Here is a rare opportunity to find out.

Currently, the blog is #78 on Technorati Popular 100. Like most blogs near the ranking, it gets Thousands of visits daily.

Todays story (1am PST) is about a Site banned by Google and there is a direct link to that site – The site HAPPENS to have a public site stats tracker for visitors that also keeps an archive of previous days.

hmmm...this is something on hard core SEOs could appreciate – the rest of you, move along now to the next post ;-)

http://extremetracking.com/open?login=lolit773

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/avoid-keyword-stuffing/

<< this is something on hard core SEOs could appreciate >>

I don't get why this would be Search Engine Optimization. The links are nofollowed, so it's really Human Visitor Optimization (HVO?) – i.e. the links will possibly attract actual visitors directly rather than search engine spiders, indexing and, therefore, search engine referral traffic.

(Personally, when I read that post this morning I didn't see the need to click-through as Matt had posted screenshots... but I guess some people will click every link they come across and others are just too curious.)

I clicked the link, but it's not the kind of Human Visitor Optimization that results in cash... just wasting his bandwidth without any sells, I guess!

Was I the only one thinking his name sounds a bit like Ionut Alex. Chitu?

<< Was I the only one thinking his name sounds a bit like Ionut Alex. Chitu? >>

Nope: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/avoid-keyword-stuffing/#comment-109598

The edit distance is only 1.

Here is pretty funny interview with Alex Chiu himself – http://revision3.com/webdrifter/foreveryoung

<<Was I the only one thinking his name sounds a bit like Ionut Alex. Chitu?>>
It took me more than 2 mins to figure out that they are not the same person. :)

<<I guess some people will click every link they come across and others are just too curious.>>
The site's design is attractive to me.

<<Was I the only one thinking his name sounds a bit like Ionut Alex. Chitu?>>
I had to read the name 2 times to be sure :)

24 hours later – here are the stats (mostly from Advertising, PR Geeks)

106 from http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/avoid-keyword-stuffing
   87 from http://www.mattcutts.com/blog

AND HUNDREDS from Google Reader

   Today – Unique Visitors .... 655 / 25 Jul, Wed, 2007

   Yesterday – Unique Visitors ... 237 / 24 Jul, Tue, 2007

What is the Morale of the story:

* * * It pays to get Cutts pissed off enough about your Website to post about it! * * *

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BUT OMG WAIT:

Does anyone know who is sitting modestly at postion 68 on Technorati....

...why its.....its...

Google Blogoscoped

Google, the World, and the World Wide Web, Weblogged.

   * By Philipp Lenssen · 2 days ago
   * http://blogoscoped.com
   * Authority: 4,542

Now just Imagine getting both of them to talk and link to the same site...... .JUST IMAGINE

   Heaven....... SEO Heaven!!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1098/527473721_702e545e07.jpg

Getting your site talked about for the wrong reasons doesn't seem like something I would want to happen to any site I've worked on. You would probably get a spike in traffic at first but then no one would visit your site once they realized it as crap.