Comments on: You&A With Matt Cutts

By: Myles Anderson

Myles Anderson — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:34:48 +0000

“If it disappears completely from Google. That’s what we call a pretty good indicator.”

It’s Google, after all. Can you imagine how boring SEO would become if Google lays down the rules in black and white? Would we still crave the sleepless nights trying to crack the best SEO/SEM technique out there? The answer is definitely a NO for me.

By: StarFields

StarFields — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:45:03 +0000

The nofollow attribute is a basic violation of the idea of the www. It creates a completely distorted representation and a two tier internet – sites such as wikipedia having ten million incoming links, and no outgoing links. A normal website can’t compete with that, no matter how wondrous the content or internal architecture ;-/

Also, most people don’t even know about nofollow. They don’t know they’re giving their content to sites which don’t even give them a link back. Like this one here.

Why am I even bothering writing?

Let’s go add some more wondrous content to my site instead. For all the good it does …

By: bijuterii

bijuterii — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:53:57 +0000

they always tell us something but no facts at all. Like Alan said, we are free to do what we want but only what they want.
and what’s what they want is you to do what you want. :)
they won’t tell any secret because they are afraid of “those scammers” :)

By: Tech Zone

Tech Zone — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:26:09 +0000

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By: Jacob Stoops

Jacob Stoops — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:28 +0000

You’re right. You could almost cut the tension with a knife. Graywolf was not backing down, and it doesn’t look like Matt was folding either.

Each side has some very interesting points.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:10:20 +0000

OK. I had to come back today and reread this post. :)

So we shouldn’t try to sculpt the flow of pagerank internally on our sites. If you have an internal link, you might as well never use no follow because you can’t push “extra” juice elsewhere.

For outbound links, does no follow preserve value for your site? My blog went from PR3 to PR2 in the last update. The only thing in particular that changed was that we added more “social bookmarking” links. So the number of outbound links on the home page of our blog jumped considerably (from 4 to 9 with each article). They were follow links.

Will changing these to no follow preserve that value of the blog? Or should I just dump them off the home page? If so, then now we’re having to alter the visitor’s experience to preserve value.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:09:03 +0000

Wow. We just integrated a bunch of NoFollow in a silo approach to help direct the flow of pagerank. Oops. I guess we’ll rip that back out of our code. Thanks so much for providing this information!

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:15:50 +0000

It was interesting being in the eye of the storm when having lunch with Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan, & MG Siegler at Google IO a week before SMX Advanced.

Michael Gray tweeted me to ask Matt & MG to look at the offending TechCrunch post with the sponsor link and when Matt said he was kool with it Michael then went off on the Android Ion phone giveaway being a paid link bid.

,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog

By: Karl Foxley

Karl Foxley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:13:46 +0000

This was a great read. I like the evasiveness of Matt Cutts …

The politicians of the SEO world. lol

Regards,

Karl

By: Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:34:58 +0000

If you’re trying to mitigate the no follow, doesn’t that say it’s working the way we want it to? still seems to be on point to me and a good question. Obviously I wasn’t there and don’t know how Matt explained it away, but just find it interesting.