I hate death of xxx articles but this one a must read!! SEO Dies Slow and Painfully! Posted by Phil Butler on February 28th, 2007 Could SEO be a waste of time and money in Web 2.0? According to Anthony Fallon, CEO of Warrington Web Works, the use of RSS, content provided for Website visitors and Google's improvements may have ended the chase for the top ten search positions. Fallon asks: "Is this the end of the SEO industry?" An article by Fallon, inspired by a meeting with a client, illustrated a quote to this client of $29,000 for a guaranteed place in the top ten at Google for 3 years! Fallon points out that even Google cannot guarantee such a broad and far reaching placement. Essentially Fallon is trying to illustrate that the SEO industry has all the statistics they need to "bluff" the money out of businesses. Fallon tries to prove what a waste of time and money SEO is in his article "SEO Mind Crime". Fallon posted his article on Wednesday afternoon and told his readers to test his theory by searching for "SEO Mind Crime" on Google over the coming days. According to this press release, they did not have to wait long. By late the next day, the post appeared in positions 3, 4 and 6 of Google's first page. Out of 826,000 indexed pages, the article made it nearly to the top in 24 hours! Fallon says this is definitive proof that SEO is no longer necessary in Web 2.0! source
i m agree with kingofking, see there is clear fundamental that google will never stop free listing and if free listing is there than SEO will work. just u need to analysis the ranking strategies day by day and update your salves accordingly. and there is always competition between search engines like Google,msn and yahoo. so one will stop free listing other one will start it on new bases. i think that SEO will rock all the days.
Google have been perfecting there search for years.... you think they will just come and say we shut down.. time for a new era??? lol
True.. True... Eventhough i am still new and fresh, but i don't think it will end. BTW.... I just started to love SEO!!!.. Till date, there are still an increasing of new search engines available in the internet, and you might try counting how many are there till date.
SEO will remain around for a long time and it will change/adjust/morph as needed to reflect changes to the internet, people's habits, corporate pockets, and what not.
OK here we go. this guy from Warrington web works (a company who are not in the top 100 for their main phrase of internet publishing top 100 sites for the phrase internet publishing. This guy who can not SEO his own site, and accuses others of 'seo mind crime, tells people to search for the phrase 'internet mind crime' and by the following day he is top out of 826,000 pages right? Well I hate do burst the balloon (or is it a dotcom bubble?) but if you search for "SEO mind crime" as a phrase, you get 598 pages, that five hundred and ninety eight, just under 600 So (and I quote) SEO is no longer necessary because of Web 2, because a page for a made up phrase, can rank top out of 598 pages? MIND CRIME MY ARSE! I can only see stats crime, this guy is worse than David Copperfield, talk about smoke and mirrors. I will finish with a question, or rather a couple. Did this guy realise that there were NO PAGES for the phrase he chose to use as an example? (in which case he was being deceptive) OR Did he NOT realise that there were no pages competing for this phrase? (in which case he was being naive? Your call
I think there is no need to do that Each time when I see such articles like from Anthony Fallon there is a battle for money in the end.
Ah right sorry, I got you now. I thought you were replying to my post I agree, this i probably just some link bait intended to court controversy and get subscribers
at any rate, even if "death" indeed takes over, there will always be some sort of rebirth for seo's evrywhere. the unpredictability and "not entirely knowing whats next" of the business is what keeps us on the edge of our seats, and hence, alive.
Do you see marketing ending? If no then neither is SEO. SEO is just plain marketing so it will never die. If social search really becomes that powerful that webmasters will adapt just like marketing managers adapted to the internet.
this is to frighten people...SEO is a basis for all search engines. it's not logic to accept this statement.