Comments on: Can SEO Be Automated?

By: Ashish Roy

Ashish Roy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:11:54 +0000

Consensus seems to be that some parts of SEO can be automated and should be automated. Over years, I have realized that along with quality, you also require quantity and that is true both for links as well as content. Some amount of automation should be there and can help you. If low quality of links and content are not where you would like to go with your main domain, have additional low value domains and funnel semantics and PageRank into the top most domain.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:11:12 +0000

i believe that it will do part of the work but not ALL SEO. interesting blog guys, bookmarked for future reference.

By: SPMike

SPMike — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:50:56 +0000

Sorry I had to add one more comment to this after reading some of the posts above. The only thing I really have to say is that my SERPS are on page one or two for short tail keyword that return 82,800,000 to 104,000,00 results and 100% automated using SpiderLoop. If that’s not proof enough email me and I’ll be glad to blow your mind.

By: SPMike

SPMike — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:43:11 +0000

We have been automating SEO since 2001 with fantastic results. Commerce360 is behind us by at least 5 years. SpiderLoop As a "for the public" application has only been released for 4 months and is creating quite a buzz but our origional package only for our clients has put companies like ZDMAK in the lime lite. SpiderLoop SEO control panel manages Meta Tags, Content, Links, Alt text tags, default page content even on flash sites. Next release will build sitemaps , and a whole bunch more enhancements that I can't as of yet talk about. But if the question is, can it be done? Well ya. Should it be done? Absolutely. Has it already been done? You bet.

By: Christian C.

Christian C. — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:58:24 +0000

After much research I found that creating a website from scratch with S.E.O. on the mind is a great way to knock out all the extra work in the future. I optimize the hell out of my website, internal linking, Required H1 text, Required bold text, meta tags, meta descriptions alt tags and even my bullet points are jpegs with additional alt text. After this foundation you really only have to worry about accumilating inbound links and the new social site networking (Facebook) requirements. If you can automate the inbound links and social networking then you got a good thing going since the website requires very litle maintenance of rotating secondary keywords in the H1 and meta tags. I have gotten so good at local and national SEO that i have dex and yellow pages contact me to work as an AE for their service. Told them to go to hell and to take their crappy customer service with.

By: Obender

Obender — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:34:48 +0000

A part that influence the 60% of the SEO is already Automated , Look at http://www.seogenie.info , HTML otimizer for better SEO

By: Eric Ward

Eric Ward — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:50:11 +0000

Sorry so late to comment. I wrote
Automated Link Generators – Not Worth The Trouble
http://www.ericward.com/articles/120701.html
about seven years ago. I still feel the same way. You can automate anything, but that doesn’t mean you should. Like driving a car?

I use a set of homegrown perl scripts plus off the shelf stuff and a few excel macros to do much of the work of identifying the “where”, but those scripts still produce piles and piles of junk. A script cannot evaluate a site’s intent. I then eyeball each potential target myself, and if it looks good, I go after the link myself, one on one, with the editor of the site.

I also believe that any link which can be obtained without a human being involved in the evaluation process is worthless or on the way to being so. There might be a couple exceptions, but not many.

By: Rif Chia

Rif Chia — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:14:34 +0000

Some processes may be automated such as articles submission and so on. But as far as quality link building is concerned, i believed that only manual techniques can be done to ensure a permanent result. If automated SEO is built, then who needs SEO consultant?

By: Eric Morgan

Eric Morgan — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:46:02 +0000

This is a very interesting topic. I wonder to what extent Commerce360 intends to automate SEO since it contains to many different factors. Also, you didn’t include information on when they are planning to release the service/software, if there is a beta version or any other information? I’ll have to check their webstie out.

By: daver

daver — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:34:34 +0000

What Craig said sounds a lot like what some other companies do (the “SEO automation” that is) and I can think of 3 off the top of my head.

Essentially what the other companies do is bolt on a CMS on top of a poor CMS/Ecommerce site. It really isnt “Automated SEO”.