The Matt Cutts Blog Gets Hacked

By Danny Sullivan

Published: March 31, 2007 at 10:55 pm

matt cutts 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 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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Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.