Neal Cabage is only the most recent
writer to use the words “SEO is dead” in a headline. His article
joins a long line of other articles and even a tongue-in-cheek website dedicated
to this topic. There are also many well-worded refutations of the idea that SEO
is dead, of which Danny Sullivan’s 2009 post is a prime
example. Most articles with that headline or a variation thereof are
actually writers trying to stir up some controversy so they can then explain
why SEO in fact is not dead. Whatever the reason, the phrase has become cliché
and tired, and I say that with this post, let us never see the words “SEO” and
“dead” in a headline ever again. Let’s move on. But first, this final
explanation of why SEO is not dead, and will never die.
SEO, an acronym for search engine optimization,
is broadly defined as including any activity or set of activities designed to
get business from the organic or natural search results in a search engine. If you change the title tag on your homepage
in the hope it will cause your website to rank better on Google, you’re doing
SEO. If you add a blog to your website because you heard Google likes content,
and you blog every week because you hope this will get your website ranking
higher for more terms, you’re doing SEO. If you convince a friend who works at
a reputable online publication to write an article about your company and link
to your company’s website, you’re doing SEO.
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There are ways to get business from search
engines that are not generally defined as having anything to do with SEO.
Google and other search engines sell ad space alongside their organic search
results, and buying these ads is not SEO, although the information gained from
running these ad campaigns can often be beneficial to one’s SEO efforts.
What
could kill SEO?
SEO will die only as soon as the
search engine dies. As long as there are search engines people will figure out
how search engines work in order to get business from them. We might talk about the end of search as we know it, or how content marketing is changing what SEO is, that SEO and public relations are merging, or that use of the
acronym SEO will die out and instead we’ll make those activities formally known
as SEO part of a larger group of activities that we’ll call “online marketing”
or “web marketing” or something fancier sounding. The fact remains we’ll still
be performing activities designed to get business from the natural search
results in search engines, and therefore SEO will be alive and kickin’.
Why
claim SEO is dead?
If SEO will never die, then why do
people claim it’s dead, or even bring up the matter in the first place? As they
say, follow the money. Sure, go ahead, lump me in the group of
those trolling for traffic by using the phrase. But somebody’s got to put an
end to this, and I can’t very well do that without mentioning what I’m trying
to put an end to.
Perhaps nothing will do as good a
job of putting a final nail in the coffin of the “SEO is dead” mantra as
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