Matt Cutts

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/join-the-us-digital-service/ wow that's amazing, I guess I sort of quit reading blogs like this when all the RSS readers died.

Amazingly, the problem of mouse scrolling in screen sessions can usually be addressed with a line in your .screenrc file to set the termcapinfo. eg: termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@ See: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/screen-power-tips-screenrc/ It took me years to find this out!

Scott Adams is very entertaining. He predicted Trump's staying power way back in the summer when everyone (including me) thought his candidacy was just a joke. In fact, he has predicted a landslide for Trump in the general election. He says it's based on his training as a hypnotist, which gives him an insight into the art of persuasion. Over the years I've learned many things from following Adams' blog. He recommended Cialdini's books on persuasion, which are a must read for all sales people and all entrepreneurs (because we are salespeople, like it or not). His financial advice [1] is rock solid, and his latest book on goal-oriented vs. systems-oriented thinking was also an eye-opener. TLDR: I like the dude. [1] https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/

Scott Adams’ Financial Advice https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/ Getting Rich: from Zero to Hero in One Blog Post http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-zero-to-he… I recommend not thinking about stock options until you have an offer on the table that includes them.

Careful, haven't you guys heard that Matt Cutts has banned guest blogging? [1] Those links to Algolia should be no-followed under decree from Google. [1] - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/

Matt said: "Typically, web search results don’t add value to users, and since our core goal is to provide the best search results possible, we generally exclude search results from our web search index." (Said here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-results-in-search-results/) So i have a question to him: "Hi Matt, can you please explain me how it's possible that softonic ranks so well with automated search content on Google?"

Here's the corresponding tweet from Matt Cutts, Head of Webspam at Google: https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/337586357822169088 This looks so open to abuse and manipulation. An anonymous form where anyone can drop any link? Is this Google - Showing face, trying to make people feel involved in their algorithm - Pattern matching submissions against their own computed ideas of what is and isn't spam - Genuinely looking for data, and this is the best thing they could come up with? Google rolled out 'Penguin 2.0' today (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/penguin-2-0-rolled-out-today/), an algo update to target websites with manipulative link profiles.

You mean like http://example.com/something-about-something ? Matt Cutts actually recommends using hyphens in this case: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

While 5 million pages is a very big number (that probably requires a lot more planning) this might be the Google document you are looking for: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83… Moving your site If you're planning on moving your site to a new domain, here are some tips that will help you retain your site's ranking in Google's search results. Edit: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/moving-to-a-new-web-host/ (2005) http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2008/04/best-practices-when-… (2008)

I liked Matt Cuts way to find a problem and solve it. Worth reading http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/business-ideas/

This is a great idea, I just set it up on a spare box using Matt Cutts' instructions for getmail and POP3. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/backup-gmail-in-linux-with-getmail/ If anybody else tries this, I'd recommend sticking with POP3 as getmail's IMAP client seems to mark all your messages as read (not cool).

Harras Matt Cutts here (http://www.mattcutts.com/) (in a nice way, obviously). He is the head of search quality at Google.

This article is interesting, but it's really old (2005). There has been discussion about it since then. Here is an article from 2007 on Matt's blog: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whitehat-seo-tips-for-bloggers/ It says, at that time, Google was looking into making underscores word separators. Later, in 2009, Matt mentioned in a Google Webmaster Help video that he'd still recommend dashes if you can, but don't worry about it if underscores are working for you. They might still get around to making underscores separators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SFVfDIS5k As of 6/20/2011, Google still recommended using Dashes in URLs here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=76329

I would recommend something simple to start. How about this USB nerf rocket launcher from ThinkGeek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8a0f/ It's cheap ($25), cool, has horizontal and vertical movement plus firing, and the software is Windows-only. Not to mention that a Kinect + rocket launcher combo would be awesome. My secondary vote (and it's a selfish one) is this pedometer that only has Windows software: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-favorite-pedometer-omron-hj-720itc/ . Another possibility would the the Fitbit. I'd be happy to get you any of these devices if you wanted to document what you find with adafruit-like clarity. Even better would be an exchange to hook willing USB reverse engineers up with people willing to provide devices for those engineers. :)

Matt Cutts from google also recommends subfolder: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

Also at the same time, there seems to be live blogging sessions happening on the "Google Chrome OS" Event: * Live Webcast: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20091119_chrome_os_webcast.ht… * Looks like TechCrunch is covering the event, best: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/chrome-os-event/ * Matt Cutts: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-os/ * Danny Sullivan: http://searchengineland.com/liveblogging-the-google-chrome-os-press-co…

Perhaps the dumbest thing of all is bloggers don't actually read up before posting blogs like this particular one. One of the developers debunked the idea, he listed when the browser communicates with Google ( here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/ ), and he insisted that they hold no rights in a public blog post that can be cited by any two-bit lawyer from the way-back-machine. Scandalous of them, huh?

Google (Subscribed Links) and Yahoo (SearchMonkey) already allow some SERP modifications. An Open Approach to Search (http://ysearchblog.com/archives/000523.html) An easy way to add new features to Google (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/adding-new-features-to-google/)

This is absolutely correct. This guy's forum is the .01% case. The OP should simply delete these messages and move on. But I guess doing that doesn't drive traffic from HN. What Google has said is that they just want evidence a reformed spammy site has /attempted/ to remove offending links manually. See Slide 16: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pubcon-2012-slides/ Note how Google wants to see evidence in the Link Disavow file that sites have TRIED to remove links manually: Here's a sample of a valid file: #example.com removed most links, but missed these http://spam.example.com/stuff/comments.html http://spam.example.com/stuff/paid-links.html # Contacted owner of shadyseo.com on 7/1/2012 to # ask for link removal but got no response domain:shadyseo.com So this whole post seems like sort of a hissy fit from the edge case of a site that a) failed to protect itself by linking out with followed links from untrusted posters and then got spammed to hell, and then b) gets offended when he reads a comment directed at sites who are trying to profit by removing links when all he really needs to do is hit delete when he gets emailed with link removal requests. I agree with the comment that this is fair play or an "ethics tax" on people who bought links... f-em I say, since they cheated to begin with and hurt sites who played by the rules and whose content should have enjoyed better rankings and traffic than it did due to the spammers. So whatever…

If you wanted to learn about SEO then you could always jump in the deep end and setup a small website or blog with a dot.com domain name with some original content around a niche (topic) something small that you know a lot about and try play the Google/bing/yahoo(?) game and aim to get your site ranked well. It will take a while especially with a new 'virgin' site. The best place to start would be google webmaster Tools. Follow best practices they recommend and go from there. There are loads of articles on SEO, some good, some bad and some erm shady. Google's algorithm is regularly updated and changes and there is no 100% certified or guaranteed no matter what anyone may say or try to sell you to get to number 1 spot. It is a mixture of luck, links, good original content and more luck. There's no one way to be top and the best is to just jump straight into it and get your hands dirty. Build up experience and go from there. Some people who I would trust with good SEO advice is Google's Matt Cutts. His blog at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ is a good way of keeping in the loop. For search engine news there is a journalist called Danny Sullivan. His personal blog is http://daggle.com/ and he also blogs at http://searchengineland.com/ He is someone who I would respect with good reporting on search engines. There's plenty of others too. Google et al are your friends there. They are just a couple that came into my mind. The only way to stay on top is to follow Google's and…

A fine time to acknowledge Scott Adams’ remarkably simple and clear financial advice: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/ I think it is pretty good. You can, of course, debate it - and HN being HN people probably will.

Do you have anything to cite? In 2008, Matt Cuts posted Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome, which suggests they are not trying to claim or vet what you use Chrome for. Even if there are privacy violations, that seems much less scary than what Firefox has suddenly decided to do. They're seemingly not only watching, but claiming rights! And or will kick you out suddenly if they decide your activity on the web doesn't meet their standards. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43217309 https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-license-agreement/

Matt Cutts and the early era of SEO and spam. If you are into SEO history, feel free to google "Matt Cutts John Chow" as an example of how things evolved when the Google SPAM boss himself was approachable directly. I remember many interactions between them and at the time, Matt was pretty open about the then-new SPAM filter team at Google and penalties. Here is a blog posting for context: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet/ John Chow was a blogger back then and prominently gamed google ("Made for Adsense") using - and enter Matt Cutts: abusing - Pagerank to boost his website. They had many interactions and several bans were lifted because of these interactions. https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/comments-on-our-webmaster-guidelines/

It depends. Most HTML e-mail can be parsed within the mutt viewer using an external program that converts HTML -> text in a graceful way. That works for 99 % of the HTML e-mail (which is typically just people that send it that way because they don't know better.) For newsletters and such, you can have a shortcut that opens the HTML portion in a browser tab automatically. This is done by adding this to your ~/.mailcap: text/html; mutt_bgrun /usr/bin/firefox %s >/dev/null 2>&1; needsterminal text/html; elinks -dump ; copiousoutput (where `mutt_bgrun` is here: https://www.mattcutts.com/files/mutt_bgrun) And then on ~/.muttrc: macro index,pager ,b "<view-attachments>/html<enter><view-mailcap><exit>" "View first HTML attachment in browser" That way, if I'm on an e-mail and I want the actual HTML rendering, I hit ",b" and it goes to a browser tab.

Dilbert’s One Page Personal Finance List • Make a will. • Pay off your credit card balance. • Get term life insurance if you have a family to support. • Fund your company 401K to the maximum. • Fund your IRA to the maximum. • Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it. • Put six months’ expenses in a money market account. • Take whatever is left over and invest it 70 percent in a stock index fund and 30 percent in a bond fund through any discount brokerage company and never touch it until retirement • If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issue), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges you a percentage of your portfolio. https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/

> You must listen to your comment read back to you aloud before you can post it. https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/youtube-adds-read-comment-aloud-feature…

Scott Adam's advice (reposted by Matt Cutts) is pretty popular: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/

That's how the original Google Contributor actually worked, it would remove Adsense ads from all websites running AdSense. You could even choose what to replace them with (eg pictures of kittens). Matt Cutts posted about it here in 2015: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-contributor/ Apparently that model was a huge flop and people just didn't want it. The new version requires publishers to remove all ads (not just AdSense), which helps since many newspapers seem to have dropped AdSense & switched to Taboola & other ad networks. Which might be one reason Google is trying it again. (I expect the new Contributor will fail too, though. I think the majority of people just don't want to pay for online content.)

Start with Scott Adams' financial checklist: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/ Note the item about hiring a fee-based financial advisor. I hired one starting a few years ago even though I am pretty good at this stuff, but I think they're especially helpful for newbies to establish good expectations and habits.

Mutt bg run: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ppt-attachments-in-mutt/