Will SEO still exist in five years?
April 30, 2010 | In: Videos
On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Kevin from Marseille, France asked: Will SEO still exist in 5 years?
25 Responses to Will SEO still exist in five years?
iMushCake
April 30th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
WOOHOO XD
korvix
April 30th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
sorry matt, but with no backlinks you don’t get rankings.
Thus, Google is still doing a bad job at defining who has the most quality content.
And we still need to be building backlinks the boring, long hard way.
Hope you will start picking up on User Behavior analytics where people behavior on a website and how long they stay on it will be a major factor of search engine rankings.
MrBigPoppa43
April 30th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
This is the *only* course you will ever need on traffic. And it gets my highest recommendation. P.S. STOP. You owe it to yourself to watch this video. There’s a reason it’s taken over all the forums, twitter, facebook etc… It works. It’s making people money. And they LOVE it:
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yakakey02
April 30th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
How can i get the words in this great video?
thanks,
Jim
MFUSION100
May 1st, 2010 at 12:46 am
Dude i have a question. Is it right to choose low competition but popular keywords in SEO, and with this, can i advertise using high competiton keywords via the google adwards on the similar high ranked websites? like with PPC/PCM campaigns?
Flyborg
May 1st, 2010 at 1:39 am
@goata007 Search google for “google seo starter guide pdf” – it’s the first result.
andyg3000
May 1st, 2010 at 2:15 am
Thanks Matt….. Great video.
salaser19
May 1st, 2010 at 2:20 am
Jajajajaja una pregunta existencial
goata007
May 1st, 2010 at 2:36 am
How can I get their 20-page SEO pdf??
pwollerman
May 1st, 2010 at 3:31 am
But maybe you meant SEO? UM, it’s Search Engine Optimisation.
pwollerman
May 1st, 2010 at 4:14 am
Since no-one has answered you prolly need help. A .swf suffux on a file means “Shock Wave Flash”. It’s a Flash file, Google it!
promocioweb
May 1st, 2010 at 4:41 am
I was making myself this question last year, my self answer was “leave it and run 100% into your IT career” and in the middle of quitting, instinctly boosted it up after a nice Sunday walk… Happy I did so, market is tending to value SEO professionals as a helping hand in this nowadays crisis times.
Nice to hear Matt commenting on this
TrevorLovAnime
May 1st, 2010 at 5:34 am
What is swf
PageOneSEO
May 1st, 2010 at 6:05 am
SEO will absolutely exist in five years. As long as there are search engines and ranking of results there will be people who want to be ranked at the top.
There are so many pages out there that don’t get the basics right that I could work for an eternity and not finish optimizing them all.
brainworkindia
May 1st, 2010 at 7:02 am
I m happy to be an seo………….
ajayg514
May 1st, 2010 at 7:44 am
Content Marketing will certainly always exist and should, but search engine Artificial Intelligence will continue to evolve. My only hope is that external factors like money does not affect the natural selection of these results. Go TheMusicAge to see another way of using user generated content in context of a Social Network. Google “TheMusicAge”.
wwwSEOWritersNet
May 1st, 2010 at 8:31 am
Content is very important and often forgotten with company sites. Many businesses fail each year online because they forgot about the importance of content on a website. Custom SEO articles provide many benefits for businesses.
Michelll86
May 1st, 2010 at 9:22 am
Thanks again Matt,
If I hear you talking I would almost say we dont need SEO experts in the future…
Hope I am wrong
Greetz
ITHINKSEARCH
May 1st, 2010 at 10:08 am
Good ideas. But be careful with spammers with links in blogs. In Spain, they are destroying all organic beauty. Cheers.
zazammweightloss
May 1st, 2010 at 10:29 am
I love Google ! ♥
caprichoso
May 1st, 2010 at 10:46 am
haha… I’ts look like
MoreWebsiteTraffic
May 1st, 2010 at 11:42 am
I’m not interested in black/crap/gray hat, but I am interested in doing SEO for anyone that wants it done with white hat professionalism. It is good to see that Google is on the side of the good guys and rewards them with high organic rankings.
alps07
May 1st, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Thanks Matt for all the knowledge you provide.
Your last red-shirt video is definitely a great booster.
Am not and seo, but your videos and blog does provide much insight in making a good blog which has rich original content + friendly with search engine.
djwhitehouse82
May 1st, 2010 at 12:23 pm
why has he got such an old looking laptop? LOL
SailTimeCa
May 1st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
SEO rules the world!