This is a hilarious post from Maple North Internet Marketing about our SEO Halloween Superheros, hope you enjoy! Special Thanks to Mitchell Stoker for the share!
Mitchell has put together his fantastic 8 superheros in the SEO space. All of the above characters are real superheros in my book and deserve a lot more recognition then this, but this is a great start. I personally read most of everything every one of these guys writes. They are experts in their fields and amazing at what they do!
SuperRand – Rand Fishkin
Internet Birth: ~1993
Gender: Male
Occupation: Wizard of Moz
Base: Mozplex
Website: http://www.seomoz.org/
Twitter: @randfish
Enemies: Blackhat SEOs and spammers
Power: X-ray vision on the SERPs and flying everywhere (Mozcation, events, meetings, etc)
“Faster than a speeding algorithm! More powerful than a Google Search! Able to crash websites in a single tweet! Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SuperRand!”
SpiderMatt – Matt Cutts
Internet Birth: Joined the Google Team in 2000
Gender: Male
Occupation: Head of Google’s Webspam Team
Base: GooglePlex
Website: http://www.mattcutts.com/
Twitter: @mattcutts
Enemies: Blackhat SEOs, spammers and low-quality scum, affiliates(?)
Power: Precognitive sense of danger (SafeSearch) and superhuman crawling abilities
Wilverine – Wil Reynolds
Internet Birth: ~1999
Gender: Male
Occupation: Ultimate Link Builder
Base: Search Church
Website: http://www.seerinteractive.com/
Twitter: @wilreynolds
Enemies: Link-buyers and spammers
Power: Keen senses to sniff out and find links, extraordinary ability to heal sites from spam and other blackhat harm, and hidden link building claws of death
BatMihm – David Mihm
Internet Birth: ~2006
Gender: Male
Occupation: Local SEO Consultant
Base: Portland Hideout
Website: http://www.davidmihm.com/
Twitter: @davidmihm
Enemies: Blackhat SEOs and fake local reviewers
Power: Brilliant mind and powerful strategies to protect his local roots
THORrester – Duane Forrester
Internet Birth: 1997
Gender: Male
Occupation: Senior Product Manager for Bing’s Webmaster Outreach
Base: Bing Headquarters
Website: http://www.theonlinemarketingguy.com/
Twitter: @DuaneForrester
Enemies: Blackhat SEOs and spammers
Power: Super stamina and lightning speed travel from conference to conference
Gray Lantern – Michael Gray
Internet Birth: 1998
Gender: Male
Occupation: President of Atlas Web Service
Base: New York Hideout
Website: http://www.wolf-howl.com/
Twitter: @graywolf
Enemies: Haters
Power: Possesses a magical auto-tweet ring for “archive” tweets, truly a gift
Captain Avinash – Avinash Kaushik
Internet Birth: Unknown
Gender: Male
Occupation: Chief Education Officer at Market Motive
Base: California
Website: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/
Twitter: @Avinash
Enemies: Anyone who does not track and record data
Power: Born an ordinary man, but transformed into an analytical genius
IrondyMan – Andy Beal
Internet Birth: Unknown
Gender: Male
Occupation: Founder of Trackur
Base: Everywhere
Website: http://www.trackur.com/
Twitter: @AndyBeal
Enemies: Haters and slanderers
Power: Brilliant mind that created the gadgets and tools to track and monitor the world (or your reputation)!
Image Credits:
http://www.buysuperherocostumes.com/
http://www.buycostumes.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avinash_Kaushik
http://www.wolf-howl.com/about-graywolf/
http://www.aseopro.com/SEOrockstars.php
http://www.davidmihm.com/about.shtml
http://www.affiliateblog.co.uk/wil-reynolds-interview-seer-interactive.html
http://www.seomoz.org/team/randfish
Peter Daisyme
October 31, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Great post, thanks for the share! I love the Rand Fishkin one, priceless!