Posts Tagged ‘fun words’
Funniest SEO Keywords I’d Love to Optimize
March 12th, 2010 | 
Author: As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a lover of words. So I take a short break from the serious work of online marketing to enjoy the beauty of our language and contemplate how single letters can not only change meaning but add humor. After all, in SEO words are our business.
It seems The Washington Post runs a regular feature called The Style Invitational in which it invites readers to change a single letter in words to create a non-existent new word and come up with a definition for the new version. It also has a variant of the game where the reader is asked to give a humorous definition for an existing word. They both produce hilarious results, but I’m going to focus on the former game. Here’s an example:
ignoranus: An individual who is both stupid and an asshole
(Pardon the offensive language. I’m quoting it.)
These will have you bending over in laughter, but since we are in the SEO game, I thought it would be fun to see the exact match volumes from Google Adwords Keyword Tool. It turns out “surprise! surprise!” that people actually search on these new terms. So for all of the SEO experts in the room, you now have data to justify creating pages, content and tags for these words. The words are shown in the table below. By the way, I am in stitches that ‘bozone’ and ‘karmageddon’ are the two most searched for terms. Like, wow. I mean, like really? Dude, it’s as if some karmic word God has touched all humans with the ability to recognize the truly funny. Enjoy!
| Word | Definition | Exact Match Volume |
|---|---|---|
| Ignoranus (n.) | An individual who is both stupid and an asshole | 480 |
| Cashtration (n.) | The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time | 91 |
| Intaxication (n.) | Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with | 110 |
| Reintarnation (n.) | Coming back to life as a hillbilly | 210 |
| Bozone (n.) | The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future | 1,900 |
| Foreploy (n.) | Any misrepresentation of yourself for the purpose of getting laid | 46 |
| Giraffiti (n.) | Vandalism spray painted very, very high | 390 |
| Sarchasm (n.) | The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it | 1,000 |
| Inoculatte (n.) | To take coffee intravenously when you are running late | 36 |
| Osteopornosis (n.) | A degenerate disease | 46 |
| Karmageddon (n.) | It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer | 1,600 |
| Decafalon (n.) | The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you | 210 |
| Glibido (n.) | All talk and no action | 58 |
| Dopeler Effect (n.) | The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly | 63 |
| Arachnoleptic Fit (n.) | The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web | 91 |
| Beelzebug (n.) | Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bathroom at 3 in the morning and cannot be cast out | 170 |
| Caterpallor (n.) | The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating | 16 |
