Well, another year has passed, and it is getting much harder to get a new site ranked quickly. And more and more, there are complicated issues like "trust rank" that we can't even measure. How do you see SEO work will change in 2007?
IT WONT CHANGE!!!!! nothing will. the Internet might actually shut down...I hope it does!!!! hahah be careful, my avatar might eat you too.
i bet there will be changes in the trust link too. Have read from google blog that they are taking care of the link baiting, link exchange and link buying. many things is going on in 2007. Hope everything is going fine with all of us.
I doubt there will be a change, however I do remember back in the day just about every in-site link was a PR5 easily, now they are P4 at first.
Black will be white and up will be down......more important snake oil salesman will be out in droves to sell you their own brand of cures......
As the search engines databases grow they have better data over the years and older sites/domain will have more value
I think there are some thing in this summary of a google-patent that haven't really been done yet - so they are probably trying: http://www.seomoz.org/articles/google-historical-data-patent.php Since I just found out most of my visitors are repeat visitors, I really hope google will be able to tap into what people actually do online. They will need a google browser for that though (and I can already see how it could be abused ).
The standard rules of SEO have changed very little over the past few years, good content, good links from quality sites within the niche. What does change is how much Google lets webmasters bend those rules. Stick to the main formula and you won't go too far wrong.
SEO folks will start to understand Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval instead of mere Keyword optimization ...that's one at least from where I am sitting
You guys do realize that the SE's (especially Google) change their indexing algorithms to combat ALL unnatural indexing and ranking strategies (also known as SEO). The black/grey/blue hatter is just a someone who takes advantage of the loopholes created by this ludicrous system the SE's have developed. Sure part of the system is closing those loop holes, but this is nothing but patchwork, reactionary medicine to the problems they created. The major changes they make is to combat the SEO techniques that are tried and true winners. Think about it, if 'content' was king (as the robots spout here like some sort of holy grail gospel) then there would be no need for combating black hat sites, there would be no need for this thread and developing new seo strategies.....there would be no need for Search Engine Optimization at all.
It depends what you're using content for. Sure, you're correct when you say that search engines can't tell the difference between good and bad content, that's why we're still plagued by crappy MFA sites. Good content on the other hand gives you links, many links that you'd never have got otherwise. I've experimented with different kinds of linkbait over the past few years, getting links from sites like Wikipedia, About.com, BBC, The Times etc etc, links that I'd never have gotten otherwise. In short, good content doesn't directly lead to good rankings, but it makes life a whole lot easier, especially with Google moving more and more to a more intelligent trust orientated algorithm. Crappy content and links won't cut it anymore.
I think a new meta-tag will be introduced allowing webmasters to state whether the content that have on their page requires a human user to be registered to view it
You know, I was just reading your post (which I agree with) and thought to myself, " Who creates BAD content" - outside of BHers can some one objectively look at their site and say "Man this sucks" - ha ha ha ha ha