It’s irritating when people ask you about your education, result and job, at least for me it is!. Especially when they asked what do I do? I humbly replied, “SEO”. And the next question without even waiting for a second is, “What is SEO”? This is probably the more common question then “What is your name”?
Without the discrimination of any experience or age or anything all the SEOs will defiantly gonna agree me that this is the most common question as per their professional life. “What is SEO”? lol… and every time we need to play the same recording, the definition available on Wikipedia in order to stay away from other interrogative questions.
Every time we need to start like, “Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a web site or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results.” Normally people do not ask any question after this in order to maintain the impression that I can understand whatever you said.
I still remember the 1st time I started the internship of SEO and tell my mother about it, she said, “(esy-hi-ho) in English “of no use”. Though it is funny to some extent, but very irritation when you are in love with the search industry or even you like it.
Once I tried to make my younger brother understand about what I do! I said look you Google things right? You get the top 10 listings on the 1st page right? Yes, he said. What I do is I work over the website in such a way that it can get the top 10 rankings in Google from that particular term. (For me I guess it was pretty much cleared) He said, “So, by this you mean you cheat Google...Right?” Damn!
On, my first salary I took my few friends for the treat and as usual hey asked the same question and I find the easy way out and start the SEO rhyme (a definition for wiki) once again. As soon as I finished one of my friend said, “whatever!... you got the good salary right! Now treat us”
I remember, once my office friend decided to resign and I asked a valid reason for that? He said, “Man every time I decided to learn a new technique the next day Google change its algorithm!” He probably hates Google for this but I love it.
I don’t really get any idea to by pass this most common question of my life which always makes me irritated. Do you have any idea? Please speak up!
But i love to do SEO :) Whatever people say but i found something relate to me in this field.
ReplyDeleteHaha Such a Nice post really it happens a lot and also happens with me & it's really difficult to tackle these type of people who don't even know that what is Search Engine Basically.
ReplyDeleteif anyone asks, ya can tell them that ya work "at" Google. this gives ya a lotta room to impress people.
ReplyDeleteReally nice post. I faced many times the same situation. Still I am facing after I had 4 years of SEO experience also
ReplyDeleteawesome post i like it seo is my job and job is god
ReplyDeletedo your really bother about others regarding what you do? :P
ReplyDeletebut you see SEO is still in abbreviation. When i tell people I am a marketing consultant, they ask me what does that mean? LOL!
ReplyDeleteI have been answering this question for last 6 years. It really gets difficult to make non-tech savvy to understand What is SEO.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your comments and point of views... and i can clearly see that i am not the only one... the only thing is i am the one who speaks up :)
ReplyDelete@ karim buddy i really appreciate you love with SEO and probably m not the only one you are the international man (you know what i mean!!)
@ Beenish Qureshi lol if ppl ask the same question for Marketing Consultant than i guess their question about SEO is petty much justified :p
I can humbly suggest that you give up the very idea even trying to make people understand what SEO is all about. Since they do not grasp much of what you say anyway.
ReplyDeleteOr make it sound a little more impressive and vague, you can simply tell them that you are into "Internet Marketing Biz", it is something that is both self explanatory and offers no clear picture at the same time. People always get easily impressed by what they think they should have understood but do not. And that way, you can probably keep their queries to the minimum.
yeh ,, itz really true. but i explain seo in simple general language as per ability of opposite person..
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