SEO Cartoons

These cartoons were inspired by real-life SEO experiences and bizarre thoughts.

SEO Layoffs Cartoon - URL People Laid off, Not Meta Taggers — Why do the wrong people always seem to get cut? Developers laid off; meta taggers retained. Another day in the life of a SEO. Why didn’t they layoff the meta taggers instead of the IT group?

In-house SEO in the Outhouse - Cartoon — Ever get the feeling that your in-house SEO job is not as glamorous as it sounds?

Couple Experiencing Google Privacy - Cartoon — Google privacy? Ever have the sense that someone is in your room watching you, but you don’t mind? Privacy with big tech companies can be a delicate and intimate thing. Want to get the government out of your bedroom? Move over Google.

PageRank Sculpting Cartoon — Did you try sculpting PageRank by pointing internal links to your money pages, but it just didn’t turn out as planned?

Matt Cutts Doing Surgery on a Black Hat SEO - Cartoon — Reminiscent of that scene in Nightmare on Elm St (2010) where the patient sees the surgeon is Freddy Krueger just as she goes under.

Keyword Research Cartoon: Maybe we should just optimize the keywords for the site instead of vice versa — What do you do when the site doesn’t rank for anything on your keyword list, and you can’t change your website? Change keywords :) This cartoon was based on a meeting wherein site performance was so bad that someone suggested we should just change the keyword list instead of optimizing the site.

Archaeologists Discover the Canonical URL - Cartoon — SEO Archaeologists discover the find of a lifetime. Have you found the perfect URL to redirect all of your duplicate content pages too? Are all the keywords you want in the URL? All the hyphens? Is it short?

Matt Cutts Darth Vader Cartoon: "I feel a disturbance in the SERPs" — Matt Cutts as Darth Vader in this cartoon saying, “I feel a disturbance in the SERPs.” You Cannot Hide Forever, Luke.”

SEO Firm Hat Rack — Have you had the uncomfortable suspicion that your SEO firm is not who they say they are?

Published
May 19, 2008
Edited
September 16, 2022

Emory Rowland

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9 Responses

Paul says:

November 4, 2009 at 04:19

:-) really funny! may the force be with you in the serps! the dark lord has had his days, its time for the rebellion to overcome to goodness with properly done internet searches.

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zack says:

November 14, 2009 at 09:35

Haha The picture is really funny. I guess the owner of this blog is fan of STAR WARS movies. “May the force with You”

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Sell Online says:

November 17, 2009 at 22:22

hilarious cartoon, kudos to the cartoonist.

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LGR says:

November 24, 2009 at 23:23

Thanks for the laugh! That was great.

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David @ seo-writer.com says:

May 11, 2010 at 10:22

So, Google’s in bed with…whom? This cartoon just screams out for a caption contest.

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1. Chris says:
  
  June 23, 2011 at 15:28
  
  I agree with David’s thought on this going into a caption contest of sorts. That said, this cartoon really drives the ball home on so many levels. I recall the big privacy scandal that occurred not too long ago, which undoubtedly probably inspired this comic. It is amazing to see how much a big company like Google can get away with. Even worse is how we all hardly seemed to care, and still flock right back to it as it still seems to be the best search engine available.
  
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Deborah Spagnuolo says:

May 21, 2011 at 10:50

The Layoffs cartoon is missing that clever twist. The statement is we don’t need meta tags anymore. But is there a problem with too many people using meta tags as opposed to urls? The joke falls short.

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1. Emory Rowland says:
  
  May 25, 2011 at 14:32
  
  This scene came from a real project I was working on where we were trying to get a client with notoriously bad URLs to consolidate them into a more search engine friendly canonical structure. As we got closer and closer to actually getting this all important SEO problem fixed, word came that there were massive IT layoffs. The dream of having good URLs was crushed. As a consolation, someone offered that the meta data people were still available for work–exactly who we didn’t need. Why didn’t they layoff the meta taggers instead of the IT group working on the URL problems? Would have helped the bottom line a lot more.
  
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joe says:

June 19, 2011 at 10:29

@deborah

Why you say that? Meta tag isn’t over yet (only meta keyword is, very old news) and title and des tag still play a big part in search engine visibility, not just locally but globally and it will be like this for a while until Google’s next big change or everyone already knew about SEO then.. Why? imagine how many web site born every second and how many web pages get publish. Compare those number to how little number of people who apply the use of Meta tags which is probably just 0.1%. If you do Meta tag, you will surely have a great start ahead of most web sites.

I have sites that rank 1st on several keyword, Meta title and description were my big helper.

With my sense of humor and always looking for ways to have a laugh, i find the cartoon quite funny. I see people saying stupid things about seo all the time at work.

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