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Is This The End For Matt Cutts?

Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: northrock 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO

Twice now I have have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with web masters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this....

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from Harith 345 days ago #

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Sphunn!

" Personal attacks on my friends are my Achilles heal ."

Well said.

from Halfdeck 345 days ago #

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One of those posts that make you want to create a second account to vote twice.

from AnneHaynes 345 days ago #

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This is really sad! But you know the internet is full of people and not all people are good!

from johnsantangelo 345 days ago #

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Can that article be written again in English and with grammer intact?

from jeffposaka 345 days ago #

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Here is the edited version:

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/tiers-of-transparency-the-ethical-brand-ambassador

from DaveN 344 days ago #

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try again is that better of you http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/is-this-the-end-for-matt-cutts.html

from squishee 344 days ago #

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I commented on Dave's blog, but I want to reiterate that I wasn't aware of the fact that the conversation between Marty and Matt that was referenced in the post was a private one, and it wasn't identified as such until Matt Cutts said so.

from sza 344 days ago #

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A click-inducing title and then...? Not much of interest or use, only for totally self-absorbed SEOs (our industry this, our industry that ... ad nauseam)

Desphunn.

from aimClear 344 days ago #

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Our conversation was SO casual, at a bowling alley, with people stepping up, standing there and overhearing most everything we said.

I did not think of it as private.I did not think out the ramifications of my representing anything he might have said regarding "spam." I see now that this put him in a "position." I apologized. When Matt Cutts says what he does or does not think is spam sends mice scurrying.

In my world, with casual acquaintances, we flag anything confidential as such to avoid misunderstanding. I assumed anything he told me was open to be repeated. We don't know each other so I had no reason to think he was sharing anything proprietary with me or that the "privacy" was to be assumed or coveted. It's amazing to me that I could be so naïve.

from jimbeetle 344 days ago #

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Welcome to our world, Marty. ;-)

And it doesn't just affect conversations with Matt or other SE reps, it's across the board. There was a similar situation a couple of years ago when somebody repeated something overheard in a conference speakers' room. Basic unwritten rule: If it isn't said from a lectern or in a seminar room, think twice, three times, about the exact nature of the conversation before repeating it.

from Harith 343 days ago #

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Folks!

Time For Healing....

Our SEO/SEM communities have been through some rough time recently.

People have apologized.

Now we need to forgive, resume friendships and make new friends ;-)