With the increase in different forms of chat media will search engine positioning and optimisation of websites become old fashioned?
Recent changes in the way we communicate through the web have been less about conventional broadcast media and more about interactive, two way communication. As this type of communication changes it will undoubtedly affect the way search engines function and by association the process of Online Marketing.
Traditional media “broadcasts” a message to the planned audience, whether it is in the form of a tabloid or an advertisement (physical or digital) which exposes the reader, listener or watcher to a message. The communication is one way and the planned audience is told something, in essence “talked at”.
Conventional methods of Online Marketing carried out by the marketing fraternity and more recently the relatively new sector of Search Engine Optimisation companies (SEO Company) are targeted at the way that Google (predominantly) accesses web pages. This is a kind of broadcast media not too far removed from to a newspaper albeit with digital trickery to make the incidence more interesting.
Is this all about to change? Are the accepted Search Engine Placement services about to become less important? Assuming the internet continues to grow along the same lines as it has for the last ten years, we can expect to see the use of the internet becoming more entrenched in our day to day real time lives. It will grow to be more of a delivery platform as opposed to an information resource, a concierge as opposed to a librarian. If we are using the net in real time that connection will become two way and transactional, broadcast techniques will offer a one-dimentional experience and become obsolete.
Once a buyer can connect with the seller of the product or service through two way communication only reading a website will be less than satisfying. At this point customary Search Engine Placement services become obsolete and Online Marketing becomes about making connections not appreciating content.
The smart Search Engine Optimization Company will be looking at how that conversation can take place in an environment that is so full with information. If at all possible, a buyer is exposed to a seller (or a number of sellers) in an atmosphere where he can actually interrogate and compare their offer, ask for detail and maybe even tailor the product or service to his needs before he makes the decision to buy.
Instead of offering website optimisation for a fixed broadcast, online marketing may be about promoting connections and may take place on Twitter, chatrooms, forums even within games where product placement is already starting to take place.























