Just why SEO is dead

xinga said:

I agree, the title is a bit lame, but I stumbled across an interesting article naming the best channels to drive "massive" traffic.
http://billwidmer.com/best-marketing-channels/

why is it interesting? because I feel it pretty much sums up the current state of the SEO industry.
There's a bunch of socially inept losers running their mailing list and baiting poor desperate people starting with IM into buying their useless webinars. And from there they draw conclusions how SEO and IM in general works.

The funniest part. They talk about massive traffic, only mention SEO and, except for one of these 30 people, none of them really has massive traffic.

Click to expand...

microsysinfocom said:

SEO is not dead yet and will never in future....

Click to expand...

microsysinfocom said:

SEO is not dead yet and will never in future......do some research.....and BE PATIENT.

Click to expand...

xinga said:

True, the post itself is actually not bad. Just the content itself. Note: The post was about traffic, not SEO!!!.

Seriously, it's 2017 and if you are just talking about Google when it comes to traffic you sort of missed the developments of the past 5 years Sure, people still google a lot. The question is just - which part of that traffic is actually open to you as a guy with a website that isn't wikipedia, reddit, yahoo, amazon or pornhub. And if you compare that to the traffic that is open to you via new, not as saturated channels (flipboard, pinterest, etc), you might notice, that these channels are actually offering the better bang for your buck (by a factor of 10).

also, from a more scientific point of view, it's a bit questionable when you draw all your conclusions from one specific niche - especially one like SEO, where all search queries are done by super targeted business users (as opposed to your average consumer who might eventually feel like getting that tight sweater if you ask him pretty please).

Click to expand...

xinga said:

I agree, the title is a bit lame, but I stumbled across an interesting article naming the best channels to drive "massive" traffic.
http://billwidmer.com/best-marketing-channels/

why is it interesting? because I feel it pretty much sums up the current state of the SEO industry.
There's a bunch of socially inept losers running their mailing list and baiting poor desperate people starting with IM into buying their useless webinars. And from there they draw conclusions how SEO and IM in general works.

The funniest part. They talk about massive traffic, only mention SEO and, except for one of these 30 people, none of them really has massive traffic.

Click to expand...