Comments on: Is SEO a Dying Industry?

By: Send Flowers To Singapore

Send Flowers To Singapore — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:02:37 +0000

Is SEO dea? Absolutely not! Infact on the contrary, it's thriving. With so much traffic going into SE, and businesses realizing online is a much smarter and trackable way to advertize, there'll be more and more businesses vying for Google/Yahoo top spot. What's changing is that it's going to be harder and harder to rank well with many more competing sites.

By: dominick

dominick — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:40:39 +0000

At first I thought SEO is an dying industry too. But, after all, Greg and Shoemoney explain it pretty well. SEO is just going through temporary obstacles, if SEO can break through this obstacle, SEO can soon be in another level.

By: As Long As There Are Search Engines, SEO Will Survive

As Long As There Are Search Engines, SEO Will Survive — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:01:15 +0000

[...] isn’t a dying industry, it’s an evolving industry. I think that Greg and Shoemoney make good points, but I disagree with their overall impression of SEO’s future. [...]

By: YouGov

YouGov — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:01:01 +0000

It probably is, at least by its historical definition. I think the industry will always be necessary as the workings of search engines is not really common knowledge in the lay community, but its role is likely to be providing information more than active optimisation.

By: Internet Entrepreneur

Internet Entrepreneur — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:16:45 +0000

I agree that Google and the other SEs will be paying more and more attention to the ‘social voting’ system (which by the way can also be manipulated), content will become King again and you will need to provide more incentives in form of usability and interactivity so that people would link to your site (create your Brand awareness and loyalty). The interactive elements such as widgets, Flash and Java elements, AJAX, podcasts, etc. will most probably become ‘indexable’ at some point and will certainly require SEO. Internet will change, search engine algorithms will change, and SEO will evolve as well. May be at some point it will become more like Hi-Tech Marketing or smth like that. Internet Entrepreneur's last blog post..Will the SEO era come to an end in 2 years?

By: Will the SEO era come to an end in 2 years? | Internet Entrepreneur Blog

Will the SEO era come to an end in 2 years? | Internet Entrepreneur Blog — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:39:18 +0000

[...] of SE optimization is coming to its end. Particularly these two articles attracted my attention: ‘Is SEO a dying industry?’ and ‘SEO has no [...]

By: SEOs Future: Not Dead « The Milwaukee SEO

SEOs Future: Not Dead « The Milwaukee SEO — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:09:38 +0000

[...] the precursor to this post: ShoeMoney and Marketing Pilgrim both posted articles today stating their reasons why SEO is dead. In essence they believe that the [...]

By: Misty Cryer-Davidson

Misty Cryer-Davidson — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:14:50 +0000

SEO as we "used" to know it is definitely dead. The search engines are more concerned about content and tags that tell what the webpage is about. Link popularity is still valued, but reciprocal linking has pretty much gone to the dogs. Misty Cryer-Davidson's last blog post..Internet News that you can trust!

By: Kermit Johnson

Kermit Johnson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:34:51 +0000

I think the best advice is to just keep adding quality content because Google will soon be intelligent enough to just look for that. Google will be very good at figuring out what is natural. In my industry, real estate sites that provide inventory and meaningful content will be the ones that survive. Kermit Johnson's last blog post..Blaine MN MLS #3583203 is the Best Value in the Whole Anoka County Area!

By: franki

franki — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:27:32 +0000

It may change as the Internet evolves but I really don’t believe good SEO will not go away.

By: Singapore SEO

Singapore SEO — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:03:41 +0000

I will not predict the future of SEO and put them in words. No one will know what might happen in years down the road. SEO might be dead or it may have a total facelift, who knows?

By: Miami Web Design » Blog Archive » Is search engine optimization a thing of the past?

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:36:29 +0000

[...] believe that SEO is a thing of the past. Here are a couple post to illustrate this theory: Is SEO a Dying Industry? and SEO Has No [...]

By: wayne

wayne — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:17:29 +0000

This posting is ridiculous. Reminds me of the tale that we are running out of oil in the next years that has been told for nearly half a century. But surprise, suprise we are constantly finding new oil (brazil, northpole, etc.) or the increased price makes other oil sources (oil sand) profitable.

As long as Google doesn’t start to serve all the trillions of search request manually, people will be tweaking rankings. An algorithm is still an algorithm.

I recommend you to stop believing all the Google propaganda and just have a look at the SERPs and why sites rank or not. I took Google nearly 10 years to only get rid of the worst forms of spam.

Btw, Googles business model is not to run a search engine – it is about selling ads.

By: Search Engine Optimization Have Long Term Viability? : SEMarketing

Search Engine Optimization Have Long Term Viability? : SEMarketing — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:42:21 +0000

[...] Marketing Pilgrim writer Greg Howlett says that search engines are getting too smart and that search engines won’t want to reward companies for playing SEO games. [...]

By: Добро бъдеще за SEO

Добро бъдеще за SEO — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:36:41 +0000

[...] автори в интернет пространството Shoemoney (превод) и Greg Howlett споделиха вижданията си за бъдещето на SEO. От [...]

By: SEO: c’è un futuro, oppure no?

SEO: c’è un futuro, oppure no? — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:04:34 +0000

[...] parte del no sta anche Greg Howlett di Marketing Pilgrim, il quale è convinto che la SEO è già morta da un pezzo, e sarebbe quindi meglio dimenticarsene [...]

By: Linkbait and Your Reputation - Left The Box.com

Linkbait and Your Reputation - Left The Box.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:23:30 +0000

[...] about the soon to be death of SEO, he started an uproar and big players got involved. Shoemoney and Marketing Pilgrim agreed with Calacanis explaining how they agree with him, while Michael Gray, Ian Lurie, and Taylor [...]

By: Branding is Dead

Branding is Dead — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:29:27 +0000

On the contrary, Search has killed Branding. Why would I go back to a specific store if I could just go online, search, find and buy.

By: Axcel

Axcel — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:44:03 +0000

Nice linkbait topic and I agree with everyone who says seo isn’t going anywhere, as I’m sure you know. It will just continue to evolve.

By: Link Baiting Can Be Some Help With the Search Engines - Frank Thinking

Link Baiting Can Be Some Help With the Search Engines - Frank Thinking — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:44:26 +0000

[...] created a real ruckus among SEO types. One of the post writers for Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, Greg Howlett, posted saying he agreed with Shoemoney. If you look at the number of comments for some of the [...]