as well-researched title tags, etc., in order to draw readers to that good content.

It's not an "either/or" situation. You can and should do both.

 

In simple Words "Make Websites For Real Users, Not for Algorithms".

 

great piece of advice

 

@Jim4767
Optimizing is different from "writing for search users". You write great content for your users and optimize it. but many produce content farms and later optimize it for search users.

 

Really interesting to read. Great news from ny times. Thanks who posted the link.

 

Makes sense... That should be the idea because google can change their algorithm whenever they want to

 

The one who chases both will win over the one who chases only one

 

Along with that quote I heard years ago, the same falls along that line. "What would you do if Google didn't exist?" You would create content, publish and promote that content. How else would you get traffic? Then, if your site is user friendly, you will get some loyalty because of your content.

 

He's right and wrong. You can create great content for your users but if you don't know anything about SEO it is going to be tough for you to rank. In a perfect world, everyone would do what's in the best interest of their users but to stay in the game you have to know how Google works.

 

take care of user .. not google .. this is what actually google wants..

 

Yes, its quite obvious. We should not do what Google want, we should do what User want

 

That is the best advice that anyone should learn and live by.

 

It still looks like most people don't really understand what he is saying.

Google is always looking for ways to give the best search results to users. Get them what they are looking for.
When you focus on giving the users what they are looking for. Then Google will see that and put you high in the serp.

You are both chasing the same thing. Google is never the end result, Google is a medium.

Google search is a service provided by google to people searching for the most relevant results.
You want to have people come to your site so you want to be the most relevant result.
By being relevant! Not by being some bs site that tricked Google. You will still loose, even on top of the serp.

You don't chase google or google and the user. You Chase the users desires and google will work together with you.

Researching the best Meta-Tag to use is still chasing the user.
Why do you think google uses meta-tags? In order to help the users get more relevant results.

 

Frankly I don't think your visitors care about other sites linking to you, does that mean you should stop building links? Of course not, if you follow this advice and focus all your efforts on just making your site super-useful and userfriendly you probably won't live up to see your first visitors. Whenever you listen to SEO advice coming from a search engine, keep in mind that this is how they want you to do SEO, which is not the most effective way of doing it