Google's new search engine (aka Caffeine) vs Facebook search engine (aka Friendfeed)
not to mention Bing, Cuil.. etc etc...
4 months ago I wrote about the future of SEO and search engines and as usual web events are faster than anyone can imagine.
In just two days all the web has been flooded by two main news:
- Facebook Acquires FriendFeed and launches a new kind of search..
- the new version of google search engine
The new SEO age, from personal search to social network!
SEO age, part 2 - SEO 2009+
A SEO professional nowdays can optimize the content of your web site to get more traffic from search engines. But things are changing really really faster than expected. Search engines now use bounch rates, pages viewed, time spent and so on, to get if the website has really good content for the keyword they provided that page. So now you need also a good designed website, to stay high in SERP...!
Furthermore Localized search, geographical search, personal search, social network search, video search, chatting or twittering...are always more important. How many times do you go on a website clicking on a link inside facebook, twitter or a chat?
Will SEO evolve? Will SEO die or be obsolete?
SEO age, part 1
How will SEO evolve? Will SEO die? Will SEO Become Obsolete?
All these questions and many others related to SEO field are popping up everyehere... and the short answer is that SEO will evolve, SEO will NOT die and so it will not be obsolete! ;-)
As other web fields the change rate will be faster and the SEO work done by one single guy will be done by more people, in the near future. We can already see this happening and new professional figures are coming.... But let's cover the full SEO story in short and deep.
The beginning of the SEO
After first search engines appeared (Aliweb and the most successful Jumpstation 1993) SEO was born too! SEO people were developers of these first search engines who wanted content to be found! And this is the essence of a SEO! He wants content to be found! So, at the very beginning, SEO were just developers who wanted content to be found.
Used Seo techniques.
just write some content and add your web site to search engines.
Required skills.
None in particular.