SEO Haiku
Update: I was really hoping to get some more suggestions. Submit your SEO Haiku and I’ll post here.
While eating lunch today I decided to enrich my soul instead of my mind. Rather than research and read about SEO techniques, what Google is doing or test some SEO strategies, instead I decided to read Haikus.
I had taken some literature classes at my university, VCU, and liked the simplicity of the Haiku. Yet, if done correctly, they also held deeper meaning, at least to the author. So I’ve attempted to combine the haiku with SEO and create an SEO Haiku. Much thanks to http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiartjr.htm for giving me a refresher course on the art of Haiku writing techniques. I found some good Haiku examples as well. Here are my first attempts at merging these two art forms. Yes, SEO is an art form. 
Enter keyword search
View top five results, maybe
Search begins anewMiserable George
Googlebombing defeated
Do links make the man?Search engine shows way
Clicking now to search result
Back and search againRanking number one
Many visitors view site
No conversion…help!
I used the 5-7-5 rule of syllables, as I like the restriction. If you would like to submit your own I would be happy to post and share your haikus or submit them as a comment.
It was a nice distraction.
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11 Responses to “SEO Haiku”
By Big Fan on Feb 7, 2007 | Reply
If art and science are a spectrum, then I agree that SEO leans to the art side. Nice haiku execution.
By John Alexander on Mar 2, 2007 | Reply
My Haiku contribution
Land of Topher grows.
Proud father smiles to the East.
Old man’s web is spun.
By Wit (1 comments.) on Apr 2, 2007 | Reply
’bout “Domainhunter”
He is a forum spammer
So please ignore him.
By Aston (1 comments.) on May 10, 2007 | Reply
Ranking well for my
targeted keywords makes me
a happy webmaster.
My heart is filled with
springtime and kittens and joy
for Google shows me love.
Hey what’s going on?
My site has dropped from page one
to page twelve. Oh noes!!
My heart fills with pain.
I’m sad. Nobody loves me.
Why, O Great Goog, why??
By Luna Love (1 comments.) on Jun 15, 2007 | Reply
Teaching SEO, this blog is.
Learning, I am.
Done, my comment is.
By Bob Gladstein (1 comments.) on Aug 19, 2007 | Reply
Why should I ask Ask?
Their search results are gorgeous
But new pages? Nope.
O, green PageRank bar
You tell me all that you know
You don’t know so much
By fantomaster (1 comments.) on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
links are slowly built
rankings blossom up with time
but where is traffic?
By Sandra Niehaus (1 comments.) on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
Great idea! here are a couple for you:
Only those who speak
The words of machines will be seen -
Conform or be lost.
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What we find accretes -
Souls enriched or hardened by
Accumulation.
By John Alexander on Aug 27, 2007 | Reply
Yellow speeds to light
Search engine merges new lands
Topher grins, and drives…
Had to revisit the Haiku…thanks…John
By Xurxo Vidal (1 comments.) on May 28, 2009 | Reply
PPC is easy
Buy keywords, traffic pours in
No sales. Damnit!
Google gets it
Yahoo doesn’t
Will they ever?
Google is clean
Yahoo is complex
MSN, Live, Bing, WTF?
Exact match is da bomb
Double meanings kill
Negatives don’t work!
I rank #1
Is that good traffic?
I don’t know
What’s twitter for?
To waste time
Walk your dog today?
What’s twitter for?
To meet new people
New client, new contract!
140 characters!
I got more to say
Ok abbreviate