Will SEO still exist in five years?

July 6, 2010 - 6:41 pm 25 Comments

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.

Kevin from Marseille, France asked:

Will SEO still exist in 5 years?

Duration : 0:1:56


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25 Responses to “Will SEO still exist in five years?”

  1. crackcomm Says:

    Illegal hat – spam …
    Illegal hat – spam…

  2. viraltrafficrush Says:

    yes i think! triple …
    yes i think! triple w @@@ viraltrafficrush @@@ com..

  3. dannybuntu Says:

    20 PAGE PDF. Is …
    20 PAGE PDF. Is found in Google Webmaster site. I cant post link, it keeps getting blocked.

  4. hawk18211 Says:

    SEO is very …
    SEO is very resourseful and needed and its not going anywhere

  5. wwwSEOWritersNet Says:

    You’re right. It’s …
    You’re right. It’s not a secret. The more relevant and original articles and content you have written about your market, the more likely you’ll rank high for related keyword terms. It’s best to use Google’s keyword tool to find out how often people are searching particular phrases in order to determine which phrase you want to target….and that’s how SEO writers market websites.

  6. abaftfondness29 Says:

    Check out my …
    Check out my profile to Upload your video to 40+ video sharing sites & 30+ social bookmarking sites.

  7. abaftfondness29 Says:

    Check out my …
    Check out my profile to Upload your video to 40+ video sharing sites & 30+ social bookmarking sites.

  8. dagr8rylz Says:

    lol how is black …
    lol how is black hat illegal? LMAO Google just made up laws for the internet.

  9. greenlordd Says:

    I think you should …
    I think you should link the SEO starter guide in your deion :)

  10. iMushCake Says:

    WOOHOO XD
    WOOHOO XD

  11. korvix Says:

    sorry matt, but …
    sorry matt, but with no backlinks you don’t get rankings.

    Thus, Google is still doing a bad job at defining who has the most quality content.

    And we still need to be building backlinks the boring, long hard way.

    Hope you will start picking up on User Behavior analytics where people behavior on a website and how long they stay on it will be a major factor of search engine rankings.

  12. yakakey02 Says:

    How can i get the …
    How can i get the words in this great video?

    thanks,
    Jim

  13. MFUSION100 Says:

    Dude i have a …
    Dude i have a question. Is it right to choose low competition but popular keywords in SEO, and with this, can i advertise using high competiton keywords via the google adwards on the similar high ranked websites? like with PPC/PCM campaigns?

  14. Flyborg Says:

    @goata007 Search …
    @goata007 Search google for “google seo starter guide pdf” – it’s the first result.

  15. andyg3000 Says:

    Thanks Matt….. …
    Thanks Matt….. Great video.

  16. salaser19 Says:

    Jajajajaja una …
    Jajajajaja una pregunta existencial

  17. goata007 Says:

    How can I get their …
    How can I get their 20-page SEO pdf??

  18. pwollerman Says:

    But maybe you meant …
    But maybe you meant SEO? UM, it’s Search Engine Optimisation.

  19. pwollerman Says:

    Since no-one has …
    Since no-one has answered you prolly need help. A .swf suffux on a file means “Shock Wave Flash”. It’s a Flash file, Google it!

  20. promocioweb Says:

    I was making myself …
    I was making myself this question last year, my self answer was “leave it and run 100% into your IT career” and in the middle of quitting, instinctly boosted it up after a nice Sunday walk… Happy I did so, market is tending to value SEO professionals as a helping hand in this nowadays crisis times.
    Nice to hear Matt commenting on this :)

  21. TrevorLovAnime Says:

    What is swf
    What is swf

  22. PageOneSEO Says:

    SEO will absolutely …
    SEO will absolutely exist in five years. As long as there are search engines and ranking of results there will be people who want to be ranked at the top.

    There are so many pages out there that don’t get the basics right that I could work for an eternity and not finish optimizing them all.

  23. brainworkindia Says:

    I m happy to be an …
    I m happy to be an seo………….

  24. ajayg514 Says:

    Content Marketing …
    Content Marketing will certainly always exist and should, but search engine Artificial Intelligence will continue to evolve. My only hope is that external factors like money does not affect the natural selection of these results. Go TheMusicAge to see another way of using user generated content in context of a Social Network. Google “TheMusicAge”.

  25. wwwSEOWritersNet Says:

    Content is very …
    Content is very important and often forgotten with company sites. Many businesses fail each year online because they forgot about the importance of content on a website. Custom SEO articles provide many benefits for businesses.

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