Comments on: Search Engine Optimization is dead – Long live Plain English Optimization

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:43:36 +0000

Well said. Google has been telling us for years what is required for strong and consistent ranking and they’ve continued to improve the technology to deliver it as results to users. The trick of the day may get short term results but the cream has always continued to rise.

By: Mike Unwalla

Mike Unwalla — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:36:54 +0000

In addition to ‘plain English optimisation’, optimise for international readers. The benefits are as follows:
* Internationalised text helps people who read English as a second language.
* With automated computer translation, internationalised text usually gives better translations than ‘plain English’ text.

By: Sheila Newth

Sheila Newth — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:56:04 +0000

I don’t know if SEO is dead…but I do think writing for the reader has always been and will always be important. also, spelling seems to be something Google cares a lot about, so typos will cost you in rank, who knew. But SEO may be on its way out…Google is always ahead of the game.

Sheila

By: 93.87.151.90

93.87.151.90 — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:07:03 +0000

“It’s time to forget about SEO [Search Engine Optimization] and time to focus instead on PEO [Plain English Optimization].”

According to Google content is still the king. I must remind you that on page SEO is only 30% and off page is 70% of all SEO efforts. In off page SEO world back-links are still the king.

Only farm content will suffer with latest Google algorithm updates. Original content even in a short form will survive for sure.