No one is holding a gun to my head or anything like that, but it seems I would be slaking if I didn’t do the standard New Year post full of 2008 predictions and self-motivated promises of things to come.

The 2008 Predictions

1. Google will remain the #1 Search Engine. Unless of course Microsoft does indeed buy Yahoo, then Microhoo! would be #1 for a short period of time.
2. Major companies in the US (think Fortune 500) will start to realize that most of the 6 figure salaried SEOs are learning on the job. The 6 figure SEOs will use their beefy resumes to move on to other companies which haven’t figured that out yet.
3. Black Hats will make a resurgence because the engines will think they have them beat. All of the freshman Black Hats will make the whole group of them look like morons. The White Hats will continue to evolve too slow.
4. So many people will have so many theories about Social Media that it will be unknowingly abused to the point of global ineffectiveness as a marketing medium. This excludes the early adopters, they will continue to hide in the social shadows and manipulate from behind the curtain.
5. Google will introduce a revenue sharing plan that will allow people who sell links to keep their link juice as long a Google gets its cut. You may even be able to pay Google directly out of your AdSense earnings. On the other side of the plan link buyers will still get screwed.
6. Blogs will finally lose their magic in the rankings as pressure will be applied by Wikipedia and other wikis to be the social media of choice for the algorithms.. Oh sorry, too late.

Self Motivated Promises

1. I am going to do my very best to post every day. If I don’t have anything meaningful or newsworthy to say at the time, expect allot of sarcasm (reference this post).
2. I am going to participate in the SEO community more. I will start commenting on other peoples blogs and make a general nuisance of myself in a forum or two.
3. I am going to continue to learn and study SEO as I know that it is ever changing and I will never be able to keep up, but how else will I be able to sound knowledgeable on those forums and blog comments.
4. I plan on engaging every social media site I can find. One of them is bound to do something useful for me. Not to mention I have way to much free time on my hands.

Ok, I’m feeling a bit sarcastic today, so many posts on blogs or sites which have to introduce the New Year boggle my mind. So I am just poking at them for a bit of fun.

If you are serious about what you do, the beginning of 2008 should not mark a milestone of change. When you realize something needs changed, don’t wait for the New Year to better yourself or your business.

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