Comments on: SEO 2009: Adapt or Die

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:05:44 +0000

Very interesting. I think 2010 will actually bring more changes than we have had in SEO, because with Caffeine, Google finally has the flexibility they needed to be faster than us (=SEOs) and tweak the algorithm before we spam it with our SEO optimised pages

By: Consumer Proposal Toronto

Consumer Proposal Toronto — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:20:03 +0000

Very good information. In terms of Google is looking at click thru rate, do they look at Click thru from many different IP as well?

By: Icon Web Design

Icon Web Design — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:36:01 +0000

You know – this approach actually makes sense and REWARDS those people who have actually made a genuine effort to create:
1) Novel and informative content
2) A clear, usable easy to read/navigate website
Thanks, mate. A good read.

By: Matt Ambrose

Matt Ambrose — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:59:05 +0000

Excellent: more evidence to backup my insistence that businesses invest in content and not just graphics.

By: Mike Gunn

Mike Gunn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:53:56 +0000

Great read. I do tons and tons of adwords and still find SEO a complex maze of twists and turns. This article helps but still wish I had more confidence in what my money was going towards when I pay an SEO organic expert.

By: Mark in San Diego

Mark in San Diego — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:47:26 +0000

Call me crazy but I’m not 100% convinced this is something to really worry about. It seems content and inbound links are still king. But good info nonetheless.
Cheers!
Mark

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:09:38 +0000

Wait, are you saying I’m not part of the SEO Elite?
Kidding.
I haven’t, but they’re all aware of it. Rand wrote one of the patent analyses I used to figure some of this out.

By: Have You Shared This

Have You Shared This — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:07:11 +0000

Have you shared any of this info with some of the SEO elite (Danny Sullivan, Rand Fishkin, etc. etc.)? I have been looking for someone to do a decent treatment on these and other search engine changes for a while now and I have yet to see a useful panel at a conference, etc. on it.
I just got back from SMX West hoping that someone would be giving some detail on some of the things that you have outlined in your post as I too have observed many of the same things that you have and so far, I’m seeing very little.
I think your post should be “sphunn” (and so far I haven’t seen it there) so I’m going to create a Sphinn account to get it there, I hope it will spark a useful conversation on the many changes happening in the engines of late.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:03:50 +0000

@Brian Definitely not old news. Figure if they filed that patent in 2005, they’ve spent time since then working on adding those benchmarks to their algorithm. Plus, changes in the rankings, and testing we’ve been doing, point to Google accelerating and launching more and more algo changes in the last year.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:50:10 +0000

The SEO Moz you reference is an article written about the patent filed by Google in 2005…. is this old news or are you saying they will begin implementing those changes soon?