I thought Matt Cutts had one of the most original and well thought out April fools pages that was pretty funny. He also fooled many people and did not cheat (he started it on april fools) and people still fell for it.
In the message the “hacker” gives several shout outs (see screenshot)
Well I got the official list of exactly what the mean from the person responsible and the first person to get them all right OR the person who gets the most right by 11AM By Monday April 2rd will win 50$ in PayPal!
So take your best guess at figuring out who the following people are that are given shout outs to and maybe you will win! (just copy paste below in the comments with your guesses):
houtz to Dan “the man” =
the 302 hijack t33m =
NYC SEO gang =
pentazilla =
daxster =
boogybonmot =
Earl+Duke =
davenator =
monkeyboy =
the canadian crew::J&T =
spamhuntress =
LB =
jb =
NW =
L/S =
Z-man =
scbl =
RandomFish =
huZZah =
chivesmack =
Shchoeoe+npMMo =
lejackalgris =
theGUY to GoTo =
phenssen =
Romanian Brothers =
Only 1 entry per person/ip/email/family (you know what i mean)
I will be moderating comments for this post so everyone has a fair shot to get them all right and not just build off of others lists











that was really hard, I could never get more than 2
Nobody has them all figured out? How many did you figure out shoe?
rofl. I missed pentazilla = quad, right after listening to the old net income quadzilla interview too.
Yeah, I got shoemoney. no idea who dillsmack even is
I got shoemoney right
The “Shchoeoe” part makes sense. But what the heck is “npMMo”?
You got a lot of tabs there lol
Shchoeoe+npMMo = ShoeMoeny obv.
scbl = Robert Scoble
Shchoeoe+npMMo = ShoeMoeny
lejackalgris = Greywolf
yeah i suck i know
the canadian crew::J&T = Tyler Cruz and….:D
Here are my guesses for the contest
pentazilla = Quadzilla (I don’t know his real name off hand)
daxster = Dax Herrera
davenator = Dave Naylor
monkeyboy = Greg Boser
spamhuntress = Ann Elisabeth Nordbo
scbl = Robert Scoble
RandomFish = Rand Fishkin
Shchoeoe+npMMo = Shoemoney
theGUY to GoTo = Guy Kawaski
daxster = dax
NYC SEO Gang = SEOClass? (not sure)
davenator = dave naylor
spamhuntress = vannessa fox
z-man = g-man ?
scbl = robert scoble
randomfish = rand fiskin
chivesmack = dillsmack
shchoeoe+npMMo = shoemoney
The rest i’m not sure…but these are my best guesses.
HiredGuns
You can start by figuring out which ones are Shoemoney and Dillsmack, work from there…
i cant understand or i hit the arrow in the dark.
That is cute.
So I felt the need to see if Google has crawled his hacked page, and it’s interesting to note that the blog index when I click on Cached brings up an error. The rest of the pages don’t. Hmmm.
Your search – cache:FssCjuOfo7QJ:www.mattcutts.com/blog/ site:mattcutts.com – did not match any documents.
RandomFish = Rand Fishkin
Shchoeoe+npMMo = Shoemoney
houtz to Dan “the man� = Danny Sullivan
spamhuntress = The female counterpart to Matt? Vanessa Fox?
The others I don’t know.
Bleh, no idea, I guess:
RandomFish = RandFish
Shchoeoe+npMMo = ShoeMoney
Dan “the man� = Danny Sullivan
That’s all I got ^_^
RandomFish = randFish
theGUY to GoTo = Guy Kawasaki
Shchoeoe+npMMo = Shoemoney
That’s my guess…
Why do all the contests give prizes in Paypal? Keep in mind that the audience for this blog is quite eclectic and selecting such a payment venue may cause some frustration in some of your readers.
And oh yeah. Long live Romanian Brothers
! And by that I don’t think that Matt Cutts referred to me
what d’f..
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I’ve already posted about it
Well you are Shchoeoe+npMMo, that’s for sure
And RandomFish is Randy Fishkin.
I’m courious about the Romanian Brothers
I have no idea! hehehe
I belive RandomFish is Randfish (Rand Fishkin) of SEOmoz.
houtz to Dan “the man� = Danny Sullivan
the 302 hijack t33m = Google Webmaster Team
pentazilla = Quadzilla
Earl+Duke = Earlpearl?
davenator = dave naylor
monkeyboy = webmonkey? I forgot the monkey =)
spamhuntress = Vanessa Fox?
Z-man = G-man
scbl = Robert Scoble
RandomFish = Rand Fishkin
Shchoeoe+npMMo = Shoemoney at Net Profit “More money, more money, more”
phenssen = Jensen?
Yah, I am not that informed. I bet you guessed 95% of those.
Cheers.
I’ll give you a cookie for $50 in may paypal account?
Shchoeoe+npMMo = schoemoney + nebraska people making money online
chivesmack = dillsmack
RandomFish = Rand Fishykins
spamhuntress = spamhuntress
pentazilla = quadzilla
Earl+Duke = Eral Gray | Jason Duke
davenator = Dave Naylor
houtz to Dan “the man� = Danny Sullivan
daxster = dax
scbl = Roberto Scoble
phenssen = Phil Lenssen
jb = jim boykin? | john battelle?
the canadian crew::J&T = jensense and Todd Freisen
Z-man = Jeremy Zawodny
monkeyboy = I would say Greg Boser
the 302 hijack t33m = probably too many people to list
NYC SEO gang = probably too many people to list
Romanian Brothers = no idea
the rest I have no idea
I tried to figure some of them out, at least.
houtz to Dan “the man� = Danny Sullivan
the 302 hijack t33m =
NYC SEO gang =
pentazilla =
daxster = Dax
boogybonmot =
Earl+Duke = Jason Duke and Earl Grey
davenator = Dave Naylor
monkeyboy = webguerilla
the canadian crew::J&T = Jensense and Todd Freisen
spamhuntress = Ann Elisabeth Nordbo
LB =
jb =
NW = Nick W
L/S =
Z-man = Zawodny
scbl = Robert Scoble
RandomFish = Rand Fishkin
huZZah =
chivesmack = DillSmack
Shchoeoe+npMMo = Shoemoney
lejackalgris = GrayWolf
theGUY to GoTo = Ted Meisel
phenssen = Phil Lenssen
Romanian Brothers =
Shchoeoe+npMMo = Shoemoney
Yeah that’s about all I know.
Well, Matt’s site is still ‘hacked’ (actually 2nd April where I am) – someone should tell him that April Fools jokes don’t work after 12pm.
In the source there’s also a HTML comment,
From my digitalpoint post with a few new additions
Shoutz to Dan “the man”: danny sullivan
the 302 hijack t33m: google webmaster central team?
NYC SEO gang: google NYC?
Linusx: Linus Torvald
pentazilla: 5 star affiliates?
daxster: dax
boogybonmot: ?
Earl+Duke: jason duke, earl grey
davenator: daven
cRWc: ?
monkeyboy: webguerilla?
the canadian crew::J&T: Jen and Todd
spamhuntress: spamhuntress.com
LB: Loren Baker?
jb:john battelle?
NW: NickW
-eng: ?
U(r|d)(s|i): ?
L/S: Lisa / Susan (Brucey Clay)?
Z-man: Zawodny
scbl: Robert Scoble
RandomFish: Rand
huZZah: uh, Matt self shout-out? (grasping at straws here)
chivesmack: Dillsmack
Shchoeoe+npMMo: shoemoney
lejackalgris: graywolf
theGUY to GoTo:
phenssen: Phil Lenssen
Romanian Brothers: Ionut Alex Chitu
No clue on how to even figure this out.
And see I played fair and dint copied the list.. so I can still get some share
What?? You need my paypal id???? OOOOOHHH thanks ShoeMoney…
The list is almost clear at that forum (you know which one)
Cool Contest man. I might try to figure it out tomorrow as i can’t think right now its getting late.
houtz to Dan “the man� =
the 302 hijack t33m =
NYC SEO gang =
pentazilla =
daxster =Dax Herrera
boogybonmot =
Earl+Duke =
davenator =Dave Naylor
monkeyboy =WebGuerilla
the canadian crew::J&T =Jeniffer Slegg & Oilman
spamhuntress =Ann Elisabeth?
LB =
jb =Jim Boykin
NW =
L/S =
Z-man =Jeremy Zawodny?
scbl =Robert Scoble
RandomFish =Rand Fishkin
huZZah =
chivesmack =Dillsmack
Shchoeoe+npMMo =Shoemoney!
lejackalgris =GrayWolf
theGUY to GoTo =StuntDubl?
phenssen =
Romanian Brothers =
All I could get, sorry.
4.49am here, off to bed.
A few of those really made me laugh. Excellent indeed. I see there are 3 references between you and your staff there. Someone seems to be a Jeremy fan.