Comments on: Why won’t Matt Cutts link to me?

By: Wezley

Wezley — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:42:20 +0000

Just curious, do you have to be on his A-list to submit comments on his blog too? I’ve submitted quaility comments to his posts, but they never get approved…. :(.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:28:34 +0000

Hey, Im new to this and just trying to figure this link thing out. Just trying to make it like everyone else,,,,,,,

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:11:28 +0000

Matt Cutts is a funny guy, when I asked him for an interview a couple times he said “I am really busy”, well you know what that means. ;)

Thanks for the mention Ahmed.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:31:07 +0000

The best way to get Matt Cutts or other A List SEOs to link to you might be to get the people they read linking to you.

Write quality content that people want to link to
Create some great link bait such as widgets
Do some original research and post the results
Create a useful plugin

My blog is only 3 months old, but I am picking up PR6 and PR7 links on an almost daily basis now.

I am not even an SEO, and I have people approaching me to do SEO work on a consulting basis… which I am turning down

By: Carl Lrac

Carl Lrac — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:16:21 +0000

I actually posted a picture explanation of linking (similar to this topic) in my blog on 2.06.07. and it was supposed to be a “reality joke”.

Since it’s all pictures, I can’t really repeat my comments here. But if you care to look, the link to my post is http://www.seodensity.com/2007/02/06/google-backlink-and-real-life-backlink/

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:21:20 +0000

That’s what I was trying to say Matt – to get attention, you’ve got to know what the big dogs ‘like to read’, because they’re short of time and will be more likely to make space for something new if it aligns with their interests.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:56:26 +0000

I posted on Aaron’s blog to say that I’m traveling and not linking to much right now.

I do read a lot of feeds regularly, but there’s only so much time in a day, so I’m sad to say that I can’t read every SEO blog. :(

By: CarstenCumbrowski

CarstenCumbrowski — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:38:39 +0000

Good post.

What you also need to consider is the fact that even if you “know” people for a long time and may be even do what they do for a long time as well, does that not mean that they know you or even heart of your name. Chances are that you are a complete stranger for them who might just turned up on their radar recently. You must give them the chance and time to get to know you better and a bit longer.

Btw. I did not know you, but a colleague of mine knew you very well already and reads your blog all the time for a while now. For me did you just appear on my radar screen. I need to get to know you better. Just to demonstrate my previous statement on a practical example :).

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:35:25 +0000

Speaking from the perspective of an A-List Blogger, I’d recommend that SEO bloggers out there don’t be shy.

If you’ve made a good post, email some of the top bloggers in the SEO community and ask them to read or maybe write about your post.

It works pretty well and the worse that will happen is that even if you are not featured on their blog, they may add you to their blog reading list and write about you later in time.