{"id":29567,"date":"2013-12-20T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/?p=29567"},"modified":"2014-06-20T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T21:23:07","slug":"google-gifts-seo-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/google-gifts-seo-christmas-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] An SEO Christmas Carol: The Twelve Days of Google Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At Bruce Clay, Inc. we got into the spirit of the season and optimized the lyrics of &#8220;The Twelve Days of Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In &#8220;The Twelve Days of Google Gifts&#8221; we present a wish list of things Google would deliver in our SEO dreams.\u00a0<em>Can anyone out there relate?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5d8KLpmkqG4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #990000;\">The Twelve Days of Google Gifts<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Days-of-Gifts-from-Google-An-SEO-Christmas-Carol.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-29580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Days-of-Gifts-from-Google-An-SEO-Christmas-Carol-1024x826.jpg\" alt=\"12 Days of Gifts from Google - An SEO Christmas Carol\" width=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Days-of-Gifts-from-Google-An-SEO-Christmas-Carol-1024x826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Days-of-Gifts-from-Google-An-SEO-Christmas-Carol-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>On the first day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">No manual or algorithmic penalties<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the second day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">A free pair of Google Glass<\/span><br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the third day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">+1s from influential Google+ users<\/span><br \/>\nA free pair of Google Glass<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the fourth day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">Traffic spikes from memes gone viral<\/span><br \/>\n+1s from influential Google+ users<br \/>\nA free pair of Google Glass<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the fifth day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">ALL MY KEYWORD DATA BACK<\/span><br \/>\nTraffic spikes from memes gone viral<br \/>\n+1s from influential Google+ users<br \/>\nRich snippets and authorship photos on my listings<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the sixth day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">My robots directives followed (instead of taken as suggestion)<\/span><br \/>\nAll that other stuff<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the seventh day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">Prominent placement in the local carousel<\/span><br \/>\nAll that other stuff<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the eighth day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">Rich snippets and authorship photos on my listings<\/span><br \/>\nAll that other stuff<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the ninth day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">Top-3 rankings on my high-traffic head terms<\/span><br \/>\nAll that other stuff<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the tenth day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">5-star ratings on all my product reviews<\/span><br \/>\nAll that other stuff<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the eleventh day of Christmas Google gave to me<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">A Matt Cutts retweet to increase my Klout<\/span><br \/>\nAll that other stuff<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties<\/p>\n<p>On the twelfth day of Christmas<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #990000;\">Google changed the rules on me<br \/>\nAnd made it against their guidelines to get: <\/span><br \/>\na Matt Cutts retweet to increase my Klout<br \/>\n5-star ratings on all my product reviews<br \/>\nTop-3 rankings on my high-traffic head terms<br \/>\nA free pair of Google Glass<br \/>\nProminent placement in the local carousel<br \/>\nMy robots directives followed (instead of taken as suggestion)<br \/>\nALL MY KEYWORD DATA BACK<br \/>\nTraffic spikes from memes gone viral<br \/>\n+1s from influential Google+ users<br \/>\nRich snippets and authorship photos on my listings<br \/>\nAnd no manual or algorithmic penalties!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Bruce Clay, Inc. we got into the spirit of the season and optimized the lyrics of &#8220;The Twelve Days of Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Twelve Days of Google Gifts&#8221; we present a wish list of things Google would deliver in our SEO dreams. Can anyone out there relate?<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: Santa Clay sighting ahead! Click through to view our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/google-gifts-seo-christmas-carol\/\">SEO Christmas carol holiday music video<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,1232,498],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<title>BruceClay - [VIDEO] An SEO Christmas Carol: The Twelve Days of Google Gifts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bruce Clay, Inc. sings an SEO Christmas Carol in this video featuring Bruce Clay and some brave staff. &#039;Tis the season to be jolly, after all!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/google-gifts-seo-christmas-carol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[VIDEO] An SEO Christmas Carol: The Twelve Days of Google Gifts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bruce Clay, Inc. sings an SEO Christmas Carol in this video featuring Bruce Clay and some brave staff. &#039;Tis the season to be jolly, after all!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/google-gifts-seo-christmas-carol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bruce Clay, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-20T19:30:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-06-20T21:23:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Days-of-Gifts-from-Google-An-SEO-Christmas-Carol-1024x826.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bruce Clay, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bruce Clay, Inc.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/google-gifts-seo-christmas-carol\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/google-gifts-seo-christmas-carol\/\",\"name\":\"[VIDEO] An SEO Christmas Carol: The Twelve Days of Google Gifts\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-20T19:30:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-06-20T21:23:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0610f8e5ef910ee8e286fd7d5c6f266d\"},\"description\":\"Bruce Clay, Inc. sings an SEO Christmas Carol in this video featuring Bruce Clay and some brave staff. 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