Long Interview With Matt Cutts

peter_d · #1 (**permalink**) 05-15-2006, 10:21 PM

From v7n Blog

Interview with Matt Cutts

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â€œItâ€™s interesting how much of SEO comes back to good, old fashioned marketingâ€¦.be thinking about things that catch peopleâ€™s attentionâ€¦â€

**Cricket** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-15-2006, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by peter_d

From v7n Blog
Interview with Matt Cutts

Great post! I was going to leave some comments, but I noticed that comments are closed on the blog now.

Johan007 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-16-2006, 01:27 AM

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I totally agree, we try to do our best so, for example, something like JavaScript. We're better at crawling JavaScript than we were even a month ago."

wow how?

John Scott · #4 (**permalink**) 05-16-2006, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Cricket

Great post! I was going to leave some comments, but I noticed that comments are closed on the blog now.

Yeah, we're commenting on the forum now, instead of the blog.

BingoBalls · #5 (**permalink**) 05-16-2006, 10:03 AM

Nice coverage!

Its always great to get more info from anyone within Google - I like his comments regarding the sandbox.

John Scott · #6 (**permalink**) 05-16-2006, 10:15 AM

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Q. Do you really want to wait 9 months at Google for good, relevant data to become available. Or would you like to produce fresh new stuff as soon as it's available?

A. "Well we do want it there as soon as it's available. In fact, some things like our news crawl and blog search can find stuff within minutes of it being live. So there's always a tradeoff between how much do you trust certain pages how much do you rank certain pages. And the best advice I can give is don't worry or over think or try to strategize too hard over is -- or isn't -- there a sandbox. Just make a great site, with great content and a normal reason why people would want to link to you and visit your site. A compelling reason why people would want to link to your site. And that's going to help you capture the mind of the blogosphere and that's really the best way to let search engines find out about you too."

It's all about trust these days.

BingoBalls · #7 (**permalink**) 05-16-2006, 05:23 PM

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The sites that fit “no pages in Bigdaddy” criteria were sites where our algorithms had very low trust in the inlinks or the outlinks of that site. Examples that might cause that include excessive reciprocal links, linking to spammy neighborhoods on the web, or link buying/selling.

Matts latest post on Indexing Timeline gives a great insight to what happened after Big Daddy.