Matt Cutts and the early era of SEO and spam. If you are into SEO history, feel free to google "Matt Cutts John Chow" as an example of how things evolved when t

Matt Cutts and the early era of SEO and spam. If you are into SEO history, feel free to google "Matt Cutts John Chow" as an example of how things evolved when the Google SPAM boss himself was approachable directly. I remember many interactions between them and at the time, Matt was pretty open about the then-new SPAM filter team at Google and penalties. Here is a blog posting for context: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet/ https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/something-is-wrong-on-the-int... John Chow was a blogger back then and prominently gamed google ("Made for Adsense") using - and enter Matt Cutts: abusing - Pagerank to boost his website. They had many interactions and several bans were lifted because of these interactions. https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/comments-on-our-webmaster-guidelines/ https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/comments-on-our-webmaster-gui...