From: JJ<redacted>@microsoft.com To: T<redacted>@microsoft.com Hey T, I don’t know if you’ve seen all the news today, but GI, and JM opened their mouths again, saying absolutely nothing new, but what happens? All of the sites and social media go crazy over their utterances. It’s like all they have to do is say that clicking a link […] More
As the world prepares for the landing of Google’s promised upcoming Penguin update (ed – aren’t they flightless?). We here at WTFSEO thought that now was the ideal time to set some things straight, ensuring that all the WTFSEOers out there have all of the facts they need to survive this site crushing update from […] More
Another interesting question came up on Owdy Chat last week. The Search Engine Guy said that the content on the page is not as critical for ranking than having an actual functioning website. In short, he explained that the search engine can theoretically rank a page without any content, but without a website for them […] More
Are you a professional speaker, a fair to middling speaker, or a fresh faced noob who is ready to step out onto that stage and risk the derisive laughter of your peers in a manner that can severely impact your future professional career options? If so, then you need this handy, dandy, however many points […] More
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Howdy WTFSEOers. As you may know, front leading Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson has been in the news a lot recently, more so over the last week due to some exceedingly controversial statements he’s made. While we understand that more people may have heard of the pyramids in Egypt than have heard of WTFSEO we […] More
At the recent WTFSEOCON, that guy from the search engine filibustered spoke for 40 minutes about the millennial problem millennials, while the audience waited to ask him questions about completely unrelated topics that actually mattered to them listened intently. As you’ll know from our excellent round up of the session, in a very short time […] More
While it’s true that we may have been mildly premature in putting out a post yesterday recapping the search news of the week, we do have to lay the blame firmly at the feet of our editor in chief whose “Wrap up post – 10/23” scribbled on a bbq sauce stained napkin looked like “10/21”. […] More
As you’re aware, gentle reader, this column hasn’t been published quite as often as we’d initially intended, with the last one being sometime before the database purge of 2004, however we’re back to let you know how the latest news from around the web impacts your very livelihood. We know that most of the other […] More
Are you a True SEO? This 10 step self identification test will help you to determine whether you’re truly a True SEO, or whether you’re a hopeless dilettante who has heard of the concept, but has absolutely no future in this truly dynamic industry. 1. Be the SEO expert 2. Make time for the […] More
Here at WTFSEO we’ve done extensive research into the realm of social sharing. Ranjesh in Bangalore has pored over the data, and determined that the patterns we believed existed actually do. So be prepared to have your socks blown off, as we present our 312th linkbait infographic of 2015: More
While other sites put out their ego-masturbatory SEO quizzes that provide little to no educational value, we here at WTFSEO feel that our job is to earn beer money through ad revenue educate our readers. Only a true SEO GURU will be able to get even half of these answers right, and even then they’ll be […] More