WebProNews catches up with the Head of Google’s Webspam Team and Software Engineer, Matt Cutts and the Features Editor of Search Engine Land, Vanessa Fox at PubCon 2007 in Las Vegas. The interview spans a number of topics from two of the top names in the field. Both discuss page rank reduction, site hacking and how you can stop it. They also talk about subdomain changes, especially related to Google. Fox tells us about her current endeavors and what she looks forward too in her career. Cutts and Fox talk about the changes in WebMasterTools as well and how they are expanding to different languages all over the world. For all of the details of the interview, check out the video right here on WebProNews.
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December 11th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
[...] across a great video with Matt Cutts of Google and Vanessa Fox - formerly of Google, now trying out the Hobo Life - [...]
December 11th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
It makes sense as they don’t really want people passing on Page Rank on the back of a link. If their is not editor to look at the domain then what is the difference between a link farm and any other site that sells links?
December 11th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Great info as always. David Carruso is a Googler? Love it.
December 11th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Really interesting video and you managed it well; thanks for providing us with some great insight into these brilliant minds.
December 11th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Great to hear some insight right from the horse’s mouth. Matt & Vannessa together - great!
December 11th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Nice job guys.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
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December 11th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
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December 11th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
[...] We asked Matt if there was a preference or order of importance ascribed to domains vs. subdomains - in other words would Google tend to return one over the other in the results. He told us plainly that there is no algorithmic preference to subdomains vs. domains, so they are treated as equally relevant. Matt’s personal preference in this regard would be subdirectories over subdomains because he finds them more "convenient". Subdomains however, are useful he admits for separating dramatically different sections of a site — for example, mail.google.com or videos.webpronews.com. [...]
December 12th, 2007 at 12:03 am
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December 12th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Always good to whatch this type of video. Espcecially interesting the part of subdomains and different languages.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:36 am
thanks for the vid.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:22 am
using 1 mic per interviewee would help and maybe ones with a tighter pattern the background noise is a bit intrusive
December 12th, 2007 at 9:20 am
We had some issues with our wireless lav mikes that afternoon… so we had to improvise.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:24 am
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December 12th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Great interview. Seems like big brother is putting the hammer down on paid links. Thanks for the video.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
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December 12th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
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December 13th, 2007 at 8:43 am
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December 13th, 2007 at 9:10 am
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December 13th, 2007 at 11:01 am
[...] Here is the Video of Matt Cutts Google representative discussing how selling links can cause you to lose your page rank. [...]
December 14th, 2007 at 12:07 am
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December 14th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Matt Cutts always talks as if commercial competition is not even a factor in the equation. Dude, sure information retrieval is number one, but who’s gonna have the most relevant information about a topic if 200 different sources say the exact same thing? who gets the income?
December 14th, 2007 at 4:37 am
[...] and PR drops were a hot topic at Pubcon Las Vegas last week. We talked to Matt Cutts about it in a video interview, and he explained it quite [...]
December 14th, 2007 at 11:03 am
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December 14th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
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December 15th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Its really very usfull…
Thanks.
December 15th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Google is becoming more like microsoft…they ruin one’s PCC campaigns in an instant which take weeks and months to create.
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December 16th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
[...] Subdomains und Unterordnern angekündigt, relativiert er sie auch schon wieder. Dazu auch ein interessantes Video gemeinsam mit Vanessa Fox von der PubCon in Las [...]
December 17th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Me think Matt could drop 30 kilogs or so, and Vanessa can drop 15 kilogs or so…:)
Enterpaniuor in Resedence? Sounds like working for free, unless she is a VC…
Please, duplicate bits and bytes! Enough B.S. Google is not the Internet life goes on…
Vanessa hang it up, you are not a Googler anymore, so stop being their Mouth piece!
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December 17th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
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December 18th, 2007 at 1:46 am
[...] the tail end of PubCon, I sat down to chat with Mike McDonald and Vanessa Fox. Mike also covered a few high points of the [...]
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December 26th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
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January 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
[...] It is now also possible to select the geographic location using Google’s Webmaster Tools. But for now only full sites can be geolocated, not individual folders, although that is promissed for the near future, as was assured by Matt Cutts in this interview. [...]
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
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January 14th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
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January 17th, 2008 at 4:23 am
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February 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
It’s nice that you offered a download link for viewing off-line.
Is there any way to download the transcript also?
February 16th, 2008 at 8:29 am
That’s kinda cool, in some ways.
Structurally I always felt a subdomain looked better for a link directory on your site, using the top domain as your reciprocal link base.
Now that Google have knocked that off the chart, will the other big guns follow suit?
March 10th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Building page rank the old fashion way with us means busting your butt on multiple levels… Never paid for links and never will…
June 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
[...] juice. So much for the seo "experts"! Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google
July 19th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I think every business has to value & uphold certain rules that apply to itself to protect it’s main source. Giving PR to the highest who fit the right group is admirable, reducing their worth is less favorable given the man hours involved. For paid links, why buy them when Google virtually gives them to you if you honor their system?
July 26th, 2008 at 5:08 am
It would be interesting to know how effective Google really is in producing results of sites that are not in the English language. I mean, with regards to their algorithm changing (to take into account relevance, quality of writing etc.) they would have to get language experts in if they want to be the premier search engine for countries that speak different languages (like China, Europe, etc.) It may be that they’re just as good as they are in English speaking countries.