the Future of SEO.

[universal4]

gayle,

Is this in addition to standard navigation links?

And, do you really put liver on a bagel?

Rick
Universal4

[JoeAdams]

SEO is going down the route now where Page Rank is not any longer important at all, trust me although some people won't believe me.

SEO is going down the route now of onsite development is king. Content creation (Blog as an example) is king as Google loves onsite work. I also do believe that sites that only focus on their homepage will not get anywhere anymore. Internal linking will be key in the future where all your pages are strong and they internally link together. Offsite work will still be needed however linking is going to get even harder in the future as people will struggle to know what a good link is as PR is not relevant anymore.

<style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> I agree with Murton.. PR doesn't have any importance nowadays.. some say that the future of SEO is SEM, that could possibly be true but I don't believe that there will come a day that SEO is gone and SEM will prevail.. because there would be no SEM if not for SEO.

[casinobonuseslisting]

i dont know about the future of SEO, all i know is that i have to do SEO of my website. the only way i can get visitors to my website, enough reason for me to spend hrs on SEO.

[gayle]

Rick: these 3 links go at the bottom of each article/lesson page along with the nav bar at
the left side.
Yes, siree--that's chopped liver on a toasted bagel. Not regular liver--echhhh, that's awful.

[best.hands]

What do you guys think the future of SEO will be?

As long as there are consumers looking for guides, information, products through search engines, there are search engines to help them locate their needs easily, there are people providing these needs through a website, SEO will still live. No matter how the process will evolve, the same logic will still remain, 'query' matched to a relevant 'resource', which is what SEO is all about, I think. We webmasters/site owners have the resources, consumers have the queries, search engines are there to link it all up, to make everything connected in an orderly manner, SEO should always be present.

[rola]

With more of the people having smartphones and using mobile devices, I believe optimizing sites for these devices will be important.

Not sure if this really falls into SEO per se, but having a mobile optimized site will most likely be helpful in the future

I have to agree with that!! Did you ever think of creating your own mobile site?

[wagerjunction]

Great thread guys. Thanks to Murton for starting it and to everyone who has contributed

I'm still a newbie when it comes to SEO so I really appreciate these discussion as they help me to better understand the subject.

[Frank Benjamin]

I have to agree with that!! Did you ever think of creating your own mobile site?

Yes, I have!

I use WordPress, and I know that there are multiple plugins that will detect a mobile app and send to a mobile site. I haven't done this yet, but it is on my list to do.

I don't know about social bookmarking, that was a fade a few years ago. Many of the sites now use no_follow commands. In no way am I am saying it doesn't help, I don't see it as the future.

Social media such as Facebook, I believe will become bigger and bigger. I know many people already use it, but I foresee Facebook and other social media sites becoming bigger. With so many people on these sites, it is hard not to believe Google won't find a way to use them.

However, I don't think Twitter is that big of a asset - tweets have a short shelf-life.

Great discussion guys!

[les]

I believe the industry will have to change in the near future. The web becomes more and more of a social nature, so it might be that in couple of years we will be discussing SMO (social media optimization) instead.

[Nile Hadwards]

The future of SEO worker looks bright! With all these changes and new promotion methods SEO workers will have to study a lot, keep in touch with new methods and be very good at what they are doing.

[jackrhodes]

As long as Google is still around and still focused on relevancy we will never have to worry about engines showing all ads all the time. Even if Google goes public and becomes the next in a long line of greedy search engines to totally screw up their results, another will come along to take its place. So, no, we will never have to worry about there being only paid listings.

[rinnyronald]

SEO is very bright and it all depends on your continues research and adopting new policies by the Google and other search engines. SEO will always survive, but the way it works will continue to develop and evolve, as it always has done. There will always be work to do that improves search visibility and reputation, because it's something that a lot of web authors don't or can't do themselves.

[cassy]

I think SEO in the future will get better and will become known as days will pass by. As Search Engines will make their best to protect the web from those spam sites, the competitiveness of the industry will highly rise.

[meaganandersen]

SEO in the future will still be all about optimizing websites and providing website owners a really good run for their money.

[lauferb]

I'm quite convinced that the future of seo will be this:

• spam will not even be indexed and shown in the search engines
• everything will be 100% geo targeted (meaning that a seach for "closest restaurant to my house that is open now" will actually give as first result the closest restaurant to the location of the person who searched that is open in the time of the search)
• PR, link exchanges and other things will have zero effect on ranking...

in general I think that eventually it'll all just be tuned in order to give to the person who searched exactly what he wanted to find.

if Google is not going to be able to do it, than facebook will, or another new company that will find a way how to do it, and this is what people will use in order to search...

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

I have quite alot of experience in SEO for the gambling industry and many other industries however I enjoy gambling the most.

SEO is going down the route now where Page Rank is not any longer important at all, trust me although some people won't believe me.

SEO is going down the route now of onsite development is king. Content creation (Blog as an example) is king as Google loves onsite work. I also do believe that sites that only focus on their homepage will not get anywhere anymore. Internal linking will be key in the future where all your pages are strong and they internally link together. Offsite work will still be needed however linking is going to get even harder in the future as people will struggle to know what a good link is as PR is not relevant anymore.

Google spiders will be more stricter than ever in the fact that spam will be picked up heavily.

Hmmm - I'll be straight with you - PR has NEVER been a factor. Its based on historical indexation and beside the last pathetic update over the last 2 weeks there has only been ONE in the last 18 months and again...it was based on old information.

I've been watching this thread and I guess I understand many of the opinions left, but I can tell you this...as long as there is and algorithm there will always be a need for SEO.

SEO isn't metas or links or social media saturation or any ONE thing or 10 things that a piece of software or a few cowboys can replicate - its about networks, people knowing people, testing G's algo every single day, and a few hunderd other elements.

I am stupefied that this thread hs drawn so much attention when there is so much quality information to utilise.

Spend half the time you all have refuting it on learning it and you'll understand where I am coming from.

Algo's can always be 'gamed' - I don't care if google integrates their instant search without your permission or not - it can always be gamed - and organic search results are so easily manipulated they will never deliver TRUE results - they are too caught up in using your own search queries and their demented idea of latent semantics that it will be years before they will ever be able to game the REAL SEO's.

Ps.Google spiders are like a 5 year old Murton, they aren't smart and all they do is crawl code.. that's why they are so easy to manipulate. Don't make them out to be more than they are.Inreality the googlebot is nothing more than a newer version of the Antikythera mechanism on steroids - stupid and easily steered.

That being said- I think you know your stuff so lets keep this thread going - but lets get past SEO EVER being absolute.

GaryTheScubaGuy

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

Gamed - LOL - that was meant to be Gamend - if thats a word - sounded right when I said it out loud -

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

BTW - on a side note - I think all AFFILIATE MANGERS SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO TAKE A PIC HOLDING A RECENT NEWSPAPER FOR THEIR AVATAR _ CUZ i go to every conference and I haven't seen one that looks like the hotass avatar/pics they are using. If they were even close i'd be signed upf or every bird's company in this thread!!!!

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

Ooooooo,....Ow.........Charlie bit me!!

[tomjery]

Future of the SEO is going to better and better, because as time goes more and more web sites came and these web sites need to go in the first rank in the search engine pages, SO for this they need for seo helps , Thus SEO has better future. Also seo uses for web marketing.