7 predictions for SEO trends in 2011

Prediction #1. Demand for SEO Keeps Growing

The headline speaks for itself – the demand for SEO is growing. Everything – the information about SEO, search for SEO services, reviews of SEO products and services.
Even with negative effect that recession has done to the SEO industry, the demand keeps growing. Good news for everyone who is on the market – our market expands and this is a good time to join this market.

Prediction #2. Google is Major SEO Market

With due respect to other search engines for keeping the fight with big G, still ‘Google SEO’ search trend is obviously more powerful than other search engine’s SEO trends.
With the dominance of Google on the market of SEO searches obviously the most successful SEO strategies, tools and communities will keep their fight for high ranks in Google. And screenshots with Google page 1 and your site on a competitive keyword ranking #1 on Google page 1 – will be the most impressive evidence of SEO success.
WARNING: when checking the screenshots with Google page 1 ranks, make sure you can know how to easily verify the “validity” of this screenshot. More info on Google page 1 screenshot validation – in this post.

Prediction #3. Bye-Bye to Link Exchange

Being a powerful pusher of the whole SEO market in 2004-2005 link exchange (aka reciprocal link exchange) helped the whole industry of SEO to rise and expand. Now the demand in searches for link exchange is the lowest.
Whereas in general the topic of link building, backlinks and SEO companies that can do that – started to rise.

Prediction #4. Diversify and “Conquer”

Today it’s not enough to know 2-3 ways of doing SEO and backliks – the market is bursting out, the demand spreads on all niches. Market wants SEO in forum signatures, market wants, blog and site SEO, market wants video SEO and even social network SEO.
If your SEO company does not know how to do all that, the clients will leak away to the competitors.

Prediction #5. Google PageRank – Drops to 2004 Year

After introducing its system of ranking the “importance” of web pages with the help of PageRank factor Google has focused the attention of SEO and close-to-SEO world to it. It as so visual, so tangible, it was like a badge of SEO courage to get Google PR 4 or 5 or 6.
But now we can see that search interested slowly faded and got back to the level of 2004. It remains to be a playing factor, but not the one which is in the total focus of attention from SEO community.

Prediction #6. Social Marketing SEO – Burstout

The demand for social marketing is glorious. Forum marketing and article marketing are doing good, they enjoy stable and seasoned market demand. And social marketing jumps higher and higher all the time.
This is a lucrative market. The trend of social marketing SEO is definitely very promising. Big demand – big money.

Prediction #7. WordPress – SEO King of a Hill!

WordPress is definitely ahead of other popular blog platforms that is so closely associated with SEO.
The demand for WordPress SEO is even higher than for blog SEO in general!
This fact is a good proof how widely spread WP blog platform is these days. And these big numbers are huge market. Market of WordPress SEO is expanding, the charts above prove that. Big hunting for WP SEO clients opened and will increase in 2011.

source:freetrafficsystem

3 Wordpress Plugins to Tweak Your Wordpress Blog Pagination

1. WordPress SEO Pager

Summary:

	Best feature:	SEO-friendly
	Look and feel	Shows the last post date on hover-over
	Customization:	Pager appearance (color, labels, style); SEO options (add page numbers to title to make them all different, enable post excerpt)

Installation:

1. Upload and activate the plugin;

2. Go to the plugin settings and customize the look and feel:

3. You are done!

2. WP Page Numbers

Summary:

	Best feature:	Choose different themes (5 styles are available)
	Customization:	Easily customize the paging structure, look and feel

Installation:

1. Upload and activate the plugin;

2. Go to the plugin settings and customize the look and feel:

3. Use the following code wherever you want paging to appear in your template files:

<?php if(function_exists('wp_page_numbers')) { wp_page_numbers(); } ?>

4. You are done!

3. Paginator

Summary:

	Best feature:	The plugin is based on the scrolling technique
	Customization:	The number of visible pages

Installation:

1. Upload and activate the plugin;

2. Go to the plugin settings and set:

• Number of pages visible at once (before you scroll)
• The total number of pages:

3. Use the following code wherever you want paging to appear in your template files:

<?php if(function_exists('wp_paginator')) { wp_paginator(); }   ?>

4. (Optionally) To change CSS style of Paginator, edit /wp-content/plugins/paginator/skin/paginator3000.css

5. You are done!

source: searchenginejournal