15 Stellar SEO Quotes That Will Spur Your Search Efforts

With SEO at the helm of all we do, we come across a lot of SEO quotes.

And we’re not going to lie, we’re avid collectors. In fact, our Google Drive folder for them is starting to get a little out of hand.

But we don’t want you to get overloaded, so we picked 15 that we really like.

Hopefully they’ll enlighten and inspire your search efforts, and maybe even make you laugh.

And they’re all shareable, so feel free to spread some SEO wisdom across the twitosphere.

Some of Our Fave SEO Quotes

• • “Social may be sexy, but search still pays the bills.” – Tom Pick Click & Tweet!

• • “SEO is a marketing function for sure, but it needs to be baked into a product, not slapped on like icing after the cake is baked.” – Duane Forrester Click & Tweet!

• • “The days of SEO being a game outsmarting algorithms are over. Today content strategy and valuable, sustainable strategies are essential, not just tricks and links.” – Adam Audette Click & Tweet!

• • “You can’t just ‘SEO’ your website and be done. It’s a forever moving goal post.” – Stoney deGeyter Click & Tweet!

• • “The best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of Google search results.” – Unknown Click & Tweet!

• • “There is no black magic to successfully attracting customers via the Web.” – Rand Fishkin Click & Tweet!

• • “It is not the job of search engine optimization to make a pig fly. It is the job of the SEO to genetically re-engineer the Web site so that it becomes an eagle.” – Bruce Clay Click & Tweet!

• • “The objective is not to ‘make your links appear natural’; the objective is that your links are natural.” – Matt Cutts Click & Tweet!

• • “If you’re not meeting your visitors’ needs, it doesn’t matter how ‘optimized’ your site is.” – Stoney deGeyter Click & Tweet!

• • “Today it’s not about ‘get the traffic’ — it’s about ‘get the targeted and relevant traffic.'” – Adam Audette Click & Tweet!

• • “The success of a page should be measured by one criteria: does the visitor do what you want them to do?” – Aaron Wall Click & Tweet!

• • “Organisms take time to grow, whether plants, animals, or humans… and yes, even businesses. SEO is no different.” – Matt Dalbey Click & Tweet!

• • “Never lose sight of the fact that all SEO ranking signals revolve around content of some kind.” – Duane Forrester Click & Tweet!

• • “Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.” – Wendy Piersall Click & Tweet!

• • “If content is king, then links are queen. Build a network of quality backlinks.” – Richard Burckhardt Click & Tweet!

Yeah, I did it. I threw a quote from myself in there. I just love SEO analogies and wanted to get in on the fun.

Shamelessness aside, I hope these quotes gave you some good takeaways you can use to strengthen your SEO strategy.

What good is a quote if it doesn’t help you up your game?

Now, I’d love to hear from you. Share your comments below. Which quote (or quotes) changed your thinking or expanded your knowledge of SEO?