SEO Fad: Dead and Buried.
 

so... as google makes it harder and harder to employ agressive tactics.. "seo is dead"

maybe its much like porn where the market is continually changing and the vast majority of people people don't keep up... eventually fail and then prefer to point the finger outward, rather than inward to properly assign blame.

matt cutts has only one mission... to get people to adhere to google rules and create content in the manner which benefits google and helps them serve the best, most relevant results without people focusing on manipulating results. obviously he's not going to imply or suggest that google is easily manipulated.

Well said.
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Someone has to rank at #1. That will always be the case. :)

I've been saying it for years, get out of SEO. There's no money in it.
WG

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Shoemoney up to his shenanigans again. If SEO were truly dead he wouldn't be pimping his keyword-related shit. Gotta give it up to Shoe though--dude knows how to linkbait.

and he also doesn't own shoemoney.com anymore, i believe. he's just an employee for the company that bought it.

if he didn't have that ringtones check, everyone would be doing nothing but make fun of the fact that he's never said anything intelligent about search engines... ever.

it's pretty extreme to say seo is dead.

seo is just evolving and any "expert" who just realized "hey performance traffic must be the new thing" is pretty behind or only makes money slanging seo as a product. when seo was new people jumped on it like it was a savior and for those who didn't understand it - they were taken by the parties interested in making money from it. it's only considered a fad to those who made money from the lack of knowledge. seo is only one factor of a marketing and web strategy campaign.

he has a point though, but did he just realize this? yes, of course social media is important (even though the traffic isn't big it's fairly filtered) and of course performance traffic is key - targeting a consumer demographic and conversion rate optimization is something many of the guys who left seo lacked. they are and still are puzzled when you ask them how does the traffic perform or about CRO

it's a good thing the opportunist are getting out :1orglaugh

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I believe he only sold off Auction Ads (last year).

However, who knows...

Ok!!!!!!!!

I shrug with amazement that people actually take seriously what these gimmick salesmen write.

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you shouldn't have given him a backlink :2 cents:

as I spend more time on the google boards I start to get a better sense of google's strategies. Many of the underlying suggestion within g's guidelines are a way to place, how can I say this, about average in the search engines.

Follow the guidelines to a T and it will be a sure way for you to NOT to get placed high in the SE's.

I should know because I am about to be awarded a hydro-ponic contributor at the g board. :pimp

Seems like I have been reading about the death of SEO since the birth of SEO

True dat.
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adapt or die, just like everything else.

That photo no doubt resulted in more money than the check in the photo.

I heard you say it :thumbsup

SEO cant die

everyone is an seo. havent you heard?

lol.

with no traffic no conversion.

know a guy who just got a job with some seo company. has zero practical experience and just theoretical matt cutts type shit.

feel sorry for companies that hire most seos.

one thing is for sure the net can use a solid good reliable link trading system, so many come and go

Agreed.

What I love, personally, is that no SEO I have ever talked to gives you the same advice. One will tell you this is golden, the other will tell you that is a way to get G banned. One will say you need all these techniques, sites, IP's and the other will not.

There is little real basic strategy that any seem to conform to.

Imho the *MAIN* reason why seo's get no work is because the seo-market is overcrowded with scammers. And the *real* people unfortunately do nothing in order to stop this situation. (One thing would be to get rid of this "SEO" term..)