Matt Cutts has quite a following for a search engine engineer, and with good reason. He’s in a pretty powerful position, leading the webspam team at Google, and being a “Distinguished Engineer” at the company and all. When webmasters want to know why the things they’re doing (or aren’t doing) are affecting their search rankings, Cutts (either directly or indirectly) is often the first person they turn to for advice.
With this popularity, comes parody. Sure, we’ve seen the fake Matt Cutts commenting throughout the Blogosphere, pretending to be the real Matt Cutts, but other impostors are more transparent, and are clearly just having fun with no ill will intended.
Take, for example, this Matt Cutts parody video:
There’s a Matt Cutts parody account on Twitter: @rnattcutts. It’s been around for a while, and has amassed over 600 followers so far. It looks like the account started in mid April, close to Penguin time. Here are some of the tweets:
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@rnattcutts Team (WEBSP)AM-erica – Fuck Yeah!!!
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@rnattcutts Now I’ve taken away all your Anchor Text you’ve no choice but to create Great Content! Muahahaha!!
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@rnattcutts Remember to add all those 5 star Rich Snippets to your home page 🙂
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@rnattcutts SEO’s have you considered a career in PPC?
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@rnattcutts Popcorn’s on & time for me to settle down for my favorite soap opera’s – Hello! Black hat forums
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@rnattcutts Stupid @Twitter having Avatar issues – wouldn’t happen on Google plus!
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@rnattcutts Time for another day of wack-a-mole aka work!
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@rnattcutts Dear SEO’s stop moaning & use @blekko if you hate our product!
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@rnattcutts .@skrenta got any jobs?
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@rnattcutts Am I made of cheese? I drank so much Sprite at Fat Steve’s party last night I think I’m hallucinating
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@rnattcutts Ok, SEO’s what’s the weirdest thing in your office? Winner gets an unnatural link warning sent to their competitor of choice.
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@rnattcutts Does anyone fancy meeting up later for a nice long conversation about great content?
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@rnattcutts Woot!! Finally won the Banana cup on Mario Kart Wii. What are your greatest lifetime achievements?
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@rnattcutts Going to feed the Panda again soon, boys & girls. Would appreciate you load some crap content to your site ASAP
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@rnattcutts If you’ve been caught up in the webspam updates we want to help you http://t.co/sVT9LfdK
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@rnattcutts Sorry for the lack of tweets this weekend. I had food poisoning after visiting a restaurant with over 63,000 five star rich snippet reviews.
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@rnattcutts Listening to some Tupac whilst burning down Link Farms…. Gangsta Matt is in the Hiz-zouse!!
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@rnattcutts If I have to sit through another one of Sergey’s PowerPoint presentations I’m going all “Falling Down” in this goddamn place!!
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@rnattcutts God these SEO’s are bunch of whiny pricks
As I said, the account is not maliciously impersonating Cutts. The bio says: “I’m the head of the web sparn team at Google. I love fried chicken & hate anchor text (parody).”
Cutts tends to be a good sport about it all. Someone tweeted him a Google algorithm parody article about the “Scissors Update,” and he acknowledged that he has a pretty thick skin:
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John Doherty @dohertyjf
Hilarious. RT @cstechjoel: The “Google Scissors” update – are you up on this? http://t.co/mxewK9a8
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Joel K @cstechjoel
@dohertyjf 🙂 Thanks man. Someone needs to ask @mattcutts (or @rnattcutts) when we can expect to see “Scissors” in action.
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@cstechjoel @dohertyjf I thought some of the other parody articles were just a smidge funnier 🙂
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@mattcutts thx for being a sport Matt – hope you saw it as in good fun. I never want to offend/be hurtful. Sincere apologies if crossed line
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@mattcutts @cstechjoel if I had a thin skin I would have switched to a different job years ago. 🙂
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