Google employee FAQ site

[Brett_Tabke]

Noted Google engineer Matt Cutts has started a FAQ like site to detail some of the more interesting search occurences and repetitive questions he gets:

http://www.mattcutts.com [mattcutts.com]

[trillianjedi]

Might be fun to 302-hijack it.

[lammert]

Matt will have huge problems to get a decent ranking for his site in Google. Imagine the link spike after Brett started this thread. No doubt, most of these links will come from sites heavily engaged in SEO, which can hardly be defined as natural link building. All the things written down in the Google patent [webmasterworld.com]--where he is irronically enough a co-author--will work against him. The site will be burried in the sandbox until eternity. ;)

Not surprisingly the site is currently URL only in Google. But fortunately for Matt he will eventually get visitors from MSN and Yahoo. :)

This said, welcome on the world wide web Matt, and I hope your site will be a valuable addition to all the good sites already around.

[jamsy]

looks like its overloaded - no response from server!

[moftary]

Yes the website died. Good thing to have its cache though.

[promis]

Cache is off from Google but still on in Yahoo!

[MoneyMan]

Yes the website died

Matt, see if you can load balance on the G servers. I'm sure they handle the spikes.

Where is the adsense? (I don't recall seeing it when the site was up but can't verify now given site is down) Give in to the greed and make a few bones on the mammoth amount of traffic that you are going to get by your name recognition alone.

In fact, how about starting your own branded line of Matt Cutts products? :)

(I suppose GG will repond that the Matt does have his own line of products - see Google search patent).

[GoogleGuy]

Not sure what's up with the webhost. I'd guess it'll be back up in a while. :)

[europeforvisitors]

Maybe it's down until he has time to clean up the comments. :-)

[JuniorOptimizer]

Excellent website. No flashy graphics to slow things down, and no myriad menu choices to confuse people. Bravo, his design skills remind me of my own!

[reseller]

JuniorOptimizer

>>Excellent website. No flashy graphics to slow things down, and no myriad menu choices to confuse people. Bravo, his design skills remind me of my own! <<

But I do hope that he will come up with better content. Or it could be that he is targeting novice webmasters. Fair enough.

[Angelis]

Cant believe I just read that whole article about old Bill....

Quite interesting though :P

[JuniorOptimizer]

If nothing else, it promises to give a whole different perspective to Mr. Cutts.

[Liane]

Wonderful Matt, just wonderful. Many thanks to Brett for bringing this to our attention! :)

Great stuff and already bookmarked. :)

[Dayo_UK]

Intresting Matt - you should speak to GG sometime - he likes Tivo too...;)

[walkman]

wow. Still not ranking on Google or Yahoo, but ranks on MSN.

[search.msn.com...]

[search.yahoo.com...]

[google.com...]

[reseller]

A lot of comments. Few deserve a reply which we can learn someting of.

Matt!

Say something ;-)

[WebGuerrilla]

not a blog the way I read it - more a FAQ Site.

About Tivo and Danny's #*$! hat? Really?

If it walks like a duck.....

[shri]

I got to re-start visiting webmasterworld and DaveN's blog on a daily basis. Missing out on a lot of fun stuff thats been happening. :)

Matt -- Cool! Should have used plog. :)

.. but where is the real test site where you try and sell a green furry widget that you lovingly manufactured in the Chinese sweat shops? :)

[walkman]

still not ranking on Google. Y! and MSN picked it up

Matt,
gimme the URL and the passwords for so I can whitelist your site. I promise I will log off right away--give or take a few minutes ;)

[HayMeadows]

Google actually does have it in its index, [google.com...]

and

[google.com...]

[walkman]

I searched for his name only.

[Kirby]

/blog/ is currently #16 for his name.

[figment88]

Glad I finally decided to look into this thread - I had though it was just a link to some FAQ site for Google employees that someone had stumbled across or mock-ed up for a joke.

[DumpedbyG]

Matt; you must check your site for Dup content

I just ran it through copyscape and got 4 hits :)