Are blogs and SEO services Dead?

With Google killing PR update, are blogposts/blogrolls and SEO services like article directory submissions Dead??

 

I disagree !!! Directory submission still works but only high quality directories. You need to submit your site to the right categories and only to high quality directories. Blog posts still works if you submit your post to sites with high DA, PA and trust flow. I have seen people selling private blog network services for as cheap as $15. That's bullshit !!!

You need to have high quality articles written and submitted to web 2.0s like wordpress, hubpages, squido etc

 

They are all still working if done the right way! For example a blogpost is useful if the blog is good and with a HIGH AUTHORITY! Also, don't forget that there are some really powerful directories (like Yahoo!)

 

Google is not taking interest to update PR. It is concentrating more and more on SERP ranking. PR was a signal to check website's quality. Now Alexa Rank, Domain Authority and Page Authority are in the row to take place of PR.
SEO services are not dead. After each algorithm update this thread raise in many forums. Although the way of promotion in SEO is changing and in near future it will change more.

 

SEO services will never ever die, as long as there is search engines, there will be services offering to optimize your website for them.

 

i disagree with this. it is working still. and i think it is a good site..............

 

It is still working as a strategy for SEO. It is not dead, it is how you use that kind of strategy that matters.

 

Blogs and directory submission works for me. My idea if you are doing directory submission and blogrolls use same taste of blogs and directory related to your business. For
Example >> Your Business Travel.( website)
find travel related directory and blogs to post.
this will boost your ranking as well get you reliable visitor those worth for your business.

 

There are certain things on the Internet will remain same since it was started! There might be only slight changes made to them. The basics will always remain the same. SEO and blogging has been and will always be the essential part of online marketing though there are more visible options available now. As for directory submission, you need to find niche based directories based on the business you're involved with.

 

As with so many other things that people declare the death of, there is nothing wrong with article directory submissions; the problem was that so many of them were poorly written, spun, or published in several areas, representing duplicate content, intended for search engines not human beings. Given all of the junk that filled article directories, I would probably call it something else if I were to start one today, but there is still room for a well managed and well organized article directory, one that published unique content of a high quality. A good article is one that is written with the intention of being read by human eyes, and there will always be a place for that. A good article directory is well organized, and one that demands unique articles that are of a high quality, and which organizes them in such a way that people will be able to find them and, as a result, search engines will be able to properly index them.

The same is true of blogs. Blogs that are not about anything in particular may do poorly in the search engines but those that have clearly defined topics, and which post articles that are unique and well written, should do fine.

Google doesn't hate directories; it hates junk directories that don't offer anything worth indexing. Google doesn't hate article directories; it hates article directories that publish poorly written content, or stuff that has already been published in a dozen other directories. Google doesn't hate blogs; it hates blogs that are uninteresting, poorly written, or don't seem to be about anything in particular.

 

Google PR is not the only way you can measure a sites authority. Even though its not been updated - that doesn't mean the internet is going to shit and blogs are dead! How can they be dead because PR is not updated!

This thread won't help newbies - it will actually hurt them because its ridiculously meaningless

 

The thing to remember is that through all of this there was been one consistent truism and that is the supreme importance of quality content above all else. Everything Google has done has been with the intention of punishing trashy content, be it spamming, link farms or duplication, and of rewarding unique and high quality material.

 

Quality content are useless for ranking if there are no links to it.

 

That's not true. If you're in a competitive market, you probably won't show up on the first couple of pages without back-links and, since few people look beyond the first page of the results, that may as well be the case. However, in a less-competitive niche, I have had sites show up just after the Wikipedia page with only one back-link, and I have had them show up on the first page without any. The importance of back-links comes into play when you're competing with other sites that also have content.

 

Make a site with any sort of competition and fill it with quality content and don't link to it from anywhere and you'll see how it goes. (You won't end up anywhere) If there is no competition well anything goes, a few lines are usually enough to get you ranked.

 

I don't understand why having good quality content and having backlinks to it should be mutually exclusive. Surely the object of the exercise should be first to produce something that people want to read and then to make sure potential readers know it is there?

 

Been there, done that, and you're wrong; but that's okay. You have a right to be wrong. With heavy competition, as I have said, it won't take you to the first couple of pages in the SERPS so you may as well not be there at all. Good content will take you most of the way there but you won't cross the finish line without links. If your content is good enough, you'll get links though. In a niche, you can make it to the front page without back-links, as long as it's not too wide of a niche.

 

IMO, and based on my understanding, it is not that PR is dead but it is just that Google thinks that people are so into it they forget about the more essential things like content, quality, relevancy and the audience.
For article submission directory, I can see it as a source for backlink purposes, so it can be considered more of a link scheme.

 

LOL and you dwell with the truth to SEO. People gonna be disappointed if they follow your advice. No exposure = No one gonna find your site = No one can link to it.

 

You should for sure invest in a tool like majestic.com so you can see what links/sites/blogs can give you high quality links that will ACTUALLY work. Kind of the only way now, otherwise you might be making crap links and getting no results...