Can SEO Be Automated?

peter_d · 09-27-2007, 06:03 PM

It used to be, to an extent, but now public relations plays too big a part.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/c...utomated/5662/

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Recently Commerce360, a very well known SEO company, has gone in the direction of proprietary automated SEO software in what may be an initiative to be the next aQuantive or Performics style acquisition or change the entire SEO industry if successful [my emphasis in bold]:

I don't know anything about the company mentioned, or have any affiliation with them.

Your thoughts? Can SEO be automated? Impossible?

HalfDeck makes a good point:

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You can’t automate everything. Even Google employs thousands of people to help along its algorithms. However, that doesn’t mean a company shouldn’t strive to automate as much as possible.

For example, manually identifying top 50 real estate blogs with blogrolls or dofollow might take you 30 minutes to an hour; on the other hand, running an automated script can give you the same results in a matter of minutes while you spend time doing things you can’t automate.

mcaronan · 09-28-2007, 09:21 AM

offcourse it can be automated.. but there are many things that they should consider. for example the ever changing algos of many SE. another topic that they should focus is google dance. any many other topics...

bogs · 09-28-2007, 10:21 AM

can't imagine how they are going to do that... but it looks like Search Engine and some big companies are going to dominate in the WWW...

mcaronan · 09-28-2007, 10:23 AM

lots and lots of money will be involve if they will try to automate it. and plus, lot of people out there will loosing their job if that will happen..

potchie · 09-28-2007, 11:18 AM

yes it can be, but i think it cant give a better result than SEO did.. hahahhaa

skysoldier · 09-29-2007, 03:21 PM

We can say that an automation of SEO is smart but humans is still better!

Steven_D · 10-16-2007, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mcaronan

lots and lots of money will be involve if they will try to automate it. and plus, lot of people out there will loosing their job if that will happen..

or a little bit of planning and skill

skyBlue · 09-29-2007, 03:50 PM

Here is one simple example. When i find a link exchange offer in my inbox, i try to find out if it is sent by bot or human. If i find some bot-like sentences or other forms i immidiatelly delete it. I know it was sent to another 1000+ webmasters.

tzd · 09-29-2007, 04:44 PM

it can be automated to do all the grunt work. I still feel there should be a human eye at the point of seo implementations...

scottdizzle · 09-29-2007, 04:51 PM

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it can be automated to do all the grunt work. I still feel there should be a human eye at the point of seo implementations...

Wow, couldn't put it better. One trick I've used is to program my contents description (considering they are usually one paragraph or less) to automatically be used as my meta description. Keywords I usually do manually cause I don't trust a computer to do as good of a job... but that's probably cause I haven't found the best way to program it.

redeemer_spawn · 10-16-2007, 10:23 AM

Its a good idea., though SEO manual do better.,

lordspace · 10-17-2007, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by redeemer_spawn

Its a good idea., though SEO manual do better.,

I don't agree with that.

You can have a very good program that will extract top 3 most important keywords from your page, and then add them in the meta, and create 50 misspelled variations of them as well.

searchbliss · 10-16-2007, 10:56 AM

I can't see how effective it would be. I'm sure some aspects can be automated, but completely automated? They are going to need to update the software constantly.

brandrocker · 10-16-2007, 11:27 AM

You can only automate SEO up to that extent which does not call for human perceptions. Anyway, hats-off to Commerce360 for making such an incredible attempt.

ezhel · 10-16-2007, 01:18 PM

well I haven't try it yet because manual SEO works for me..

coolguy27 · 10-16-2007, 02:32 PM

Yes, it can be automated... But there is always person behind doing that kind of SEO... So manual or organic SEO is still the best SEO... You can monitor all your activities as well...In automated you may never know if it's effective or not...