10 Reasons Why You Don’t Need to Read Matt Cutts’ Blog

First lesson of SEO 2.0: You do not need to read Matt Cutts' blog. I never do unless someone points me to a post that in most cases just confirms what I knew, read or thought before.

Why? Let me tell you:

1. I do not like shallow celebrities like Paris Hilton. So I do not like Matt Cutts for being a celebrity

2. Matt Cutts is not SEO 2.0! He is Web 1.5 at most. Well, he sometimes says things like "linkbait is great" but most of the time he just repeats stuff that we knew in 1999 like "content is king"

3. Matt Cutts focuses too much on Spam. I do not engage in Spam so why should I read about others doing it?

4. Matt Cutts does not look as good as Marissa Mayer

5. Matt Cutts uses an ugly WordPress theme

6. Matt Cutts blog is private, I do not want to disturb his privacy. Moreover I read the Official Google Blog instead for official announcements you can sue Google for

7. There is too much cat content on Matt Cutts' blog

8. Everybody reads Matt Cutts blog, I'm special, so I do not

9. I read blogs and I comment there, but I am afraid that commenting his posts will make him discover my site and ban me in Google for no apparent reason

10. Matt Cutts never invited me for a beer or a guest post on his blog

You see, I could go on forever like that, but I read somewhere that people love lists with 10 items.

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July 20, 2007 · Bullshit, SEO 2.0

27 Responses

Billy July 20, 2007 at 21:23 ·

You suck at the internet.
Simonne July 20, 2007 at 21:30 ·

Your number 9 is great! How lucky I am that I don’t read Matt Cutts’ blog either :)
onreact July 20, 2007 at 21:31 ·

Billy: You guess it pal! It’s like breast feeding.

Simonne: Look out, he could read this blog entry, then click on your name and discover your **** **** ***!
Deaf Musician July 20, 2007 at 22:15 ·

#5 is a great reason not to read it! Hahah!
onreact July 20, 2007 at 22:20 ·

Yes indeed. I am a very visually oriented person. So I can’t stand ugly interfaces.
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Rose September 15, 2007 at 03:15 ·

Do I get the feeling that you don’t like Matt? lol
onreact September 15, 2007 at 18:40 ·

I’m sure he is nice guy, but the notion that the whole world should read a private blog of a guy working for the most powerful Internet company on earth seems strange by itself.
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onreact January 21, 2008 at 09:34 ·

Thanks for the notice Code4Gold, I stumbled you. Next time you shouldn’t trackback someone without linking to her/him. That’s basic netiquette ;-)
webdesign January 22, 2008 at 12:58 ·

Yeah Matt Cutss sucks ass !! i have my own SEO company i own almost on all my keywords :)
spostareduro January 24, 2008 at 08:53 ·

onreact: “Billy: You guess it pal! It’s like breast feeding.” I had to giggle
Azhar February 4, 2008 at 23:20 ·

Why Should I Read Your Blog ??? Can you tell me atleast 5 reasons ??
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zulnapi November 21, 2008 at 17:45 ·

Yap…. you are right…he always keep repeating “content is king” It seems like, there is no other tips how to rank better in Google despite “content is king”. If I were died 10 times and lived again for 10 times ..guess what? I still get the same thing “Content Is King”
mark November 24, 2008 at 17:49 ·

nice!!! haha 10 is cool :)
Magnus July 24, 2009 at 05:47 ·

I believe the WP-template is called Almost Spring and I agree that it is probably one of the worst themes that anyone actually uses.
onreact July 24, 2009 at 12:19 ·

Magnus: By now he changed to Thesis (I’ve been told) which is fine but there are still enough reasons!
Marc Segel July 20, 2010 at 16:05 ·

I agree that he is as lame as a celebrity as Paris Hilton. Also, he does not ever really say anything we don’t already know. For these reasons and many others, I do not read his blog. Alternatively, he does have a lot of clout at Google…
Tommy November 22, 2010 at 18:51 ·

Well the blog theme is not good looking, I agree =)

But there are some well written articles out there, videos too. The blog is not like wikipedia, its more for his personal thoughts…
Petter July 24, 2011 at 14:56 ·

Thanx for this post!
I never read his blog either :)
Tom July 25, 2011 at 16:34 ·

You forgot “his blog is actually sh*t, if he wasn’t a google king no-one would care about what books he’s reading….”
Joeal Manimtim August 3, 2012 at 10:07 ·

Just awesome! Still laughing at number 9.

Thanks!