The evolution of SEO

This post is from from my other blog here

SEO is dead, ranking is useless and other fairy tales Well peeps, it seems it’s that time again and peeps are shovelling crap once more. Not that it’s anything new, but worth me taking time away from my sabbatical to rant off a bit. First off we have the ever popular ‘SEO is a dead man’ routine that is making the rounds again of late. Let me explain this to you right now; as long as there is organic search, SEO will be viable. It’s a fact. It truly behoves me to see folks believing that the future of search doesn’t include optimizers. Are these folks merely trying to put fellow SEOs (and the competition) off the track? Dunno…. As a search geek guy that follows developments from universal and personalized search (http://www.huomah.com/search-engines/learn-seo/fire-horse-guide-to-personalized-search.html), phrase based (http://www.huomah.com/search-engines/algorithm-matters/phrase-based-optimization-resources.html) (and semantic) approaches all...