Comments on: Is SEO Dead? Long Live Social Search!

By: Dave Rakowski

Dave Rakowski — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:16:42 +0000

Is this because Google has gotten so bad that it’s basically unusable? Or are there other factors at work? I know my 28-year-old son and his friends all use Reddit when they want an actual answer to a question.

By: Karun

Karun — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:32:57 +0000

I personally like “inbound marketing” because it covers content, social, search + on-site (accessibility, user experience, conversion rate optimization, etc). To me, that mashes up the key parts of what we do – helping sites earn and convert traffic on the web not through interruption, but through authentic attraction.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 21 May 2015 09:57:14 +0000

Hey Tami,

I’m not sure I fully understand how you are envisioning this social search society….

Are you saying that we will move to social search engines or are you saying that Google will start using social signals as ranking factors?

If it’s the latter then surely this is still SEO – just with a few extra hoops to jump through (and potential loopholes to exploit).

While I’m a fan of Pinterest, there is no way that consumers will ever use it over Google as a primary search engine.

The only way that Google will ever be able to make perfect suggestions is by storing huge amounts of data on you – the consumer… and that opens up an entirely different can of worms!