45 SEO Experts Made a Word Cloud
Here we are at the end of 2014. You know what that means, right? It means it’s the season for 2015 SEO predictions. Speaking of SEO predictions, I recently saw this article – SEO Trends 2015: 45 Experts On The Future Of Search. After reading all the responses, I thought to myself, “Hey! No one asked me what I think about SEO in 2015!” In fact, no one has ever asked me what I think about the future of SEO. Oh well. Maybe one day I’ll make the big leagues of SEO.
Anyhoo, whenever I see really long interviews that feature several well-known people, I like to take all their statements and build a word cloud. I thought it would be fun to share a word cloud I made from that ’45 Experts’ article I mentioned above. You know, for science.
For that ’45 Experts’ post of 2015 SEO predictions, google, mobile, and content are the leaders in the clubhouse of keyword density. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. Google, mobile, and content dominate the themes of most SEO conversations these days. [Note: I removed a few keywords from the list because they were too obvious: search, marketing, and SEO.]
Some of the more notable words in the mix:
- brand(s)
- social
- people
- user(s)
- device(s)
- audience
- voice
- semantic
- data
There were over 10,000 words in those responses. If you’re interested, here is a gigantic list of words and the number of occurrences for each:
| Keyword | Repeats |
| mobile | 115 |
| content | 98 |
| search | 84 |
| 2015 | 73 |
| 66 | |
| seo | 64 |
| marketing | 48 |
| brands | 33 |
| think | 32 |
| social | 26 |
| data | 25 |
| focus | 24 |
| brand | 23 |
| people | 23 |
| companies | 22 |
| user | 22 |
| link | 22 |
| site | 22 |
| year | 22 |
| building | 21 |
| become | 20 |
| continue | 19 |
| sites | 19 |
| time | 19 |
| trend | 18 |
| website | 18 |
| traffic | 18 |
| strategy | 17 |
| devices | 16 |
| users | 16 |
| trends | 16 |
| it’s | 16 |
| right | 16 |
| device | 15 |
| new | 15 |
| big | 15 |
| years | 15 |
| key | 15 |
| experience | 15 |
| digital | 14 |
| lot | 13 |
| better | 13 |
| marketers | 13 |
| sure | 13 |
| audience | 13 |
| finally | 13 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| organic | 12 |
| web | 12 |
| biggest | 12 |
| past | 12 |
| important | 12 |
| results | 12 |
| links | 12 |
| penguin | 12 |
| quality | 12 |
| engine | 12 |
| strategies | 12 |
| optimization | 12 |
| business | 11 |
| start | 11 |
| creating | 11 |
| don’t | 11 |
| customer | 11 |
| clients | 11 |
| voice | 11 |
| websites | 11 |
| media | 11 |
| desktop | 10 |
| grow | 10 |
| friendly | 10 |
| coming | 10 |
| target | 10 |
| relevant | 10 |
| funnel | 10 |
| algorithms | 10 |
| agencies | 10 |
| clear | 10 |
| change | 10 |
| actually | 10 |
| information | 10 |
| understand | 10 |
| video | 10 |
| we’re | 9 |
| channel | 9 |
| back | 9 |
| addition | 9 |
| that’s | 9 |
| panda | 9 |
| team | 9 |
| value | 9 |
| online | 9 |
| consumers | 9 |
| working | 9 |
| semantic | 9 |
| engines | 9 |
| good | 9 |
| page | 8 |
| updates | 8 |
| understanding | 8 |
| algorithm | 8 |
| best | 8 |
| practitioners | 8 |
| less | 8 |
| help | 8 |
| customers | 8 |
| process | 8 |
| keep | 8 |
| seeing | 8 |
| place | 8 |
| 8 | |
| keywords | 8 |
| searches | 8 |
| design | 8 |
| made | 7 |
| changes | 7 |
| different | 7 |
| rankings | 7 |
| searching | 7 |
| seen | 7 |
| google’s | 7 |
| major | 7 |
| everything | 7 |
| optimized | 7 |
| toward | 7 |
| core | 7 |
| next | 7 |
| look | 7 |
| terms | 7 |
| industry | 7 |
| increase | 7 |
| percent | 7 |
| purchase | 7 |
| number | 7 |
| potential | 7 |
| they’re | 7 |
| ranking | 7 |
| market | 7 |
| looking | 7 |
| products | 6 |
| can’t | 6 |
| we’ve | 6 |
| channels | 6 |
| expect | 6 |
| likely | 6 |
| example | 6 |
| smart | 6 |
| teams | 6 |
| increasing | 6 |
| great | 6 |
| audiences | 6 |
| businesses | 6 |
| product | 6 |
| behind | 6 |
| keyword | 6 |
| metrics | 6 |
| first | 6 |
| moving | 6 |
| factor | 6 |
| area | 6 |
| 6 | |
| together | 6 |
| tools | 6 |
| feel | 6 |
| intent | 6 |
| context | 6 |
| knowledge | 6 |
| forward | 6 |
| generating | 6 |
| work | 6 |
| long | 6 |
| available | 6 |
| enough | 6 |
| usability | 6 |
| part | 6 |
| ensure | 6 |
| compete | 5 |
| ever | 5 |
| opportunity | 5 |
| call | 5 |
| give | 5 |
| certain | 5 |
| paid | 5 |
| isn’t | 5 |
| i’m | 5 |
| build | 5 |
| believe | 5 |
| wider | 5 |
| research | 5 |
| today | 5 |
| thinking | 5 |
| creation | 5 |
| track | 5 |
| towards | 5 |
| campaigns | 5 |
| we’ll | 5 |
| problems | 5 |
| overall | 5 |
| multiple | 5 |
| include | 5 |
| awareness | 5 |
| others | 5 |
| moment | 5 |
| focused | 5 |
| becoming | 5 |
| greater | 5 |
| query | 5 |
| queries | 5 |
| app | 5 |
| graph | 5 |
| possible | 5 |
| testing | 5 |
| insights | 5 |
| without | 5 |
| presence | 5 |
| point | 5 |
| real | 4 |
| largest | 4 |
| serving | 4 |
| lead | 4 |
| recently | 4 |
| spam | 4 |
| improve | 4 |
| large | 4 |
| recent | 4 |
| interact | 4 |
| management | 4 |
| specific | 4 |
| plan | 4 |
| during | 4 |
| earning | 4 |
| simply | 4 |
| workflow | 4 |
| identify | 4 |
| approach | 4 |
| element | 4 |
| larger | 4 |
| future | 4 |
| you’re | 4 |
| sales | 4 |
| conversion | 4 |
| update | 4 |
| rolling | 4 |
| personal | 4 |
| once | 4 |
| there’s | 4 |
| therefore | 4 |
| especially | 4 |
| methods | 4 |
| provide | 4 |
| create | 4 |
| order | 4 |
| path | 4 |
| currently | 4 |
| last | 4 |
| continued | 4 |
| taking | 4 |
| consider | 4 |
| aspects | 4 |
| begin | 4 |
| areas | 4 |
| quite | 4 |
| answers | 4 |
| impact | 4 |
| issues | 4 |
| ecommerce | 4 |
| platforms | 4 |
| responsive | 4 |
| simple | 4 |
| couple | 4 |
| needed | 4 |
| reality | 4 |
| sources | 4 |
| ecosystem | 4 |
| relevance | 4 |
| reason | 4 |
| pages | 4 |
| contextual | 4 |
| fact | 4 |
| location | 4 |
| top | 4 |
| level | 4 |
| attention | 4 |
| efforts | 4 |
| infographics | 4 |
| signals | 4 |
| result | 4 |
| huge | 4 |
| world | 4 |
| day | 4 |
| expansion | 4 |
| webmaster | 4 |
| type | 4 |
| owners | 4 |
| little | 4 |
| conversions | 4 |
| rank | 4 |
| across | 4 |
| beyond | 4 |
| driven | 4 |
| role | 4 |
| maybe | 4 |
| company’s | 4 |
| themselves | 4 |
| personalization | 4 |
| appropriate | 4 |
| longer | 4 |
| engagement | 4 |
| serps | 4 |
| campaign | 4 |
| priority | 4 |
| success | 4 |
| competitors | 4 |
| harder | 3 |
| visitors | 3 |
| step | 3 |
| searchers | 3 |
| tracking | 3 |
| set | 3 |
| click | 3 |
| lost | 3 |
| concept | 3 |
| direct | 3 |
| manual | 3 |
| targeting | 3 |
| anything | 3 |
| far | 3 |
| benefit | 3 |
| collect | 3 |
| fully | 3 |
| integrated | 3 |
| hope | 3 |
| rolled | 3 |
| second | 3 |
| everyone | 3 |
| successful | 3 |
| user’s | 3 |
| end | 3 |
| bigger | 3 |
| picture | 3 |
| strategic | 3 |
| valued | 3 |
| projects | 3 |
| personas | 3 |
| branding | 3 |
| entire | 3 |
| driving | 3 |
| doesn’t | 3 |
| stage | 3 |
| anymore | 3 |
| question | 3 |
| starting | 3 |
| exist | 3 |
| matter | 3 |
| company | 3 |
| properly | 3 |
| uxm | 3 |
| fast | 3 |
| open | 3 |
| solution | 3 |
| following | 3 |
| unique | 3 |
| increased | 3 |
| alone | 3 |
| action | 3 |
| secondary | 3 |
| difference | 3 |
| machine | 3 |
| learning | 3 |
| whole | 3 |
| generally | 3 |
| ways | 3 |
| finding | 3 |
| effort | 3 |
| frequently | 3 |
| tackle | 3 |
| problem | 3 |
| leads | 3 |
| experiences | 3 |
| enable | 3 |
| phones | 3 |
| itself | 3 |
| roi | 3 |
| talked | 3 |
| multi-touch | 3 |
| until | 3 |
| trying | 3 |
| what’s | 3 |
| share | 3 |
| try | 3 |
| typing | 3 |
| disavow | 3 |
| lists | 3 |
| significantly | 3 |
| becomes | 3 |
| granular | 3 |
| natural | 3 |
| language | 3 |
| refinements | 3 |
| king | 3 |
| quantity | 3 |
| takes | 3 |
| pay | 3 |
| above | 3 |
| happens | 3 |
| added | 3 |
| gone | 3 |
| report | 3 |
| googlebot | 3 |
| optimize | 3 |
| cases | 3 |
| receive | 3 |
| text | 3 |
| personalized | 3 |
| instead | 3 |
| influencers | 3 |
| down | 3 |
| distribution | 3 |
| resources | 3 |
| service | 3 |
| privacy | 3 |
| hyper | 3 |
| succeed | 3 |
| bit | 3 |
| mean | 3 |
| choose | 3 |
| nuclear | 3 |
| option | 3 |
| tip | 3 |
| return | 3 |
| retailers | 3 |
| ignore | 3 |
| few | 3 |
| created | 3 |
| rise | 3 |
| improvements | 3 |
| mention | 3 |
| i’ve | 3 |
| shifting | 3 |
| measures | 3 |
| importance | 3 |
| having | 3 |
| agents | 3 |
| present | 3 |
| serve | 3 |
| assets | 3 |
| https | 3 |
| reach | 3 |
| perspective | 3 |
| load | 3 |
| industries | 3 |
| activities | 3 |
| critical | 3 |
| promote | 3 |
| loyalty | 3 |
| human | 3 |
| consume | 3 |
| traditional | 3 |
| directly | 3 |
| mobile-friendly | 3 |
| persona | 3 |
| analytics | 3 |
| decision | 3 |
| away | 3 |
| scope | 3 |
| opportunities | 3 |
| 500 | 2 |
| diminish | 2 |
| exposure | 2 |
| expecting | 2 |
| proper | 2 |
| numbers | 2 |
| attribution | 2 |
| listings | 2 |
| million | 2 |
| consumer | 2 |
| further | 2 |
| actions | 2 |
| thus | 2 |
| increasingly | 2 |
| amazon | 2 |
| echo | 2 |
| wearable | 2 |
| behavior | 2 |
| allowing | 2 |
| sophisticated | 2 |
| offer | 2 |
| places | 2 |
| integrating | 2 |
| knows | 2 |
| journey | 2 |
| agnostic | 2 |
| pace | 2 |
| notice | 2 |
| predictions | 2 |
| dead | 2 |
| cheap | 2 |
| likes | 2 |
| requires | 2 |
| byproduct | 2 |
| investing | 2 |
| hiring | 2 |
| addressed | 2 |
| hence | 2 |
| development | 2 |
| budget | 2 |
| pushed | 2 |
| word | 2 |
| ago | 2 |
| involve | 2 |
| aren’t | 2 |
| answer | 2 |
| phrase | 2 |
| pull | 2 |
| note | 2 |
| eventually | 2 |
| called | 2 |
| nothing | 2 |
| advice | 2 |
| define | 2 |
| connected | 2 |
| inform | 2 |
| deep | 2 |
| discipline | 2 |
| times | 2 |
| regardless | 2 |
| status | 2 |
| ads | 2 |
| waiting | 2 |
| hoping | 2 |
| stay | 2 |
| backlinks | 2 |
| actual | 2 |
| essentially | 2 |
| retain | 2 |
| you’ve | 2 |
| built | 2 |
| growth | 2 |
| options | 2 |
| situation | 2 |
| demands | 2 |
| deconstruction | 2 |
| primary | 2 |
| opinion | 2 |
| prediction | 2 |
| usage | 2 |
| continuation | 2 |
| integrate | 2 |
| anyone | 2 |
| invested | 2 |
| chance | 2 |
| certainly | 2 |
| continuing | 2 |
| boost | 2 |
| types | 2 |
| roll | 2 |
| hit | 2 |
| looked | 2 |
| poor | 2 |
| analyze | 2 |
| automation | 2 |
| trust | 2 |
| secure | 2 |
| fixed | 2 |
| wake | 2 |
| naturally | 2 |
| easier | 2 |
| talk | 2 |
| ownership | 2 |
| multi-channel | 2 |
| mindset | 2 |
| amount | 2 |
| vast | 2 |
| solutions | 2 |
| deals | 2 |
| powerful | 2 |
| hungry | 2 |
| turn | 2 |
| managing | 2 |
| smarter | 2 |
| verticals | 2 |
| sense | 2 |
| demand | 2 |
| serves | 2 |
| project | 2 |
| task | 2 |
| specialists | 2 |
| creative | 2 |
| lessen | 2 |
| invest | 2 |
| previously | 2 |
| forget | 2 |
| field | 2 |
| free | 2 |
| throughout | 2 |
| model | 2 |
| community | 2 |
| person | 2 |
| started | 2 |
| readers | 2 |
| easily | 2 |
| benefits | 2 |
| interactive | 2 |
| related | 2 |
| maturing | 2 |
| factors | 2 |
| guide | 2 |
| instance | 2 |
| images | 2 |
| expand | 2 |
| providing | 2 |
| there’ll | 2 |
| they’ve | 2 |
| loyal | 2 |
| interrogate | 2 |
| 2 | |
| influence | 2 |
| overlooked | 2 |
| assistants | 2 |
| utilizing | 2 |
| snippets | 2 |
| events | 2 |
| hours | 2 |
| aware | 2 |
| adoption | 2 |
| functions | 2 |
| there´s | 2 |
| central | 2 |
| webmasters | 2 |
| ideal | 2 |
| specifically | 2 |
| faster | 2 |
| algorithmic | 2 |
| deployment | 2 |
| leading | 2 |
| effects | 2 |
| famous | 2 |
| stakeholders | 2 |
| tell | 2 |
| actionable | 2 |
| check | 2 |
| 3 | 2 |
| quickly | 2 |
| confusion | 2 |
| hint | 2 |
| code | 2 |
| send | 2 |
| focusing | 2 |
| weight | 2 |
| conducted | 2 |
| computer | 2 |
| smartphone | 2 |
| wrong | 2 |
| disastrous | 2 |
| internal | 2 |
| rely | 2 |
| spend | 2 |
| accept | 2 |
| makes | 2 |
| telling | 2 |
| board | 2 |
| predict | 2 |
| intelligence | 2 |
| wanting | 2 |
| influential | 2 |
| sake | 2 |
| infonuggets | 2 |
| job | 2 |
| technical | 2 |
| list | 2 |
| seos | 2 |
| implementing | 2 |
| authority | 2 |
| obviously | 2 |
| side | 2 |
| effective | 2 |
| happen | 2 |
| managers | 2 |
| attracted | 2 |
| reward | 2 |
| signal | 2 |
| rates | 2 |
| plans | 2 |
| frequency | 2 |
| eyeballs | 2 |
| ask | 2 |
| remain | 2 |
| affects | 2 |
| program | 2 |
| influencer | 2 |
| told | 2 |
| delivery | 2 |
| reducing | 2 |
| speed | 2 |
| require | 2 |
| commercial | 2 |
| essential | 2 |
| majority | 2 |
| cost | 2 |
| localization | 2 |
| putting | 2 |
| changed | 2 |
| day-to-day | 2 |
| amazing | 2 |
| hard | 2 |
| outsource | 2 |
| promotion | 2 |
| sees | 2 |
| measure | 2 |
| paradigm | 2 |
| owned | 2 |
| earned | 2 |
| play | 2 |
| apartment | 2 |
| micro | 2 |
| segmenting | 2 |
| improvement | 2 |
| morpheus | 2 |
| reports | 2 |
| visibility | 2 |
| metric | 2 |
| geo | 2 |
| services | 2 |
| revenue | 2 |
| doubt | 2 |
| format | 2 |
| targeted | 2 |
| friendliness | 2 |
| integration | 2 |
| collaboration | 2 |
| cloud-based | 2 |
| on-site | 2 |
| positive | 2 |
| decisions | 2 |
| basis | 2 |
| lifetime | 2 |
| retention | 2 |
| hardly | 2 |
| iphone | 2 |
| drive | 2 |
| differences | 2 |
| along | 2 |
| somebody | 2 |
| found | 2 |
| form | 2 |
| photos | 2 |
| recommended | 2 |
| perfectly | 2 |
| merely | 2 |
| position | 2 |
| copywriting | 2 |
| close | 2 |
| higher | 2 |
| message | 2 |
| bahamas | 2 |
| improving | 2 |
| given | 2 |
| old | 2 |
| broader | 2 |
| party | 2 |
| advertising | 2 |
| win | 2 |
| period | 2 |
| importantly | 2 |
| optimizing | 2 |
| vision | 2 |
| necessary | 2 |
| ahead | 2 |
| evolution | 2 |
| penalties | 2 |
| designs | 2 |
| perform | 2 |
That’s pretty much all I’ve got.
BTW I wonder if Google considers it to be duplicate content if I build a word cloud based on a blog post from some other site. Hmm…