SMX in Seattle: You&A With Matt Cutts

Derzeit findet die erste SMX (Search Marketing Expo) in Seattle statt. Zum Auftakt gab es die Session “You&A With Matt Cutts”. Bei Seroundtable findet sich dazu eine ausführliche Zusammenfassung. Dort werden sich in den kommenden Tagen auch Zusammenfassungen vieler weiterer Sessions finden. 2 interessante Fragen aus der “You&A With Matt Cutts”:

Question: Since we’re talking about links, the more links you get, the higher you get ranked. What about links that come out of your site?
Matt: I think it’s good for your users, and therefore it’s good for search engines.

Irgendwie ausweichend wie immer auf diese Frage …

Question: At Pubcon, the first thing you did was look up every domain everybody owns. So I have a question – what business is that of yours, and can other domains affect this?
Matt: If you have 10 sites and 6 of them are catalog sites and 4 of them are hardcore porn, that doesn’t bother me. But if a webmaster has two sites versus 50 sites, there’s something to talk about. That’s a different webmaster than the one who has 2 sites. My goal was to determine if this guy was a power webmaster or if he’s a beginner webmaster.
Followup: Algorithmically, it has nothing to do with it.
Matt: [silence]
[Laughter]
Matt: I would consider that fair game. Another site by itself though might not be bad. But if you have 200 sites that we think are spammy, that may not be the best.

Es hat wohl schon seinen Grund das einige Spammer bei Google namentlich bekannt sind. Andererseits stellt es heute allerdings zumindest bei .com-Domains kein Problem dar diese “anonym” zu registrieren.