Where have all the big guys gone?

[Xeno]

.....UW will disappear.....

lol....by the way, which head are you referring to oh, rim shot! wait, thats a double pun there...lol.

Back on a serious note, some will see some changes. I probably should say "see some of the big guys change" but not disappear. I think Penisbot has snagged good spots though for a very long time

It'll be interesting to see how things go though over 2007 for everyone. Speaking of which, I better get back to work here...too much to do still in little time.

cheers

[SheepGuy]

Originally Posted by Xeno

.....UW will disappear.....

lol....by the way, which head are you referring to oh, rim shot! wait, thats a double pun there...lol.

Back on a serious note, some will see some changes. I probably should say "see some of the big guys change" but not disappear. I think Penisbot has snagged good spots though for a very long time

It'll be interesting to see how things go though over 2007 for everyone. Speaking of which, I better get back to work here...too much to do still in little time.

cheers

I predict those who worry the least about the google god, while realising he/she/it exists will prosper by building.
I predict those who concentrate on worshipping the google god over all else will succumb to the temptations of the quick keyword fix and stumble in the darkness leading to much wailing and gnashing of teeth one month later.
From the mouths of sheep ye will hear "Baaaa"

[Halfdeck]

Oh come on.

Google won't disclose anything

Google discloses a LOT of info, way more than Yahoo or MSN ever does.

the problem will be maintaining seo.

SEO isn't about "maintenance."

You don't need to keep up with algorithm changes, like how much Google likes keyword frequency, keywords in urls, keywords in ALT or TITLE tags, keywords in content versus navigation, keywords in META keyword tags, number of outbound links per page...too many people worry about that shit and never realize they're completely wasting their time.

If you want to spam Google, or if you're targeting low hanging fruits, then you may want to keep up with that shit, but if you're out to do things the legit route, and want to rank for something like "pussy" then all you need to understand is that Google wants to rank sites based on merit, and it measures merit largely based on quality and quantity of links.

Link list reviewers spend hours every day reviewing free sites to make sure they're clean and "bookmarker-friendly". Google works the same way. They want people to find exactly what they're looking for when they go to Google so they keep coming back. They don't want junk and cheaters polluting their index.

What's going to evolve is the way Google evaluates links - right now, its not all that good at detecting artificial links. If Google could tell the difference between an editorial link and a spam link over on Wikipedia, then NOFOLLOW on that site would be completely unnecessary. The fact that Google is advocating NOFOLLOW is evidence enough that they still don't have the technology to handle it on their end.

If you want to exploit that loophole, yeah, you're going to have to do some "SEO maintenance." But if you're in it for the long haul, there's really nothing much to maintain.

I think we will see a lot of the big guys slowly disappear...

I think not, because sites that currently rank on top have a better chance of attracting organic links than newer sites.