DISQUS

10e20: Video Interview with Matt Cutts: Widgetbait is Sooooo 2008

  • Rhea Drysdale · 4 months ago
    Really enjoyed the interview! Keep 'em coming Rebecca. :)
  • Victor · 4 months ago
    Wow. Nice catch Rebecca! Always good to hear what Google is up to.
  • Michael_Martin · 4 months ago
    Its good to know whats bogus and outdated as I wait for my money to flood in from a nice Nigerian prince.
  • Roxanne · 4 months ago
    Wow. Nice interview. Lots of information.
  • Dugdale · 4 months ago
    Thanks for asking that question. I have been working on lots of widgets lately, but it sounds like I need to shift a little bit off that.
  • Frank Marcel · 4 months ago
    Good information! Thanks.

    But I'd like to remind you folks that Google also says they're amazing at finding (and penalizing) bought links, indentifying dupe content (and giving rankings to the original) and other stuff that we see around SERPs very often.

    So, it's not like giving up widgets (@Dave Dugdale) just because Matt says they are good at identifying useless-keyword-stuffed-perfect-anchor-links widgets. It still might be worth the effort.

    Anyone?

    Thanks once again, Rebecca!
  • Gab Goldenberg · 4 months ago
    @Martin I keep telling you I'm Canadian.
  • Gab Goldenberg · 4 months ago
    (Err, @Michael, rather... my bad)
  • eleyrogers · 4 months ago
    Great... Nice video Rebecca! it really a nice video,i alway want to know what Google doing.
  • Dugdale · 3 months ago
    Frank,

    Yes you are most likely right since I still see that widget bait still works well in some verticals.
  • Frank Marcel · 3 months ago
    Thanks for sharing, Dave!

    Sure it is the same as with content - create great, original, interesting, compelling, "etc'ing" content/widget and it will work out fine!
  • Reggie Davis · 3 months ago
    Thanks Rebecca, this is good to know. It's nice to hear Mr. Cutts speak on issues like this so we can all be made aware of changes.

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