Matt Cutts Hacker ShoutOuts Revealed

by Jeremy Schoemaker on April 2, 2007 · 33 comments

Here is the official decoded list:

Shoutz to Dan “the man” = Danny Sullivan
the 302 hijack t33m = dark seo team
NYC SEO gang = those NYC seos who are doing the SEO class
pentazilla = quadzilla
daxster = dax
boogybonmot = boogybonbon at http://www.boogybonbon.com/
Earl+Duke = Earl Grey and Jason Duke
davenator = David Naylor
monkeyboy = Greg Boser
the canadian crew::J&T = Jensense and Todd/Oilman
spamhuntress = spam huntress
LB = Loren Baker
jb = John Battelle
NW = Nathan Weinberg of Inside Google
L/S = Larry and Sergey
Z-man = Zawodny
scbl = scobleizer
RandomFish = Rand Fishkin
huZZah = The Lisa (Lisa Barone) from the Bruce Clay blog
chivesmack = dillsmack
Shchoeoe+npMMo ShoeMoney + Nebraska People Making Money Online
lejackalgris = graywolf
theGUY to GoTo = Joe Holcomb at http://www.agotoguy.com/
phenssen = philipp lenssen
Romanian Brothers = Ionut and Alex Chitu, but Cristian Mezei is an acceptable alternative

About the author...

– who has written 2416 posts on ShoeMoney.com.

Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.

Images provided by ShutterStock


Mark recommends you read these posts also:

  1. facebooksheep How I hacked your Facebook account
  2. Add to Cart Button Split Testing with a Genetic Algorithm
  3. imgres How to Sell Your Website

{ 33 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Ali April 2, 2007 at 1:31 pm

At least I got the three that I guessed right.

Reply

2 Bill April 2, 2007 at 2:21 pm

I think I got about 15 of them right. Why am I feeling left out?

Reply

3 Brian Mark April 2, 2007 at 2:39 pm

There were about 3 I didn’t get, but most of it was easy if you’re a regular at the conferences and listen to WMR way too much.

Reply

4 Tim Ukaj April 2, 2007 at 3:18 pm

This was too hard for me.

Reply

5 Skitzzo April 2, 2007 at 3:30 pm

So… pretty much just running down the A-list then eh? ;)

Reply

6 Aniela April 2, 2007 at 3:56 pm

I think you got Cristian Mezei’s link in wrong. it’s not .com, it’s .org :)

Reply

7 Maki April 2, 2007 at 4:49 pm

I was really wondering who the ‘Romanian brothers’ were ..

Reply

8 Glen Allsopp April 2, 2007 at 5:17 pm

I just clicked through to this too say that aswell

Reply

9 Stuart Hannig April 2, 2007 at 5:40 pm

I only got you right shoemoney.

Reply

10 Brent April 2, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Shchoeoe+npMMo – (00L, 1 Ph33L $P3(14L …LMAO

Reply

11 jack April 2, 2007 at 8:02 pm

i’m so wondering why boogybonbon and the Guy to goto Url are not linked ?

Reply

12 Travel Notebook April 2, 2007 at 9:44 pm

Wow, that was hard. Now, did you figure it out yourself or what?

Reply

13 ToddW April 2, 2007 at 10:24 pm

Some of those were like *gasp* others I was like DOH!!!!

Reply

14 Nathan Hannig April 2, 2007 at 11:09 pm

Nice list, that probably took him a while to make the list with code names

Reply

15 Daniel April 3, 2007 at 4:53 am

was there a winner for the contest?

Reply

16 Ashwin April 3, 2007 at 4:59 am

i got 4 right!!!

Reply

17 Travel Notebook April 3, 2007 at 6:13 am

Im guessing there was not a winner.

Reply

18 Bulbboy April 3, 2007 at 9:11 am

Who won, Shoe?

I got 12 out of a possible 28 (29 inc. Christian).

Reply

19 Hip Hop April 3, 2007 at 12:40 pm

I only got 2 right :|

Reply

20 ShoeMoney April 3, 2007 at 2:14 pm

i havent had time to look at it but I will declare a winner hopefully this week.

Reply

21 Jay April 3, 2007 at 6:08 pm

Me to, I had figured out more then half but that one really stumped me

Reply

22 SEOsnafu April 3, 2007 at 7:26 pm

I think I got 4.
crap.

Reply

23 Amanda April 4, 2007 at 7:43 am

I think I got maybe 3 of them.

Reply

24 Stuart Hannig April 4, 2007 at 2:07 pm

That one was a little harder.

Reply

25 Sander April 5, 2007 at 9:50 am

Thanks for sharing, I believe Cristian Mezei can be found at his blog http://www.seopedia.org/ and not .com as in your post.

Reply

26 ToddW April 5, 2007 at 4:05 pm

Sweet

Reply

27 John Loch April 6, 2007 at 7:02 am

Guessing those names would have been impossible. Nice plugs tho for those on the list..

Reply

28 Bulbboy April 6, 2007 at 10:53 pm

Quick Todd, post more before you slip from the sidebar!

Reply

29 Chris April 6, 2007 at 11:19 pm

lol never would have guessed those except maybe the spamhuntress but as john said nice plug for em :)

Reply

30 Chris April 6, 2007 at 11:28 pm

ya sander i was wondering about that cause the .com didn’t look correct

Reply

31 thomas April 9, 2007 at 4:56 am

It’s not seopedia.com it’s seopedia.org. You might want to correct tat.

Reply

32 TeamTutorials April 11, 2007 at 9:50 am

I didn’t get any

Reply

33 coop April 12, 2007 at 12:43 pm

some of these seemed nearly impossible to get like l/s i mean dam….

Reply

Leave a Comment

Previous post:

Next post: