Investing in SEO Useless?

Jesus man, will you just pick one thing and stick to it? Look at your post history, you're clueless and trying new things it seems every 3 or 4 days!

Investing in SEO is not useless & never it will be. You can generate good revenues through good strategical SEO.

Every SEO expert has a good. Amazing, Effective, Efficient Strategy that you will do better with time saving work.

SEO will never be dead atleast not for another decade. Though it is changed now a days and more focused towards proving quality content and get relevant, niche links and much more.

So, yeah it is progressed and so are SEOs.

SEO is not a waste of money. I agree that it will never be useless. It could actually provide you with good results especially when you provide good, effective, creative and relevant contents. If you're thinking that a business is better off with PPC. You're wrong.

2016 SEO is 'second best' or in other words: You can do better things, a lot faster

PPC is expensive, however only if you dont know how to do it.

Best education: study your competitors. They already have been there, done that.

So of course they already got all the best + cheapest keywords nailed down.

Once you understand that, SEO is for slow people.

That's not true. As long as there is search engine result ranking for organic searches, there is SEO.

did we actullay define what "investing in SEO" is ? we didnt did we

"investing in SEO" is what most people do when they flush money into any kind of backlinks
that make your site "jump" to the frontpage. One week it's a $100 next week it could be $250.

While you wait....

I've done that, and I was top10 for a com.intend keyword combo for about 10 years.

It's not bad, it's just not predictable, due to penalties (when you buy a few crap gigs)

All in all I don't want to go back to that.

Not necessarily...

SEO is not dead - but it HAS changed over the last few years.

Today, good SEO is not about finding tricks that fool search engines in the short term - most of the obvious loopholes have been closed up long ago.

Now, SEO is more about making sure search engines can find the content on your site, and that you present it to them in the best possible way.

Effective modern SEO has a lot in common with marketing and PR - it involves raising your profile online - and making sure it's done the right way, so that search engines understand and take account of your online profile.

Investing in a good quality SEO service, or in SEO training can be an excellent investment, and give you great ROI over the long term.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of low quality SEO services around - and investing in those is more likely to cause problems - and could even get you penalised by Google.

So the problem is, how to tell the good SEO services from the bad ones. In general:

* You won't get quick results - unless there's something wrong with your site that can be fixed. SEO is a long term, ongoing process.

* If it sounds too good to be true, then avoid it like the plague.

* Steer well clear of any form of link building services until you really know what you're doing - it's the scammiest area of all - and buying a gig on Fiverr or somewhere similar is often a one way trip to a penalty. It's also the most difficult area to clean up if you end up buying the wrong service.

Not to say there aren't good link-building services available - but they're few and far between, and usually not cheap.

SEO is one area where it really pays to be an informed consumer - even if you don't want to do it yourself, you'd be wise to understand a bit about it yourself before buying SEO services.

That way you can talk intelligently to the SEO service provider about what they're planning to do to your site. It's the only way to understand the risk profile of the SEO that's being proposed, and you can judge whether you're comfortable with that level of risk.

Summary - SEO itself is not a waste of money - and nor are good quality SEO services, consultancy and training. But a lot of the SEO services out there are not good quality - and they ARE a waste of money.

You need to build up sufficient knowledge and experience so that you can tell the difference.

There's this way SEO, and then there's this way SEO, cause every one has a different approach. It works, but so do you, you need to work your bum off to stay ranking.

With paid traffic you know what you get, and when you get it.

IMHO, I would do some basic On & Off page SEO, and also use some paid traffic.

Calm down on the SEO. You can gain mad traffic other ways, need little $$. For example you can steal someone's readers by Google Adsense. Oops? What did I just say? Alright I spilled the beans you caught me. Now you got to thanks me.

I will tell you how to steal someone's readers. Every website that tries to make money has Google Adsense, correct? In Google Adwords you can directly target a website with a specific ad. It is evil and requires a big budget but it is a easy way to beat the competition up.

Okay Ill lay down some ground work. SEO, good way to get traffic. Can we control it? No not really. That should be 50% of someone's game plan, SEO. Think of SEO as passive. Stop going nuts over SEO guys. Focus on viral content and getting sponsorships and links from different websites. You want to dominate the internet. You are going to need to be a little evil and pay websites to recommend you. Links and your domain on different popular websites will give you a retarded amount of traffic.

I love just sharing what I know.

"OH UHM, PRESS RELEASE?"

yeah you're correct, we just found a new provider for that.

that's where all these "as seen on cbs, nbc, fox, abc" things come from.

All good media sites with real authority.

Let's see what happens, still too early to tell.....

It is not useless to invest in SEO. You need time and patience to see the benefits of SEO to your business. You must be really hard-working in creating unique content, build a good system link and link with social media to promote your site that is the best way to attract visitors to visit your site. You will be able to earn money and other benefits if you do SEO well and attract the number of visitors.

You are spot on with the premise of your question.
Yes, poor SEO services are worse than a waste
of time, they may be harmful.

You must learn each of the SEO factors to understand
the process well before you hire anybody.

As Eben says, always hire a world class expert.

I thought Google had a set of guidelines, a few videos, and even a class on this whole "SEO" thing.
Pretty sure.

Actually with all these local Seo experts here, let's dive in and explore SEO 2016

I got a bit curious, maybe I lost touch. So tell me guys:

How you do it 2016? Seriously, who is the man these days. Becker?

If not who else is there to consult?

It's not true. SEO is not a waste of money. It is still helpful in increasing the visibility of businesses in search engine results. With SEO, you can promote your website in search engines and with proper optimization, you can drive traffic to your website.

Oh wait a minutes you said SEO in no more working ? are you drunk man ?