Comments on: Matt Cutts on BigDaddy, linking, crawling etc

By: Vani

Vani — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:08:36 +0000

Vani

I always enjoy coming to this site because you offer great tips and advice for people like me who can always use a few good pointers. I will be getting my friends to pop around fairly soon.

By: Linda Lynch

Linda Lynch — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:25:47 +0000

Greetings
In my view, Google rules of the road will result in a huge loss to both the middle to small business on the web AND search engine users. While I truly appreciate Matt’s advice and insight we have to get down to the grass roots-the backbone of the web-and look long and hard. Blogs and rss, forums et al are waaaaaaay beyond the capability of many who own sites. The knowlege in the biz community about SEO is just coming into its own. Another trend has been quietly gathering speed=people searching are now skipping the first page!!Why? Because, they tell me that they figure that these sites have ‘payed’ for their ranking or have used ‘high tech’tricks to get there-they want the ‘real deal’! Google should do some surveys of medium and small business on the web and see that the majority are not web savvy, are struggling to find an IT budget, are just happy to have a web presence. They have great products and services and have made a significant-to them-investment to get on the web and there just isn’t any money,people to do the Google website ‘tweak’. The fact is that many have sites that were created before the Google rules of the road happened don’t have budgets for redesigns,etc. Another problem is folks who maybe design their own with minimal skill and have no idea about this ’stuff’. Personally, I think Google should have two search options “top guns”, Newbies-…………..
Cheers!

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:07:55 +0000

Jim - If you visit google groups you will see hundreds of people who either:

1.) Have no backlinks and are on lame free hosted subdomains.
2.) People who took part in reciporcal link trading.

All have the same complaint, “our site was dropped from the index”!

Of course there is google’s admitted issues at the same time so everyone is a little confused.

Thank God I didn’t ever do much link trading but at the same time I also didn’t do much link building and that still seems to be needed.

By: Nor Cal Cars

Nor Cal Cars — Tue, 23 May 2006 19:37:46 +0000

Interesting blog. Seems this will likely hurt small regionalized sites that by nature will not have earth shattering new content will get the attention of the search engines even though it may be very relevant to people interested in the business.

One example is a landscaping supply site I’m working on. Not likely to have content of interest world wide but it is of interest to the people in the region it’s located. Recip links are pretty much the only reliable way to get links.