Is The Seo Industry About to Collapse?

This is an interesting thread I ran across this morning over at the HighRankings forum. The writer seems to be concerned with the lack of updates on Google’s behalf and his notion that more and more are building optimized and relevant sites.

He then asks: Eventually every man and his dog will have a good high quality, relevant search engine optimized website. Adding that to the fact that Google appear to not be making very many serious changes to their search engine algorithm, where does the optimization stop? Will we hit a point where everybody has equally optimized sites?

The general consensus among the responses seem to agree that we are far away from having all sites equally optimized along with the fact that off-page seem to be more and more important by the day.

To me it seems as if the major on-page factor these days is the domain’s age and authority, and that all the rest can be achieved with off-page factors (ie. blank pages ranking for top queries).

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