Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO??????????

Matt Cutts:

Rolf... guess it won't be deleted. But seriously though, yea Google needs a fixin... Y! and Ask are both returning more relevant results.

 

Classic, I bet he reads this forum and is leaving it so he doesn't look like a chicken

 

minstel said what everyone else had on their mind. matt cutts still hasnt posted a big comeback reply to our questions, i suppose we'll have to wait till monday or after july 4th.

 

Yeah, I agree. He claims that he's here to help, but I think he gives a false sense of hope more than anything else.

 

wow , what happenend, I thought Matt was everyones favorite PR person?

 

There are those who drool over every word Matt says, and then there are the realists. Sounds like this is the thread for the realists.

Matt is a PR guy (that's public relations, not PageRank). We are better off having him to communicate with than that way it was in the pre-Matt days when all we had to communicate with was a black hole and an occasional forum appearance from GoogleGuy.

 

Matt is just a Public Relations person that gives us a little insite into Google but when things go bad he just is a CYA person for Google. The longer he does the Blog the less REAL information we get. Based on his track record for the last two months all he has said is we are to blame and that Google is just fine.

 

How may people on here have had their posts to Matts blog deleted ?

What ever you do don't mention relevancy on that blog, nice to see a relevent comment being allowed to stay.

Its obvious to most that google is not performing well.

 

Ah yes, the Corporate America three step contingency plan for screwups.

Step 1. Say nothing is wrong
Step 2. Deny anything is wrong
Step 3. Blame someone else

Repeat as needed.

 

Personally, I look at Matt as Google's version of Alan Greenspan. Just like investors tried to interpret every gesture and word that Greenspan made as Federal Reserve Chairman, lots of SEO types try to interpret every word uttered by Matt. Because of this, like Alan Greenspan, Matt almost has to be cryptic simply to keep SEOs off balance.

Personally I find Matt's comments interesting but they have little impact on the way I develop and manage my sites. I think that if people spent less time trying to figure out the minutia of every Google "update" and spent more time on time tested strategies, they would experience fewer ups and downs as a result of algorithm changes.

If people want to succeed in the SERPs in the long run, they need to focus on creating compelling and unique content as well as encouraging others to voluntarily provide links to their content. People need to focus their energies on topics that they know and stop trying to chase the next big AdSense dollar key word fad.

 

That's a great analogy!

 

I like how polite can be be people sometimes on his blog... maybe P) he pm them to ask about their websites.... I mean beeing so pilite must be rewarded somehow... )

 

I don't think of him as Alan Greenspan. Google's version of Tony Snow maybe. To most of us, he is the voice of Google. He may be an engineer, but this year he has done nothing more than pr and spin.

 

You cant be more wrong.
From Matt's blog

See he also bought roses, cleaned and filed bills

 

The positions may be more comparable, but I dare say that the way SEOs and web publishers jump at Matts words is much more like they way stock markets jumped at Alan Greenspan's words. Tony Snow says something and its like "ya so what".

I'm not saying all SEOs jump at every little utterance by Matt, but saddly enough SEOs do jump at his words to say his words can create waves very easily.

 

Matt cutts helps us in telling about search engine spam and how to save our customer's. I think he is helpful

 

I think a lot of people here belong to the "ya so what" crowd

 

Although Matt keeps talking about devaluing paid links, link networks & reciprocal links its pretty clear that google hasn't done all of these things.

For me the most valuable thing about Matt's blog is figuring out what google *intends* to do. Sure they haven't figured out how to combat spam and devalue coop links (even though Matt seems to think they have) but its fair to say they would like to do this in the future. I always like to know what they are intending to do.

 

hehehe

 

What he says 'can' be useful as it can sometime confirm/disprove theories and give us an insight to the thought process at Google.

Rememeber whay he says is what Google wants to tell us. Take everything with a pinch of salt and if possible form your own conclusions based on your own research.