Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

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• Twins!!

  • #personal

  Hey folks, I hope you’re doing well, and wanted to catch you up to speed on some new life happenings. Namely: babies. Two of them at once. Lindsay and I welcomed healthy fraternal twin boys into the world a few months ago. So far, Twin A is big, open, loud and easygoing with his smiles. […]

  2023/8/31 21:24Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twins/

• This is Lindsay, my force of a human

  • #personal

  I wanted to write a bit about my partner Lindsay Aranoff and why I’m so grateful we found each other. I could talk about the stuff you could discover from the internet (inaugural Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum, curator of a TEDxKids event in Canada, co-founder of a company with the CTO of […]

  2021/8/4 21:16Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/meet-lindsay/

• All the Fitbit activity badges

  • #productivity
  • #Gadgets/Hack

  Fitbit has discontinued their Fitbit One step trackers, which seems like a good opportunity to step back and reflect on wearing one for the last decade or so. I’ve enjoyed using Fitbit trackers, but the One devices seemed like they broke down too often. I’m pretty proud that I ended up earning all the activity-related […]

  2019/10/21 11:06Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/all-the-fitbit-activity-badges/

• Halloween 2018: Crab claws!

  • #Fun
  • #Halloween

  Do you need something to cheer you up? You got it: I should explain this costume a little bit. At the US Digital Service, we do a thing called “crab claws.” Crab claws is like visual applause–you pinch your fingers up and down to say “great job” or “congratulations” or “way to go.” We do […]

  2018/11/5 04:02Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/halloween-costume-crab-claws/

• Some terrible personal news

  • #personal

  Cindy Cutts, my wife and best friend, passed away earlier this week. While I was traveling for work recently, Cindy went to visit her family in Omaha, Nebraska. On Sunday, while enjoying time with family, Cindy started having trouble breathing. Her family quickly called 911 and paramedics took Cindy to the hospital, but Cindy lost […]

  2018/3/8 08:17Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/cindy-cutts/

• Talking to Mr. Money Mustache about the US Digital Service

  • #productivity

  Last week, I passed my one year anniversary as head of the US Digital Service (USDS). So when Mr. Money Mustache asked for an interview, I was delighted to talk about some of the work that the USDS does. If you aren’t familiar with Mr. Money Mustache, he writes about a philosophy of badassity in […]

  2018/1/23 02:58Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/interview-mr-money-mustache-us-digital-service/

• Staying with the US Digital Service

  • #personal

  A few months ago, I took a leave of absence from Google to do a stint with the US Digital Service. A lot of people know about the US Digital Service because they helped rescue the healthcare.gov website. But you might not realize that the US Digital Service has helped veterans get their health benefits, […]

  2017/1/19 11:47Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/join-the-us-digital-service/

• A brief update

  • #personal

  Over the last couple years, I’ve seen more and more people in technology trying to make government work better. They’re idealists who are also making a large impact. These are people that I respect–some of them worked to fix healthcare.gov, for example. From talking to many of them, I can tell you that their energy […]

  2016/6/18 09:57Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/heading-to-usds/

• Thanks, Amit

  • #personal

  Amit Singhal just announced that he’s retiring toward the end of the month. Amit has been a formative part of Google’s search team, but he’s also a good friend. Last year, after he marked 15 years with Google, I wrote this about Amit’s contributions: Amit Singhal, one of the unsung heroes of Google, just celebrated […]

  2016/2/4 03:49Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/thanks-amit-singhal/

• Solving a Verizon issue (Nexus 5X)

  • #Android
  • #How to

  I solved a problem today and figured that I’d document it for the rest of the world. Every time someone left me a voicemail on Verizon, I would get a cryptic text from Verizon at 900080006202 that looked like “//VZWVVM:SYNC:ev=NM;id=1;c=1;t=v;s=1XXXXXXXXXX;dt=18/01/2016 13:40-0900;l=13;dev_t=5” or “//VZWVVM:SYNC:ev=MBU;dev_t=5”. Here’s what happened. It turns out that Verizon has three kinds of […]

  2016/1/19 10:00Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/verizon-visual-voicemail-texts/

• The dangers of productivity porn

  A quick “hairball” post about how sometimes it’s better to just go with the flow. I like how xkcd made this point with a chart of whether it’s worth the time to fix something that’s bugging you. I have a friend who is mechanical engineer. A few years ago he took me for a tour […]

  2013/5/13 14:58Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/the-dangers-of-productivity-porn/

• My wife keeps me grounded

  This is a harmless “hairball” post I had as a draft. Me: Hey, they added me to popurls.com! My wife: Never heard of it. (pause) Had you heard of it before? Me: Yeah. Wife: Really? Me: Yeah! Wife: (with an extra helping of sarcasm) Really? Me: Yes! Wife: (dripping with condescension) You’re a very important […]

  2013/5/13 14:51Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-wife-keeps-me-grounded/

• Linux USB device driver info

  What, *another* half-finished blog post about Linux USB drivers? Yup. Suppose you have a device and want a Linux device driver for it. There are a few steps you’ll need to take. One of the heroes in this area is Greg Kroah-Hartman. Greg wrote USBView, which is a Linux tool to enumerate a list of […]

  2013/5/13 14:41Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-usb-device-driver-info/

• Compile a simple USB program in Linux

  Here’s another “hairball” post about USB devices and drivers on Linux. I wish some expert would write the definitive “here’s how to reverse-engineer a USB device and write a new USB driver” guide. I am definitely not that expert. Once you reverse engineer a Windows USB device enough to know how it works, you’re ready […]

  2013/5/13 14:39Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/compile-a-simple-usb-program-in-linux/

• Reverse engineering a Windows USB driver

  For a while, I was really into reverse-engineering USB drivers. Don’t ask why. The heart wants what the heart wants. I didn’t finish this “hairball” post, but it has some info in it that still might be good. I recently stumbled across this post and it inspired me. I decided to try to reverse engineer […]

  2013/5/13 14:35Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reverse-engineering-a-windows-usb-driver/

• Example debunk post

  Over the years I’ve written a lot of blog posts to debunk misconceptions or claims that weren’t true. Sometimes I publish the blogs posts but often I don’t. This is a pretty typical example post. Someone claimed that Google was evil for removing a particular domain, when in fact the domain had been removed from […]

  2013/5/13 13:55Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/example-debunk-post/

• Google Chrome Tips

  I started this blog post of Chrome tips in 2008. Even though this is a “hairball” post, some of these tips still work. – control-shift-V will paste your selection as plain text – control-shift-T will re-open the last tab you closed. You can repeat that to keep re-opening previously closed tabs. – Hover over a […]

  2013/5/13 13:02Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-tips/

• How Cuil generates its categories

  This “hairball” post about Cuil isn’t really snarky, so I’ll post it. Cuil is no longer around, but it did spawn a funny post on Reddit about Cuil Theory. Cuil launched this week. For a search engineer, a new search engine is like a Christmas present: you can’t wait to play with it. Most search […]

  2013/5/13 12:53Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-cuil-generates-its-categories/

• Cheap internet-connected scale: Wii Balance Board + Linux

  You can ignore this ancient “hairball” blog post. Gather round, kids, and witness this blog post from a time *before internet-connected scales*. That’s right. Back then, we had to hack our Wii balance boards to connect them to the internet. Of course now you can buy wifi-connected scales from Fitbit and Withings. But in a […]

  2013/5/13 12:47Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/internet-connected-scale-wii-balance-board-linux/

• Wanted: bookmarks.html merging program

  You can ignore this “hairball” blog post. This post dates back to a time when people actually curated, saved, and managed their bookmarks.html file. Then Google Chrome introduced the ability to save and sync all your bookmarks, extensions, etc. in the cloud. Now I sign in to Chrome and everything is synced in the cloud. […]

  2013/5/13 12:41Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wanted-bookmarks-html-merging-program/

• TimeTrax gone, SXRecorder lives

  What’s that? You’ve never heard of an XMPCR? Don’t worry, the rest of the world hasn’t either. You can ignore this “hairball” post as I do spring cleaning on my blog. TimeTrax was a program that allowed XMPCR owners to listen to XM Radio on their computer. Even nicer, the program would “time shift” the […]

  2013/5/13 12:35Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/timetrax-gone-sxrecorder-lives/

• One million steps

  Note: this is a “hairball” post and you can ignore it. I was so proud of my first one million steps with a pre-Fitbit pedometer. Now I’ve done 13 million steps and it’s just kind of normal. For the record, the Fitbit is a great little pedometer, but I tend to lose one every few […]

  2013/5/13 12:28Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/one-million-steps/

• Hack your iPhone: install a toolchain

  This “hairball” post is ancient and unfinished. Would anyone care about this now? Probably not. Maybe some future data archaeologist will care. In my previous post I covered what a toolchain is and why you need one to cross-compile applications for the iPhone. I’ve seen rumors that there will be a Windows toolchain soon, and […]

  2013/5/13 12:23Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hack-your-iphone-install-a-toolchain/

• How to strip JPEG metadata in Ubuntu

  If you want to post some JPEG pictures but you’re worried that they might have metadata like location embedded in them, here’s how to strip that data out. First, install exiftool using this command: sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl Then, go into the directory with the JPEG files. If you want to remove metadata from every […]

  2011/2/7 16:02Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/howto-strip-jpeg-metadata/

• Report on 30 day challenge: A picture a day

  In August 2010, my 30 day challenge was to take at least a picture a day. It was a good challenge, because that month I traveled with friends to Tanzania and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. I finally got around to making a picture-a-day public photo gallery with the pictures I selected. Here’s one of my favorite […]

  2010/11/9 00:51Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-picture-a-day/

• Say hello at PubCon 2010

  I’ll be at PubCon in Las Vegas next week. I’ll speaking on the search engine super session on Wednesday, November 10th. If you see me at PubCon, please say hello to me!

  2010/11/4 22:47Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/say-hello-at-pubcon-2010/

• Get out there and vote!

  If you’re a U.S. citizen, have you voted yet? You can find your polling place by searching on Google for [where do I vote] or [polling place] or [where to vote]. We’ll even give you a map: If you’re at all worried that the polling place doesn’t sound right, Google also gives a link to […]

  2010/11/3 02:46Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/get-out-there-and-vote/

• 30 day challenge: write a novel?!?

  (My 30 day challenge for October was to get my finances in order. They’re in pretty good shape at this point, although I still have 6-7 things I want to do. If I get free time, I’ll blog about finances more. But in the mean time, it’s time for a new challenge!) For November, I’ll […]

  2010/11/2 00:37Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/30-day-challenge-write-a-novel/

• My 2010 Halloween Costume: Ninja!!

  I got the inspiration for this year’s Halloween costume from a parade in Modesto, California. I’ve dressed up as some silly stuff in previous years, so I wanted something cool this year. And there’s not much cooler than a ninja! Here I am showing off my ninja costume: (Click to see a full-size image.) I […]

  2010/11/1 00:24Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/halloween-costume-ninja/

• New 30 day challenges: Get my finances in order. Write a novel.

  Alright, I’ve decided my next two 30 day challenges. In October, I’m going to get my finances in order. Follow along with me to talk about money, hatch plans, and carry them out–it should be fun! Then in November, I’m going to write a novel. Yup, I’m participating in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo […]

  2010/10/5 23:43Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/get-finances-in-order-30-days/

• 30 day challenge: meditation

  I just finished up a 30 day challenge of spending 15 minutes a day meditating. I tried everything from traditional posture to sitting outside to lying on the ground. I experimented with keeping my eyes open vs. shut, breathing, counting and listening. My favorite was cat meditation, which is when you meditate with a cat […]

  2010/10/5 00:08Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/30-day-challenge-meditation/

• Goo.gl url shortener is now open to everyone!

  I love this: the goo.gl url shortener is now open to everyone! I know the folks that worked on this, so let me answer a few quick questions. Q: Why are you doing this? A: Google needed a url shortener for its own products where we knew the shortener wouldn’t go away. We also wanted […]

  2010/10/1 04:42Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/goo-gl-url-shortener/

• Recapping Google’s new two-factor authentication

  I wanted to post about Google’s new two-factor authentication announcement. Two-factor authentication is something you have (e.g. a phone) and something you know (e.g. a password). It’s a Big Deal because if your account or business has two-factor authentication, those accounts are immediately less likely to be phished, hijacked, or otherwise abused. There’s a neat […]

  2010/9/21 01:14Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-two-factor-authentication/

• I did another sprint triathlon!

  This morning I did a sprint triathlon (700 yard swim, 18 mile bike, 4 mile run) called the Tri for Real. On the plus side, I had an actual road bike this year. On the minus side, I broke all the rules of preparing for a triathlon: I only got four hours of sleep the […]

  2010/9/20 10:04Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/sprint-triathlon/

• Have you tried Chrome?

  If you haven’t tried Chrome recently, you might want to give it a try. PC World recently picked Google Chrome as its top recommended browser. They said that Chrome had the best interface, best security, and best speed. (Firefox took top honors in the other category, best extensions.) Jeff Atwood recently wrote that Chrome was […]

  2010/9/18 12:06Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/browser/

• Thoughts on Google Instant

  The blogosphere is absorbing today’s announcement of Google Instant. I wanted to give some context and some thoughts. Google’s web search (and web search infrastructure) team tries to do several things well: – We want the most comprehensive index of the web. We explore ways to crawl the web deeper, faster, and better, from increasing […]

  2010/9/9 04:09Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/thoughts-on-google-instant/

• 30 day challenge update: meditation!

  It’s time for an update on my 30 day challenges. Here’s what I’ve done the last few months: June: I didn’t respond to email after 10 p.m. and I read the New Testament of the Bible. Both were interesting in different ways. It turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me […]

  2010/9/2 22:08Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/15-minutes-of-quiet-meditation/

• Climbing Kilimanjaro

  “Don’t think. Just walk.” — a fellow hiker. Last week I returned from climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. I’ll start with the bottom line: I made it to the top! 🙂 That’s three of us at sunrise on the sixth day. We took the Machame route, which takes seven days. In theory, you could […]

  2010/8/23 23:33Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/climbing-kilimanjaro/

• Switching between dev and beta Chrome channels on Linux

  If you’re on Linux (say Ubuntu 10.04, also known as Lucid Lynx), you can switch between the developer (dev) and beta channels of Chrome like this: Switch from Beta to Dev: sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable Switch from Dev to Beta: sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta That’s easier for me than going back for the .deb file […]

  2010/8/22 02:30Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/switch-dev-and-beta-chrome-channels-on-linux/

• Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro

  I’m leaving Tuesday to try to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. If you want to show your support, please donate at charity:water. Anyone who wants to give is welcome. 🙂 Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, at 19,340 feet (5895 meters). It’s hard to climb Kilimanjaro, mainly because of the altitude. I’ll be completely without […]

  2010/8/2 19:24Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/climb-kilimanjaro/

• How to find start-up ideas

  Chris Dixon had an interesting post a while ago about how to find start-up ideas. The advice boiled down to keeping a spreadsheet of ideas and talking to lots of smart people (entrepreneurs, potential customers, VCs, people at big companies). It’s good advice. Paul Graham also wrote in 2008 about startup ideas he’d like to […]

  2010/7/19 23:46Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/business-ideas/

• Webspam projects in 2010?

  About a year and a half ago, I asked for suggestions for webspam projects for 2009. The feedback that we got was extremely helpful. It’s almost exactly the middle of 2010, so it seemed like a good time to ask again: what projects do you think webspam should work on in 2010 and beyond? Here’s […]

  2010/6/30 23:17Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webspam-projects-in-2010/

• POLLHelp me pick my next 30-day challenge!

  This month I made my 30 day challenge be “Don’t respond to email after 10 p.m.” I’ve done very well overall on this challenge, and I like the results a lot. I’ll probably try to keep up this behavior. Now I need to pick my next challenge. I read through the 350+ suggestions and comments […]

  2010/6/25 00:08Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/30-day-challenge-poll/

• Give Buzz another look

  Have you given Buzz a try recently? Robert Scoble just asked if it was time to reconsider Buzz. Coincidentally I said almost the same thing in a question and answer session with Danny Sullivan last week at the SMX Advanced search conference. I’ll repeat what I said last week. Do you remember when you first […]

  2010/6/14 10:01Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/try-google-buzz/

• SEO site review session from Google I/O 2010

  A couple weeks or so ago, we did an SEO site review session at Google I/O 2010. The video from that session is now live: The video is about an hour long, but I hope it’s a pretty good use of your time if you’re interested in search engine optimization. Enjoy!

  2010/6/5 05:02Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-site-review-session-from-google-io-2010/

• SEO Advice: Make a web page for each store location

  If your company has a bunch of store locations, please don’t hide that information behind a search form or a POST. If you want your store pages to be found, it’s best to have a unique, easily crawlable url for each store. Ideally, you would also create an HTML sitemap that points to the web […]

  2010/6/4 02:30Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/give-each-store-a-url/

• Help me pick my new 30 day challenge

  Okay, I’ve finished roughly a year of 30 day challenges, and now I’d like your help picking new ideas. So far, I’ve done: – 30 days with no TV (May) – 30 days of 10,000 steps each day (June) – 30 days biking into work (July) – reading 15 books in 30 days (I only […]

  2010/6/2 01:56Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pick-30-day-challenge/

• A few thoughts on SSL Search

  I’m incredibly happy that Google has added the option to search over SSL by going to https://www.google.com/ — note the “s” in “https.” I’m writing this blog post in a hotel right now because I’m in Europe for a week doing a series of tech talks, but I could just as easily be working down […]

  2010/5/24 08:26Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-secure-search/

• Live-buzzing Day 2 of the Google I/O keynote

  Okay, today I’m going to try something different again. I’m going to try live-buzzing the keynote of Day 2 of Google I/O. You can follow the live-buzz right here. I’m going to update the buzz as news comes out; if you’re following on the web instead of on Buzz, you might need to hit reload […]

  2010/5/20 23:33Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/live-buzzing-day-2-of-the-google-io-keynote/

• Live-blogging (okay live-waving) Day 1 of Google I/O Keynote

  Okay, I’m going to try live-blogging the keynote of Google I/O, but I’m doing it with a twist. I’m going to try live-blogging in Google Wave with some other folks. Watch the live-stream video at http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers by the way. Lots of folks will be live-blogging or waving. Here is a different live wave with Gina […]

  2010/5/19 23:29Matt Cuttshttps://www.mattcutts.com/blog/live-blog-google-io-keynote/