Matt Cutts Shares Top 5 SEO Techniques

In a recent interview to USA today, Google Guy Matts Cutt shares top five SEO techniques that works well for search engine rankings or we can say ranking in Google. Matt Cutts also make a point to all webmasters not to overdo the techniques as that may lead to penalization or being banned in the search engines.

The top 5 SEO Techniques are:

Spotlight your search term on the page:

If you want to be found for your keyword(s), make sure that term is on the page you want to rank. The term should be at the top as well as peppered throughout your copy. After all content is the KING.

Fill in your TAGS:

The two most important tags are Title and Description b/c that’s what is displayed on the search results.
Get other sites to LINK to yours: This is one of the most important of the 100 factors Google considers when ranking sites.

Create a blog and post often:

This can help you get links.

Register for free tools:

Matt Cutts recommends using the tools at google.com/webmaster, as well as creating sitemap (XML, HTML & Text).

From the above five SEO techniques (mentioned by Matt Cutts), one thing is clear that Google still consider links to be one of the important factors, but not encouraging for link building. Hence, give more importance to your content and try to increase the number of quality links.