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
What SEO and inbound marketing trends should you, heathen reader, be ready for in 2016? To find out, I sat down with all the biggest experts who happened to be at this particular happy hour I could find. Below are five brain-imploding trends that we agreed will eviscerate inbound marketing as we know it in […] 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
Today we’re pleased to sit down with well-known female SEO guru Christine Finkbeiner-Test. Christine is not only an SEO expert, she’s also a woman! So, naturally, we asked Christine about how gender has impacted her career. Christine, we’re honored to have you here. Thanks for taking the time to speak to us about SEO. Thanks […] More
A guy I know on my darts team, who knows a guy whose sister knows a guy, today confirmed that as a result of their foray into improving the speed and relevance of their search engine, Google’s experiments with embedding an emotion subroutine in the core algorithm has had unintended consequences. The search engine reportedly had a full emotional meltdown […] More
Rumors have been swirling lately about a possible new Google algorithm update. Several SEOs have been tweeting, posting in forums, and blowing up Owdy chat with stories of how their sites rankings have changed. We reached out to Google for a statement, and our confidential source (Ed – Is that still Ted the janitor?) has […] 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
Veterans of SEO conference may have a hard time remember the joy and wonder they experienced at their first SEO conference. In order to help these old people remember joy, first time SEO conference attendee Jarvis Yoholski sat down with WTFSEO to provide his account of what he called “the best three days of my […] More
If you weren’t paying close attention to SEO blogs, you might have missed the fact that bing Bing recently updated their logo. Let’s be honest, you certainly didn’t do a search on Bing and notice it yourself. The new logo, seen below, represent’s Bing’s switch from Blue, to Yellow, and now Green – leaving them […] More
Today’s Google Doodle honors [a man or woman who was born on this date quite a few years ago] [a noteworthy event] [the anniversary of a noteworthy event] [a big holiday]! Hundreds of other publications are going to write about today’s logo, which is officially known as a Google Doodle, even though there is probably much […] More