The Story of Matt Cutts, MySpace, SEO, Youtube, and the Algorithm March

Posted • June 20, 2007 • Comments Off

I was surfing the net and watching some older Matt Cutts videos looking for some tidbits. They are all very informative and well worth watching. Here is a list with links.

• Crawl dates in Google cache
  4 min – Sep 6, 2006
  Matt talks about how Googlebot crawls the web, and what "crawl date" is shown on cached pages. In this video: – Red candy is a 404 page – Purple candy is a 200 (OK) page – Green candy is a 304 status code (page has not changed)
• Qualities of a good site
  6 min – Jul 30, 2006
  Matt Cutts answers Google questions: – Does Sitemaps depend on pageviews? – What are the top things to do in SEO? – How does Google decide to use a DMOZ snippet versus the description from a meta tag? – Should I use bold or strong tags?
• Optimize for Search Engines or Users?
  4 min – Jul 30, 2006
  Matt discusses SEO VS. User Opitmization, Site Spam, and Code Validation and the W3C.
• Recap of SES San Jose 2006
  9 min – Aug 28, 2006
  A short review of news from SES San Jose, and some educational or funny moments.
  Some of the changes happening to people or companies recently – Fun moments
• Matt Cutts Warns Against Buying Links
  51 sec – Jun 15, 2007
  Matt explains that link buying IS against the practice of link buying and warns those who are participating in such schemes may face tough times ahead as Google works harder to remove them.

During my Google searching of various SEO topics I ran across a series of videos with the keyword "Algorithm" using the related topics link. Curiosity got the best of me, so I watched some of the videos on youtube. These are great. I even uploaded one of the videos to myspace. It’s called the Algorithm March check it out.

This is a clip from a japanese kids show called "Pythagoras Switch" or "Pitagora Suicchi".

One last tidbit. Searching this morning I found a Google result for a Matt Cutts blog post that wasn’t uploaded yet… Uhmm.

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
I also got Matt-jacked into a dark room by Rand for the “SMX Diaries” video interviews. And WebProNews had some snippets of me from the Q&A session. …
www.mattcutts.com/blog/ – Jun 19, 2007

The latest post on his blog is or was:

Terry Semel stepping down
June 18, 2007 @ 1:45 pm · Filed under Web/Net

Well thats the story of Matt Cutts MySpace, SEO, Youtube, and the Algorithm March.

Late,
Gary Pool

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