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Super Bowl Party Tips for SEOs
The Super Bowl is certainly an exciting time for our industry, but work obligations don’t mean your party has to suffer. In fact, with a few helpful hints and a little elbow grease, you can host a football-themed soiree that rivals that of Alec Baldwin himself. Here’s how to – wait for it – optimize your […]
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Best SEO Person or Cat 2018
So you like SEO? And you like lists? We assume you have been told by every politician and celebrity to vote recently so we figured we would jump on that bandwagon too. YOUR VOTE MATTERS HERE. Well, we don’t care if you vote, we just wanted to make a list of popular people with the […]
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Liveblogging Ungagged: Hacking Google
Howdy WTFSEOers. Today we’re at #GetUngagged in Las Vegas. Despite their no live-blogging and no-photos policy, we’ve obtained special permission to liveblog the hacking Google session. Ungagged has just asked for the ability to redact some information. So, here goes. First up on the panel is and he will be talking about various ways to […]
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Top SEO Skills
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 […]
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WTFSEO 2017 SEO Ranking Factor Study
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 […]
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EgoBait: The Movie
Yes, it’s true, we’re going to be producing a documentary on EgoBait, where we’ll interview “influencers” who will be more than willing to retweet the movie to their myriad of followers, thereby ensuring views and links for WTFSEO. Heck, we’ll even throw in a couple of employees here, talking on script camera about how influential […]
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An Open Letter To The SEO Industry
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 […]
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SNL Cold Open Bingo Card
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 – […]
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The Cat in the Black SEO Hat
Our rankings have tanked. We must find a way. To optimize our site For the upcoming holidays. I sat with my CMO We sat there, us both And I said, “How I wish our organic traffic Would show us some growth.” Few people visited, conversions were scarce We were both quite appalled. We stared at […]
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This Epic Flowchart Will Help You Decide Whether to Listen to SEO Advice
Should you listen to that SEO advice you just read? Or was it written by a useless SEO fool? The flowchart below might just help you decide. Maybe. However, as always, please remember the wise words of Rush: if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Like most sophisticated questions about […]
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Penguin Recovery Case Study
Depending on which SEO you ask, it’s been a few days to a few weeks since the latest Google Penguin update launched – and while most recovery case studies had been written in draft mode many months ago, we haven’t seen many of them actually showing up on Owdy yet. For you, though, the wait […]