i have 4 sites at no:1 on Google, yahoo and msn for there keywords,
and im a top 20 contestant in http://www.directorycontest.com. and will finish 2-3rd, once i get my directory flourishing,

I find seo really easy, and over the last few weeks ive found some awesome “keys”

Google shifted in a big way a couple of days ago,

I actually want to start my own SEO Firm
So, No SEO, it isnt dead, Its Just Evolving

Kindest Regards
Phillip
http://www.directorycontest-directorycontest.com
http://www.freecomputerscripts.com

Before the web, advertising was either a shotgun advertising process, or you designed your business around some kind of steady traffic whether it be a street corner, mall, etc., or conventions for example for larger businesses.

I’ve seen conventions dwindling in attendance because people are learning what they need to learn on the web. I’ve seen high-traffic businesses go belly up because the web has made it easy to find any item at a lower price than a high-traffic shop must charge to cover the rent. Now I’m seeing young people spending three hours a night watching 3-minute videos on YouTube instead of sitting on the couch watching the boob tube.

The internet has obviously changed the game from trying to generate warm leads with shotgun advertising to trying to capture the attention of a prospect that is ready to buy or close to it.

There may come automated processes for SEO’ing particular keyword meta data or it may become easier to prepare a site for SEO in some other way allowing some businesses to deal with it on their own, but an automated process or 10-easy-step process will never take the place of creative, cutting-edge strategies.

The cutting-edge is a wasteful place for most business to spend time – except in their own field. An SEO expert who keeps informed of cutting edge techniques and has the ability to create effective strategies will always be a valuable tool for highly competitive marketers.

It may not grow as fast as it has in it’s infancy, but SEO services will certainly grow at least as fast as the web in general.

But as it is true for most things. The basics are almost never very hard and the basics are even by a rookie doable to see some results.

The tricky stuff is where the issues are. When it comes to that is experience and knowledge something you must get somewhere.

That somewhere is usually the simple fact that you were doing it for years.

As long as organic results continue to be ranked from 1 to whatever and there is a group of people that want to be in the first 10 and don’t know how to do it there will be a market for SEO providers and consultants.

Mr.Pasternack has stated that SEO is not that difficult to do, neither is bookkeeping, but I still pay someone else to do it. He is forgetting the basic economic principle of specialization. Sure we can all do anything if we want to, but where is our time best spent?

Mine is not doing bookkeeping and I am sure plenty of businesses will agree theirs is not spent trying to figure out SEO, especially when the ground rules change daily.