Top SEO Tweets From 2019
By Boyd Norwood
I personally scoured over 700 twitter accounts to find the most popular SEO related tweets during 2019.
To be including in the list, tweets had to meet the following criteria:
- Included more than 600 likes, retweets, and comments combined
- Related to SEO in some way, shape or form
- Was tweeted from a personal twitter account
- Was not negative towards another human being
- Was found by me 😊😉
(If you know of any tweets that meet the criteria above that I failed to include, please message me on Twitter: @boydnorwood.)
This post was supposed to be published in late January but it took longer to do the research than anticipated (and then a pandemic threw things off), but I’m glad I stuck with it because there are some great gems in this list. Also, doing all this research is how I found almost all of the tweets I included in my SEO humor article.
And now, without further ado, let’s look back at what the SEO world was like last year so we can reminisce about what occupied our brilliant SEO minds before the pandemic.
By default, the tweets below are sorted in ascending order according to total engagements.
Click on any of the filter buttons below to see only tweets related to specific topics.
What's something small you've purchased or made that has given you a lot of happiness?
PDF:
❌ not mobile-friendly
❌ not accessible
❌ not easily trackable
❌ dead end for users (no navigation)
❌ not ideal for SEO
❌ not mobile-friendly
❌ not accessible
❌ not easily trackable
❌ dead end for users (no navigation)
❌ not ideal for SEO
🖨️💾📨 made for printing, saving & sending
❌ bad format for web content
❌ bad format for web content
Solution: Publish all content in HTML first & offer PDF as secondary option.
Did Google say CTR is not a ranking factor?
kinda, yes.
kinda, yes.
Did a random Google developer documentation say clicks impact rankings?
kinda, yes.
kinda, yes.
Do I completely trust either source?
no, not really.
no, not really.
Am I gonna work to improve organic CTR anyway?
👏ofcourse👏
👏ofcourse👏
Hello, I've been working with Google Analytics for at least 12 years and I still can't remember the difference between source and medium and I need to look it up every single time.
So... a client's category page mysteriously was not indexable and kept returning a 'soft 404' with the URL inspector. Turns out, it was because /404/ was in the URL as the category ID (and not anywhere else). We updated it to /43/ and it indexed immediately.
Imagine if SEO Twitter were an environment where people feel they could ask questions without prefacing them with “this may be a stupid question but,” or “I should already know this, but,”
No. One. Knows. Everything. About. SEO.
(2/2)
An e-commerce client I've been working with had to remove all of their informative content pages (blog, how-to guides etc.) from their shop *for reasons*.
They decided to redirect the URLs of the removed pages to the home page.
Here's what happened to their SEO performance:
Why did the SEO expert cross the road?
To get hit with traffic 🚗
😜😜😜😜
You. Are. Welcome
Here’s how to sell SEO
- Get a junior role at Google
- Leave after a few months
- Start SEO agency
- Tell everyone you’re an ‘ex Googler’
- 🤑
Hi I'm John and I've worked in digital marketing for 10 years and I still use Google's UTM builder to remember the difference between Source and Medium.
Google (8/1/18): this site sucks
Google (9/27/18): yeah this site really sucks
Google (3/12/19): this site rules!
Google (7/22/19): never mind this site sucks
Google (9/25/19): yep this site definitely sucks
Google (9/27/18): yeah this site really sucks
Google (3/12/19): this site rules!
Google (7/22/19): never mind this site sucks
Google (9/25/19): yep this site definitely sucks
A lot of SEO budget is wasted because companies don't invest in decent developers, designers, UX experts and content producers first. Good SEO can't fix a bad website.
Google: We want to deliver the most relevant, accurate results.
Also Google:
10 ways to optimize for BERT:
- You
- Can't
- Optimize
- For
- A
- Deep
- Learning
- NLP
- Algorithm
- Write for humans
Should we get the SEO team involved in the redesign before launch?
yes yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes
Paywalled content needs to be labelled in search results. Otherwise it's just bad user experience. I'm just going to keep repeating myself until Google does something about this.
I saw an SEO today
No own podcast
No hear me speak at X conferences
No selfies with Googlers
He just sat there.
Increasing websites' organic traffic.
Like a psychopath.
No own podcast
No hear me speak at X conferences
No selfies with Googlers
He just sat there.
Increasing websites' organic traffic.
Like a psychopath.
Hello, I am a SEO, you may know me from my greatest hits: “it depends”, “well sometimes it depends” and “good question but really it depends...”
Just over a week ago, we moved a client from a very slow web host to a very zippy one. We only moved the site, didn't touch the content or anything else. Their conversion rate went up 28%!
Site speed matters, pass it on.
Top 10 most common SEO answers to "Why am I not ranking?"
- It depends
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10. Links
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10. Links
Small company SEO problems: “We don’t have resources to implement those technical or content improvements.”
Big company SEO problems: “We don’t have approval to implement those technical or content improvements.”
- You don't need to read every SEO article
- You don't need to listen to every podcast
- You don't need to follow the top 357 influencers on Twitter
- You don't need to listen to every podcast
- You don't need to follow the top 357 influencers on Twitter
• You DO need content
• You DO need links
• You DO need to do the work + learn from your wins/mistakes
• You DO need links
• You DO need to do the work + learn from your wins/mistakes
Today I optimize <title> tags.
Some consider it a lowly task. A job for interns.
On the contrary. It is—in fact—one of my most rewarding, happiest, + highest ROI jobs as an SEO 💥
Ahrefs is working on general purpose search engine to compete with Google. Sounds crazy, right?
But lets talk about two huge problems with Google which they will never want to fix:
But lets talk about two huge problems with Google which they will never want to fix:
The 10 Most Critical SEO Success Factors 🚀
1 Keyword Targeted
2 Fresh &
3 Unique Content
4 Satisfies User Intent w/
5 Expertise, Authority, and Trust
6 Crawlable + Accessible to Search Engines
7 Speed
8 Built for Multiple Devices
9 Earns a High # of Clicks +
10 Quality Backlinks
1 Keyword Targeted
2 Fresh &
3 Unique Content
4 Satisfies User Intent w/
5 Expertise, Authority, and Trust
6 Crawlable + Accessible to Search Engines
7 Speed
8 Built for Multiple Devices
9 Earns a High # of Clicks +
10 Quality Backlinks
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