{"id":3270,"date":"2013-04-19T05:53:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2013-04-12T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T00:02:11","slug":"matt-cutts-on-wordpress-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2013\/04\/19\/matt-cutts-on-wordpress-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cutts on WordPress SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3P-m2cBCJSk\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t see this YouTube video, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3P-m2cBCJSk\" target=\"_blank\">watch it on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this video you&#8217;ll see pure unvarnished personable Matt Cutts, cat lover, talking about blogging and WordPress. Although the video is really for a newbie webmasters and not really for hard core SEO pros.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are some good nuggets in the video and here they are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>WordPress takes care of about 90% of the mechanics of search engine optimization.<\/li>\n<li>You can optimize WordPress with a few simple plug-ins.<\/li>\n<li>Matt likes Cookies for Comments and Enforce www Preference for his own blog.<\/li>\n<li>PageRank is the number of people that link to you and how important they are. The higher your PageRank the higher you&#8217;ll place organically. Quantity is not important, but rather the quality of links.<\/li>\n<li>You can flow through your PageRank to other sites by linking out to them. But the authority decays with each link.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t see this YouTube video, you can watch it on YouTube. 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