Does SEO Work Anymore

in Internet Marketing

Recently we got told, by different people, a couple of interesting facts which seemed a little hard to believe at the time.

But since then we’ve seen some evidence that they’re both true.

The first was 93% of college graduates do not click on sponsored links in Search results.

Presumably because they’re looking for genuine insight as opposed to carefully managed marketing speak.

The other was 25% of Search phrases are totally unique.

Our limited experience with Pay Per Click was the traffic we got wasn’t seriously looking for a solution like ours. That seems to support the first point, to me at least.

For the past six months we’ve been focusing on content in our blogs, SEO, and Keywords.

Now we think we’re on top of Keywords and SEO it’s a good time to review the traffic we’ve received through Search, which terms they used and which pages they accessed.

It really does seem every search we get is unique and directly related to the title of the page.

Maybe (?) Search engines are now matching specific phrases rather than Keywords. It certainly seems that way to me, and would explain a question I have about Posterous.

Some very smart people are blogging on Posterous and that must mean they’re not bothered about the lack of SEO tools.

Or maybe they know something of Posterous plans for the future which hasn’t been shared with the rest of us yet?

What do you think guys. What’s going on here?

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  • Hi Andy

    thanks for stopping by and taking the trouble to comment.

    I understand the issues about site design of course, but my question remains the same - how can anybody SEO for 400+ different questions?

    I've been all over this for pretty much the last year. At least in our field only the very longest of long tail words don't have overwhelming levels of competition. I have number one ranking on several long tail keywords but that accounts for only around 5% of my search traffic.

    If you have a secret sauce for this I'l be pleased to here about it.

    Steve
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