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What's wrong with some linkbait?

Google dominates as they keep offering free services that people and companies actually use.

Will Google be able to maintain their lead most probably for a few years or until someone comes out with something so revolutionary that.......

Google blends together tools for advertizers with tracking of adverts some really useful stuff.

Everyday there are more people using the net and of course new communities will founded for new interests and sometimes like organizations online communities and create new ones. So there still is room for net domination by others!

Posted by: philippine daily inquirer on May 23, 2008

SEO has no future if Google let all the spammers conceive their dirty games.

Posted by: Bibokz on June 10, 2008

Hi Sage,
hope you do well with your Ohio Company, you just got a backlink from Shoemoney :)

Posted by: Jacky Supit on June 10, 2008

You are saying what shoemoney has said for ages. Content is king, that makes the visitor want to come back. How is that SEO?

Posted by: Wow... on June 10, 2008

This all could be semantics. However, rhetoric like "SEO Has No Future" does not help the overall good of the web marketing industry.

We can all agree to fight against spam and content made to intentionally manipulate the search engines - except for the kinds of things Matt Cutts writes about when he says: “Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines” in this post:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/improved-seo-documentation-galore/

But saying that SEO has no future is confusing and continuing the delay of getting web marketing accepted into the mainstream marketing offices.

Posted by: Sage Lewis on June 10, 2008

I'm confused already, SEO and SEM are two totally different disciplines. As I have understood it, SEO is using optimized pages, and IBL's (in part) to raise a site in the SERPS, where as SEM, is paying for the traffic, regardless of where you appear in the SERPS.

I wish people that promoted SEM would put it in simple terms that "hey, if you want visitors, pay for it".

Posted by: youfoundjake on June 11, 2008

The terminology in our industry is definitely confusing, youfoundjake.

It is similar to industries like the financial industry, in that regard.

I have heard people refer to SEM as the umbrella term for both organic and paid search. And I have heard people use it when referring to just paid.

If you aren't sure what a person is saying when they throw a term around just ask.

They might look at you like you are dumb for not knowing. But in reality, they are the dumb one for not being clear.

Posted by: Sage Lewis on June 12, 2008