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In 2001, there was no SEO

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Google takes us back to 2001, with it’s nostalgic search engine here. Interestingly, there was no SEO then.

And there are “SEO Experts” around who have more than 12 years of experience!

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Written by Mani Karthik

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11 Responses

  1. Manish Pandey
    October 1, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    Mani, there was SEO back then and people of that A group like BurceClay, Danny, DaveN, Greg Boser etc were present but back then it was just about spamming the engines. Which we all know about.

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    Mani Karthik
    October 2, 2008 at 3:22 am

    But none to be seen on Google, yea?

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  3. Michael Rotkin
    October 2, 2008 at 6:01 am

    I have been personally doing SEO since 1999. SEO includes creating links and add content, so thats SEO back in the late 1990′s in California for me.
    Michael Rotkin
    seochampion.com

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  4. Sree Pillai
    October 2, 2008 at 6:10 am

    You are right: There was no SEO

    And you are wrong: There was “Search+Engine+Optimization”

    http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=“Search+Engine+Optimization”

    Mostly it was META tag manipulation and directory submission. Even myself, wrote an article on how to submit to directories, in 2002.
    http://sree.teck.in/searchenginesubmission.htm (new domain, old article)

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  5. Dawn Wentworth
    October 2, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    They were out there, it was the term itself that had not gone mainstream as Sree shows with his search term. I found many under similar terms such as: search engine rankings, search engine tools, ect..

    I’ve been online from the mid 90′s and it feels like the term SEO has been around forever. I can’t remember it not being a part of web life.

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  6. SEO next
    October 2, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    Dude seo the short form wasnt there.. but search engine optimization was always there…

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  7. Vinay
    October 3, 2008 at 10:13 am

    Looking at http://web.archive.org/web/20011201015622/www.bruceclay.com/web_rank.htm makes me feel there was traces of SEO.. but not in an ethical way though.

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