Specialisten in Search Engine Optimalisation (SEO) grepen griezelfeest Halloween aan om op Twitter hun engste ervaringen te delen. Klanten die iets gelezen hebben, developers die het beter weten, systeembeheerders die iets wijzigen - allemaal ook heel herkenbaar binnen de IT. Onder meer Google Analytics en SEO-goeroe Matt Cutts stuurden tweets met de hashtag #SEOhorrorstories. Zoals:
"Our website is written completely in Flash." #seohorrorstories
—googleanalytics Google Analytics
"I was just discussing your sites with some of the webspam team."
#seohorrorstories —mattcutts Matt Cutts
"We've gotta launch next week, so we'll 'SEO the site' later" #seohorrorstories
—aaranged Aaron Bradley
Great site launch. I love what you've done with Disallow: / #seohorrorstories
—maxxeight Max Prin![]()
Every client sentence that starts with.... "I read this article...."
#seohorrorstories —schachin Kristine Schachinger
When client has site redesigned but forgets to include or even inform SEO in the process. #seohorrorstories
—DavidWallace David Wallace
Customers that don't know how to email, copy and paste and then think they are #seoexperts #seohorrorstories
—neil_brighton Neil Harper
When someone in IT blocks 40% of a site to reduce load "caused by bots" #seohorrorstories
—rishil Rishi Lakhani
"Is there someone at Google we can call to make an exception?" #SEOHorrorStories
—AlanBleiweiss Alan Bleiweiss
We rebuilt the site from scratch every year for the last 4 years. 301 redirects? What are those? #seohorrorstories
—robdwoods Rob Woods