SEO Future?

[Cleo8]

I've been reading quite a bit of material on Google recently and I've personally come to the conclusion that sooner rather than later, search engines such as google will almost dismiss the current SEO techniques used today with a couple exceptions. I would think that Keyword rich content, Titles, links etc are and will always be very important, but the older Google gets possibly 99.999% of it's results will be based on content and interaction only? Think about the difference from 2001 to 2006 and how much less value h2 tags etc give to SEO now. (this is all of course an assumption).

Question-!

My question is, from what you all know, is it really worth the time to label images and make sure h1 h2 tags etc are labeled with Keywords ?? and if so what % would you give to the "tried and true techniques" ? At this point I think it's still important enough to spend some time on, but what do you all think??

Thank you for your input! =)

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by Cleo8

My question is, from what you all know, is it really worth the time to label images and make sure h1 h2 tags etc are labeled with Keywords ?? and if so what % would you give to the "tried and true techniques" ? At this point I think it's still important enough to spend some time on, but what do you all think??

The second most important on-site factor is the <h1> tag. And about using alt attributes, they will be ok if you use them with care.

Check my post at another forum here: http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=70255

[Allen]

The change I see coming is trust - and really past the traditional linkback trust.

But I still think you should follow the right HTML standards.

[htmlnerd]

Hi I'm new,

does anyone know where I can learn the basics of SEO?

Cheers

LEn

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by htmlnerd

Hi I'm new,

does anyone know where I can learn the basics of SEO?

Cheers

LEn

Have a look here: http://www.improvetheweb.com/search-...words-smartly/

[Darksat]

If you want to learn about the way google is heading you may want to research temporal link analysis.

[Eugene04]

Maybe I am mistaken, but Google is still sticking to the concept of PR and ranking of search results is still based on "link voting". I'm convinced that nothing will happen with traditional SEO methods (I mean link exchange, etc) until Google changes their ranking concept.

[Webnauts]

Google did major changes in their concept. You better look into the PhraseRank algorithm.

[Eugene04]

Theese method aims to ban spammy sites "A computer implemented method for identifying spam documents in an information retrieval system, the method comprising: maintaining a list of phrases, each phrase associated with a list of related phrases; determining a number of related phrases expected to be present in a document for any phrase on the list of phrases; determining for a document, and for at least one phrase in the document, an actual number of related phrases present in the document; and identifying the document as a spam document by comparing the actual number of related phrases present in the document with the expected number of related phrases."
And as for ranking: "The scoring algorithm for pre-ranking the documents may be the same underlying relevance scoring algorithm used in the search system 120 to generate a relevance score. In one embodiment, the IR score is based on the page rank algorithm, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,285,999. Alternatively or additionally, statistics for a number of IR-relevant attributes of the document, such as the number of inlinks, outlinks, document length, may also be stored, and used alone or in combination in order to rank the documents."

[riza68]

Yah!i agree with that you should follow the html standard.

[kobe248]

We should always rely on google because they gave more traffic and PR to our blog site..

[dallas_genoard]

Originally Posted by Cleo8

I've been reading quite a bit of material on Google recently and I've personally come to the conclusion that sooner rather than later, search engines such as google will almost dismiss the current SEO techniques used today with a couple exceptions. I would think that Keyword rich content, Titles, links etc are and will always be very important, but the older Google gets possibly 99.999% of it's results will be based on content and interaction only? Think about the difference from 2001 to 2006 and how much less value h2 tags etc give to SEO now. (this is all of course an assumption).

Question-!

My question is, from what you all know, is it really worth the time to label images and make sure h1 h2 tags etc are labeled with Keywords ?? and if so what % would you give to the "tried and true techniques" ? At this point I think it's still important enough to spend some time on, but what do you all think??

Thank you for your input! =)

Content is king. It is important for you to label h1 tag (though h2 tag doesn't necessarily change the result of a search) with keywords. As for images, having an alt is good too. But that doesn't necessarily mean you'll rank higher after this. There are still many sites out there, and probably more with content similar to yours. You'll just have to keep track of your site and optimize it as necessary. Just an opinion here.