Life as an SEO
It doesn’t take very long to get a feel for what life is like here in the wild west of digital marketing. I’ve been at In Marketing We Trust for roughly 6 or 7 months and as I reflect on the last few tumultuous and exhilarating months, I thought I’d share some of the nuances, hard truths and memories of SEO in the form of GIFs (pronounced “jif”). To the fun loving and unique bunch of individuals that is the SEO community, I say thank you for the following highlights that we can all probably relate to:
How excited you felt on your first week.
Probably the most important question regarding any agency office.
When you get a LinkedIn request from someone you’ve never met.
When your newly accepted LinkedIn connection sends you a templated InMail sales pitch.
Please. Stop.
When your favourite SEO tools get a design change.
Thinking about your unprepared competitors as the Google “Mobilegeddon” Update approached.
When someone tries to explain their fishy SEO activities.
When your client mentions a site migration.
Getting an alert saying that your client’s site has seen a significant traffic drop.
The feeling of seeing your site ranking #1 for a high volume keyword.
Whenever you see or hear the words “I Binged It”.
How you pictured the Google execs when you learned that Google+ was a ranking factor.
When you first started learning about Google’s algorithm changes.
When link bait about link bait inspired all kinds of crazy, creative content ideas.
When you’re first told to do some link building.
The feeling of getting your first link from a high DA site.
When that link ended up being rel=nofollow.
When PR companies get your company/site/content featured but they forget to put a link.
The realisation that you’re just not that good at link building.
When your content finally gets shared by an influencer.
That feeling at the end of the day.
Got any other moments or “feels” that you think should be on this list? Let us know in the comments! Better yet – give it to us in gif form!
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I really think I should start doing shia leboeuf inspired training sessions
Yes please.
Awesome post
Thanks Adam!
Loved this, definitely put a smile on my face this Monday morning.
How about a gif for that feeling when a potential influencer/website/blog asks you “Is this for a client?” when you submit a piece of content?
Ha! Yes… get asked that every day!
Unfortunately I haven’t had the same experience 🙁 but I assume it’s somewhere along the lines of:
Cornelius Do – It’s right, This is SEO life, I am SEO / Digital marketing specialist in India. My Office Friend always told me, you are enjoying whole day, and your website rank on 1 page! ;)…. How can do this! How do did?
With lots and lots of coffee… that’s the only way!
Love this post!
Haha great post!
This captures so much of the emotions (and facial) expressions of exactly how it was starting out and still now…
Great work – made me smile! 🙂
Thanks!