Are you looking to improve your SEO skills in 2018? Google makes hundreds of algorithm changes every year, and SEO best practices are constantly in flux. The only way to stay on top of the SEO industry is to stay up to date with all the changes and tests and spurious correlation studies of ranking […] More
Top 9 Skills all SEOs should have. (That’s one more than the SEJ list. WTFSEO FTW!) A Sense of Humor. Let’s face it, nobody visits this site so you probably came here from Ryan’s SEJ article and are realizing that he wrote this post simply for the sole purpose of linking to his own site […] More
The year is coming to an end, and that means it’s time for our competitors to write their 2018 prediction posts and talk about Trends They Expect To See in 2018. After our company holiday party however, we decided against adding to the rampant speculation and instead decided to attempt to remember focus on the […] More
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Greetings WTFSEOers and welcome to the 2017 edition of our Google ranking factors study. It may seem like just last year we published the complete list of Google ranking factors but alas, Google makes several hundred algorithm updates per year – which is great for us because we can keep recycling the same bullshit post […] More
Gentle Readers, our leadership has asked us to reach out with a simple one question poll to help us gauge our site’s performance. Please let us know how we’re doing by voting in the following poll. Your opinion is appreciated and valued. More
Black Hat SEOs have been talking lately about whether or not their methods are working. If you’re an SEO, take our poll below on black hat SEO and let us know if it’s working for you. Apologize for the short post today – we had an image we really wanted to use so we needed […] More
There’s been a lot of twitter chat about covfefe lately in the SEO industry. That being said, we’d like to understand how covfefe affected SEO. Go ahead and take our poll below. I’ll share the results in the near future. If you were hit or not hit or whatever, take the poll. Tell your colleagues […] More
How are you all doing? We’ve now been a member of the industry for, well, most of our unprofessional life, and We feel it’s time we ask some things of you. You see, we’ve been thinking a lot about our industry in the past few years, and we’ve come to an important realization: WE NEED […] More
SEO is hard and SEOs are always looking for a new way to rank. Good news for you, we’ve uncovered a new ranking factor. And it comes directly from Google itself. Google’s own Gary Ilyes told us recently on Twitter, and SEroundtable covered: “DYK if you read out loud the text on your page and […] More
A lot of our readers have told us that they’re seeing too much of the same style content when they login to Facebook or Twitter. Many are becoming apathetic toward social media or news and some are even losing friends over the type of content being shared. At WTFSEO, we understand our gentile readers – […] More
Here at WTFSEO we firmly believe in the code of TAFE (That’s TAGFEE minus the generosity and empathy) Since being acquired by CoCuMo a few months ago, we’ve been forced to changed our ways of thinking about openness and transparency. In keeping with the spirit of the TAFE code, we’re going to release our January […] More
Some guy on twitter we’re not following noticed that several of his keywords moved from page 7 – where they got 0 clicks – to page 4 – where they still send 0 clicks. Is this a major ranking algorithm update? We reached out to Google to demand that they provide us with a change log […] More