Back in the earlier days of the SEO industry, there was a mystery Google representative who participated at WebmasterWorld forums under the alias of GoogleGuy. Back then, very few people knew the true identity of GoogleGuy, but yet many speculated his identity.

Then in August 2006, reports came out that Matt Cutts confessed to being GoogleGuy during a session at SES. Danny Sullivan said:

But if you look at the Wikipedia page for Matt Cutts, it links specifically to this post and Matt said he “was quoted out of context.”

To this day, you will not find Matt admitting in writing that he was GoogleGuy. But a comment from WebmasterWorld’s founder, Brett Tabke, a person who would know the true identity of GoogleGuy said:

He is referring to Matt Cutts as being GoogleGuy. Back in 2006, Danny reported that Brett told him “Matt’s been wearing a “Google Guy” name badge at PubCon for the past two years now, and Thomas Bindl notes this was the case last November at the show, as well.”

So although Matt has been outed a few times as being GoogleGuy, Matt has never officially come out as the legendary GoogleGuy.

Forum discussion continued at, oh, GoogleGuy hasn’t made a post at WebmasterWorld since July 24, 2008.