Matt Cutts Talks Content Stitching In New Video

Google has a new Webmaster Help video out about content that takes text from other sources. Specifically, Matt Cutts responds to this question:

Hi Matt, can a site still do well in Google if I copy only a small portion of content from different websites and create my own article by combining it all, considering I will mention the source of that content (by giving their URLs in the article)?

“Yahoo especially used to really hate this particular technique,” says Cutts. “They called it ‘stitching’. If it was like two or three sentences from one article, and two or three sentences from another article, and two or three sentences from another article, they really considered that spam. If all you’re doing is just taking quotes from everybody else, that’s probably not a lot of added value. So I would really ask yourself: are you doing this automatically? Why are you doing this? Why? People don’t just like to watch a clip show on TV. They like to see original content.”

Google Page Rank Update December 2013

I am little surprised that In tweet, Matt Cutts has mentioned that there will no pagerank update in 2013. And still there is an update on date 6th december,2013.

So, enjoy this update if you get good PR and if not then try your best to get high pr in next update.

Google has begun pushing out new PageRank values to the Google Toolbar today. This would make the Last Toolbar PageRank update of 2013.

Normally Google updates PageRank values in the Google Toolbar every 3 months or so. The previous update was in Feb. 2013 and before that in November 2012.

Despite PageRank still being part of the algorithm, SEOs know that toolbar PageRank is often outdated and not that useful. In addition, there are many other factors part of the algorithm that may or may not be as important as PageRank.

Even though, I hope your PageRank values increased and did not decline.

Google PR is very important for sites and blogs. Google PR basically ranks a page on the basis of its backlinks and how authoritative that link is. And high Google PR may boost ranking of the site.