SEO Future?

[Gowwward]

I've been reading quite a bit of material on Google recently and I've personally come to the conclusion that sooner rather than later, search engines such as google will almost dismiss the current SEO techniques used today with a couple exceptions. I would think that Keyword rich content, Titles, links etc are and will always be very important, but the older Google gets possibly 99.999% of it's results will be based on content and interaction only? Think about the difference from 2001 to 2006 and how much less value h2 tags etc give to SEO now. (this is all of course an assumption).

Question-!

My question is, from what you all know, is it really worth the time to label images and make sure h1 h2 tags etc are labeled with Keywords ?? and if so what % would you give to the "tried and true techniques" ? At this point I think it's still important enough to spend some time on, but what do you all think??

Thank you for your input! =)

[gibex]

I've been reading quite a bit of material on Google recently and I've personally come to the conclusion that sooner rather than later, search engines such as google will almost dismiss the current SEO techniques used today with a couple exceptions. I would think that Keyword rich content, Titles, links etc are and will always be very important, but the older Google gets possibly 99.999% of it's results will be based on content and interaction only? Think about the difference from 2001 to 2006 and how much less value h2 tags etc give to SEO now. (this is all of course an assumption).

Question-!

My question is, from what you all know, is it really worth the time to label images and make sure h1 h2 tags etc are labeled with Keywords ?? and if so what % would you give to the "tried and true techniques" ? At this point I think it's still important enough to spend some time on, but what do you all think??

Thank you for your input! =)

did you tried all techniques? I did some of techniques, and results are good until now.

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[T0PS3O]

Yes, right now and for the next 3 or 4 years the tried and trusted techniques will definitely help you. The time they cost to implement is still well spent. Not only for Search Engines, but proper headlines also help your readers. Just look at the front page of your favourite newspaper. Millions in research have gone in to the ultimate lay-out and a lot of it depends on H tags, intro paragraphs and quality text. That's what you need to hook readers and keep them on page.

Over the next few years you'll probably find more and more traffic coming from 'social' places. The web is/will be too big to explore with a conventional search engine, so you'll use cumulative knowledge based on like-minded people's experiences more and more. Think Digg, YouTube channels etc. To do well in such engines you will need targeted content that matches what your audience wants. If you don't know exactly which sort of people visit your site and what they want, you'll be in trouble.

[princess23]

i think it will be worth it. it may not give you fast results but it will definitely help your site.