Any One Know what hots in SEO 2012?

Squidoo is still alive.

Private blog networks that are dedicated to high quality and high quality blogroll networks are hotter than ever.

I've heard of services not being effected much that used a wider variety of links and not just links from 1 source. The ones who had a wide diversity seemed to be good.

That's just from reading a lot of different threads though..

-Omar

Private blog networks that haven't been caught......(yet?)

A diverse backlinking profile mixed with great content on your website and some on-page SEO will get you where you want to be; #1 on Google.

I agree with Jospeh31. squidoo is nowhere near dead.

Pinterest is good for traffic if you have a certain kind of site - things that would appeal to women mostly. I'm not a huge pinterest fan, but they don't send me any traffic cuz I don't make the right kinds of sites.

Black hat gone, White hat lives.

Web 2.0, content and backlinks
Social media integration
Quality links from authority websites
Updation of content on regular basis

Follow basic seo practice always to get good position

more regular on-site content, social media and paid traffic. I'd hold off on any major link building for the time being

There was (is) good and reliable information of WHAT Google wants to rank - that includes (as usual) useful sites, useful and unique content, yadda yadda yadda... and then we have "positive social signs".

Now, for most people this is a strong presence in Facebook/Twitter etc etc - but IMHO it's not - I really believe (and have my proof) it's a wider approach to common "social signs".

My advice for those looking into the future? Open your eyes into what is going on right now with Google, re-check the analysts leaked documents, and see what these last updates brought into the mix - including the guidelines for G workers.

There is a clear pattern of WHAT they expect from us. Some sites/markets will have a simple equation to solve, while others will be in a hell to fulfill these "expectations".

Article Marketing and Web 2.0 submission with quality content is still alive.

The answer is surprisingly simple:

In your SEO and link building, try to emulate natural link patterns as good as you can.
Sit back, relax...take a random site like wikipedia or whatever popular site..and then THINK about what sort of people might share the links and HOW and where and in what ways.

And then think over whether your own link profile is anything like a "natural" link profile.

* Speed of how you build links? Link velocity
* Anchor keyword diversity?
* Link sources (Article sites???? Web2.0??? Bookmarks???)

Here is what you will NEVER see in a natural link profile:

* Any emphasis on a specific "keyword" as anchor. It simply doesn't happen because normal people rarely use keywords as anchors for a link. If anything, they maybe only a small percentage of the links will have a keyword as anchor.

* Your links are 80% from article directories or bookmarking sites?
IMPOSSIBRU! There is no way a site is getting 100 bookmarking links without any other, "real" links or web references.

Why should a site get bookmarked by 100s of (fake SenukeX etc.) users on bookmarking and web2.0 sites, but hardly have any other links?

* ONLY high PR links, or ONLY low PR links, or ONLY high-PR follow links etc.. ??

I am not posting another "here is the solution" thread since i think its too early yet, but this is what i think you should do.

I can tell you what's not hot..

social bookmarks, article directories, forum profiles & spammy blog comments.

Squidoo is just like any other type of site including your money site. The only difference is it can take more links to it without getting penalized.

With that said, using Squidoo can be a good way to get traffic to your money site or affiliate links since its easier to rank it than your brand new money site which have a higher chance to get penalized if you aren't careful with your backlinking strategy.