10 Great SEO Quotes
It is not the job of search engine optimization to make a pig fly. It is the job of the SEO to genetically reengineer the Web site so that it becomes an eagle. — Bruce Clay
SEO is only not seen as rocket science BY THOSE WHO ALREADY KNOW IT. — Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land
SEO’s are the new real estate developers. Our skillset gives us an amazing opportunity to develop an audience on the cheap. — Brian Provost, Scoreboard Media
There are three keys to good SEO: communication, content and backlinks. — SEO Refugee
You can chase whatever keywords and phrases you like, but at the end of the day it’s all about those conversions. –Matt Webb, SEO Honolulu
My rule of thumb is build a site for a user not a spider. — Dave Naylor, DavidNaylor.co.uk (DaveN)
SEO is a noun, verb, and adjective. — Todd Malicoat, Stuntdubl
SEO is fundamentally a set of methodologies that make it easier for search engines to find, include, categorize and rank your web content. — Lee Odden, Online Marketing Blog
Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. — Wendy Piersall, ProBlogger guest post
SEO is not SPAM. — Matt Cutts











June 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Great stuff, some excellent seo quotes there which will come in handy for The Internet Business Letter. Thanks a million for this, good blog and I can see above its all about twitter nowadays, i should really join.
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 am
Wow excellent SEO Quotes i love them.
July 9th, 2009 at 11:24 am
i have been researching online on how to use seo for my site. nice seo quotes you have here ;)
July 10th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
I especially like the seasoned insight only Matt Cutts could provide!
July 14th, 2009 at 12:25 am
I am ablogger and I truly accept the fact Wendy Piersall. The other insight is given by Lisa Barone, it is the task of the seo to make the blog touch sky.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:44 am
This ranks right up there with trying to be a world class golfer while only playing golf during your lunch break from your job at Wal-Mart
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:19 am
A very funny and interesting posting! There’s nothing strange there are so many interesting quotes as SEO is hardly an easy job to do, so people just have to cope with it somehow and it’s great if it’s done with the help of laughter.
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
My favorite:
Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.
This one is very true. Thanks for the funny and interesting list of quotes.
October 6th, 2009 at 6:18 am
SEO’s are the new real estate developers. Our skillset gives us an amazing opportunity to develop an audience on the cheap. — Brian Provost
i really like this one
October 18th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Wendy’s quote above is probably absolutely right, but I’m learning the hard way that “love” is the most subjective thing on the Internet.
Is “linkbait” love? It is in terms of getting attention and search traffic for a site. Does it communicate a brand effectively, one that people want to stick with? – Ay, there’s the rub. -
We need metrics that take seriously the demographics of visitors to sites. I’m almost tempted to make my readers fill out a survey.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:23 am
I think the love that Wendy refers to is the Google rankings and ensuing traffic that result from links–baited or nonbaited.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned about love is that you have to give it to get it.
November 24th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I quite like Lee Odden’s quote. Funny :P
December 30th, 2009 at 7:51 am
My rule of thumb is build a site for a user not a spider. — Dave Naylor
this should be every one’s rule of thumb!
December 31st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
While he’s right on every part, especially about SEO not being spam, I can’t help but wonder if anyone’s ever thought that SEO is a little bag of tricks you find that work to a particular algorithm. :)
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:35 am
Nice SEO quotes. I like,there are three keys to good SEO: communication, content and backlinks this quote very much. By using these keys only we can get a better result. Relevant content and Back links are very efficient to make the site get a higher rankings in all search engines..
July 6th, 2010 at 12:20 am
I read this while ago,
“Build a site for people not for search engine”
July 16th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Your Lisa Barone quote is incorrectly attributed. Bruce Clay actually said that and Lisa repeated it, while correctly attributing it to Bruce in the source you submitted here. Just a head’s up! (Lisa pointed this out to me, thanks Lisa!)
July 16th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Thanks for letting me know, Briana. I did some checking and verified what you said with several other sources. Correction made.