Is SEO dying? or becoming less effective?

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How is optimising for a search engine and marketing dying exactly?

 

Heard it on another forum, want to get more thoughts.. And it is just SEO not SEM

 

No it isn't dying, just takes a little while to get in place. Just takes time

 

I'm not sure I understand the question.

 

i dont think SEO is dying, it's just becoming more competitive and more complex

 

Yup, thats my view too..

 

SEO isn't dyning and never will...

doing SEO the right way does take time to show results but when it does there is no stoping.

 

Search engines are algorithmic based. Results don't appear in random order (normally) so there must be rules for determining why a site appears at the top for a certain keyword.

Obviously there are many rules that determine rank (age of site, page title, incoming links) and we don't know the exact rules, but with your own and others experience you get to know that some things are more important for good ranking than others.

In the future.... who knows?

 

It is becoming tougher , SEO dying means the end of the internet

 

Not if SEO is replaced by widespread ethical and informed web publishing.

 

so the media is taking over??

Fair and balanced SEO!!

 

Its def. not dieing but becoming harder as there's hundreds to thousands to millions of websites competing directly with yours.

 

At the same time, they can release "Flying Pigs v1.0a"

 

Well look at the evidence, Google is already starting to do that for us. If you're not providing something useful, and doing it with questionable techniques over content, your sites will suffer in the future.

 

I can give you 20 sites in my industry alone who are using "questionable" techniques and ranking quite well. Reports to google explicitly documenting the abuses does nothing.

Google does a fair to middling job... but they are still better than the alternatives. To be fair the job is astronomically difficult and getting more so by the day as website after website is being added to the net.

 

SEO is dead, you guys should all stop building and sites and find new careers

 

If we are talking google then yes I believe so, to an extent. It is more about SEM than on site optimisation, google's progress is good and their interpretation of a website is not as crude as it once was, they do not need to be told through traditional SEO; (META's, bold,italic,H1) what a site/page is about as much now, trust is growing in importance.

 

Excuse my ignorance - what's SEM?

 

I think that Google is really doing the most efficient way in deciding a website's "faith" in their search engine rankings. Surely Google and other visitors don't want old sites to be indexed that are long gone or have changed names...it's really just a waste and is kind of like keeping spam in your email inbox. I like the fact that Google judges websites by age and link popularity. It really helps their users out, the searchers.

I think that it is bad for newer websites to be honest, but really if you are dedicated to your site than you should see why this has to happen. I think webmasters are lucky if they get a PR5 as their site's first PageRank.

I don't think SEO is dieing at all, or becoming less effective. But I think that today's search engines are finding better ways to evaluate websites and better ways to see if the websites are actually search engine optimized via content and age.

I hope that made sense. Just trying to throw my opinion out on the matter. Plus as I stated before...there is SO much competition nowadays that I think SEO is really just a hard "contest" overall.