Google Asks SEOs To Describe Themselves In A Word

Dec 22, 2016 - 7:58 am 24 by

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So Gary Illyes from Google posted a request on Twitter last week, asking his followers to give a "one word synonym for SEO or webmaster." I wanted to share some of the excellent responses.

Here is the tweet:

Of course, me being sarcastic, I wrote:

But here are some of the more serious responses, I think:

Okay, so I included some funny ones as well. The list goes on and on and it is fun to read.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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