Explaining SEO, totally in GIF.
The internet is great. One of the most awesome things it enabled is GIF-pictures. Here is the whole wonderful seo-world explained in only GIF-pictures:
1. “Reaching nr one ranking on that word should not be that hard”:
2. When talking about SEO with your normal friends for the 9′th time this month
3. Your aunts, dads, and grandpas face when you explain what you work with and they say they understand
4. When you have been working 3 days and nights launching a big project and is about to spend quality time with your partner
5. When you try to understand why your competitor, with a new site and no good links, is ranking top 3 on a competitive keyword:
6. When thinking of your competitor that got to spot 1 with spam and hacked sites and is still there:
7. When you check ranking reports and sees that yet another competitor has outranked you with only spam:
8. When you see that your competitor has rebuilt their entire website and have screwed their SEO totally:
9. When you see that your competitor’s domain is available on snapback:
10. When you see that a competitor has had a good idea but have performed it badly, and you decide to make a better one yourself:
11. When you pass your biggest competitor in the SERP:
12. When the latest core update kicked 3 of your competitors out of top 10 and you went up 3 steps:
13. When Google webmaster tools tell that they see signs of unnatural link building to your site
14. When someone asks if you always follow the Google guidelines
15. How you feel when your client’s site went to top spot after 2 months of work, and their sales doubled
16. When a customer says that they have decided to remove all texts on their website and focus only on picture content
17. When you see a social media guru is starting to battle with an SEO consultant about what gives you rankings
18. When you are at a conference and a social media consultant starts telling your customer that their rankings will increase by putting more focus on Instagram or Pinterest:
19. When you hear the word “SEO” when walking on the street:
20. How you need to work when asking bloggers and webmasters for links
21. What the answers look like when you are emailing bloggers and webmasters for links:
22. When a blogger actually thinks it is a good idea and links to your site:
23. When you see that a big newspaper uses your new site as a source and links to it
24. When logging in to the affiliate networks backend for checking the earnings after a rainy week:
25. How you expect content providers to work when you order articles from them
26. The message you show to your competitors when passing them in the search engine rankings page
27. The amount of traffic that starts to come to your site when finally getting the top spot in Google:
28. When you realize that the links you added last week made your site enter top 10 in Google:
29. When somebody tell you that NoFollow links are needed for getting good rankings
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