Industry & Google Insiders
Matt Cutts
Ex-Head of Webspam at Google
Matt Cutts is a former Google software engineer who led the Webspam Team and was, for years, the public face of the company's Webmaster Guidelines. He later served as Administrator of the United States Digital Service.
Quick facts
- Role
- Ex-Head of Webspam at Google
- Based in
- United States
- Experience
- 20+ years in SEO
- Known for
- Ex-public face of Google Webmaster Guidelines
- Focus areas
- Webspam, Search Quality, Public Service Technology
- Known clients
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What Matt Cutts is known for
Matt's short YouTube videos from the late 2000s and early 2010s are still surfaced regularly when SEO fundamentals come up — his explanations of what Google considered acceptable, and what it did not, effectively shaped a generation of best practices.
He designed Google's SafeSearch feature and is a co-inventor on patents related to detecting web spam.
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