Inspiring Quotes About SEO

• Marketing isn’t just billboards and TV ads anymore. Nowadays, the Internet is the primary source for gathering information, so search engine optimization has to be part of your marketing strategy in order for you to stay relevant online.

• SEO is a relatively new, constantly evolving concept for Internet marketers. No marketing expert automatically knows how to play ball with SEO.

• Here are 20 inspirational quotes from some of the industry’s leading figures to get you pumped for SEO.

• “The objective is not to ‘make your links appear natural’; the objective is that your links are natural.”

• Matt Cutts

• “Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.”

• Gary Vaynerchuk

• “Search engine optimization does not specialize in tasks that will make pigs soar high up in the sky. Its real task is to dig deeper into the genetics of a website and reengineer the essential elements until it transforms into an eagle.”

• Bruce Clay

• Search engine optimizers are the future’s most successful real estate tycoons. Our formidable capabilities have provided us with an incredible opportunity to gather great viewers at an inexpensive cost.”

• Brian Provost, Scoreboard Media

• “It is up to you to choose the best keywords and phrases for your website needs, but in the end, it all boils down to how you transform them.”

• Matt Web, SEO Honolulu

• “Search engine optimization plays a major role in the language of the World Wide Web as a noun, verb and adjective.”

• Todd Malicoat, Stuntdubl

• “Integrating your online marketing efforts is all about breaking down silos and delivering amazing results. Social and SEO marketers are a big part of this.”

• Jim Yu, CEO, BrightEdge

• “[Content marketing] is a more competitive environment certainly, but those who have real empathy for web users and influencers AND have the SEO skills to infuse their work with great keyword targeting, search accessibility, etc., are going to have ongoing success.”

• Rand Fishkin, CEO/Co-Founder, Moz

• “Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself.”

• Chris Bennett, Founder/CEO, 97th Floor

• “If there’s anything that SEO’s can be assured of, it’s that things will change tomorrow, that things will change next week. No one is better prepared to handle change than we are.”

• Rand Fishkin, CEO of Moz

• “Trust is the #1 SEO ranking factor. Earn trust from your visitors (through providing great content) and search engines will follow suit. Establish yourself as an expert – create excellent content that people will want to link to and share. Keep a long term focus; tricks and shortcuts are not the way to earn trust.”

• Matt McGee

• “Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.”

• Wendy Piersall

• “SEO gets the visitor to the door. It’s up to your site’s content to welcome and retain that visitor.”

• John I. Jerkovic

• “SEO fosters the natural, long-term growth of a website, and once you achieve its benefits, there is usually a ripple effect where you’ll be getting traffic from sources other than search engines by means of other websites linking to yours. If you have the content or product that people want to see, it is only natural to attract inbound links.”

• John I. Jerkovic

• “The three essential elements of an effective SEO are effective communication, useful information and high quality backlinks.”

• SEO Refugee

• “The best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of Google search results.”

• “My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.”

• Dave Naylor

• “SEO is not SPAM.”• Matt Cutts

• “Good SEO work only gets better over time. It’s only search engine tricks that need to keep changing when the ranking algorithms change.”

• Jill Whalen