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Matt Cutts is Google’s Head of Spam who gives insights into goings at the firm, search engine index updates and SEO issues on his personal blog. If you run a website this is a must read blog.

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
neat fun stuff

• I love my pedometer
by Matt Cutts
25 Jul 2008 at 4:04am
I’ve written about my Omron pedometer once before, but I wanted to mention it again because I like it so much. Recent research suggests that using a pedometer can lead to more walking and better health.
I’ve been carrying a pedometer for a little over a year now, and I’ve done almost four million steps since […]

• New Toolbar PageRanks coming
by Matt Cutts
25 Jul 2008 at 12:26am
Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites.

• Get your search fix with two videos
by Matt Cutts
24 Jul 2008 at 7:47am
I was going to wait until part 2 was posted, but I’ll point people to part 1 now. The video from the SMX Advanced keynote is now live, so you can watch the first 25 minutes of questions and answers. Read the intro here, or just watch the video:

And Juliane Stiller from Google’s German Webmaster […]

• Idea for an Android/iPhone app: Call Me a Cab
by Matt Cutts
21 Jul 2008 at 6:53am
I still like my last start-up idea about converting MP3 music collections to be legal and cleaning up mangled/ugly filenames. As Amazon and others start to sell MP3s, a startup could easily offer some interesting services. For example, I just saw that a new product called TuneUp will clean up your filenames, metadata, and cover […]

• What are the best iPhone applications?
by Matt Cutts
19 Jul 2008 at 10:00pm
Here are some of the applications that I’m trying out right now:

What applications do you like on the iPhone 3G?

• Generic Toolbar Indexing Debunk Post
by Matt Cutts
19 Jul 2008 at 8:30am
Sometimes people think that the Google Toolbar led to Google indexing a page. Here’s a recent such story, for example, which speculates how urls with the substring “mms2legacy” got indexed. Here’s where I started to disagree:

The reason for this [supposedly unlisted urls getting crawled –Matt], explained Ken Simpson, CEO of anti-spam company MailChannels, is that […]

• Two Cats One Laptop
by Matt Cutts
17 Jul 2008 at 7:35pm
The new iPhone 3G camera seems to work pretty well. Here’s a test shot with me, two cats, and a laptop:

The iPhone 3G still doesn’t work great for close-ups on very small stuff, but it seems to work well in the four to six foot range.

• 5 Steps to Upgrade From a Hacked iPhone to an iPhone 3G
by Matt Cutts
15 Jul 2008 at 5:51pm
I know what you’re thinking: “Matt, I hacked my original iPhone. Now I want to share in the iPhone 3G fun, but I’m worried that something horrible will happen if I upgrade to the iPhone 3G.”
Buck up, fellow iPhone hacker. I’ll tell you how to upgrade from your hacked Apple phone and keep all the […]