It’s important to stay in touch with what’s happening in your area of research and also those related to your area. If you have time it’s also nice to dip into the sort of thing you would normally have nothing to do with like graphics in my case for example. It’s good becaus[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Matt Cutts’
June 12th, 2009 - 3:58 pm § in SEO & marketing
What Google owes you: nothing
There has been a fair bit of noise about Google owing an explanation about the recent announcement that they were considering nofollow from now on. The SEO community has called for further explanations and for information about PageRank and how Google functions. There is a feeling that people feel e[...]
March 20th, 2009 - 10:32 am § in Technology news
Call for Chrome Extensions
If you didn’t know yet, Google is calling for developers to make some extensions for their wonderful browser Chrome. I wholeheartedly support this movement and encourage all developers (or wannabe developers) to get busy making some. I will be listing all the extensions on this blog so i[...]
March 5th, 2009 - 1:11 pm § in SEO & marketing
Matt Cutts on that “Brand update”
Matt Cutts has spoken about what the change (not update, actually called “Vince”) on the Google search engine. The main points to take away imho: “”Inside of Google, at least inside the search ranking team, we don’t really think about brands. We think about words like[...]
February 27th, 2009 - 10:57 am § in TGIF
DoomRank
A meme is a mind virus. Richard Dawkins introduced the term “meme” (from the greek “mimema” for “mimic”) in his 1976 book “The selfish gene” (which is a cool read btw). In this book he explains how you can use the evolutionary principle to describe[...]
December 11th, 2008 - 9:21 pm § in Uncategorized
Google research beyond LSI
Google picked up Amrit Gruber who is doing an internship with them. He’s pretty valuable because of his PhD research in statistical text analysis (which is what LSI is). His method is uses Hidden Topic Markov Models (HTMM) and a working version was released in 2007. In this post Google [...]
December 9th, 2008 - 9:54 pm § in Uncategorized
LSI – No more!
With the help of some very cool Tweeters, I found some interesting facts about LSI and SEO. They are @dpn and @Mendicott. For a simple idea of what LSI/A is please read the wikipedia entry on it. The original paper is here. LSI was patented in 1988 by Scott Deerwester (doing humanitarian work n[...]
October 23rd, 2008 - 5:56 am § in Uncategorized
Google tricks and treats
Google hosted an online session with presentations from Googlers, with question-answering time too using Google moderator. Matt Cutts was there of course, and John Mueller, Kaspar Szymanski, and other notable Googlers. I hate duplicate content more than Google, so when I can avoid it, I do! I[...]
October 14th, 2008 - 8:12 pm § in Uncategorized
Free links with 404’s
Matt Cutts wrote a post about the announcement on Google webmaster blog, where Google stats that you can tell who is linking to one of your 404’s. This means that you can ask sites to link to another page of your site instead, thus avoiding the loss of links. Using Google webmaster central [...]
