I'm Proving SEO Isn't Dead - And Giving You Two Underused Strategies
About this episode
Nikki Pilkington discusses the history of SEO and debunks the myth that it is dead, providing insights into underused strategies.
SEO has been declared dead at least fifteen times since 1995. Fifteen. And it's still here. In this episode I'm going back to the very beginning - 1993, 670 websites, celebrity names stuffed into meta keywords by people who genuinely believed all traffic is good traffic, the whole sorry mess - and walking you through every major "SEO is dead" moment in history, who caused it, who got destroyed by it, and what actually survived. Because if you understand the pattern, you stop panicking every time a LinkedIn guru announces the next thing that's going to kill search. Spoiler: it won't. It never does. What I cover in this episode Where SEO started - and how quickly people started gaming it. White text on white backgrounds. Doorway pages. Keyword stuffing so aggressive it'd make your eyes water. Google's arrival in 1998 and the first proper "SEO is dead" panic - and how the industry responded by inventing link farms and article spinning. Same instinct, worse content. The Florida Update in 2003 - like a smaller scale Panda and Penguin, but no less devastating for the businesses it wiped out overnight. Panda (2011), Penguin (2012), Hummingbird (2013), Mobilegeddon (2015), and E-A-T…
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