http://www.mattcutts.com/blog neat fun stuff Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:43:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my goals for 2009 is that when I do a substantial presentation at a conference, I want to recreate that presentation for the people who couldn't make it to the conference. As part of that effort, we just did a post on the official webmaster blog with the ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/2008-webmaster-seo-tools/ If you need a search fix, we just posted a video on the official Google webmaster blog. Essentially I recreated a talk I did for Web 2.0 and posted it online. You can also watch it below if you'd prefer: and you can also view the presentation slides I used or ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/preventing-virtual-blight-video/ Another day, another video interview. This one was with Greg Jarboe at SES San Jose. You can watch it on the Search Engine Strategies channel on YouTube, or I'll embed it below: Some of the things we discussed: - a quick story about interviewing at Google in 1999 - the opportunities of cell ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-seo-interview/ I spoke at a few conferences in the second half of 2008, and a video interview from PubCon recently came out. The always-charming Mike McDonald and I did a 10 minute video interview at PubCon a couple weeks ago. A few of the topics that this interview covers: - how personalized search ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pubcon-video-interview/ If you didn't attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about "What Google Knows About Spam" (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I'll embed the keynote below as well. The only thing I don't like about conference speaking is preparing slides. When I use slides at a talk, I ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/what-google-knows-about-spam/ Update: This post was an April Fool's joke as well. I was hoping to catch people off-guard by doing a late-night post after all the other pranks were out there. Clicking on the video link just gets you rickrolled in a creative way. Okay, I admit that my "I'm tired of ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/okay-enough-foolishness-back-to-work/ If you want to get a Matt/Google/SEO video fix, you're in luck. Interviews from PubCon are streaming in. Here are a few I've seen: Audio Interviews Stephan Spencer and I sat down and talked for about 30 minutes. You can read the interview transcript. That link also includes the MP3 if you'd ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/tons-of-pubcon-interviews-on-video-and-audio/ In case you missed it, a short while ago we posted a video about how to use ALT attributes for images. I'll include the video here, but I'll also use this opportunity to remind everyone that you really should subscribe to the Official Google Webmaster Blog (Atom link for feedreaders). ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/matt-video-alt-attributes-for-images/ Several weeks ago I flew up to Google's Kirkland office to visit with the wonderful webmaster tools team. While I was visiting, someone said "Hey, why don't you grab a video camera, find an empty office, and record as many videos as you can in an hour?" That sounded good ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-anatomy-of-a-search-snippet/ Okay, people always ask me about weather updates and what's going on with data centers at any given moment. I recorded this summary last week as an overview of the various software infrastructure changes that have happened this year, and some meta-insights about data center watching. Session 15: Data center comments A ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-datacenter-comments/