Here's a collection of the best SEO jokes that I am aware of. Email me if you know of a good one! (justin(at)hundredsofcustomers.com)
Explanation of the Joke: Quite simply, 90%+ of all search traffic stays on page 1 of Google. If you are a local business and you're not on page 1, you're probably not being found by many customers (unless you have an aggressive pay-per-click campaign or an already entrenched local presence). If you want your business on page one, we'd suggest our own Kansas City SEO Agency.
Explanation: Google and all search engines are just complex computer programs (algorithms), and they can only understand what your site is about by analyzing various aspects of the site, like who is linking to it, and the words on the page. Earlier, less sophisticated algorithms could be easily influenced by a preponderance of words on a page, and a page that had nothing to do with, say "weight loss" could rank simply because of the repetition of that word hidden at the bottom of the page.
Explanation: Spintax is a writing style that allows automated programs to leave text (comments and articles) that are "unique" and, if used correctly, well written. Most amateur SEOs however rely on automated spinning software and techniques that often produce garbled text that reads nonsensically. The words to be "spun" are placed between two braces (i.e. { and }) with a pipe (i.e. | ) separating the words (e.g., {word1|word2|word3}
Explanation: Reciprocal links represent an agreement between two webmasters to link each's own site to the other. This can be done for SEO purposes, but is generally an outdated method for a variety of reasons. It can still be a valid way to share traffic, or build and foster a partnership between the sites or webmasters.
Do you really need this one explained? Okay fine...
Explanation: Like old westerns, where the bad-guys wear black, terms for "hacks" or "cheats" to rank quickly (that often don't last long) are called "black hat" in the SEO world. Spam, the ubiquitous meat-food-product of a questionable quality has long been the go to work for a bunch of junk, whether crammed in your inbox or blasted with spintax on a page. Even Hormel has accepted its place as a pejorative term.
Explanation: Obviously web traffic and motor traffic are not the same things. But the joke is in the conflating of these two terms. If a good SEO, who can help generate hundreds, thousands, or even millions of visitors to a website did the same thing while driving (generating "traffic" by the hundreds or more) he could never get anywhere.
So our video below is #1 on Youtube for SEO Tricks - didn't even try! So I figured I'd celebrate with some of my favorite SEO Jokes. That's where this whole article started!
Got a good one? Email justin@hundredsofcustomers.com. If it's good, he'll turn it into an image macro like the ones above, and send you a reciprocal link.
