Thursday, July 28, 2011

Who is Matt Cutts?

Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000, at the time the company had less than 100 employees.. He is currently the head of Google's Web-spam team.

Before Google, He worked on Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He have an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky.

He wrote the first version of Safe-search, which is Google's family filter, and works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues.

He is well known in the SEO community for enforcing the Google Webmaster Guidelines and cracking down on link spam.

Matt Cutts also advises the public on how to get better website visibility in Google as well as webmaster issues in general, and is generally an outspoken and public face of Google.

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