In search engine optimisation business there are good and bad practices and if you are trying to learn the good you should be mature and avoid the negative techniques. In the internet there are too many sites and blogs talking about the new techniques and tips. It is important that you know that when the while the time change the essence of search engines never change but there are so many indexing strategies that experiment smooth changes. In the next years the most popular search engines (Google and Yahoo) could have some changes and you should be preparing for that. For instance Google and Yahoo are using Page Rank but the future of SEO techniques in the forthcoming years will be social data.
As webmasters and bloggers you should pay attention to the present and future negotiations of Yahoo and especially Google. For instance, there are some rumors saying that Google is highly interested in buy some reputable companies such as Digg.com, Facebook and others that will make of Google a super-giant. Whether it occurs the SEO practices will be evidently modified or probably synchronized with the great potential of Google. The SEO trends for 2009 is based in consider the intelligence of search engines for indexing your webpage and content. You must be aware of that. Google can acknowledge when you are trying to use dirty techniques to help Google bot to rank better a page. I personally think that don’t waste your time investing in black hat SEO techniques. White hat SEO techniques always are the best option to improve the ranking of your website. Search engines are preparing more advanced bots and techniques to detect all kind of fraud and black hat SEO techniques.
Furthermore, it is important you can see that, and avoid this kind of practices in your blog or website. Duplicate content is other thing you should avoid and eliminate from your website. Try to use advanced tools available on the internet such as CopyScape.com that will help you to detect plagiarism practices against your web site. There are webmasters that don’t know the reasons why Google bot is not indexing their websites. Be care about the articles you buy from others. Make a copyscape.com test and determine if they are completely originals before submitting them. Also in the first months of 2009 you will start to see some important changes in the marketing strategy of diverse websites. The more marketing strategies change the more SEO world change. There are no SEO schools. The best graduate school for SEO is research, reading and examining the behavior of the market.