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		<title>By: Rajesh Kumar</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-452056</link>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kumar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Respected Matt Cutts,

Can you please help me? Why My blog is not able to get Google Adsense. How Can I remove &quot;page type&quot; issue.

Waiting for your kind reply!!
Your FAN from India</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Respected Matt Cutts,</p>
<p>Can you please help me? Why My blog is not able to get Google Adsense. How Can I remove &#8220;page type&#8221; issue.</p>
<p>Waiting for your kind reply!!<br />
Your FAN from India</p>
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		<title>By: Nathaniel</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-428378</link>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah it&#039;s always harder than it sounds. I have a social network website with over 1k members but I&#039;m making close to nothing because it means nothing unless your getting good seo. Most free cms has good seo not just wordpress but it&#039;s still difficult to get good backlinks and people aren&#039;t just going to backlink to you. So he&#039;s going take hard work to make some good money and if your blogging about a popular subject your more than likely going to get a low google rank. But I do agree that good backlinks + good content = success.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah it&#8217;s always harder than it sounds. I have a social network website with over 1k members but I&#8217;m making close to nothing because it means nothing unless your getting good seo. Most free cms has good seo not just wordpress but it&#8217;s still difficult to get good backlinks and people aren&#8217;t just going to backlink to you. So he&#8217;s going take hard work to make some good money and if your blogging about a popular subject your more than likely going to get a low google rank. But I do agree that good backlinks + good content = success.</p>
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		<title>By: Vahe</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-361343</link>
		<dc:creator>Vahe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Matt
I wish to ask an experts opinion of directory submission in seo, that i am currently trying to address. I have done several directory submissions for several companies and results have appeared within days on search engine results pages. My concern is that for a specific company in which i have completed directory submissions a few weeks ago, is that no results have shown and even worse the page rank has slightly dropped and all blog website links have completely vanished from the search engines result page. In my opinion i think it is because of the keywords in which i am currently using and its high competitveness, have resulted this situation. If possible can you tell me any factors or solutions that can help me improve my seo for directory submissions?  Either way, any help regarding this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Matt<br />
I wish to ask an experts opinion of directory submission in seo, that i am currently trying to address. I have done several directory submissions for several companies and results have appeared within days on search engine results pages. My concern is that for a specific company in which i have completed directory submissions a few weeks ago, is that no results have shown and even worse the page rank has slightly dropped and all blog website links have completely vanished from the search engines result page. In my opinion i think it is because of the keywords in which i am currently using and its high competitveness, have resulted this situation. If possible can you tell me any factors or solutions that can help me improve my seo for directory submissions?  Either way, any help regarding this matter will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
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		<title>By: Keith D Mains</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-136416</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith D Mains</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The article made for a good read!

I like to link to decent articles by writing about a subject and then linking to something relevant I have read that I found interesting and useful.

I like to get backlinks to my things by reading a decent article and then posting a relevant reply.

I believe the best way to link is to do so naturally due to merit just the way Google and Matt Cutts outline.  Too many poeple IMHO try to do things the lazy way and take short cuts by abusing the PageRank system with un natural linking methods.  I have a top 20 listing for &quot;Best SEO Advice&quot; and am now working on attaining  a top listing for &quot;Best SEO Tips&quot; but the fact I already have such an early result for &quot;Best SEO Advice&quot; proves that Google really does reward those who put the effort in to do things properly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The article made for a good read!</p>
<p>I like to link to decent articles by writing about a subject and then linking to something relevant I have read that I found interesting and useful.</p>
<p>I like to get backlinks to my things by reading a decent article and then posting a relevant reply.</p>
<p>I believe the best way to link is to do so naturally due to merit just the way Google and Matt Cutts outline.  Too many poeple IMHO try to do things the lazy way and take short cuts by abusing the PageRank system with un natural linking methods.  I have a top 20 listing for &#8220;Best SEO Advice&#8221; and am now working on attaining  a top listing for &#8220;Best SEO Tips&#8221; but the fact I already have such an early result for &#8220;Best SEO Advice&#8221; proves that Google really does reward those who put the effort in to do things properly.</p>
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		<title>By: Multi-Worded Adam</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-129798</link>
		<dc:creator>Multi-Worded Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
Doug, there are so many data management challenges when it comes to sorting out over a dozen link acquisition methods that we support. Our software was designed pre-Google to take the sting out of dealing with link requests, and the challenges of managing actively publshed exit resources in a variety of publishing models. 
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Am I the only one that thinks that this is a bunch of BS full of meaningless buzzwords and phrases designed to confuse the great unwashed rather than to actually answer a question?

Joel, no matter how you spin doctor it, no matter how many terms either you or the idiot charade make up (my personal favorite being &quot;full duplex link exchange&quot;...that&#039;s right up there with &quot;procurement&quot; as far as bastardized terms go), the fact remains that link exchange in the manner that you present it is unnatural.  The only natural link exchange that isn&#039;t part of a cross-promotional business model (which the SEO definition of link exchange never seems to include) is the implicit agreement that occurs when two site owners or webmasters provide links to each other at separate occasions within a natural context because each believes the other may be of some use.  This doesn&#039;t involve software, or &quot;EDITOR BASED LINK EXCHANGE&quot;, or &quot;full duplex link exchange&quot;, or any other silly term you may make up or borrow from someone else who made it up to try and rationalize an unnatural web behavior.  It just involves two people who each believe the other&#039;s resource to be of some use and has nothing whatsoever to do with SEO...nor should it.

This isn&#039;t &quot;FUD&quot; (by the way, anyone ever noticed that only the blackhats use this abbreviation?)  This isn&#039;t speculation, either.  Anyone who has removed a link exchange page (even an &quot;EDITOR BASED LINK EXCHANGE&quot; page) and seen vanished rankings restored overnight can tell you that.  This is a really simple concept that people like you have turned around and completely distorted.

If something is useful as a resource to your end users, link out to it.  If you get a link back from it, great.  If you don&#039;t, you&#039;re still helping your end users and that&#039;s supposed to be the primary goal. 

And by the way...organic IBLs can be subject to spikes.  Different content spreads differently throughout the web, and some things catch on quickly for human reasons.  Ask IncrediBILL about that sometime.  He&#039;s got a terrific example of it.

Link exchange is a silly idea propagated by offerors of silly products and services to a populace that hasn&#039;t yet learned how to read political language vs. actual substance.</description>
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Doug, there are so many data management challenges when it comes to sorting out over a dozen link acquisition methods that we support. Our software was designed pre-Google to take the sting out of dealing with link requests, and the challenges of managing actively publshed exit resources in a variety of publishing models.
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<p>Am I the only one that thinks that this is a bunch of BS full of meaningless buzzwords and phrases designed to confuse the great unwashed rather than to actually answer a question?</p>
<p>Joel, no matter how you spin doctor it, no matter how many terms either you or the idiot charade make up (my personal favorite being &#8220;full duplex link exchange&#8221;&#8230;that&#8217;s right up there with &#8220;procurement&#8221; as far as bastardized terms go), the fact remains that link exchange in the manner that you present it is unnatural.  The only natural link exchange that isn&#8217;t part of a cross-promotional business model (which the SEO definition of link exchange never seems to include) is the implicit agreement that occurs when two site owners or webmasters provide links to each other at separate occasions within a natural context because each believes the other may be of some use.  This doesn&#8217;t involve software, or &#8220;EDITOR BASED LINK EXCHANGE&#8221;, or &#8220;full duplex link exchange&#8221;, or any other silly term you may make up or borrow from someone else who made it up to try and rationalize an unnatural web behavior.  It just involves two people who each believe the other&#8217;s resource to be of some use and has nothing whatsoever to do with SEO&#8230;nor should it.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t &#8220;FUD&#8221; (by the way, anyone ever noticed that only the blackhats use this abbreviation?)  This isn&#8217;t speculation, either.  Anyone who has removed a link exchange page (even an &#8220;EDITOR BASED LINK EXCHANGE&#8221; page) and seen vanished rankings restored overnight can tell you that.  This is a really simple concept that people like you have turned around and completely distorted.</p>
<p>If something is useful as a resource to your end users, link out to it.  If you get a link back from it, great.  If you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;re still helping your end users and that&#8217;s supposed to be the primary goal. </p>
<p>And by the way&#8230;organic IBLs can be subject to spikes.  Different content spreads differently throughout the web, and some things catch on quickly for human reasons.  Ask IncrediBILL about that sometime.  He&#8217;s got a terrific example of it.</p>
<p>Link exchange is a silly idea propagated by offerors of silly products and services to a populace that hasn&#8217;t yet learned how to read political language vs. actual substance.</p>
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		<title>By: Oocla (rider of mutant horse)</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-129596</link>
		<dc:creator>Oocla (rider of mutant horse)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Can you tell me how to market a business without promoting it?
I can. Upload a site with unique quality pages designed for humans and Google will do the marketting for you.
This blog is a classic example. I might be wrong, but I don’t believe Matt has done 1 iota of marketting and out-ranks many a SEO business.
Of course, this rules out the need for any SEO which is why the whole concept of “SEO” is myth. That is; Castles built on sand and built on the tide line.&quot;

With all due respect -- WHAT?!

Matt Cutts&#039; site, by the very nature of his involvement with Google get an ENORMOUS amount of link-backs.  This blog, by its existence, IS linkbait.  Check these stats for mattcuts.com/blog/ :

PageRank = 7 (to put that into perspective, GE.com has a 7 too!  Digg.com has an 8, TomCruise.com has a 4 -- Matt is more important than Tom Cruise, and just as important as General Electric!  At least as far as Google is concerned...)

Links pointing to his domain = 436,404 (he&#039;s a Link Monster)

Links from Technorati Alone = 16,519 (he&#039;s a verifiable Blogosphere Darling)

Links from del.icio.us = 2,544  (he&#039;s a Bookmark Bastion)

Links from Wikipedia = 43 (he&#039;s Wiki Sasquatch)

Matt Cutts has what amounts to a major brand name...  Matt Cutts, Inc.  A true celebrity in Webmaster/Search Industry circles.

And by his appearances at major conferences &amp; tech shows (SMX, etc.) he is marketing his personal brand quite well...  

If you&#039;re a startup or small business, and you want the sort of power/traffic that Matt Cutts, Inc. has...this is the sort of publicity you can only achieve by &quot;knowing the right people&quot;, and/or by spending millions in Venture Capital on advertising &amp; marketing.

Yes, he&#039;s grown his site by publishing a lot of content that a lot of people want to pick apart like a riddle -- looking for a few nuggets of info that will give them some sort of insight into the Great Black Box that is Google.  But even if half of his posts per year were just photo collages of cats, he&#039;d still be Bigger Than Tom on the Net.

In principle, for the most part, I agree with the &quot;publish great content and they will come&quot; idea.  

However, you will NEVER achieve the sort of PageRank &amp; notoriety that Matt has by content alone.  The Net is simply too big, and audiences too fragmented.  You need to be a celebrity to achieve what Matt Cutts, Inc. has.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Can you tell me how to market a business without promoting it?<br />
I can. Upload a site with unique quality pages designed for humans and Google will do the marketting for you.<br />
This blog is a classic example. I might be wrong, but I don’t believe Matt has done 1 iota of marketting and out-ranks many a SEO business.<br />
Of course, this rules out the need for any SEO which is why the whole concept of “SEO” is myth. That is; Castles built on sand and built on the tide line.&#8221;</p>
<p>With all due respect &#8212; WHAT?!</p>
<p>Matt Cutts&#8217; site, by the very nature of his involvement with Google get an ENORMOUS amount of link-backs.  This blog, by its existence, IS linkbait.  Check these stats for mattcuts.com/blog/ :</p>
<p>PageRank = 7 (to put that into perspective, GE.com has a 7 too!  Digg.com has an 8, TomCruise.com has a 4 &#8212; Matt is more important than Tom Cruise, and just as important as General Electric!  At least as far as Google is concerned&#8230;)</p>
<p>Links pointing to his domain = 436,404 (he&#8217;s a Link Monster)</p>
<p>Links from Technorati Alone = 16,519 (he&#8217;s a verifiable Blogosphere Darling)</p>
<p>Links from del.icio.us = 2,544  (he&#8217;s a Bookmark Bastion)</p>
<p>Links from Wikipedia = 43 (he&#8217;s Wiki Sasquatch)</p>
<p>Matt Cutts has what amounts to a major brand name&#8230;  Matt Cutts, Inc.  A true celebrity in Webmaster/Search Industry circles.</p>
<p>And by his appearances at major conferences &amp; tech shows (SMX, etc.) he is marketing his personal brand quite well&#8230;  </p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a startup or small business, and you want the sort of power/traffic that Matt Cutts, Inc. has&#8230;this is the sort of publicity you can only achieve by &#8220;knowing the right people&#8221;, and/or by spending millions in Venture Capital on advertising &amp; marketing.</p>
<p>Yes, he&#8217;s grown his site by publishing a lot of content that a lot of people want to pick apart like a riddle &#8212; looking for a few nuggets of info that will give them some sort of insight into the Great Black Box that is Google.  But even if half of his posts per year were just photo collages of cats, he&#8217;d still be Bigger Than Tom on the Net.</p>
<p>In principle, for the most part, I agree with the &#8220;publish great content and they will come&#8221; idea.  </p>
<p>However, you will NEVER achieve the sort of PageRank &amp; notoriety that Matt has by content alone.  The Net is simply too big, and audiences too fragmented.  You need to be a celebrity to achieve what Matt Cutts, Inc. has.</p>
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		<title>By: Jon Colegate</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-129587</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon Colegate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Matt, the video and article are great for smaller firms who have no idea about how to get noticed on Google. I work with lots of smaller firms and the information is very useful.  

If people keep it simple and network their business as they would offline, results will follow. 

I agree with Rick Trethewey though that even localised search terms can be hard to rank for though these days - maybe more needs to be done in the algorithm to allow the smaller, less &#039;seo savvy&#039; business owners fight off the national brokers, agents, directories etc whom seem to rank above the small guys for even the most local of search terms.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt, the video and article are great for smaller firms who have no idea about how to get noticed on Google. I work with lots of smaller firms and the information is very useful.  </p>
<p>If people keep it simple and network their business as they would offline, results will follow. </p>
<p>I agree with Rick Trethewey though that even localised search terms can be hard to rank for though these days &#8211; maybe more needs to be done in the algorithm to allow the smaller, less &#8217;seo savvy&#8217; business owners fight off the national brokers, agents, directories etc whom seem to rank above the small guys for even the most local of search terms.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Janik</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-129572</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like that Matt Cutt pushes blogs. It will fill the Internet with valuable content and will make the internet community more alive. It also gives a fillip to the companies to exchange more ideas with the customers.  Communication is king.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like that Matt Cutt pushes blogs. It will fill the Internet with valuable content and will make the internet community more alive. It also gives a fillip to the companies to exchange more ideas with the customers.  Communication is king.</p>
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		<title>By: Joel Lesser</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-129567</link>
		<dc:creator>Joel Lesser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dave, not getting into a mudslinging match with you here.  Contact me directly if you want to discuss cordially.  

Doug, there are so many data management challenges when it comes to sorting out over a dozen link acquisition methods that we support.  Our software was designed pre-Google to take the sting out of dealing with link requests, and the challenges of managing actively publshed exit resources in a variety of publishing models.  Contact me directly if you would like to discuss.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dave, not getting into a mudslinging match with you here.  Contact me directly if you want to discuss cordially.  </p>
<p>Doug, there are so many data management challenges when it comes to sorting out over a dozen link acquisition methods that we support.  Our software was designed pre-Google to take the sting out of dealing with link requests, and the challenges of managing actively publshed exit resources in a variety of publishing models.  Contact me directly if you would like to discuss.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave (original)</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-seo-tips/#comment-129558</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave (original)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joel, just checked some of your link &quot;votes&quot; (cough), nuff said :)</description>
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