We are into web 2.0 – where is SEO?

Do you think that SEO is into the same track too – like SEO 2.0?

Yes – advanced SEO had always been there – the SEO 2.0.

So, what does SEO 2.0 look like – goldfish in the wild or a zebra in an aquarium?

In traditional SEO, the main focus had been to improve search engine ranking for targeted keywords and getting as many visitors as possible. That’s it – traditional SEO stopped working there. And in traditional SEO, the main focus had been linking in and linking out and fixing keywords in the Meta Description and H1s.

But in SEO 2.0, the whole scenario is changing.

Now, the main focus is on visitors and their needs and overall experience in a website. It is about creating an environment and a platform for social communication. Webmasters are confident about one thing, if they can satisfy the visitors, search engines (read Google) would be bound to send them more traffic. And thus, advanced SEOs are not writing title tag for search engines; they are just defining the page and writing the content to satisfy the visitors. Now SEO is visitor-centric.

And another most important aspect of SEO 2.0 is that people do not fully depend on search engines to get traffic. The concentration has shifted to traffic long tail. And the traffic long tail generated from social networks is getting more importance. However, there had been lots of debates on the issue whether those visitors are convertible into business or not. And it solely depends on the environment you provide in your website. Some people are successfully using them to increase sales and some people are just wasting their bandwidth.

Going local to be a global player! That’s the best part of SEO 2.0 where the webmasters focus on local visitors.

Being human from machine: “Who are you” is as important as the product you offer – communicate – convince – sell. Web is no more just an information source. Yu got to give it a human touch.

Some SEOs do that.

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You point out that “Going local to be a global player! That?s the best part of SEO 2.0 where the webmasters focus on local visitors.” It seems to me everybody is trying to gather up visitors from social networks, not so much local in nature. How is the 2.0 a shift from that?

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Jul 20, 2008

I love “the who are you concept”

It is sooo true. I am building a new site….to HELP people not get scammed while trying to make money online.

I have an about me page.. so that they know that there is a real person behind the site.

Great message about web and seo 2.0 :)

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I’ve been in this industry now for 10+ years…and it does seem that pure SEO has been and always will be a bandaid. Sure, it can work for the shortterm, but if a site gets smooshed by the Google Dance, all that SEO effort went down the drain.

Satisfying visitors is truly where it’s at.

Happy Sunday, Barbara

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It’s a good thing that SEO is going towards…more human touch. After all, that should be the case in the first place. Providing a good sincere service or product and get paid for it.
Have a great day ahead.

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