Comments on: Matt Cutts on WordPress SEO for Google

By: Kenichi Suzuki

Kenichi Suzuki — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:43:31 +0000

Hi Loren,

Great article though short!

I’ve already “the SEO Title Plugin” since I read an ariticle written about that on SE Journal.

I have a quetion.

[but Yahoo does]

You mean the fewer slashes are, the higher your rank is on Yahoo?

If so, would you tell me where I can get more infomation on that.

I’m a Japanese webmaster living in Japan.
Yahoo! is the most popular search engine, not Google in Japan.
So, I’m interested in Y!, too.

Thank you.

By: John Clinebell

John Clinebell — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:50:10 +0000

It’s nice and kinda rare when what you hear from people at the top (about what the best practices are) is exactly what you’re doing. Well, in this case, the only thing we don’t currently have on our site is multiple authors.. the one thing I’d like to know is how could Google tell if you set up legit multiple authors, or if you just set up a bunch of author accounts on your blog and post using different ones? Seems there might be potential abuse of that? Anyone got ideas as to what they might be doing there to prevent it?

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:52:51 +0000

As well as catering to the search engines, it’s worth being mindful of the searcher, too.

In the past, I’ve always used hyphens (because the message has been to use them and not underscores) but I think underscores are more readable…

By: James

James — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:37:21 +0000

In the past Matt Cutts has said dashes are better to use than underscores in the URL title(s). But if you study the SERPs you’ll notice Google really doesn’t discriminate against underscores at all, they view both hyphens and underscores simply as word separators.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:08:38 +0000

Hi Loran, it’s a shame because when compared to Google’s other applications, Blogger lags somewhat.

And even more so when compared to WordPress…

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:47:45 +0000

Wayne, I guess that’s one reason Matt may prefer WordPress over Blogger, perhaps one of the many reasons.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:22:55 +0000

What I find deliciously ironic (moronic? But not on Matt’s part, I hasten to add), amusing and wildly annoying is Matt suggesting people use the: “SEO Title Plugin to swap the name of the blog title with the name of the post titles” when Google Blogger doesn’t let you do that…

By: free iphone

free iphone — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:14:33 +0000

Good tips. Thanks Matt

By: CarstenCumbrowski

CarstenCumbrowski — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:47:14 +0000

Halfdeck: “As far back as I can remember, Google has always treated hyphens as word separators.”

At least till early 2002. That was when I discovered it for one of my sites :)

By: Nathania - Guest-Blogger.com

Nathania - Guest-Blogger.com — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:06:10 +0000

At the risk of sounding spammy, would Google News be able to distinguish a site that has multiple authors from a site that has regular guest bloggers?

In other words, how do they determine a group blog from an individual blog?

Thanks. :)