Matt Cutts

I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.
Power tip for SEOs: the disavow links tool expects a plain text file, one URL per line, not (say) an Excel file.
Still having a good time as a guest right now on This Week in Google with Leo, Gina, and Jeff: http://live.twit.tv
Hey everybody, I'm a guest on This Week in Google right now: http://live.twit.tv/
Taking a week off from the internet - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
If it's your last day of November, grow that 'stache! It it's your last day of NaNoWriMo, why are reading this? Write! Write like the wind!
If you find search/SEO entertaining, you'll probably like this: http://www.webpronews.com/the-bes...
A new webmaster video today: "Should I incorporate synonyms for important terms into my site?" http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Reading "Bitter struggle over Internet regulation to dominate global summit": http://www.reuters.com/article...
I see the Nexus 4 available for ordering at https://t.co/i7U9Mkyu (with 4-5 week shipping delay) . Anyone else see that?
.@gaberivera If you think news aggregators paying news sites to send traffic to them is bad, sign a German petition at https://t.co/4SUjDap0
Today's webmaster video: "Why do paid links violate Google's guidelines while other ads don't?" http://www.youtube.com/watch...
What internet-related issue do Grover Norquist and the ACLU agree on? Your electronic privacy: http://thehill.com/blogs...
Shift-reload on a tab is the new reboot.
"Letting the Internet be rewired by bureaucrats would be like handing a Stradivarius to a gorilla": http://online.wsj.com/article...
I forgot to tweet this video: "What has having your own blog taught you about SEO?" http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Today's webmaster video: "Why might Googlebot get errors when trying to access my robots.txt file?" http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Every day of life is a gift, and I'm thankful for that. This is a nice piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
The gadget geek in me really likes this USB LED: http://shop.thingm.com/blink1/
"This email was never sent without your permission" Yeah, you're wrong about that, email spammer. Meet my little friend: "Report spam."
I liked this video for charity:water: http://mycharitywater.org/holiday...
RT @google: At #ITU in 2 wks, some gov'ts propose to increase censorship & regulate the Internet. Keep the web #freeandopen. https://www.google.com/takeact...
Today's webmaster video: "Do you think that 'Search Engine Optimization' should be renamed?" http://www.youtube.com/watch...
If you missed it, I posted the slides from my PubCon 2012 talk about the disavow links tool: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
Facebook is rolling out HTTPS by default to all their users: http://techcrunch.com/2012...
Spam email I got: "Thanksgiving special on SEO Content! Bulk pack of 10 articles 500 words each for 30% off our already low price!" Sigh.
I like running in the rain. The beginning sucks, but then it's refreshing.
On #Ingress, do you play as #enlightenment or #resistance? Also: it's super-addictive.
PubCon 2012 slides: disavow links tool - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
Google open-sourced a book scanner: http://hackaday.com/2012... Check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/das_cap...
Somehow I expected to get more done today.
Beware! This Android game is addictive and could make you healthier: http://allthingsd.com/2012111... Use extreme caution!
This is pretty cool: http://whymusicmatters.com/find-mu... It's a list of places where you can buy/stream music online.