SEO Logo – What Should It Tell Your Customer?

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You might have already noticed (after my color branding, SEO Slogans and branding outside SEO) that I’m particularly interested in overall SEO niche marketing and branding recently – well, that’s all because I am just starting promoting my brand and service and so the topic seems new and exciting to me. Today I am going to share my thoughts and observations on SEO logos and banners.

Now what is the purpose of a company logo?

  • It gives visual representation of a professional SEO company service/product (and thus accounts for its positive associations);
  • It establishes a brand identity (making it unique and memorable).

Most important logo features are:

  • trustworthy (<= professional);
  • catchy/memorable (<= unique);
  • associative/symbolic (=> conveying feelings, and sending a message…);
  • matching the overall design;
  • clean and functional.

How Can SEO Be Graphically Described?

1) It can be represented as ‘growth‘ (e.g. growth in rankings, profit, etc).

Example: SeoDesignSolutions

(Note: I would have made it left-to-right growth though to make look more understandable for US and European people who are believed to think (as well as read) from left to right):

SEO association - ‘growth’

2) Uniqueness (the service that makes you stand out).

Example: SearchEnginePeople:

SEO association - ‘uniqueness’

3) The high quality of the service itself.

Example: a star by AdvanceRankings:

SEO association - ‘high qualiy of the service’

4) High level of professionalism/expertise.

Example: (well, besides myself) SearchEngineJournal:

SEO association - ‘professionalism/expertise’

Except for describing the service itself there are other types:

Type Example URL Example Logo
Abstract graphic symbol Distilled.co.uk graphic symbol
Unique well branded image SearchEngineGuide Unique well branded image
Domain/brand Name ViperChill Domain/brand name

Get Inspiration:

  • 56 Most Creative Logos – lists great examples to follow.
  • Logo collection – another list of creative logos.

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