Matt Cutts coaxes Danny Sullivan to loosen up and shed his suit and tie for a Disneyland T-Shirt, cargo shorts, and some red and white checked Vans.

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Prank on Matt Cutts by Danny Sullivan & Jessie Stricchiola at Foo Camp Prank 2007

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Video of Paid Links session at SES San Jose 2007 with:
Danny Sullivan – SearchEngineLand
Matt Cutts – Google
Greg Boser – WebGuerrilla
Dave Naylor – DaveN
Aaron Wall – SEO Book
Rand Fishkin – SEOMoz

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Why do a spoof on off-topic link bait?

I was fascinated with Oatmeal’s (Matthew Inman) story about “Widgets Gone Wild” on the SEOMOZ blog. For me it will probably be one of the top 10 SEO blog post of 2008 because it brings up some new and interesting questions. I hope Oatmeal’s issue with Google on “Off-Topic Link Bait” will become a hot topic at the upcoming SMX Advanced conference. Perhaps this video will add a little more fuel to the conversation.

This is not my first spoof video I have oriented towards conferences.

Oatmeal created some highly successful widgets that had nothing to do with online dating and in turn ranked #1 for some extremely competitive terms like “online dating”. But Google got wind of what he was doing and torched his site to the ground. So Oatmeal built another site from scratch and used clean SEO tactics this time but Google told him that he was still heading down the wrong path with his off-topic widget bait.

The reason I am so fascinated with this story was that Google used to whole heartedly endorsed link bait before in the past, but now there appears to be different shades of gray of link bait. I hope Google handles this issue carefully, because if not it will hurt creativity on the web.

I wonder if Greg Boser who is moderating the Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques session can get Matt Cutts to comment on Oatmeal’s issue.

I would like to thank Rand Fishkin for allowing me to use his video from his WhiteBoard Friday interview with Matt Cutts. And James Davidson for the use of the Matt Cutts photo, David Besnette for the voice of Rand Fiskin.

Note: As far as I know Matt Cutts is alive and well.
Transcription of the video:

I am Dave Dugdale, And you’re watching, SolarDave TV.

Google spam engineer Matt Cutts was electrocuted on top of the Google’s world headquarters yesterday.

Matt was sent up to fix the 1.6 mega watt solar array and touched the wrong wire.

On the news of Matt Cutts death, Google’s algorithm quickly became unstable and starting producing irrelevant results.

Matt Cutts has talked several times that if he got run over by a bus that Google would still run fine…

Apparently he was wrong.

The search industry is in shock of this news. Danny Sullivan had this to say. “The search community has suffered a great loss, but Oh, oh, oh, why have Google results become so crappy, was Matt’s brain somehow tied into the Google’s main frame?”

Dave Naylor had this too add: “What the f@ck is going on with the stock price, at this level Microsoft can forget Yahoo and instead buy Google!”

Rand Fiskin chimed in with, “Perhaps Matt committed suicide from being Rick Rolled to much.”

So if Matt is gone, and the algorithm has gone to the crapper, are we going to see a shift from white to black hat?

But then again this video really doesn’t have any thing to do with solar.

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Instead of doing a writeup like I did for last year’s SMX Advanced conference, I made a video so my friends at home could get an idea what it is like.

I can’t remember everyone’s name in the video, but I think this list has it covered:

Roger Montti, Founder & Owner, MartiniBuster.com
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
Jay Young,

Robert Bergquist, CEO, Widemile
Scott Brinker, President & CTO, ion interactive
Rob Crigler, Director of Interactive Marketing, Orkin, Inc.
Tom Leung, Business Product Manager, Google
Jonathan Mendez, Founder & CEO, RAMP Digital

Gab Goldenberg, Owner, SEO ROI
Todd Malicoat, Internet Marketing Consultant, Stuntdubl
Jeremy Wright, CEO, B5 Media

Akin Arikan, Senior Manager, Internet Marketing, Unica Corporation
Christine Churchill, President, KeyRelevance
Rich Devine, Director of Search, ZAAZ
Ryan Gibson, Director of Marketing, Rimm-Kaufman Group

Rand Fishkin, Co-Founder and CEO, SEOmoz
Matt McGee, SEO Manager, Marchex
Brian Klais, Executive Vice President, Search, Netconcepts
Laura Lippay, Group Program Manager, Search Strategy, Yahoo
Jonah Stein, Founder, ItsTheROI
Richard Zwicky, President, Enquisite

Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOmoz
Todd Friesen, Vice President Search Strategies, Visible Technologies
Michael Gray, President, Atlas Web Service
Rob Kerry, Head of Search, Ayima Search Marketing
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts
Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land
Alex Bennert, Director of Client Services, Beyond Ink

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I have been interested off topic link bait the past few weeks, which is somewhat related to fabricated link bait, so when Danny Sullivan asked Matt Cutts about the 13 year old/hooker fake news story during You&A With Matt Cutts a couple of days ago, I took out my camera and video taped Matt Cutts response on the issue.

After the session I asked Matt if it was OK to post the video of his response, and he gave me permission. I also asked Chris Elwell the President of ThirdDoorMedia.com and he also gave permission.

I kept the length of this video to one minute so I did some editing with Matt’s response to best represent his answer.

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