The Best SEO Halloween Costumes
As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, I’ve put together a round up of the best Halloween costumers for SEOs.
White Hat
Hubble bubble, toil and trouble,
Build some links, watch traffic double.
Black Hat
“I’ve been a naughty Black Hat. I need to be penalised.”
Robot
“Nothing can stop me, nothing! Mwha ha ha!”
“(OK, except a strategically placed text file.)”
Spider
Itsy bitsy Spider, crawling my domain
Found duplicate content, all titles looked the same.
We got rid of the problems (I’ve got the devs to thank)
Now Itsy Bitsy Spider is going to help me rank.
Troll
Don’t feed the trolls!
But do buy them a beer – they’re hilarious after about three pints.
Spam
Canine minions: bow before your masked saviour – Spam Man!
Firefox
Firefox is offering you an add-on. Do you want to accept?
YouTube
OMG! It’s Party Guy! (I heard he never lasts more than 10 minutes.)
Thanks to Kapten, Laenulfean, sea turtle, NataPics, Katiemeigs, rbatina, davefishernc and Adam Crowe for CC Licensed images.
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Rob on Tue (27 Oct) @ 3:46 pm
I knew I’d forget one! Duplicate Content:
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Tom Critchlow on Tue (27 Oct) @ 3:49 pm
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Dr. Pete on Tue (27 Oct) @ 6:14 pm
I love how Awesome Party Guy only ranks himself 1-1/2 stars on his imaginary YouTube comments and then flames himself. He also gets 10 bonus points for the fake 1st comment:
“That vid made me LOL in my pants!!”
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rishil on Tue (27 Oct) @ 6:28 pm
ROFL. Thats all. ROFL.
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Marty Martin on Tue (27 Oct) @ 6:56 pm
And how vid guy’s total video time is 06:66. Nice.
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Pablo Almeida on Tue (27 Oct) @ 6:59 pm
I really liked photos of the Black Hat and the spider!
Huahuahauhauhua…nice pics, Bob!
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Lindsay Wassell on Tue (27 Oct) @ 7:01 pm
In 2004 I went as Yahoo!. My costume was a life size exclamation point “suit” made out of dense camping foam. I couldn’t sit down, but it was worth it.
In 2008 my SEO team and I went as “(search engine) traffic directors” with hard hats, yellow vests, robots.txt street signs and all.
Fun times!
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Eric Enge on Tue (27 Oct) @ 7:05 pm
Suddenly I’d like to get some duplicate content!
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John Chen on Tue (27 Oct) @ 8:10 pm
I lol’ed.
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happydave on Tue (27 Oct) @ 8:39 pm
hahahahhaha great photos, black hat never looked so tempting
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Halloween Costumes on Tue (27 Oct) @ 9:53 pm
Pretty cool looking page/party! Some guys just know how to have a good time. I have never understood that most interesting man in the world commercial. This costume party looks more interesting than he is.
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gina on Wed (28 Oct) @ 12:24 am
Nice! Im gonna go as a Facebook profile- thats after I go and watch SAW 6 though, I heard it was the best movie this month!
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Jennifer on Wed (28 Oct) @ 2:27 am
Duplicate content has quite the snarl to them.
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Jon Buchan on Wed (28 Oct) @ 9:35 am
Great topical post guys!
Regards,
Jon
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Gareth James on Thu (29 Oct) @ 5:29 pm
Nice ranking (#4) for ‘halloween costumes’ – quick monetize that traffic!!
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Amy on Thu (29 Oct) @ 8:23 pm
I LOVE the Spam one. I’m stealing this picture for use when spammers strike on my forum!
Someone once came as a GameBoy to one of my Halloween parties.
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Kevin Spence on Fri (30 Oct) @ 3:46 am
Rob,
Your post inspired me to create an SEO Halloween costumes post of my own (apologies in advance for calling your ideas boring).
Check it out if you want — http://makeitrank.com/seo-halloween-costumes
Cheers!
Kevin
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Nicky Jurd on Fri (30 Oct) @ 9:45 am
This is fantastic! Great ideas! I think I’ll go as duplicate content this year, but I’ll be the more sinister variety where I’ll just copy someone else’s costume.
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James Svoboda on Fri (30 Oct) @ 2:12 pm
I love techy search humor!!!
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Matthew on Sat (31 Oct) @ 9:48 pm
If I’m the Google Sandbox this year, does that mean I can get out of going to any Halloween parties?
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Lily Grozeva on Thu (12 Nov) @ 8:02 am
Splendid! I am very much smitten by the modesty of the Youtube guy!
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blinky on Thu (12 Nov) @ 9:22 pm
Wonderful post dude. The YouTube costume hits right in the target this Halloween.