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Internet Marketing Blog: Is SEO Dead?
Do you remember what it’s like not to have a cell phone? If you’ve gotten yourself
involved in the an online business, chances are you’re old enough to have grown up in
the days when smartphones and tablets were things of science fiction. Times change,
and recently, they’ve been changing fast. Some things that were popular in the old days
no longer have much of a place in today’s world. Take desktop computers, for instance.
Once upon a time, they were the only kinds of computers anyone ever had – laptops
were simply too expensive for how powerful they were, and no one had them. Now,
however, laptops are the norm, and desktop computers are dead.
Dead on the Web
But obsolescence is not just a phenomenon affecting technologies like cell phones and
the like – it affects non-physical technology, too. One good example of this is SEO, or

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search engine optimization. The fact that social media networks have become the
standard for quality viral advertising and marketing has led some to suggest that SEO is
dead. Well, it’s a sensible conclusion to come to, and it’s progressive thinking, but in this
case, it’s dead wrong. Let’s take a look at why.
Preeminence of Search Engines
The reason technologies “die” is because they either become irrelevant to our daily lives,
or are replaced by faster, more accurate, or just all-round better alternatives. This is easy
to see with desktops being replaced by just as powerful, significantly more portable
laptops. SEO is still startlingly relevant, though, precisely because we still not only use
search engines, but rely on them. Just think: Every time most people with smart phones
have questions, what do they do? Ask Google, right then and there.
This is one reason SEO is not dead: We still search, and optimizing the results of those searches
is something that everyone appreciates and benefits from, whether they know it or not.

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Web Shop Wonderland
When you think about it, the Internet is so successful because it’s a wonderland of web
shops. What do we mean by that? Well, that you can find just about any product you
could ever want or need, somewhere, for the price you want to pay. Everyone who uses
the Internet frequently knows this, and when they use search engines, they expect for
them to return the best results by default. This is another reason SEO is not dead:
People still rely on it, and expect it to be active whenever they run a search. At the end of
the day, SEO is still one of the most relevant technologies there is, because search
engines are amongst the most relevant technologies around.
What does this mean for you? A number of things. First, if you decide to start a personal
website that hosts a bunch of information or a web-based business or storefront, you

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can benefit from SEO. In fact, you willbenefit from SEO. So keep that in mind, and start
something today – your Ferrari is waiting.
Now it’s your turn!
Do you believe that SEO is still relevant to the internet? Why do you feel that people feel
that SEO is dead? Please leave your feedback in the comments section and I look
forward to reading them!