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What Do You Think Of When You Hear SEO – Twitter Poll

Thought I would ask 5,300 people what is the first thing that pops into their head when they hear the word SEO. Here was their responses ;)

Would you like to see more of these types of polls? I wrote a script to generate them based on the API so its pretty easy for me to do.

@lostinlimaohio (Lilo Verbrechen) says:
@shoemoney that the site I’m working with (didn’t design though) should be labeled to damn ugly to pop up in the first 10 pages
@cassi_hl (Cassi Lowe) says:
@shoemoney I think: I wish I had a job where I could do more SEO.
@kmullett (hunteeer) says:
@shoemoney Search Eng Optimization, act of preparing a site to be technically indexable without incumberances, keyword/phrase saturation etc

@wendelldotme (Wendell Wittler) says:
@shoemoney A CEO who can’t spell.
@g_ro (Greg Rollett) says:
@shoemoney – SEO = opportunity
@omniphiliac (omniphiliac) says:
@shoemoney: SEO = Sordid Erotic Openings.
@tremorx (Michael Johns) says:
@shoemoney some college kid getting paid too much to play around on MySpace and expensing a copy of "serach engine optimization for dummies"
@solidsmack (Josh Mings) says:
@shoemoney SEO: promoting your site better each day
@chrisjacobson (Chris Jacobson) says:
@shoemoney SEO? I think of ShoeMoney trying to game Google and acting like he’s the sh*t!
@tehinternetz (Tehinternetz) says:
@shoemoney search engine optimization…
@keeponrunning (Andrew) says:
@shoemoney search engine optimization , what else?
@marciajones (Marcia Jones) says:
@shoemoney Hours of mind numbing work tweaking html etc. on webpages. Also hours of keyword research for webpages.
@vinceblackham (Vince Blackham) says:
@shoemoney your "SEO Sucks" shirt
@peterwallhead (Peter Wallhead) says:
@shoemoney re. SEO: ppl charging way too much to give you free information.
@joshuasci (Joshua Sciarrino) says:
@shoemoney I should’ve said rank #1 in 2 minutes. ;)
@remarkablogger (remarkablogger) says:
@shoemoney SEO = Money (in all kindsa ways)
@sdreiske (sdreiske) says:
@shoemoney Search Engine Orgy :D
@oilman (Todd Friesen) says:
@shoemoney SEO=a very small part of what I used to do :)
@david_n_wilson (David_N_Wilson) says:
@shoemoney Hmmm… SPAM Most of the contacts I have in a week that involve the letters SEO are spam.
@JustaSunGod (Lee Trujillo) says:
@shoemoney I think of Blood Suckers…tbh
@sugarrae (Rae) says:
@shoemoney short term cash for long term survival
@khawe (Kieran Hawe) says:
@shoemoney maybe I shouldn’t have said SEO = headaches. I will go with the more politically correct "opportunity"
@corprebel (Rick Wilson) says:
@shoemoney To me, SEO = Making sites SE friendly. That’s MY simplistic view of it anyway. heh
@colderICE (John ) says:
@shoemoney Rocketscience and the proving of gravitational earth pull on moving objects?!? SEO is this black box that u can spend ur life on
@spooons (christian) says:
@shoemoney a set of techniques/practices in coding websites so they are standards based, compliant, and indexable. NOT a person/deceptive
@skeeterbess (skeeterbess) says:
@shoemoney Manipulation is the first word that comes to mind.
@amyderby (Amy Derby) says:
@shoemoney Sudden Ecoli Outbreak (just kidding…)
@theNetImp (theNetImp) says:
@shoemoney search engine optimization of course ;-)
@homebiss (homebiss) says:
@shoemoney Time wasting. SEO is kinda silly. SE algos change from time to time. We could never understand them.
@JTChandler (JT Chandler) says:
@shoemoney when I think of SEO I think of @rockynate
@mwsmedia (Matthew Selznick) says:
@shoemoney Search Engine Optimization. Both white hat and black. There is no gray, in my mind.
@UtahSEOpro (jordan kasteler) says:
@shoemoney i think of search engine optimization
@juliegribble (JulieGribble) says:
@shoemoney isn’t it search engine optimization?
@tonychester (Tony Chester) says:
@shoemoney I think of highly relevant content written to appeal to Googlers, in a very keyword rich sort of way.
@jarret (Jarret) says:
@shoemoney Time consuming
@angelashupe (Angel) says:
@shoemoney Search Engine Optimization
@QualityGal (QualityGal) says:
@shoemoney A much better way to pay the bills than I used to have.
@badijones (Badi Jones) says:
@shoemoney I guess you’re looking for responses from non SEOs?
@DominickEvans (DominickEvans) says:
@shoemoney google….getting my site placed on google and/or yahoo through SEO
@marenhogan (marenhogan) says:
@shoemoney that someone misspelled CEO. HA! I slay me. I need to get back to work.
@Tajah (Uhura) says:
@shoemoney drawing a blank myself. Context?
@Pixites (http://www.pixites.c) says:
@shoemoney we’re only in it for ze money
@FeedTheBull (FeedTheBull) says:
@shoemoney Search Engine Optimization???


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  1. Blogging Tips

    Duh every animal lover knows that SEO really stands for Sexy Ethiopian Otters

  2. CultureMob.com

    At my company I hear that about ten billion times a day. I usually think Google.

  3. Önder

    Every person nearly has different ideas for different situations, things or thinks.

  4. Eva White

    necessary evil that gives me headaches.

  5. Cisco Routers

    Doesn’t it stand for Student Employment Office ? :)

  6. Ways To Earn Online

    When I hear SEO, it gives me a headache because it can be stressful if you dont know how to apply it to your blog or website. I am reading other blogs and trying to gather all the information I can to use SEO on my own. But it basically means to me, google pagerank, keyword rich, optimizing your site.

  7. Goran Website

    When I hear SEO, I think: keyword research (using good keywords for site and not saturating it with bad/unnecessary keywords), good internal and external linking, clean coding (validted by W3C), good content, and achieving a good page(s) rank.Search Engine Optimization… So much goes into it…Phew!

  8. Everton Football

    I think of bounce rate, backlinks, content and rotating my anchor text. How geeky is that?

  9. att

    Some of those answers are hilarious…interesting to see what people think of seo

  10. Greg

    snake oil salesmen

  11. hi

    we are there and followers

  12. carol stanley

    Opps forgot the question..seo.. a new word to make people crazy.

  13. carol stanley

    I think you are one smart dude…I have just started on my internet journey a few months…ago….www.carolstanley1.com..My book For Kids 59.99 and Over…of course I would love to sell a gazillion..but more important I really feel passionately about staying healthy, fit, happy and enjoying the journey along the way…I know you are successfulll and I mostly admire this.because you figured a way…carol stanley

  14. WebTrafficROI

    Get ready for the Google Slap :)

  15. Amanda (DrifterMama)

    how did i miss this on twitter?

  16. Bradley

    lol, seo is simple. it’s all backlinks

  17. Zack - Amer1can Paratrooper

    I am learning seo by the mother of all se’s, google. Within my webmasters section in my google account, I get to see errors and and other details as to what google likes or dislikes pertaining to my blog posts. Its important to look at these details to learn, master, and refine your seo skills constantly in order to find your site with good organic placement.

  18. Pushkar Gaikwad

    Huh, so Jeremy what do you what does SEO really means ? :)

  19. jack

    When I think of SEO I’d like to take a min to think how the search engines changed the face of the internet (and our lives) , twitter? not a big fan , pretty useless web 2.0 website for me ..

  20. Douglas

    Search Engine Optimization.

  21. Scott Paterson

    SEO = I want to get rich quick, NOT! Make a good product that people want first. Bring something unique to the market. The world doesn’t really need yet another blog.

  22. Stephen

    SEO = Senior Executive Officer…lol.

  23. Nick Throlson

    SEO = Success

  24. Freeman

    ahahahaha this is priceless! I love some of these responses!! I would love to see more of these in the future!

  25. Anonymous

    Worthless buzzword.

  26. Diet Abs

    When I think about SEO I think about “Sites Enemy Order”. This is because it is now adays almost impossible to rank high.

  27. Rice Blogger

    haha….search engine orgy

  28. mrkbsm

    All the little things that other people DON’T do that let you sneak by to the top.

  29. Ganesh

    Ew! For me, SEO and confusion are synonymous.

  30. Jake@Compounding-Dividends.com

    I always thought it was an acronym

  31. Custom T-Shirts

    When I hear SEO I think money.
    money money money.

  32. Craig

    SEO? Must be a term from those master computer type guys at Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net came up with.

  33. Steven-Sanders

    Those are some pretty hilarious responses! I especially like the Search Engine Orgy response. Never thought of it that way. :)

    There are alot of people out there, though, that will charge a company an arm and a leg to optimize a persons site with the basics just because those companies have no clue. It’s definitely an exploited service.

    I own and operate a web design and development business and I offer free search engine optimization for all of my clients. There is no reason not too.

    If a website is design correctly it should already have search enginge optimization included in it.

  34. Saad

    If you are a website designer with out the knowledge of search engine optimization, then you need to wake up. This is the only sure way through which you can attract thousands of visitors to your website.

  35. Soha Kashif

    It involves the art and process of making your website to rank high in major search engines when a specific word is searched by a potential visitor through a particular search engine like Google, Hotbot, AltaVista, MSN Search.

    • Sohail

      Good points :D SEO is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines.

  36. shoeb

    In my opinion, SEO means spamming search engines.

  37. shifka

    very simple question. It is Search Engine Optimization.

  38. jim

    Hahah, good answers…

  39. How I Got A Job In The OC

    A Dummies book

  40. 100kjob

    What a comedy, piss myself laughing – “misspelled CEO”, “viagra”, “a lot of drinking”…

  41. Mike Dammann

    I think about many annoying people trying to sell you worthless links.

  42. Doug Heil

    SEO = Strong Evil Odor

    Gotta admit Shoe; the sphinn stuff had me rolling on the floor, and also made me spit up my most recent sip of juice. Ain’t it funny how your spins can be removed one day, and then the owner spins you the next day? I call that weenie-ism. It’s very transparent and very much a pathetic weenie who just can’t stand someone not liking him.

    I think of odor more and more and why I don’t do strictly seo.

  43. wesley

    Pretty funny :)

  44. AffiliateObsession

    “post replies” i’m an idiot lol – I wanted to see the replies that were interesting, which, in fact, are shown here :)

  45. BigJon

    Silly Executioner Mistakes..?

    • BigJon

      wow.. or even Single Edge Octive…
      ill use an O word this time…

  46. Matt Thompson

    Great poll idea, and a nice way to post the results!

    Regards, Matt

  47. Rekzai

    SEO has a really negative reputation.

  48. Pete W

    Pubcon baby!

    Oh, and making money while I sleep without PPC.

  49. River Girl

    Some of these are hilarious.

  50. Melvin

    I used to think its Search Exec Officer, .. well…

  51. cheap used cars

    hey we actually got shoe talking back he made his own top commentators list!

    • Custom T-Shirts

      Haha, I’m surprised he didn’t put himself as an exception. It should usually be the case that the blogger is the #1 commentator.

  52. cheap used cars

    hilarious.. funny stuff shoe. man i could only imagine what I would ask 5300 followers…

  53. SMM Guru

    @shoemoney SEO is what the masters of the intraweb over on Digital Point study.

  54. JustinM

    Taking mom and pop to the top.

  55. Chris Jacobson

    I didn’t think you’d post my comment… nice! lol

  56. Brian Mark

    Cool… I found a few people to follow in that list. ;)

  57. Nebraska SEO

    I’m sure a lot of these are supposed to be tongue in cheek, but a few responses seem pretty ignorant.

    A lot of negativity…

    • mrkbsm

      Just folks trying to use the topic of SEO to garner controversy (and therefore, attention!)

  58. paisley

    bounce rate.

    • James

      Hehe, some pretty funny responses there.

  59. Bryan

    Funny. I don’t think you could have raised any other question that would have gotten more responses.

    • Dick

      I met people who do not understand the meaning SEO.

  60. Moneybites

    When I think seo, I think search engine optimization, then I think about how easy it is to implement basic SEO and how many people don’t…

    • meethere

      Think SEO – Think Rankings – Think Shoe :p

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