This is a video of the one hour long lecture given by Matt Cutts at the WordCamp 2007 conference in San Francisco, CA two weeks ago on the topic of Whitehat SEO tips for Bloggers.
For those not familiar, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and this lecture is all about ways to make your Web site rank higher in Google and the other search engines. I’ve also written an article on this topic called Improving Search Engine Rankings over at HTMLHelp.com.
Matt’s presentation is available here, and when I get a chance I’ll try to go back and plug them into the video in the appropriate spots. In the meantime I did manage to get most, if not all, of them on film although they might be a little difficult to read – especially in the low quality versions required by the video hosting sites.
This video is currently available on Viddler, Revver (Part 1, Part 2) and Blip.TV. They each offer it in different download formats in case you want to take it with you. The highest quality versions are on Revver and Blip.TV.
Also, please feel free to grab the code and embed any of the WordCamp videos in your own sites. We filmed these lectures so that the millions of WordPress users who were NOT able to attend WordCamp would be able to hear the messages.
Matt Cutts on Whitehat SEO tips for Bloggers
The following video is embedded via Viddler, so it is possible to leave comments within the video. Just click on the icon that looks like a text balloon on the bottom right to insert your own thoughts.
Finally, there are about 30 WordCamp videos here now from the last three WordCamp’s I attended, so there is an amazing amount of information if you are just learning WordPress. Specifically there are videos from 2007, and from 2008.
Hey John! Thanks so much for making this amazing piece available. I was hoping it had gotten video taped. I don’t think the SEO world has found it yet. I am very glad I checked here.
Can you tell me who video taped this?
The video and sound came out amazingly good on this video, considering the environment there.
We are working on
the transcript of the video at our site.
Thanks again!
Dr. David Klein
David,
Thanks for the appreciation. I was the guy standing up in the balcony all day both days getting all the lectures on tape. :-)
I was also impressed that the quality of the video turned out so good. I had to do a bit of editing to crank up the volume and even out the color a bit, but it’s a testament to the Canon XH A1 camcorder that it performed so well.
I think you’re right that the SEO world is not yet aware of this video. I had expected to see a little more traffic / discussion around it but so far not much… I also don’t think that Matt has yet realized that I posted it, so I guess I need to drop him an e-mail.
John P
Sorry about the downtime John. Really. We had a hardware hiccup that we believe we’ve not only fixed, but have squashed so as to not occur again. I hope you’ll reconsider the use of the service, but if not – I wanted to thank you for sharing what you have so far.
Great stuff John. Thanks for the video! Its always cool to get a “free pass” to these things because of someone’s camera. :)
Awesome video!!
yap you are right . this is awesome video
Yes! And I was just regretting not having taken photo of Matt’s slides… well, would have been a good idea anyway, but this is great.
Thanks for taking the trouble John!
Its great to find these vids free here. Matt Cutts’ is the best SEO inside you can get anywhere.
John -
Thank you for posting this. Much appreciated!
Thanks, that was great. Excellent quality. I was disappointed that I was out of town for Wordcamp this year, and especially wanted to see this presentation.
Thanks for sharing this. It was informative and entertaining.