Fasten your seat belts: our time machines

　　Fasten your seat belts: our time machines next stop is, lets say, 1980th. Sing along with still-alive Freddy Mercury to his We are the Champions at a crowded stadium. Shout Hurrah! to Columbia space shuttles launch. But, please, dont breathe a single word about Google and Search Engine Optimization here the locals are likely to put you into a madhouse

　　This is the supersonic speed of changes. Some 20 years ago no one had ever heard of search engines. Now even a primary-school boy shows off with jive talk "Just google it!" By middle school age, he can already teach you that search engine optimization is a wellspring of greenbacks for anyone who starts a business on-line.

　　Why did the world go crazy about SEO? What associates this strange abbreviation in our minds with such a dam-burst money flood? Why do SEO companies charge up to 5,000 a month for Blower motor SEOing a website, and above that, why the hell are so many people willing to pay this money? Because of the skyrocketed profits SEO brings.

　　Whatever your business is, you need clients to buy from you, not from your competitors. And that is exactly what SEO is there for. When people are willing to buy, just be the first seller they stumble across, and voil: their cash is in your pocket. Your sure way to be the first choice for billions of search engines users is making your website motor for mixer1 in search results pages.

　　Normally you have to sweat for that #1 position, optimizing your website according to what search engines require from their top pages. But what was I telling you about the speed of changes? After some 10 years of its existence, SEO is not only deeply rooted in our internet-marketing life, but is even claimed to go automated. Hundreds of SEO tools to facilitate your website promotion jobs have flooded the market, and some of them, as their developers try to convince you, optimize your website absolutely on autopilot.

　　Imagine: youre doing whatever you like, while the smart SEO tool is buzzing and chattering all round the clock, pushing your website up the search engines ladder. Im sorry to break your heart, but If somebody is promising you fully automated SEO its no more than a scam. After all, even in a modern factory someone has to operate the machine.