Earlier this week Google shocked the SEO community with the introduction of Rankbrain – their artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm that (depending on which SEO expert you ask) is responsible for either understanding query language, ranking search results, penalizing your site, rewarding large brands, using your analytics data as a ranking factor, or making Google […] More
Almost one year ago this week we launched our groundbreaking, paradigm-changing social network owdy as part of our mission to kill rival social network Ello. 1 year and 2 weeks later (we wanted to write this post on the actual anniversary, but we were too busy partying in Las Vegas) we can officially declare: Mission […] More
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There’s lots of talk about Emojis lately. Sure they’re fun to text and paste into social media, but have you fully developed your SEO Emoji strategy? Are you aware that both Google and Bing have heavily incorporated emojis into their ranking factors? Here are the top 13 emojis that you need to […] More
Did you know? Recent findings from surveys of social media agencies have revealed shocking information about what happens in the one hour after posting a “what happens in the one hour after” infographic. You won’t believe these shocking results. They’re crazy! More
Breaking News: According to recent tweets from the hacker group known as identified, OWDY – the popular social network from WTFSEO – has been hacked. Dingy, WTFSEO’s official social media campfire song-leader has confirmed the hack saying “We’re still working to figure out the full details of the breach, however we’re certain that 10’s of […] More
$ure, we know that Ke$ha ha$ probably never heard of $EO – but $he’$ trending right now and that means there’$ page view$ to be had for writing article$ about her. (ed note: I changed the rest of the $ back to s. one sentence is enough – we get the joke.) So here’s our […] More
Here at WTFSEO we know all too well that SEO articles aren’t written to be read – they’re written so that the author can increase her klout and everybody else can share it on social media thereby increasing their own klout. This article, however, is only four sentences – so we’re pretty sure it’s the […] More
There’s a lot of posts, infographics, lists, and tables going around these days full of Google ranking factors. In an ever changing, constantly updating industry like SEO we took one look at these different ranking factor lists and instantly realized: “We need one too!” With that in mind, we turned to our annual SEO Industry […] More
While hanging out at the bar this weekend one of our senior editors (who graduates from college next month!) sat next to a woman wearing an “I’m feeling Lucky” Google t-shirt. Assuming that she worked at Google (or more likely perhaps attempting to take her shirt literally) our staffer immediately struck up a conversation that […] More
It’s time again to reveal the results of our yearly industry survey. We’d like to thank both respondents who took this years survey and provided us with valuable demographic and personal information to sell to our advertisers feedback. Without further ado, here’s the results of this year’s survey: 72% of respondents didn’t answer all of […] More
SEO Blogs love to publish their lists of most popular search terms whenever the year comes to a close or a major newsworthy event happens. Here at WTFSEO however, we think that’s too easy – and we strive to do better. As some of you may recall, we just hosted our annual WTFSEO Conference. One […] More
Brain-training, the latest en vogue term for what most people call “learning,” is a hot topic for SEO’s. Not because it is part and parcel with what we do everyday, but because it sounds really cool and trendy, which is our sort of thing. Also experts (Dingy) agree, “brain training” has a nice ring to […] More