Comments on: When Will SEO Become Obsolete?

By: Step Two dot Net :: Modern trends of SEO and e-marketing

Step Two dot Net :: Modern trends of SEO and e-marketing — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:22:31 +0000

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By: AlleNation » News From The Hood - Home of Young Blogger & Entrepreneur Allen Heat

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:59:43 +0000

[...] Lee Odden ponders: When will SEO Become Obsolote?; “Rather than SEO becoming obsolete, I think it would be more accurate to say that other tactics like traffic building through social media will simply become more effective” Lee says. [...]

By: Igor M. (BizMord Blog)

Igor M. (BizMord Blog) — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:53:31 +0000

The beauty of SEO is that tactics change with the algorithm. How can something die if it keeps growing and changing?

SEO will never be obsolete. With algorithm, search, behavior, etc… changes SEOs will make adjustments accordingly.

At the end of the day SEO is part of a technology. Technology is constantly evolving.

By: Cristian Mezei

Cristian Mezei — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:19:40 +0000

I read the first two paragraphs.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:57:15 +0000

I appreciate all the comments, but more than appreciating the fact that there are so many people committed to the future of SEO, I am left wondering: “Did anyone actually read this post?

Contrary to some comments, I don’t think SEO is going to die and the post says as much. This is actually a very interesting situation.

Note to self: Most people read blog post titles and go right to the comments without reading the full post.

By: Cristian Mezei

Cristian Mezei — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:20:49 +0000

IMHO Lee, SEO will never die. No matter the breaktrough in technology, filters, AI, or other aspects of the search engines, there will always be methods.

As for links (for websites) they don’t come in ontheir own. Someone with at least a basic to medium knowledge in the industry must take care of them right ?

By: techipedia: anything tech. » Blog Archive » Will SEO ever die?

techipedia: anything tech. » Blog Archive » Will SEO ever die? — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:49:55 +0000

[...] I personally do not think that SEO will fail, and as newbies gain more knowledge, so too do the experts. With that said, I would also like to extend this to Lee Odden’s blog on SEO becoming obsolete. [...]

By: Sean Hecking

Sean Hecking — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:07:53 +0000

I don’t feel that SEO will become obsolete. If anything, it’s forcing developers and designers to start coding sites to web standards. This is helping move the internet forward in terms of usability, relevance and great content. What qualifies as a good site today will be substandard tomorrow. Evolution of the web I suppose.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:07:03 +0000

Hmm, maybe hack web designers are the hillbillies of the web.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:01:06 +0000

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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:51:09 +0000

I agree about SEO evolving, not dying. Doctors didn’t become obsolete when penicillin was invented. There’s always some jackass out there playing with a chainsaw who will need some stitches, just like there will always be a site out there in dire need of SEO

By: No Competition in Search · SEO Buzz Box

No Competition in Search · SEO Buzz Box — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:15:27 +0000

[...] Most SEO’s have all their cards on the table for social media marketing but will this have any value in GOOGLE? [...]

By: Starked SF, Unforgiving News from the Bay » Blog Archive » Talk of the Town: Tuesday

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:43:43 +0000

[...] When will SEO become obsolete? [...]

By: Cryptblade

Cryptblade — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:20:03 +0000

I love prosnosticators of doom. Whether in the pulpit or in SEO forums. I love the drama. But history shows that the end almost always come in a whimper – thank you T.S. Elliott.

But then again, the end is never really the end – it is simply reborn like the phoenix out of the ashes…

Yes, melodramatic – but so are doomsayers. All they want is attention to try and validate that their existence is somehow, worth something.

But SEO will go on. SEO is nothing more than a marketing tool. Without the marketing necessity for SEO, SEO would not be so big. SEO is about marketing – and so SEO will evolve as the Internet (the living organism known as the Internet) evolves. Absolutely SEO as we know it now will be dead in 5 years – just as the Internet as we know it now will be dead in 5 years. 5 years ago the future of the Internet looked so bright…then suddenly looked so dark. 5 years ago, too many people envisioned the Internet to be like… a brave new world of broadcasting. New Dotcoms came up with visions of making lots of money selling advertising in an infant communication medium.

Now, the Internet is probably more explosive than most people realize. The idea of “Web 2.0″ was birthed out of the ashes of the dotcom bust. That was 5 years ago. The next 5 years will bring more changes, more evolution.

Change is inevitable – SEO will change. SEO is accustomed to change. True SEO experts change. It’s the do-it-yourselfers who THINK they can do SEO that will not change. But then again – it leaves more business for the SEOs.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:54:33 +0000

SEO will evolve or mutate, but it won’t die.

By: SEO Is Dead Again

SEO Is Dead Again — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:33:23 +0000

[...] The old debate (or should that be “link bait”?). SEO is dead, SEO is dying, SEO is alive and well. [...]

By: Daniel R

Daniel R — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:16:05 +0000

Hey All,

I think I’m in agreement with most of what has been said here. The biggest thing to take away is what Lee Odden says here:
“Rather than SEO becoming obsolete, I think it would be more accurate to say that other tactics like traffic building through social media will simply become more effective. At least until those channels get replaced by something else.”

SMO here we come?

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:28:29 +0000

It’s not going to go away, but it may look somewhat different. Seems to me that to say something is going to look different on the Internet five years from now is to state the obvious. However, if I were to make a prediction, I would say that it’s not going to change all that much. What will change will be the functionality of browsers and the new and updated languages that go with it. I think SEO will basically remain the same in regards to 1) writing code that helps search engines comprehend your content 2) creating link bait. Last, good SEO includes some forms of marketing, so I’m not sure why you differentiate it.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:18:32 +0000

Seo will not die, it will grow and create other avenues such as social networking and be adopted and blended into traditional media.

Traditional media has no choice but to accept seo.
Some things will never change but rather have to blend together

By: SEOsnafu

SEOsnafu — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:49:13 +0000

SEO won’t “die” per se, but it will evolve.

Look at SMO (Social Media Optimization) and how it is shaping future needs of an SEO.

In five years (a lifetime online) you might be able to forecast a number of things, but online activity is a tough one. Five years ago the only thing that was probably predicted correctly would be streaming video )although they probably suggested dvd quality).

Jeez Lee, so many thoughts. Now I’ll have to post on it.