Ok. That’s a little over dramatic.  SEO isn’t dead, but conventional SEO thinking is and here’s why.

Conventional SEO Is Dead

SEO in the past meant trying to “fool” search engine’s into thinking your content was more relevant than it really is.  A lot of them involved Black Hat SEO tactics like cloaking, spam and keyword stuffing.  Google has over the years put a stop to these tactics, but scarily enough a lot of bad SEO people still use these techniques.