Could This Be the End of SEO As We Know It?

One way or another stuff like this will happen regarding the way SEs spider, so we'll have to cross that bridge when it actually comes.

Why are you releasing just "fodder" for the search engines anyway? With the right systems it's just as easy to release content that's both human-friendly and search engine-friendly. Why are people so intent on "tricking the system"?

I believe it has something to do with human nature, and the tendency to cheat.

-Jason

The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!!

In all seriousness, SEO will never die unless search engines die, or are overtaken by a more powerful technology... which I don't see happening for a looong time... unless AI takes over sooner than we think

To simplify the definition of SEO itself... as long as you have good unique content, that has some decent backlinks that are relevent to your unique content, and most importantly, add new good content regularly...

Don't be suckered in to putting up a bunch of 'content site templates' that have the same content as everyone else and expect to rate well with the se's...

Be original, offer some value, and you will succeed.

- Jared

SEO can never be ended........google is now concerning much more now on their user behaviour as what google toolbar does to get a site pagerank. ...so now they would be more concentrating on PS rather than ranking.......might be .........

Google has been doing a lot of "weeding out" of some things lately (according to some inside sources)

Could be bad for some, but good for those that are left over to take all the the rankings over!!



-K

Hi all,

I honestly believe that way too many people believe that the search engines are way more intelligent than they really are..

Remember, the search engines are nothing more than a complicated computer algorithm (forumula).

This algorithm simply ranks websites based on a number of variables, some variable have more weighting than others.

The serach engines, and especially Google have spent millions (if not billions) on their algorithm, and if they now have to start ranking websites based on
what users want to see, and or user voting (like in Social Bookmarking sites) this will have to be viewed as an amazing admission that their algorithm has failed, and that BigG has lost the battle against the "dark side of the force".

I seriously doubt this to be happen any time soon! If Ever!

Many of the statements made by the search engines are simply "red herrings" thrown out to the masses to devour without questioning..

They can claim they are going to crack down on a certain aspect of SEO, so they make a statement about it, and within days a huge percentage of the
ill-informed masses are running around like "chickens with their heads cut off" and stop using that technique.

That was easy for the Search engines.. They didn't have to do anytghing.. Just spread a bit of misinformation, and let mass hysteria do the rest.

Sometime its take a bit of common sense to see things are not exactly as the masses make out..

Rant now finished ..

Take care

Bruce

the software to 'spin' (or 'wrangle' as it's actually called) existing content into something new and unique actually already exists. So bring it on, Google!

Certainly a long term scenario that could become true one day, but I doubt it's the reason why many people got delisted. Google simply becomes better at detecting link spam and spam pages in general, without any data from Chrome. The remedy is easy: Quality content, not just unique, content that has real value for visitors.

SEO would never die as long as people still use Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Google is about to change the whole system, it's called Google Universal - it will be based on searches made, more localised sites to your known geographical location will feature in the results. So if you are searching for let's say Green Widgets then the first result will be the nearest distributor to where you are searching from. It will also place more emphasis on those sites with Google video/ you tube video links. So use video site maps.

Entirely agree Bruce. If anything, my own sites seem to be ranking on even simpler assessments than before - backlinks, title tags etc.

It's about time sites were assessed on things like bounce rate etc. but as that's not currently in Google's interest (they just LOVE high bounce rates provided the exit is an Adsense ad) I'm not holding my breath. Site 'quality' is much more difficult to assess automatically than site relevance (which is just looking at text) so don't expect anything dramatic anytime soon.

Google does a very good job of what it does, but what it does is pretty feeble actually. Having said that, it's still streets ahead of the other search engines. Someday, someone's going to do some really cool coding and produce a search engine that'll blow everything else out of the water but that will need investment so don't expect anything over the next couple of years. Until then, good ol' SEO still rules.

Oh I only wish there is a legit organization that rules SEO things, the one that could sum up everything from google, yahoo, ask, msn, etc,

Kinda like IEEE or something, so we don't have to guess any slight changes in search engines' algorithm.

Or am I talking about SEMPO here? nah, I don't think so, join a membership with the lowest price of $299 annually is just too much. Especially when it claims to be a global non-profit organization.