Is SEO Dying ?

I found a very interesting article about SEO that makes a number of good points about how the SEO "industry" is quickly dying off, and anyone who is basing their career on that type of work will need to quickly adapt to changing market conditions within the next three year or find a new job.



http://learntoduck.com/search-marketing/seo-is-dead

SEO was a patch industry to begin with. It emerged to bridge the gap between new technologies being developed by search engines & browser makers.

Whether or not SEO Professionals helped close the gap is up for debate, but the gap is pretty much closed.

I found this information very helpful : ) Good advice : )

Steve

I think SEO will be big in the next few years. There are only a few search engines here in the big W and there are gazillions of websites and pages and still counting. Everyone wants to be included in the top listing, every site needs SEO. Yes, it is dependent on the search engine that's why it's called SEO.

Barrie North, founder of JoomlaShack says in his book "Joomla! An User Guide" on page 197 ...



and on page 420 ...

I couldn't agree more, artcoder.

I work as an SEO for a marketing company for accountants, we develop website for firms and handle their marketing also.

Seo is the buzzword, all our clients are interested, they press us for it, they even get mad about it!

It does worry me though, the future that is, and belive me i have been thinking about this for a while, what will do next? I can design great sites, with clean CSS code and high text to code ratio! - ineffect thats seo!

I look at this way,....

seo is something that will be needed up until the search engines deem it obsolete! - FACT!

Now...

Google is already thinking about other ways to stop the "webmaster" controlling the ranks, I'm pretty dam sure google hate it!, until they can come up with anew method, like, user monitoring (Spyware), then seo is here to stay! - Google already knows everything about your site, you analytics don't you? you probably have Google tool bar too! - THINK! all that info being sent to them!

But still until that time comes seo is working

Maybe I am getting into SEO too late in the game, but the methods I am employing to improve rankings for some of my pages seems to be working just fine. From what I have seen and read, it looks like some more simple methods used in the past no longer work.

seo are quiet easy but you have a strategical points before it get a result.

Market is objective. While SEO makes sense and brings money it lives.

I must have the wrong acronyms.

I was thinking

Search
Engine
Optimization

Where Optimization entails optimizing a site to be read and indexed by search engines better.

But, it seems like I'm reading mostly replies about

Search
Engine
Marketing

where Marketing entails leaving traces on other sites for search engines to pick up on.

Now I understand why nobody creates new discussions in these boards anymore.

I'm all for a new concept. P.O. a.k.a. People Optimization -- i.e. optimize for your target audience and don't care less about what search engines do with it, as long as your audience responds. It's what the web is about.

Isn't that the foundation of Design and Marketing?

It does amaze me though that so many people are willing to pay for SEO when any good developer should have done 75% of that stuff when the site was built.

State of Washington sues Web/SEO firm, http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/35218