02
Dec 2005 · Headlines
SEO Is Dead. Again.
A popular blogger
A post declared SEO dead.
Listen to Track 02 · 2005 power pop · 1:30
Read the lyrics
[Verse]
The headline hit my morning feed,
The boldest thing you’d ever read.
The blogger said the work was through;
By lunchtime everybody knew.
I put a black tie on my chair,
And called the boss to say a prayer.
He said, “Before you close the shop,
Could you explain that traffic drop?”
[Chorus]
Dead again, dead again,
Someone’s calling time at ten.
Pass the flowers, clear the room,
Put another date upon the tomb.
Dead again, that’s what they said—
Funny how we still need bread.
[Verse]
We wrote a page a person read,
And fixed the things we’d left for dead.
The owner got a lead that day;
The headline didn’t go away.
It found another blog instead,
And woke up with a newer date.
[Final chorus]
Dead again, dead again,
See you at the wake, my friend.
Keep the flowers by the door—
We’ve heard this chorus once before.
Coroner’s report
Google later published an SEO Starter Guide. The practice evolved, the obituary did not.
The evidence: Google’s SEO Starter Guide arrived in 2010.
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