Here’s some vintage Matt Cutts on this topic. At our SMX Advanced conference earlier this month, the head of Google’s spam fighting team, Matt Cutts, explained that the Panda filter isn’t running all the time. upon us , it’s worth revisiting what exactly Panda is and isn’t. Now What? Panda 1.0 MORE >>

Almost 3 years ago, Matt Cutts has provided information on this subject in his article “ Subdomains and subdirectories ” (Note that since the article is old, there might be significant changes in those algorithms). The truth is that there is not a single best practice, since all of the aforementioned methods have several pros and cons. MORE >>

On his personal blog, Cutts confirmed that those changes have indeed gone into effect. Cutts writes that this was a “pretty targeted launch&# and that the “net effect is that searchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content rather than a site that scraped or copied the original site’s content.&# MORE >>

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Home About Contact Search Engine Optimization Breadcrumbs: Everything About Breadcrumbs & SEO Email Ann Smarty Follow me on Twitter Ann Smarty 11/30/09 16 Comments Last week I came across amazing words describing how you should treat your website usability: A website is not like a house – people do not only come in through the front door. MORE >>