All I Want for Christmas: An SEO Wishlist

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from your friends at Profound Strategy! We hope your season is merry and bright — full of laughter and love. And we hope that Santa smiles on your wish list this week! Here are a few things that our team is asking for this year.

All I Want for Christmas …

. “… is for Google to provide my freaking keywords.” – Evan Burrows (@EvanBurrows) . . . . “… is for your brand to finally start blogging.” – Ginger Helm (@GingerHelm) . . . . “… is for Google to ease up the Webmaster Tools restrictions. Let’s open up the books, people!” – Todd Mayfield . . . “… is a marketing clone machine.” – Rebecca Levinson (@RebeccaLev) . . . . “… is for Google to assemble a web analytics team that get’s hit by Bing’s Avalanche.” – Peter Zugaj . . . “… is my two front SERP results? Ha. … is for marketing teams to dare to delve outside the silos and coordinate SEO, content, social, and even PR efforts and dollars.” – Kathryn Auerbach (@KTDVCnct) . . “… is for business to focus on traffic and conversion, not rankings!” – Chris Post (@ThisIsPost) . . . . “… is for Penguin to stop updating over the holidays.” – Joshua Saint . . . . “… is for the internet to stop using the word, ‘authenticity.'” – Allie Lofy (@AllieLofy) . . . . “… is a Vine of Rand Fishkin twirling his mustache.” – Lex Wisniewski (@EstherProject) . . . . “… is another search engine to challenge Google’s dominance and shake things up around here!” – Nate Dame (@SEONate) . . We’ll let you know if Santa brings the Profound Strategy team anything from our wish list. In the meantime, what about you? Tweet your #SEOwishlist to @SEONate or @Profound Strategy so we can see them and share!

Alexis Wisniewski

Associate Editor

Lex is a writer who used to turn up her nose at SEO — with its forced keywords and its shady backlinks — until she met a team of people doing it right, and got roped in by her love of excellent content. Find her on Twitter @estherproject.

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