Google Has New Head Of Web Spam But Won't Be The "New Matt Cutts"

New Head of Spam at Google. Awwwwww hope to still hear from good ole @mattcutts via Social Media

Matt Cutts remains on leave, but Search Engine Land can report that Google does have someone new in his position of head of web spam fighting. This person is unlikely, however, to become the all-around spokesperson on publisher and webmaster issues that Cutts had been. Cutts headed Google’s web spam team that fights spam in its search listings for 10 years, until taking leave last July . He extended that leave last October and still remains on it. That doesn’t mean, however, that no one is minding the spam fighting team. Google declined to name the person who has taken over Cutts’s role. The reason is simple. That person isn’t also assuming the other role that Cutts had played, that of being a general spokesperson about listing issues. In his time at Google, Cutts was an incredibly popular figure with many SEOs and publishers who looked to him for advice on how to be bette...

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