Is this the end of SEO?

The search Google giant said that it would begin encrypting logged-in searches that users do which will prevent search marketers from receiving referral data from the websites consumers click from Google search results.
Is this the end of SEO?

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I dont think so that this is the end of Google.

 

I agree with this move from Google.

 

SEO is still work and playing important role at this moment but we can actually see google is working hard on reducing the effect of SEO

 

I don't think SEO will every be 'ended' because if google change their algorithms people will always find a way to game it to their advantage.

 

the data you can't see is just under 2% ..
we will be worrying in the future .. but it' not a big deal

 

It will only encrypt when you are logged in in Google so no end for SEO

 

Of course not. There will always be a gigantic SEO market. Is a bit of a shame they are doing this though.

 

If google would quit selling keywords to big companies like bed, bath, and beyond then maybe seo would help.

 

No.. they are just making it harder to see your traffic.

 

The #1 thing G cares about is search results matching what the searcher is looking for. With the bad press they got last year with major companies gaming the system they needed to take action. This cat and mouse game has been going on for a long time and will continue for a long time.

 

No not really. Things are simply changing. We are all going to have to adapt as always.

 

Thanks for all your feedback everyone.. So I guess it's not the end of SEO but the very beginning as Google is starting with some major changes, the SEO practitioners all across the world will learn to find better ways of optimization.

 

SEO is still the same. Good unique content will rule.

 

I dont think so that its is the end of SEO.

 

"encrypting" do you know what that means? Its pretty simple. The giant Google is keeping the information for themselves. Publishers will be better off on-board with Google as they will have most of the consumer search info. No end to seo. lol Actually my new site is doing quite well in search results.


And as far as Panda goes, its just Google's behind the scenes secret search engine project Caffeine being implemented. Been coming for years.

 

This won't be the end.

 

I wouldn't say it's the end, SEO will simply adapt once the changes come full force

 

I think no, SEO lives whenever online business is alive.

 

This change has little to do with SEO, there is no real impact to SEO with this change. This will really impact those who obsess over tracking every visitor that comes to their site (not necessarily anything wrong with that) but the biggest impact will be to those who use complicated backlink sales strategies. There are some major sites that sell links and if you are buying links from them, can choose to show your ad only to traffic that got to that site from Google via a certain keyword. Honestly, we will have to do nothing different with this change...