Words that make you want to scream..

[NFFC]

Filter


Just me?

[DaveN]

penalty ;)

[MrMackin]

Guidelines

[powerofeyes]

Manual review, Algorithm update :)

[mcanerin]

ethics

(like the words and ideas above, I've got nothing against them, it's the baggage, misapplication and misconceptions that come up every time in conjunction with them...)

[steve sardell]

a daunting task

[rcjordan]

obfuscate obfuscate obfuscate

[St0n3y]

hat

Google Dance

[greenleaves]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

(referencing George Carlin)

[St0n3y]

Post Election Stress Trauma (P.E.S.T.)

[Incubator]

Google Books


Cheers

WC

[grnidone]

spam (when it does not refer to canned meat or email.)

[Lex]

strategic alliances

[Marcia]

It is a daunting task to have to forge strategic alliances, particularly when post election stress disorder rears it's ugly head and obfuscates the post traumatic stress disorder that we suffer when we spam and fear a manual review that could result in a penalty, or fear that we may have tripped a filter after an algorithm update, having compromised our ethics and not gone strictly by the guidelines set out in the Google Books.

[Rumbas]

META tags :D

[Chris_D]

e-anything

[Marcia]

>>Cheers

Some I can understand, but what's not to like about Cheers?

[I, Brian]

The one that begins floccinocci...

[Chris Boggs]

>>Cheers

Some I can understand, but what's not to like about Cheers?

I hope you were trying to be funny, but "cheers" was not the word he was saying made him want to scream, rather "Google books" was I believe...

[Chris Boggs]

head hunter

[St0n3y]

britney spears

[Jenstar]

mesothelioma...

Not only because I had to learn how to spell it, but I had to learn how to pronounce it too ;)

[mat]

Basically, I personally, at this present moment in time ...

[Marcia]

Basically, I personally, at this present moment in time ...

Basically, I personally, at this present moment in time, am personally inclined to think ...

[hassleback]

bandwidth.....

[jcoronella]

sp**

(Unsolicited Commercial Email)

[MrMackin]

OptInRealBig

[creativecraig]

IMHO - if its not honest then dont bother posting!

[Lex]

Doesn't the "H" in IMHO stand for humble?

[sebastian]

out of pocket

if one mo' "tie-guy" tells me he'll be "out of pocket" this week, i'll rearrange is keyboard keys.

[donut]

irregardless

If it is regardless already, how can it be irregardless? Does that really mean it is regard-ful?

[farmerTom1985]

"...everything on the menu." Any sentence with these words can not be good, especially if you were on my first date with me...

[Keke21]

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen :p

[skipfactor]

sandbox

link exchange

[lots0]

SEO Expert

[xan]

"Semantics" is mine.

[rcjordan]

blogosphere

[farmerTom1985]

"Can you do me a small favor..."

[Marcia]

I swear to God, sometimes the word "community" being used makes me want to scream.

[Octagon]

"Smorgasboard"
"Gondolo"
"...is great!" (particularly in advertising... it doesn't do anything!)
"Stoked!" (as in, positively suprised)


man i go nuts when I hear those words

[mcanerin]

"Information Superhighway" along with stupid "roadkill" jokes related to it.....

Ian

[searchengineblog.com]

ethical [place occupation here]

[St0n3y]

"progressive" (as in politics)

[littleman]

Autolink -- actually, it makes me want to do much more than scream.

[Marcia]

"roadkill"
I hate that word - except in recipes.
Autolink
Right - the user-side Google Cloakbar

I absolutely LOATHE the word "girls" used when referring to grown women.

[PhilC]

"you know" when frequently included in what a person says. Once I hear that a couple of times, I can't hear anything else from the person.

[agreen1320]

with that said, quagmire, guesstimate, quasi-anything, height-weight proportionate, all acronyms.

[Marketing Guy]

1. "Let's not re-invent the wheel here"

2. Any domain name / "brand" with "z" in place of a "s", a "4" in place of "for", a "u" in place of "you" and so on.

[DianeV]

solution

We've actually had people call to say that they need a solution; makes me wonder (and have to ask): a solution for what?

I'm with Marcia re the use of "girls" when referring to grown women; or maybe it's just one of those things that only one of the girls can say. :)

[glengara]

Paradigm....and one for NFFC, Chester ;-)

[Marcia]

"Search Engine Marketing"

[mcanerin]

"Hello, I visited your site recently and I think that my site would be a fit for a link..."

"Hello, we have recently added your site to our important directory and we would now like a link in return..."

"HELLO KIND SIR, I OBTAINED YOUR NAME IN CONFIDENCE FROM A TRUSTED CHAMBER MEMBER. I WOULD LIKE YOU TO HELP ME GET 432.65 MILLION DOLLARS OUT OF MY COUNTRY THAT MY DEAR DEPARTED FAMILY MEMBER STOLE FROM OUR GOVERNMENT FROM A PROGRAM INTENDED TO FIX THE CAPS LOCK ON OUR KEYBOARDS..."

Anything similar to the above make me want to scream, then hunt down the people responsible...

Ian

[Marcia]

"The Long Tail" makes me want to holler, jump up and down and stamp my feet.

[PhilC]

"Information Superhighway" along with stupid "roadkill" jokes related to it.....

IanI haven't heard "information superhighway" used for many many years, but it used to annoy me when the internet was refered to as the information superhighway, because they were entirely different things - the former being a concept that was never put into practise, although the internet had probably largely developed into it by now.

I hate it when "google" is used as a verb - "I googled it" etc. I *really* hate that a lot.

[haplo]

tramp stamp
(in reference to a tattoo positioned just above someone's butt)

...i heard it for the first time this weekend and screamed with laughter.

[shor]

"The Long Tail" makes me want to holler, jump up and down and stamp my feet.
Hehe Marcia, I love using 'the long tail'. It's a great way to explain the ability of the internet to target niches and very qualified consumers.

Back on-topic, "Keyword Density". Oh man. :rolleyes: when the developers ask me if we need to increase or decrease keyword density I demand to know which websites they've been reading :)

[Marcia]

Hehe Marcia, I love using 'the long tail'. It's a great way to explain the ability of the internet to target niches and very qualified consumers.We know that shor, but the crux of the matter is that the "thing" existed long before the phrase was coined.

That's also been the raison d'etre for the survival of the content crowd, many of whom couldn't get a listing for certain keywords other than putting it up on their refrigerator with a magnet. Being able to do it (or not) and whether or not considering it even worth bothering about are two different matters.

[toprank]

scope creep - actually, it's the situation not the words
"anyway" from a Minnesotan
"SEO" when used as a generalization for search marketing
web 2.0 - enough already!

[shor]

web 2.0
This really grates on my nerves. And also anything else that has "Two Point Oh" appended.

[CraigM]

This really grates on my nerves. And also anything else that has "Two Point Oh" appended.


The New version of Windows/Office/any new Microsoft product will be available [insert fluid date here]..... and right before the date gets moved again, you'll hear about all the wonderful things you can do with it, once it's released.

[PhilC]

Actually, I like the "long tail", because it's concise, and it avoids using long sentences to explain what you mean.

[jimbeetle]

I hate it when "google" is used as a verb - "I googled it" etc. I *really* hate that a lot.

Woman 1: "So, how's the new guy you met?"

Woman 2: "I googled him last night."

It just sounds so, hmmm, tawdry.

[g1smd]

"alphabetize"

For cripes sake it is "to sort alphabetically".

[Marcia]

PhilC:
Actually, I like the "long tail", because it's concise, and it avoids using long sentences to explain what you mean. So Phil, does that mean that if you're pursuing keywords in just a small portion of a niche, you're going after a "piece of tail?"

[CraigM]

Woman 1: "So, how's the new guy you met?"

Woman 2: "I googled him last night."

It just sounds so, hmmm, tawdry.

Probably not as tawdry as if Yahoo was a verb......

[dogboy]

>Words that make you want to scream..

Barbara Streisand (ehehehehhe I WISH I could take credit for that one:)

[Wilksy]

Relevant (arrrghhh - WORK IT OUT)

[Marcia]

I'll second "Web 2.0" - it makes me want to scream, like all spin does.

Speaking of which, I *love* the word spin - it's so right on and descriptive.

[Mathese]

"It's good branding"

[rhia]

>Words that make you want to scream..

Barbara Streisand (ehehehehhe I WISH I could take credit for that one:)

No i wish i could take credit for this one, her name makes me cringeeee

Rhia

[MrMackin]

Rules for chatters
Links/Advertising:
No posting links or advertising other chatrooms of any kind, in the room... you will be permanently banned. ;)

[seomike]

Are reciprocal links dead?...
When was the last PR update...
I'm new here...
Can someone show me how to seo my site...

[mcanerin]

"I fixed my metatags"
"Alt tag" (It's an alt attribute, dammit!)
"Pagerank"
"Alexa rank"
"mesothelioma"
"404 Not Found"

And my 2 favorites:

"SEO Guru" - I don't know who these people are, but they sure seem to give a lot of bad, outdated and simplistic advice. "I've been reading a lot and all the SEO gurus say that to get rankings you need to fix your metatags and get lots of links - do you know any FFA sites I can join?"

"My Friend the Lawyer" - this is usually a fictitious person invented to add credence to some of the worst legal advice ever. "Well, my lawyer friend said that if you ask a cop if he's a cop and he says no, then he can't arrest you" and other such stupid statements, apparently gleaned from B-Movies and cartoons. My favorite part is when they try to tell me something crazy, then when I tell them it's wrong, they bring out the "lawyer friend".

I usually ask for the lawyers names, since anyone saying those types of things should be brought to the attention of the local Bar Association ASAP. Oddly, not one of the people whose good friends were lawyers giving them free legal advice has yet been able to remember their expert, helpful good friend's name. Weird, huh?

Ian

[Marcia]

"Please be gentle. "

(In forum posts, of course - clean up your MIND!)

[xan]

"2 weeks till deadline"

"explain it me like i'm a 4 year old"

"explain it all again"

"I don't believe a word of that" (despite all the evidence)

"Can I have an extension?"

"sorry, i wasn't listening"

:eek:

[Robert_Charlton]

"OK?" (as in Windows error messages):

An error has been found in: XYZ493q5phkd6033mnygkle5693534nnq
Location:roro0004997lsmft1111111101010101ypYxrz
Module:56734789vvv666dunLukiRUws666
Click to proceed. All your data will be lost and you will spend two weeks in hell.
OK?

[mcanerin]

ROFL! That's a good one, Robert!

Frustrating to me, too. I wish they would be honest and offer a second button saying "No, it's not OK but let's get it over with" or something like that.

Ian

[Northwind]

leverage
synergy

...and those who attempt to pronounce acronyms like URL into some new word,

LOL
NW,

[Black_Knight]

Burglarized!

This one makes me want to stake the speaker/writer through the heart, then wipe out the rest of the family in case the gene might spread.

To Burgle is the act of a burglar, who commits burglary, with the property having then been burgled. Anyone using the redundant, ugly, nonsense 'word' burglarized needs to be vocabularized perhaps? (They've likely already been lobotomized).

[St0n3y]

They've likely already been lobotomized

Don't you mean: They've likely already been lobotomed?

:D

[optimist]

BANNED!!!

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Australia Immigration

[Marcia]

An oldie but goodie, watch this one go:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10009/2012.htm

[grnidone]

"New Horizons"

[PhilC]

cheques!!! - or "checks" for the U.S. folks.

That's because I tore a pile of them up a few days ago. They were replacements for another pile that I hadn't put into the bank in time. I decided to destroy the old ones, but I picked up the wrong pile and tore them into pieces :eek: