http://www.mattcutts.com/blog neat fun stuff Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:24:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ I recorded this last week and I'm just now getting around to pushing it live. If you didn't get to attend Search Engine Strategies San Jose, I'll mention some of the stuff I saw. Session 14: Recap of SES San Jose 2006: A short review of news from SES San Jose, and ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-recap-of-ses-san-jose-2006/ At this point, I think Google's webmaster console offers enough useful features that every site owner should try it on a site. If you haven't checked out Google's webmaster tools recently, I'd highly recommend taking another look, especially for the brand new "pick www vs. non-www" feature. Session 13: Google Webmaster ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-google-webmaster-tools/ In this video, I give some tips to suck the marrow from SES San Jose (e.g. sit in the back of the room, and then if someone is boring, you can duck out to try out one of the other three sessions going on at the same time). I also ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-tips-for-ses-san-jose-2006/ Okay, here's a new video. This is pretty much just a short update to my reinclusion request howto post to mention that our Google Webmaster Tools (formerly known as Sitemaps) has a web form for reinclusion requests. In the video, you get to see my other cat Emmy for the ... http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-reinclusion-requests/