SEO Future?

[BenitoO]

I've been reading quite a bit of material on Google recently and I've personally come to the conclusion that sooner rather than later, search engines such as google will almost dismiss the current SEO techniques used today with a couple exceptions.

I would think that Keyword rich content, Titles, links etc are and will always be very important, but the older Google gets possibly 99.999% of it's results will be based on content and interaction only? Think about the difference from 2001 to 2006 and how much less value h2 tags etc give to SEO now. (this is all of course an assumption).

Question-!

My question is, from what you all know, is it really worth the time to label images and make sure h1 h2 tags etc are labeled with Keywords ?? and if so what % would you give to the "tried and true techniques" ? At this point I think it's still important enough to spend some time on, but what do you all think??

Thank you for your input! =)

[freetraff]

google will almost dismiss the current SEO techniques used today

Only current techniques.

Until one human beings invent algorithms, other human beings will be able to see what stands behind and benefit from it.

Plus, there is a safe tactics to NEVER fail with SEO, try mimicing natural sites and you will never have problems, because Google cannot fight natural sites, otherwise they will have to close ALL REAL SITES in the net.

So, my advice - don't focus on some details. You are right, search engines can change with time their attitude to some details (like h2 or keywords in meta etc.), mimic natural sites in SEO and feel safe,

[Serrbiz]

When we first started in SEO, we played all the games and obessed with too many details. (4.67 - 5.2% keyword density, blah, blah, blah). These days we keep it simple. Build a quality site that is readable, content rich and build solid link pop.

Note: We still use H1, H2, H3 tags, but you wouldn't know unless you looked at the source code.