Death of SEO?

[cresanti]

Actually I do not believe in black hat SEO`s future. Seemes that Google gonna eradicate most of cheaters in the next few years. White hat SEO is just a simple internet grammar. No one (if he or she isn`t a total idiot) should spend money on hiring a specialist to make (lolwut) `a white hat SEO`.
So SEO is literally dead but still cannot realize this fact. Start creating a unique viral content and manage people in your social net comunities, pals. Because SEO is rapidly turning into a useless pile of crap these days.
Thank you for your attention.

 

[Derwin Ryder]

I think I agree what you have explained ..

 

[Registernuke]

Because SEO is rapidly turning into a useless pile of crap these days.

There are some people in the Seo industry that might agree with that statement considering recent events with Google pushing organic search results below the fold for popular queries, leaving only paid ads. According to an article on SearchEngineJournal.com it seems that Google is on the path of destroying SEO by making it it clear that organic results will play second fiddle to ads.

The article is quite interesting and sheds light on what "may" be the future of Seo.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seos-time-to-revolt-against-google/66425/

I personally think that it's a little too early to jump to conclusions but at the end of the day Google is a business and it does have to keep being profitable in order to function. Whether Seo is dead or not only time will tell but I personally think it's going to be around for awhile.

 

[JudgeMind]

Yes "death of blackhat seo" who would want to pay an seo company to get their website to googles first page only to be punished and sent into the abyss of serps. Believe it or not most people are still choosing the blackhat way because it is the cheapest. We turn away people on a daily basis who are looking to save a buck and get cheap seo. Lets face it, if you want your website on the first page of google and have or want to have a business that will stay on top and generate money in the future, you cant afford to cheap out. We have people contact us all the time saying their site was on the first page of google and dropped to being not even in the top 100. I will tell you this, it is far more expensive for someone to repair their penalized site and backlinks and get it back to first page than it is to make the right choice the first time. These days offshore seo techniques still can work but it is almost certain the rankings wont last. True whitehat seo is not cheap to have done either, if anyone advertises they can do it for $xx they are still using blackhat methods but advertising whitehat to lure in clients. To have the job done right you will be looking at at least $250/mth depending on the competition of your keywords and far more if spammy links will need to be removed.

 

[ProsperU]

SEO is still not dead. it's just getting better and not for lazy internet marketers but for genuine people who want to help customers with their products.

 

[JudgeMind]

Yes this is also why it is not cheap. No bots or programs used for article submission or backlinking. Handwritten unique content and carefully chosen backlinks is what will maintain a website on first page while all sites with spammy links and content drop....

 

[blogs200]

What is the best SEO tool?

 

[fogshat]

I may be a newbie, but imho, with the upcoming 700+ new domain extensions, SEO will be more important than ever before. Clearly keywords in the url will carry very little (if any) weight if they do not correlate with the content.

 

[anupam27]

I completely agree with your points

 

[SimpleDomaining]

+700 new extensions mean 700 times better QUALITY white SEO will be needed per developed site, by no mean this will be dead. the real SEO wars we have never seen before will begin, and deep pockets will get the better ranking because they will have to spend much more money on SEO and on web PR. what i wonder is how much for example will cost be on google keyword let say "healthy" if there will be 700 different owners of generic healthy.someextension domains to develop 700 websites with same keyword and order google ads for them. this is scary. imho.

 

[SimpleDomaining]

Cant stop thinking about this subject. it looks like SEO as we knew it will die real soon. but it will be replaced with completely different level of SEO, that will be more done in social areas. It looks like with this new thing that google is implementing now for more favorable search results based on your google+ network circles and your location, no one will care about keywords that you got on your site. That keywords will be flooding in your google+ posts instead and the amount of money you spend on google adwords will determine your better visibility. IMHO.
This latest google search result page redesign is already affecting the traffic of lots of top ranked sites, because google moved paid ads into a location on the search result page, where our eye used to go first to find the best organic result (mind kind of learned to block the top row because it was the advertising space). And now you have to scroll down 3 fat ads to find organic search results. Ads not just got fat, but also the background color have changed for the third position ad to almost white color, so user think this is the organic result and click on it... So... what happen next?

 

[BODISS]

SEO will never die

Yes, SEO will never die but keyword ranking will be major competition day by day.