Monday, February 21, 2011
At this time of year, professionals in a wide range of industries like to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what the next year will bring for their field. SEO is no exception; in fact, SEO writers started making predictions for 2011 as early as November. So before you head off to your parties, here are a few points to ponder as you prepare your campaigns for the new year.
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SEO Predictions for the New Year
At this time of year, professionals in a wide range of industries like to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what the next year will bring for their field. SEO is no exception; in fact, SEO writers started making predictions for 2011 as early as November. So before you head off to your parties, here are a few points to ponder as you prepare your campaigns for the new year.
We’ll focus on one of the biggest players in SEO, Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz. After reviewing how he did with last year’s predictions, he gave readers seven predictions for what will happen in 2011. Some were more controversial than others, of course. I’ll list just a few.
First, Fishkin predicts that someone will prove (or a search engine will confirm) that clicks/visits influence rankings. He noted that he’s “been hearing from more and more SEOs that there’s some correlation between earning clicks and moving up in the rankings.” I’ve seen SEO Chat forum members asking about this as early as April of 2009, so in a sense it’s surprising that this hasn’t happened already. After all, Google and Bing both recently confirmed that they look at social factors when determining a page’s ranking in the results.
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We’ll focus on one of the biggest players in SEO, Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz. After reviewing how he did with last year’s predictions, he gave readers seven predictions for what will happen in 2011. Some were more controversial than others, of course. I’ll list just a few.
First, Fishkin predicts that someone will prove (or a search engine will confirm) that clicks/visits influence rankings. He noted that he’s “been hearing from more and more SEOs that there’s some correlation between earning clicks and moving up in the rankings.” I’ve seen SEO Chat forum members asking about this as early as April of 2009, so in a sense it’s surprising that this hasn’t happened already. After all, Google and Bing both recently confirmed that they look at social factors when determining a page’s ranking in the results.
Read Full Article on http://ping.fm/XSC9M