Matt Cutts Likes Dashes, Wordpress, and Link Bait!
Posted on: August 11th, 2007 by Tony DesimasGoogle’s Matt Cutts Likes Dashes, Wordpress, and Link Bait!
Lots of folks think that linkbait is scammy, like promoting a false story just to get attention and links. False stories do happen, that’s reality, but that’s not the definition of linkbait, imo.
In Matt Cutts Wordcamp July 21st 2007 Talk, (transcript), Matt was giving an example of being creative in order to obtain visitors and backlinks. One example was of a chiropractor that was attending the Wordcamp. The Chiropractor was sketching cartoons of other attendees in their dream job for his chiropractic site. Naturally, the cartooned attendees will visit their cartoon page on the chiropractor’s site, probably link to it, and probably tell friends about it. Links!
Then Matt says:
“..This sort of thing is generally called link-bait. Some people call a link-bait, saying : “Oh, link-bait it’s an ugly, bad thing.” I think people should kind of embrace the idea that there are different ways to get attention. There’s lots of ways to get attention. And many of them are completely white-hat…”
Matt Cutts on dashes or underscores:
“…dashes and underscores are almost exactly the same. but in engine world dashes are nice because if there is no space at all the search engine has to segment it.”
Matt Cutts on crawability:
“..if you’re bloggin on Wordpress, you’re pretty much guaranteed your site is crawlable, and in a very nice way sites that are hierarchical, treat it like structure, things like archives, you know, 2007 june and then the posts are prefect for search engines. so the default Wordpress install is almost optimal in terms of crawlability”.
Enuf already, I’ll let you read transcript yourself.
And/or you can view the Matt’s PowerPoint Presention of his Wordcamp talk.
One last flash, Supplemental Results!
Matt:”O.K. we got a power user question about supplemental results the short answer is supplemental results are determined mainly by page rank and so there is not much you can do about it but get more links but not to worry about them in general.”
Yah, just don’t worry about it, LOL.
chill,
Tony
nutballs
why does no one ever ask him about + as the space character? Its been discussed many times in other places, but an answer from the horse’s pie hole would be nice.
fantomaster
Ah, so you actually enjoyed being suckered in public? LOL
dink
FWIW
“If you read Stephan Spencer’s write-up, he says some people thought that underscores are the same as dashes to Google now, and I didn’t quite say that in the talk. I said that we had someone looking at that now. So I wouldn’t consider it a completely done deal at this point. But note that I also said if you’d already made your site with underscores, it probably wasn’t worth trying to migrate all your urls over to dashes. If you’re starting fresh, I’d still pick dashes.
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From :
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whitehat-seo-tips-for-bloggers/
–shrugs–