It was just after midnight, in the wee hours of april fools day. I was perusing the google webmaster forum to see who I could help and pick up some tips when I (Abracadabra)  saw a post with a link I found interesting. It was
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-supports-meta-noodp-tag/  

But to my surprise, instead of the words of wisdom I expected, I found a big black page reading "This
site has been hacked" "The Black SEO Team" 
I the posted to the thread my findings. See this link:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/browse_thread/thread/de2ec19cb52a1d4c/e4936ee377dad548#e4936ee377dad548

Then everthing went aflurry. Posts started appearing in forums, Blogs and even on DIGG.

What a headline.

No I can't take all the credit. I imagine many others noticed it too. When their rss feed died it was probably a good clue.

To my knoledge, I was the first in the Google webmasters forum to post it. That much I do know.
It was pure luck though.

It was fun to be there in the beginning of it all and following the wave.

BTW, on another note I added a couple of new pages on our main site:

http://www.aitechsolutions.net

Topics concern using HTML validators and the first page of a tutorialette for HTML on using the target= attribute of the anchor element. IMHO it makes the _parent option value more understandable than some explanations I've seen out there. Enjoy!    FYI, I have 4 more pages in the works to be posted this week.
 
Oh, I almost forgot,

To find out what really happened to Matt Cutts Blog try this link:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/april-fools-day-2007/ 


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