Content is still king – more or less…
We’ve featured video here before from Matt Cutts and this contribution on the Google Webmaster Central YouTube account is well worth viewing. Understanding how Google indexes and ranks has got to be easier to understand from those who deal with it every day an are responsible for tweaking it, right? Well we enjoy Matt Cutts’ contributions but in response to a user question “More or less content on a homepage?” he didn’t really offer a definitive answer, but is still worth a quick watch. “You can have too much” says Cutts, advising against large pages, with long download times. However, the general gist is that more content is actually better. It’s a case of including more text for the googlebots to pick-up and index so as Cutts explains: “rather than just pictures, for example, if you have pictures plus captions – a little but of textual information can go a long way”. So maybe our recent push to encourage more of you to turn to blogging may also help with your google ranking by getting more text on your site. Are you put off by too much text on a website?