Marc Ensign published a good blog post about staying on good terms with Google, in the post-Penguin world. There are plenty of posts out there on this topic. I’ve seen a fair amount of pretty good ones, but this one might be worth paying particular attention to.

The post, titled “Google Shakeup: Coming To A Website Near You” has a bullet list for steps to a sound content strategy. There are certainly plenty of good posts on this subject out there too, but Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts gave something of an endorsement to this list on Twitter in a conversation with Ensign.

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So the bullet points from Ensign’s post, Cutts says, “looked solid” include:

I should make a point about that second-to-last one. Sharing EVERYTHING you are creating on 2 or 3 social networks. In another article, we looked at a Webmaster Help video Cutts posted in response to a user submitted question about using your Twitter account like an RSS service for every article you post.

While Cutts indicated that doing that isn’t going to be a problem as far as Google’s quality guidelines, he said it can be annoying if you do it with every post, and you post a whole lot of content. I made the case for why it depends on how the user is using Twitter.

Just seemed worth pointing out.

Note:I know I’ve written a whole lot about Matt Cutts lately. I’m not stalking him. I promise. It’s just that webmasters want to rank in Google, and he’s obviously the go-to guy for advice, so it seems appropriate that people know about what he’s saying on these topics. Hence, our extensive Matt Cutts coverage. By the way, perusing that coverage is advised. On our Matt Cutts page, you’ll find a plethora of great advice right from Cutts.