Today’s question, being answered by Matt Cutts, is this, “Ranking being so valuable, how does a true biz owner that offers a legitimate business and has a vast number of customers supposed to gain the traffic “deserved” over those that specialize in creating traffic? Is it supposed to be this hard for us?”

Matt Cutts, head of Google Search, answers the question, “I got a “Googlebot can’t access your site” message in Webmaster Tools from my host being down for a day. Does it affect my rankings when this happens?”

When you think about how Google counts it’s search results, you may think it’s pretty simply (1, 2, 3….10).  But, if you add in seven result SERPS, and mixed local results, simply counting from 1 to 10 isn’t so easy anymore.  To help show what we mean, here is an example of a localized, but […]

Are you a fan of using WordPress to make awesome looking websites for yourself, your business or company?  If so, you may have heard that WordPress is automatically set up for Search Engine Optimization right out of the box.  Although WordPress is a great platform to use for easy website creation, the core software needs […]

The digital and social revolution has empowered consumers with technology, which has given them access to all the information in the world. Consumers now have a powerful voice: what matters most today isn’t what you say about your brand–it’s what consumers say about it. Brands can influence that conversation, but they can’t control it. This […]

In this GoogleBusiness video, the question asked of Matt Cutts is: “What are the top 3-5 SEO areas where webmasters make the most mistakes? How can we do better on those?”

When writing for your blog, Facebook and Twitter feeds, personal or professional websites, what is the one thing that you want above all else for your content?  To go viral.  Most people go mad when trying to figure out how to get your content to spread like wildfire among the masses.  Naturally, it’s going to […]

We all know that from an SEO stand point, you want to make sure that when you are writing, you want to make sure that what you put down into words is technically sounds.  Not everybody is a terrific copywriter, regardless of how much they love blogging.  This is why having editors and friends who […]

Presented by GoogleBusiness, this webinar provides you with an overview of remarketing across search and display with Google!

In today’s video, Matt Cutts answers the question: “I have a blog and I post original articles but I also like to link to the original website. So I link the website in a word in the first paragraph. Is this the right way or I should give a link separately at bottom.”

It doesn’t really matter whether you’re a big company writing for your company Twitter feed, or if you’re a small business trying to reach out to more customers via social media.  There is one question that many people have been asking for a while now. “How can I write great headlines for social networks like […]

GA Developer Advocate Pete Frisella discusses various advanced implementations of Content Experiments in Google Analytics. Show more for links. Google Analytics developer site: http://goo.gl/WEooF Multi-armed Bandit Experiments: http://goo.gl/8CE7O

Any SEO marketer knows there are many ways to get your hands dirty in that inbound marketing budget pie.  One can go heavy on the social end of the pie and focus on things like Twitter and Facebook.  You can go on with paid search, which gives you a higher chance of getting your site […]

On this episode of GoogleWebmasterHelp, Matt Cutts answer the question: “Can you tell us if Webmaster Tools will ever have an update to its API allowing us retrieve the “Search Queries” and “Backlinks” data?” Download the Search Queries data using Python: Download Webmaster Tools data using PHP (not an official Google project):

Have you wanted to install a cloud based virtual machine and get a web server set up? Here is a demonstration that covers getting started with the Google Cloud Platform and Google Compute Engine!