Matt Cutts

It’s another Friday and the Winter Olympics are almost officially over. And both you and I would rather watch the handsome face of Google’s Matt Cutts tap into Google’s brainwaves rather than read our Google Readers. So, without further reading required (maybe some), an SEO video trifecta by Mr. Cutts.. after the jump. Read more »

On March 12th at Pubcon, I had the privilege of interviewing Matt Cutts for our video series called How I Use Twitter. Here are the notes:

User: Matt Cutts
Company: Google
Title: the head of Google's Webspam team
iPhone client: TwitterPhone
Follows: About 100 People
Followers: About 17,000 (as of March 12, 2009)
Using since: mid-2008
PC Client: Twitter.com
URL Shortener: Bit.ly
Tweets Out: 6-7 per day
Time spent: Not much.

Quote: “It’s just like a river. If something interesting comes by you can pick it, pass it on, reply to it, and if you’re too busy, it’s OK and nobody is going to be offended by that.”

Tip: Keep your tweet 14 characters short of the max so that people can easily retweet it. (Ben adds: Add up the characters in your Twitter username and then add 5 and that should be enough for a retweet. So, for benfinklea, it would be 10 + 5 = 15. RT @benfinklea )

Google's Matt Cutts announced at Pubcon this week that Google will soon be treating subdomains (www.volacci.com vs podcast.volacci.com) as being part of the same website for the search results. Previously, they treated subdomains just like separate websites. If there were 2 or 3 subdomains that showed up for a search results then they would all show up in the Google results. Not anymore! (well...soon) Read more »

Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team, had his blog hacked today! (See Screenshot here. ) Matt is actually a great guy and spends a lot of his time helping the SEO community with insights in ot how to best work with Google. It's a shame that this happened. This just goes to show you that no one is immune to hackers. If it can happen to the almighty Google then it can...wait a minute. Today is April 1st...April Fools Day.

-digs around- Read more »