Comments on: USA Today Interviews Matt Cutts On Search Engine Optimization http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2008/06/24/usa-today-matt-cutts/ Search Engine Optimization Journal is an SEO Blog that contains usefule articles, tips, resources and news about SEO. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: » Funny How People Will Take What Matt Cutts Says As SEO Advice Search Engine Optimization Journal - SEO and Search Engine Marketing Blog http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2008/06/24/usa-today-matt-cutts/comment-page-1/#comment-18109 » Funny How People Will Take What Matt Cutts Says As SEO Advice Search Engine Optimization Journal - SEO and Search Engine Marketing Blog Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:38:45 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2008/06/24/usa-today-interviews-matt-cutts-on-search-engine-optimization/#comment-18109 [...] McElroy, AKA namecritic left a comment on this morning’s post USA Today Interviews Matt Cutts On Search Engine Optimization and I just had to take his opening line in [...] [...] McElroy, AKA namecritic left a comment on this morning’s post USA Today Interviews Matt Cutts On Search Engine Optimization and I just had to take his opening line in [...]

]]> By: namecritic http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2008/06/24/usa-today-matt-cutts/comment-page-1/#comment-18107 namecritic Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:45:17 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2008/06/24/usa-today-interviews-matt-cutts-on-search-engine-optimization/#comment-18107 Funny how people will take what Matt Cutts says as SEO Advice. When Matt Cutts is talking, he is talking about Google. Google is not the only search engine and optimizing just for google is not the sum total of SEO or Internet marketing. There is so much more to marketing and optimizing a website than just listening to the latest drivel about google. An example; "In Matt’s own words, these two tags are crucial. Forget the keyword tag - Google doesn’t put much weight on that tag." But maybe some other search engines do pay attention to those things. Google will not punish you for using keywords as a meta, so why ignore anything that might help a website get traffic from another source? The title of the post "USA Today Interviews Matt Cutts On Search Engine Optimization" should read "USA Today Interviews Matt Cutts On Google Optimization" Yes, we want traffic from google, but if it is someone's main focus and they believe that optimizing for google is all you need to know, then they are missing out on a whole web out there that does not come through the google portal. Funny how people will take what Matt Cutts says as SEO Advice. When Matt Cutts is talking, he is talking about Google. Google is not the only search engine and optimizing just for google is not the sum total of SEO or Internet marketing. There is so much more to marketing and optimizing a website than just listening to the latest drivel about google.

An example; “In Matt’s own words, these two tags are crucial. Forget the keyword tag – Google doesn’t put much weight on that tag.”

But maybe some other search engines do pay attention to those things. Google will not punish you for using keywords as a meta, so why ignore anything that might help a website get traffic from another source?

The title of the post “USA Today Interviews Matt Cutts On Search Engine Optimization” should read “USA Today Interviews Matt Cutts On Google Optimization”

Yes, we want traffic from google, but if it is someone’s main focus and they believe that optimizing for google is all you need to know, then they are missing out on a whole web out there that does not come through the google portal.

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