The Matt Cutts Blog Gets Hacked
The Dark SEO Team has had a bit of a beef with Google’s Matt Cutts from back in 2005 over URL hijacking. Looks like they’ve pulled a prank on him today. Matt’s blog is down, hacked — and archives wiped out as well. Matt has posted previously to this about the site being slow (post […]
Danny Sullivan on March 31, 2007 at 10:55 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
The Dark SEO Team has had a bit of
a beef with Google’s Matt Cutts
from back in 2005 over URL hijacking. Looks like they’ve pulled a prank on
him today. Matt’s blog is down, hacked — and archives wiped out as well. Matt
has posted previously to this about the site being slow (post gone, but you can
see his Twitter comment
here) and heading offline
through Monday, so you might be seeing the screen above for awhile.
FYI, be sure to check out CuttsCon, that I
posted about
earlier.
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