Is SEO a thing of the past?

Ever heard about advertising? Its good way to generate leads, SEO requires time and efforts, thats the reason most of the people fail and declare SEO is dead.
 
Ever heard about advertising? Its good way to generate leads, SEO requires time and efforts, thats the reason most of the people fail and declare SEO is dead.

still SEO works and one of best way to generate quality traffic for years. Many say SEO dead cause many used to outsource. There are things we shouldn't outsource and SEO is something like that.

Many failures because of outsourcing.
 
Ever heard about advertising? Its good way to generate leads, SEO requires time and efforts, thats the reason most of the people fail and declare SEO is dead.
Well said. SEO is not dead to people who has time and passion for it. You should read the post from @kunter about his sucess through lnk buildings.
 
Those who still defend "SEO" are usually the link sellers or bullshit SEOs offering their "services". These people are as despicable as people selling cancer cure to terminally-ill patients.

Even if SEO isn't "dead" or "thing of the past", Google or Bing has been trying to kill organic traffic. Just witness how they've change the search results layout - People Also Asked, Videos Panel, Images Panel, Sponsored Ads, and so many more. Google is the worse as they've given priority rankings to Reddit and big publisher sites like Forbes. It doesn't take a genius to observe what's happening. If you're aren't seeing this, then you're not looking close enough or you're probably new to this line.

Even if you rank first now, the traffic you're getting are droplets... Compare this to years ago.

Those who disagree are still living in their shell (or just link sellers). I was just like that and always thought SEO is all alive and "Google is great" until I've witnessed all the recent updates... Since 2020, SEO isn't a reliable source anymore.

edit: don't believe me? Always see the signatures of those who are defending SEOs... You realise they are just link sellers or SEO consultants.

edit 2: I'm not referring to my friends in this thread. And I'm not specifically targeting anyone. But just witness it yourself.
 
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Those who still defend "SEO" are usually the link sellers or bullshit SEOs offering their "services". These people are as despicable as people selling cancer cure to terminally-ill patients.

Even if SEO isn't "dead" or "thing of the past", Google or Bing has been trying to kill organic traffic. Just witness how they've change the search results layout - People Also Asked, Videos Panel, Images Panel, Sponsored Ads, and so many more. Google is the worse as they've given priority rankings to Reddit and big publisher sites like Forbes. It doesn't take a genius to observe what's happening. If you're aren't seeing this, then you're not looking close enough or you're probably new to this line.

Even if you rank first now, the traffic you're getting are droplets... Compare this to years ago.

Those who disagree are still living in their shell (or just link sellers). I was just like that and always thought SEO is all alive and "Google is great" until I've witnessed all the recent updates... Since 2020, SEO isn't a reliable source anymore.
I actually work for a multi-billion-dollar company as an SEO Specialist and i can tell you right now, me and the other 20-30 people disagree with you.
the issue is, people believe if i want to rank for "cars" ill just use that keyword over and over in blogs and i should rank.
people dont realise that there are so many factors and areas you have to improve.
social media, backlinks, website, products, schema, blah blah blah.
There are way too many factors for one person to do and then say it doesnt work.
you literally have SEO in your username!
 
I actually work for a multi-billion-dollar company as an SEO Specialist and i can tell you right now, me and the other 20-30 people disagree with you.
the issue is, people believe if i want to rank for "cars" ill just use that keyword over and over in blogs and i should rank.
people dont realise that there are so many factors and areas you have to improve.
social media, backlinks, website, products, schema, blah blah blah.
There are way too many factors for one person to do and then say it doesnt work.
you literally have SEO in your username!
I respect your opinion although I disagree.
However, I'm kinda lazy to dispute your claim, especially since you're a SEO specialist yourself.
All I can say is SEO specialist are the ones who always defend Google.. Just like Lily Ray or whoever. They are just fraudsters (not referring to you since I don't know you or your service yet).

Those who has been in this line for decades, and even kept track of Google updates and how it has deteriorated over the years will wholeheartedly disagree with you. You could even get flamed for it. I'm not gonna do that here.
In fact, most SEOs I've met don't even keep track of Google Updates and are spewing BS to everyone. They cherry-pick client's best graphs or even photoshop it to convince otherwise. It is so nonsensical I gave up arguing with them. Again, I'm not referring to you but to the other SEOs... I've not seen your portfolio or your service yet, so I can't say anything. Also, I've seen you participating and you post good stuff for a long time (I respect ya).

So good luck in your endeavours.

P.S: "SEO" in my username doesn't mean I provide SEO in anyway. It is just a play on "Alice in Wonderland".
 
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I respect your opinion although I disagree.
However, I'm kinda lazy to dispute your claim, especially since you're a SEO specialist yourself.
All I can say is SEO specialist are the ones who always defend Google.. Just like Lily Ray or whoever. They are just fraudsters (not referring to you since I don't know you or your service yet).

Those who has been in this line for decades, and even kept track of Google updates and how it has deteriorated over the years will wholeheartedly disagree with you. You could even get flamed for it. I'm not gonna do that here.
In fact, most SEOs I've met don't even keep track of Google Updates and are spewing BS to everyone. They cherry-pick client's best graphs or even photoshop it to convince otherwise. It is so nonsensical I gave up arguing with them. Again, I'm not referring to you but to the other SEOs... I've not seen your portfolio or your service yet, so I can't say anything. Also, I've seen you participating and you post good stuff for a long time (I respect ya).

So good luck in your endeavours.

P.S: "SEO" in my username doesn't mean I provide SEO in anyway. It is just a play on "Alice in Wonderland".
i think were both on the same page with a few things, and also something i probably should have specified first:
i dont work for any BS "SEO Agency" which im sure youd agree with is that most of them are full of shit (im employed by the company itself, not a marketer/consultant or whatever they want to call themselves)
and the company i work for STUPIDLY also pays about 90k per year for external marketers who literally do the basic checklist that even an antarctic penguin could do and it infuriates me.
 
BTC is already dead and SEO also carries 3 letters. Coincidence?
 
Those who still defend "SEO" are usually the link sellers or bullshit SEOs offering their "services". These people are as despicable as people selling cancer cure to terminally-ill patients.

Even if SEO isn't "dead" or "thing of the past", Google or Bing has been trying to kill organic traffic. Just witness how they've change the search results layout - People Also Asked, Videos Panel, Images Panel, Sponsored Ads, and so many more. Google is the worse as they've given priority rankings to Reddit and big publisher sites like Forbes. It doesn't take a genius to observe what's happening. If you're aren't seeing this, then you're not looking close enough or you're probably new to this line.

Even if you rank first now, the traffic you're getting are droplets... Compare this to years ago.

Those who disagree are still living in their shell (or just link sellers). I was just like that and always thought SEO is all alive and "Google is great" until I've witnessed all the recent updates... Since 2020, SEO isn't a reliable source anymore.

edit: don't believe me? Always see the signatures of those who are defending SEOs... You realise they are just link sellers or SEO consultants.

edit 2: I'm not referring to my friends in this thread. And I'm not specifically targeting anyone. But just witness it yourself.
Partially agreed, SEO blogging is dead, services and products sector is fine as always, if you have big budget for backlinks and DA.
SEO blogging for Non-English sites is still a thing, only if you work on niches where "Top Magazines sites" and "Big Internet Giants, reddit, facebook, tiktok" don't show up
 
I miss the traffic that we use to get in old desktop days when mobile was not existent.
 
BTC is already dead and SEO also carries 3 letters. Coincidence?
So does your name.
Jokes aside SEO is not a thing in the past even with advanced technologies, People will be using technology for there clients
 
Google has made a lot of changes in its Search Engine algorithm, The people who follow old methodologies, can't get the expected results.
 
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