Bored With Seo?
High Rankings Search Engine Optimization ForumScottie posts the question: "I am amazed at the number of people I have talked to in the last 6 months or so who have said they are losing interest in SEO. Why is that?
Are we just a bunch of challenge seekers and the game isn't fun anymore? Has the SEO landscape changed so much that we aren't as fascinated by it as we once were? Has it become too hard/too easy? "
Jill Whalen writes: "It is certainly more interesting to start looking at and figuring out conversions rather than rankings. I'm glad that we're moving into that era. Still have a few of those clients that don't get it though..."
qwerty made me laugh... " Well, if you lot are all bored with the work on getting the code and content on a site right, feel free to send all those boring clients to me"
Raphael fumes: "The SEOs that come from a less technical direction are much more likely to succeeed at organic optimization, purely because they're more inclined to 'try it and see if it works' rather than spend 40 hours trying to figure out what algorithm google is using this week.....
People (who waste time) figure out what algorithm google is using this week annoy me. It's a pointless waste of energy, and IMO you'd simply be better off spending your time making sure your site is the best, the most comprehensive and the most informative in it's field.... Because at the end of the day, ranking actually doesn't count for crap - visitors and conversions do."
On the same topic Jill Whalen says " I do believe that the best SEOs (not for pills, porn casino, but "real" sites) are those who are somewhat technical, but not so geeky as to do things by the numbers. Plus, they have to be highly creative. It's quite a powerful combination when you put those 2 things together....I guess that's why those people trying to figure out LSI or whatever the geeky acronym of the month is just make me laugh and laugh"
Big Bill "I'm hugely frustrated at having a headful of specialist and very useful information that people don't want to know about."
Denyse "I still believe that SEO is an important tool, because its about making your site the best it can be, for the visitor and by extension the SE. But once you have done that you don't just sit on your laurels, you have to work hard at marketing that site. And that's what keeps it fresh for me."
posted by Jen @ 7:55 AM
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