Comments on: Grabbag Friday

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:47:44 +0000

Okay, that’s a Friday and a weekend for people to ask questions. I’m going to go ahead and close this thread to comments so that people know to stop.

By: SEOcritique

SEOcritique — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:17:25 +0000

Matt,

In a 2004 interview by Mike Gerhan (http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/april_2004.html), Yahoo! Search Manager Jon Glick was asked about using the Keyword Meta Tag on web pages to let Yahoo!’s search engine know that a page is a candidate for possible misspellings:

Mike Grehan:

“So, the advice would be to use the meta keywords tag, as we used to do back in the old days, for synonyms and misspellings…”

Jon Glick:

“Yeah. So this is a great chance if you’re Nordstrom for example. Many people type in Nordstroms with an ‘s’ it’s a very common misspelling. You don’t want that kind of typo on your body text when you’re trying to promote your brand. But putting that misspelling in the meta keywords tag is very acceptable and also encouraged. It’s actually letting us know, hey by the way, we are a candidate page for that query.”

As you may imagine, this statement continues to be referenced today as a “best practice.” I would like to know whether or not this use of the Keyword Meta Tag is also valid at Google or if this usage could create a potential conflict.

By: Dave (Original)

Dave (Original) — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:54:50 +0000

Yeah hurry up Matt. Forget your kids, wife, family, free time and week-end etc and hop to it buddy

By: Bernie

Bernie — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:09:36 +0000

Matt, i was just looking for a response, making sure that you’re still with us.
See you at the dance.

By: Supplemental Challenged

Supplemental Challenged — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:04:57 +0000

” Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:32:36 +0000

Bernie, I’m trying to record the answers on video, so that I can answer more of them than I could answer by typing.

By: Kevin Heisler

Kevin Heisler — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:28:00 +0000

one more reason to test Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.0 for your responses …MSFT has another 4 months to improve their speech recognitiion module in Vista

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/vistas-speech-recognition-demo-video.html

By: Pascal

Pascal — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:18:35 +0000

Hi Matt,
Lots of questions here – what have you started! I don’t see much of a chance of my question being answered but I give it a go anyway.
Sitemaps – Is there a way to contact the sitemaps team directly with a specific site related question apart from the Google Sitemaps Group? Looking at many forums and Google Groups, there seems to be a lot of things going haywire at the moment.
Thanks for you time

By: Impatient_fanboy

Impatient_fanboy — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:06:14 +0000

We are awaiting for your response to the July 27th data refresh questions everyone asked!

By: Bernie

Bernie — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:05:20 +0000

Matt,
Where are you! i put my whole weekend on hold. waiting to seo.
i hope all is well!