Part 1: Is SEO dead? Google search manipulation is not what it used to be.
Posted: August 5, 2009 at 8:36 am | Tags: book, content, google-search, is-seo-dead, rainmaker-alert, search, search-engine, seo, social, twitter-videos, writing-roads
by Guest Writer Charlene Jaszewski Google has grown up and joined the rat race in terms of ranking your site for searches. It’s no longer what you know (content), it’s who you know (links). In the olden days of site engine optimization (aka “SEO”), it was pretty easy to trick search engines: just stuff keywords in every piece of code and in your page content, and get tons of sites to link to you, didn’t matter who they were. But Google has grown up and gotten smarter
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Part 1: Is SEO dead? Google search manipulation is not what it used to be.