Memorable SEO Experience By SEO Industry Experts

Craig: There are many good and bad experiences. One of the experiences was not doing enough research about keywords and niches and directly trying to jump on the outcome.

Another experience was when he was going to launch a website in a particular niche and invested money. However, failed to do a content check, and the content was plagiarized. Thus, failing to do quality checks proved to be bad for the website. 

A good positive experience is attending some of the amazing SEO events and having a lot of fun over there. 

Barry: While talking about SEO experiences, Barry says he wrote a blog post about a girlfriend and mentioned his memorable moment. He says a girl uses spamming Google images with memes of her boyfriends for payback. So, it surprised him that SEO is now getting into the real world. 

He remembers that this incident got out to the press, and the boy’s family also contacted him and told him that the boy was devastated. So, it was his biggest memorable SEO experience.

Neal: His best experience was when his clients got the jump in search rankings. The reason for getting this success is creating content for the users. 

Dan: One of the most memorable experiences was getting mentioned in Rand Fishkin’s book. Another amazing experience was the post he created that was in the top 10 most traffic positions. 

Andrea: In 2023, we were pleased to create a significant impact in terms of traffic, a double-digit growth probably. Also, the purchase orders of the clients went up. 

Chuck: Vidyard was working with a big company. They bought paid links and ranked number 1 in their category. It created buzz; however, it caught Google’s attention, and they quickly caught the paid links and put a penalty on the website.

Where do I begin? I would say it was very memorable for me when I started to be invited to meetings with C-level executives at big brands when I was still pretty young and relatively new at SEO. I had so much imposter syndrome but slowly began to realize that the knowledge I provided was invaluable for them and their businesses. They really trusted me, and that was an empowering feeling!

Growing SEO teams and watching my teammates blossom and learn new skills has also been unforgettable.

And in terms of the actual SEO work – I think that the frantic, last-minute site migrations (or site migration cleanups) have left some permanent scars!

Some of my most memorable experiences were related to creating content that got media attention, and some websites (and media) mentioning my website or a post I made. Some of the content I produced and posted on my blog, for example, got so much traffic that I had to work with my web host to keep the site up and running.

Some resulted in getting natural links to the site, but some did not. But overall, I think that even though I didn’t get links from some of the media mentions, it still helped my site and my overall reputation.