I would like to have constructive feedback on this . Please . Is it Time to stop search engine optimisation ? A question is asked more often than yet on forums , " Is search engine optimisation actually worth time or money ?". Today's Latest answer , NO . What I just saw has shocked me and will you as well . A small question , what are the search engine optimisation firms charging you for first page positions ? Probably $3000 , or much more . What if I tell you that you can get first position in google for $50 . Schocked , so was I . But I got proof . What I am going to let out required double research . Hence in the middle of writing this article , I went to google website AGAIN , and searched again to make sure . Mine is an html editor that also has xhtml features inbuilt including sitemap generator . As I am well aware of search engine optimisation , I went to google to search for a similar product with an intention to study the website of my competitors . You know just a tiny little more than my competitor ! Same old story . The search results disappointed me . We all know that google has been doing a great job by seperating Ad Words results from search results . Google USED to display the ad words results at the right hand side of the actual results . However today , I saw First two results on top of all the results . Yes , Two sponsered results on top of all the results . Try searching google for what you sell . If yours is a little competitive market , you sure will see google ad words advertisements displayed . And this time First two could be the first two Results in google . One way of determining ad words results is that they do not have a CACHED link with them . They are still seperating the results by adding a different background color but do you think your buyer is concerned by the background color ? Does your self optimised page stand any chance before a Perfectly written sales copy ? I don't know whether to thank google for bringing an end to So called search engine optimisation companies who were charging thousands to get my website on first page ? or should I be sad as someone has bought the first chance of selling ? I don't know , I am confused . But no matter what , this is the beginning of the end . Who's ? I am not sure , Google's credibility of top class search results , search engine optimisation firms , or search itself . You have reprint rights to this article until the lines below are maintained and not altered . This article is by s-kumar . I am a website content writer , website designer . And my hobby is software designing . My current launch is SSS12 html editor which makes website designing fun . I guarantee . Go here for more . http://www.farishtaey.com
This article is basically pretty bad. There are still plenty of benefits for being ranked first in the organic results. The whole premise is pretty stupid and tired. (IMHO) Is this your article?
I am not giving any explanation here but this is what I jjust saw at google . Most webmasters have optimised their websites heavily which has reduced the actual content on them . The question is that why do that when you can simply BUY a top position .
Because you can't just buy the position on top. CTR is factored in so it actually is not under your control. Not to mention having an organic listing AND a paid can actually double your visitors (in other words they don't steal visitors from each other)
Because it still makes money in organic results. I have decent trafic with yahoo and msn and both use sponsored results at top. It will be the same with google if they pot paid results on top like the other SE's.
If you are the only one, it means the keyword is not competitive and you will most likely appear on the right hand side ie. http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=relax&meta=
You don't have to hope...Its the truth. I would never start such a fact weak article off with: Most people are going to stop reading right there. If you are going to say SEO is dead, you have to at least have some facts or strong opinion to back it up
I didn't mean the only one . I meant your Listing is the only one ( organic ) Probably optimised page VS A Sales copy at the top .
When did I say that SEO IS DEAD . ? I just commented , " Is SEO DEAD ?" . I see it as starting of LESS SEO and MORE PPC . PPC is way less propotional to that of SEO . The whole point is whether the Money , and time worth it in SEO.
I took that from the title of this thread and your assertion that it is not worth paying for SEO. If that is not your intention, you may want to make that a lot clearer in the article. It sounds as though you are stating it as fact, not raising it for discussion. I am just giving the feedback you asked for in the original post. (I thought this was a request for a review)
Care to back that up with facts? Care to back that up with facts? Care to back that up with facts? Care to back that up with facts?
Yes, It is for feedback . Please don't feel upset . It is a question in the form of an Article . Think of it by the point of a person who does not know how google works . For him , all that matters is What is being offerred to him . More importantly "HOW". Would you buy a $20 commodity by someone who has written a page that looks like spam . All kind of broken english just to match Keywords . Or another website where they have barely mentioned their keyword . And have focused more on Buyer . PPC provides exposure to the second website . Try putting up yourself in the shoes of a LAYMAN to internet . When you think that you are not a webmaster , then you would probably see that you Don't Understand that POOR English is a result of Keyword establishment . Try to look at a website from a point of view of a Buyer . Not like a SEO knowledgeable person .
I'm sorry, I just don't get it. Whether you are a newbie or an experienced SEO the facts are still the same. I guess I'm just not your target audience
Except natural listing can sometimes not have a Cache under them. You statement would seem to imply that those are also paid ads. It makes it confusing for the reader (Which you have said is newbies)
And have you researched how much it would cost you to have a sponsored result at the top, permenantly, taking as many clicks as you would if it was you at the top of the organic results... for a competitive keyword? A lot more than $50 I tell ya. I think you have targetted the wrong audience here with that "article", sounds only newbies to seo are likely to take any of it on board seriously. I was half expecting to find an affiliate link to something somewhere in it!
Newbie or not, his whole premise is the top spot can be bought. The truth is it can't. You can have instances where you bid $50 and the two people in those top spots have bid $4 and $5 repectively. I have keywords I know I am bidding well below the top price yet I am the number one spot. Why? I have an ad that converts (has a really high CTR) which seems to figure greatly in top spot placement.