Matt Cutts releases new video about regulating ccTLDs for general purposes -
Cutts explains when Google decides to make a ccTLD global.
Google’s SEO/Webspam leader Matt Cutts has released a new video about using a country code top level domain name for a website not targeted to that country.
His message is the same that Google has been giving for many years, but he added some more color about how the company decides what should become generic.
Google makes some domains globally targeted because they’ve been widely adopted for global use ... read more ...
Tag Archives: Matt Cutts
Mon 29th July 2013
Wed 7th November 2012
Matt Cutts: don’t park your domain right before rising a web site -
Cutts recommends taking down a parking page about a month before launching a new site.
Google web spam czar Matt Cutts just published a video in which he asks himself a question (rather than taking it from the community): should I keep a domain name parked before I launch a web site?
In short, Cutts says no.
He works in a reference to eNom’s backpack girl and then goes on to explain that Google has a filter to try to keep parked domain names out of its search results.
This ... read more ...
Tue 18th May 2010
ccTLD Most Important Factor in Google Location Determination -
Targeted a specific country? Get your ccTLD.
It’s no secret that Google uses several factors to determine where a web site is “located” and thus determine its relevance to each individual searcher. But there has been a lot of debate about which factors are most important.
The two I hear mostly commonly are if the domain has a particular country code domain name and where the web host is.
Now Google search-spam czar Matt Cutts has laid it out on the table. ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2009
Go Straight to Google for SEO Truths -
Matt Cutt’s video series is worth watching.
There are a lot of half truths in the search engine optimization industry. So it’s refreshing to get an inside take from Google’s traveling search guru, Matt Cutts. I recommend watching his video series on YouTube.
As you know, I don’t usually recommend watching videos. But Cutts “cuts” to the chase (sorry, couldn’t help myself), answering the question in the first 30 seconds of each clip and then explaining ... read more ...