Comments on: Matt Cutts Ruins “Link Buying” Session at PubCon

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[...] was started about a year and a half ago and came to a head (at least for me) at last year’s PubCon session on link buying. I remember vividly that Jim Boykin, of We Build Pages, stood up to present, made a statement about [...]

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:33:52 +0000

Phew!
Perhaps my browser was playing was playing up, but I could have sworn I saw an image of the Dark Mark on page load-up.
Anyway I am glad you have sorted out this matter out with Mr ‘Sectumsempra’ Cutts. The picture looked more like he was going for his forearm not the food.
At great risk I am linking to my incoherent website.
Oh how the “perverted fear of violence puts a smile on every face”

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:18:52 +0000

I’m glad Google’s so pristine. Their content network is the biggest piece of xxxx and con game out there for unsuspecting advertisers.

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:43:50 +0000

@arnie ROFL

Great post Jon. Made me laugh.

By: Arnie

Arnie — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:04:16 +0000

I was going to post something clever and informative. But seeing Matt right above this post, makes me nervous.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:49:20 +0000

Many thanks for making that more clear, Jon. I really liked your dry sense of humor, but just in case some folks didn’t get it, I appreciate you doing a quick update.

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:06:48 +0000

Matt, it was definitely a joke. I’ll update the entry

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:57:17 +0000

Hi, this is Matt Cutts.

Jon Henshaw, I believe your post was joking. If you notice, the post was filed under “Humorous.”

I often take powerbar-type stuff to conferences in case I’m not able to grab lunch. I was just sitting in the back of the room eating one and talking to a fellow conference member; I didn’t even know someone was taking my picture, and certain I wasn’t trying to eat my protein bar in any kind of aggressive way.

Jon, it looks like a few people have taken your post seriously, as if I was actually trying to intimidate someone by eating a candy bar. If you intended this post to be humorous, could you make that a little more clear for readers?

By: Karen Andrews

Karen Andrews — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:32:20 +0000

good lord enough of this link buying mess. Google is going to continue to alienate themselves from webmasters if they keep up their threats. in the meantime, I am still buying links very carefully. I’ve also gone back to relevant link exchange which appears to work better than buying links.

By: Clint Dixon

Clint Dixon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:44:28 +0000

Man am I glad my business doesn’t rely on anything from Google…

Matt C is nothing but a puppet and if paid links could hurt websites then we could buy links to competitors and they would disappear..

That won’t happen….

Time for some common sense to be applied.