SEOcret Santa

Ho Ho Ho SEOcret Santa 2010 – What Did Everyone Get?

Happy Christmas Eve to all you SEOcret Santas, SEOs and honorary SEOs!

We’ve got an enormous list of tweets and photos from gifts that have made their way to recipients below, but before I introduce all those I thought I’d give you a little summary of the last 3 incredibly fast weeks since the idea was first conceived.

You might remember the first blog post we posted here that mentioned briefly about how #SEOcretSanta began. Essentially it began with a conversation on Twitter about recommended digital marketing books and resulted in a tweet from @SarahCarling coming up with the idea of a Secret Santa amongst SEOs:

@monicawright OMG SEO Secret santa – it has to be done!

— Sarah Carling (@SarahCarling) December 3, 2010

That was on the evening of Saturday 3rd December and all it took for @DanBarker and I (@JoannaButler) to set to work. By lunchtime on Sunday we’d registered domains, set up hosting and just a few hours later we’d got the WordPress site up, a bunch of basic rules and started spreading the word.

Then the rest was thanks to you guys, the first ever SEOcret Santas!

You retweeted, blogged about us, encouraged your friends to sign up and generally helped us spread the word around the awesome community of us SEOs.

In total we had 52 SEOcret Santas from: UK, USA, Australia, Denmark and even Gibraltar. It was a true international secret Santa made possible through Amazon wishlist URLs which meant anyone could be assigned to anyone. We even had an errant SEOcret Santa:

@markjwboyd have you been a good boy this year?

— A Secret Santa (@asecretsanta) December 20, 2010

Unfortunately due to the close proximity to Christmas day when we got set up, and the fact many places have been overcome with snow hampering delivery of your superb Christmas gifts, we still have a large number of presents yet to be received. So we’re hereby declaring an extended Christmas to all SEOs and will do a follow up blog post in a week or so when we’ve picked up on more tweets and photos of gifts delivered!

So, without much further ado, may I present to you the awesome gifts that have been sent and received so far!

Please feel free to reveal yourselves as people’s SEOcret Santa in the comments!

[You might recognise some gifts from Dan's 10 Absolutely Ridiculous Christmas Gifts for SEOs blog post and Illiya's 5 Incredible Christmas Gifts Guaranteed to Please any SEO blog post!]

Thanks to my #seocretsanta for the most awesome addition to my work cube: A SNOWBOT! http://imgur.com/x1a2m.jpg =) cc:@seocretsanta

— Stephen Chapman (@Chapman) December 21, 2010

woooo! just got my #SEOcretSanta gift through from @asecretsanta http://www.humblebundle.com/

— Mark Boyd (@boydy) December 21, 2010

Amazing #SEOcretsanta gifts received, thank you whoever you are!http://twitpic.com/3i1f6e

— Chris Clarkson (@chrisclarkson) December 21, 2010

Thank you my #seocretsanta for the AWESOME gift, a pillow with inbuilt speakers, lol brilliant! http://twitpic.com/3i18ti

— Lisa Myers(@LisaDMyers) December 21, 2010

I have the picture for #SEOcretsanta ! Can’t wait to get home now! Thank you so muchhttp://yfrog.com/h4i67nj

— Dan Taylor (@DanTaylorSEO) December 21, 2010

My collection of 2011 wine books is complete! Thanks to #SEOcretSanta & @ismepete Obligatory photo! ->http://twitpic.com/3hrfl0

— Nick Walker (@walkerama) December 20, 2010

@seocretsanta @geoffkenyonhttp://twitpic.com/3hrb5s present!

— Khalid (@kwa) December 20, 2010

Just received my #SEOcretsanta! Cheers! http://yfrog.com/h0mxqnj

— Ben Jameir-Masters (@benholiio) December 20, 2010

To my #SEOcretsanta thank you very much for the “I facebooked your mum” tee… now I only hope you were kidding :-p

— Samuel Crocker (@samuelcrocker) December 20, 2010

*Drum Roll Please My @seocretsanta gift has arrived. One from my blog post awesome gift!#SEOcretSanta http://ow.ly/i/6qXv

— Illiya Vjestica (@illiyav) December 16, 2010

Joanna Butler (JoannaButler) on Twitter

Me n my #seocretsanta gift from @rhyswynne cracking new Carolina chocolate drops album! http://twitpic.com/3icba1

— Pete Handley (@ismepete) December 22, 2010

@seocretsanta My #SEOcretsanta present! Absolutely brilliant, love it! http://twitpic.com/3g58gn

— Chris Hill (@c_h_r_i_s_) December 15, 2010

Got my #seocretsanta gift today! Thank you @donnafontenot!!http://twitpic.com/3fs8ci

— Kate Morris (@katemorris) December 14, 2010

Thanks to my SEOcret Santa! got my gift today

— Geoff Kenyon (@geoffkenyon) December 17, 2010

Just received my #seocretsanta from @super_carly little legend thank you http://twitpic.com/3i5kt8

— Danny Denhard (@dannydenhard) December 21, 2010

Thank you, Secret Santa! I will b financially responsible in 2011 &share on Twitter. #seocretsanta http://yfrog.com/h3x8rdj

— Lyena Solomon (@lyena) December 21, 2010

Got gift # 3 (Red Vines) and a bonus gift that wasn’t on my wish list. Big thanks to my #SEOcretSanta! #spoiled http://twitpic.com/3ixhqa

— Matt Nguyen (@NugeKnows) December 24, 2010

I think my #SEOcretsanta is spoiling me. Gift #2 came today, thanks for the squeak toy, Coral loves it! http://twitpic.com/3ikc87

— Matt Nguyen (@NugeKnows) December 23, 2010

Enjoying a cup of joe in my @seomoz coffee mug, thanks #SEOcretSanta!!http://twitpic.com/3ifl88

— Matt Nguyen (@NugeKnows) December 22, 2010

Awesome my #seocretsanta arrived today! Thanks!! http://twitpic.com/3fjdj4

— Rob Watts (@robwatts) December 13, 2010

Spam house project #seocretsantahttp://twitpic.com/3fjulw http://twitpic.com/3fjumj http://twitpic.com/3fjuml

— Rob Watts (@robwatts) December 13, 2010

Fanks! #seosecretsanta http://twitpic.com/3gslat

— Mel Carson (@MelCarson) December 17, 2010

http://twitter.com/#!/Ciaran_Murray/status/18276437014351873

http://twitter.com/#!/andyblackburn/status/15779622364905472

http://twitter.com/#!/monicawright/status/17689387735187456

http://twitter.com/#!/dizzySEO/status/17646908562477056

http://twitter.com/#!/mosquitohawk/status/15790045256491008

http://twitter.com/#!/mosquitohawk/status/15790293269880832

Don’t forget to tweet a photo of your gift with the #SEOcretSanta hashtag when you get it! We’ll be doing a follow up blog post in a week or so when as many gifts as possible have been delivered!