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SEOMarch 8, 2020Updated March 3, 20231 min read

SEO Humor from the Twitterverse

By Boyd Norwood

SEO Humor from the Twitterverse

SEO can be stressful at times but it can be fun too. We all could use a laugh every once in a while so I present to you below SEO funnies from the twitterverse below. They range anywhere from chuckle-worthy to hilarious on the SEO humor meter. Also, check out Nozzle’s new SEO jokes.

They are organized by topics and you can click on the topic you want to jump down to below:

SEO Successes and Failures Onsite (or Offline) Optimization Technical SEO Link Building SEO Industry SERPs SEO Tools Content Creation SEO Jokes SEO Puns Cheekiness

If you know of any other funny SEO tweets, let me know in the comments and I’ll add them to this page.

Is your current rank tracker a joke?

SEO Successes and Failures:

Martin MacDonald@searchmartin
SEO's successfully getting through a Core Update:
Matthew Howells-Barby@matthewbarby
Me: got lots to get done this morning. Let me go and quickly check in on Google Analytics and then I'll get all my tasks done right after.
3 hours later: down a black hole in GA and haven't even begun anything else.
Wtfseo@WTFSEO
Only 1 week to come up with excuses for why your January SEO numbers are below the goals you set 3 months ago. Feel free to use one of these
  1. Something to do with favicons
  2. Google arbitrarily changing everything
  3. Lazy, slow developers
  4. Mercury being in retrograde
Marie Haynes@Marie_Haynes
🤣🤣🤣
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Onsite (or Offline) Optimization:

Martin MacDonald@searchmartin
Keyword Stuffing, the offline version 😂🤣😂
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Technical SEO:

Izzi Smith@izzionfire
Me compiling a stunning and intelligent technical SEO strategy
VS
Me realising there are no dev resources available
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Lord of the SERPs@LordOfTheSERPs
When the new site goes live with no redirects:
Jamie Indigo 👾 100% Human Technical SEO@Jammer_Volts
Disallow: *
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Wtfseo@WTFSEO
Breaking: Google announces that they didn't say "Simon says" when they told everyone to use rel=next/prev for pagination
Mat Siltala@Matt_Siltala
I just won. My daughter said there’s a 101 a 202 and 303 (freeway) is there a 404? I replied “it’s not found” I laughed. She was confused. Dad wins.
Wtfseo@WTFSEO
Google does not use <p> and <div> tags for indexing. You should remove them all from your website immediately.

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Matt Cutts@mattcutts
What's something small you've purchased or made that has given you a lot of happiness?
Mark Rofe@iamrofe
"I've added your link"
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Chris Dyson@ChrisLDyson
Potential Client: Can you help us?
World Class SEO Consultant:

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SEO Industry:

Matt Lacuesta@MattLacuesta
This has to be where all those SEO Ninjas come from.
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Izzi Smith@izzionfire
I had a dream last night that the Google index suddenly became "full". Index space became a highly prized possession and companies fought in wars over any available resources causing some kind of dystopian future led by SEOs.
Clearly, I need a life :D
Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg
What’s the best term for the phenomenon by which people create additional complexity in order to preserve their role & importance?

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SERPs:

Greg Gifford@GregGifford
This is my new favorite answer box...
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Martin MacDonald@searchmartin
Google Yesterday: "Freshness matters for Featured Snippets!!"
Google Today:
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Wtfseo@WTFSEO
BREAKING: google launches the ERNIE algorithm to randomly insert one irrelevant off topic website into all BERT search results.

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SEO Tools:

Martin MacDonald@searchmartin
Time to pay the yearly tax, on being an SEO:
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Dan Shure@dan_shure
This car must rank well!
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Content Creation:

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SEO Jokes

Andrew and Pete@AndrewAndPete
Why did the SEO expert cross the road?
To get hit with traffic 🚗
😜😜😜😜
You. Are. Welcome

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SEO Puns

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Cheekiness

Mark Rofe@iamrofe
Had a heating engineer enquire about some SEO work, he wanted to arrange a time to set up a call.
I told him I'd call between 9am and 5pm

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