People tend to either love or hate SEO predictions. Personally, I love catastrophically incorrectly predicting the future.
Every year, the SEO industry puts out prediction list after prediction list. This strategy is going to have your website traffic soaring! This stupid tactic is finally going to tragically go boom.
In any of these lists, you will always see the same cliches.
- More video content.
- This is the year of Voice Search.
- SEO is dead.
- This is the year of AI content…
Well, don’t believe for a moment that we wouldn’t let another year go by without our own beautifully crafted SEO predictions post.
But guess what? We did it differently. Again.
We had so much fun and received such a great response that we’re back for round 2. Reaching out to 46 people across our industry, we got a wide variety of snark, outrageousness, and brilliance. I asked my colleagues and contemporaries to provide their BORING and a RIDICULOUS prediction for 2023 and they did not disappoint.
Want to see last year’s full list of predictions? Check out the 2022 SEO Boring predictions.
Okay, let’s dive into 2023.
GENERAL Predictions
There were a lot of general predictions in the boring category that covered a range of the basics.
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I think A/B testing is going to be bigger than ever. As an industry we’ve evolved and more SEO folks are ready to level up beyond strategy and fundamentals, so we should see more tests happening. This will also lead to tons of knowledge building.
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Google is going to take on another vertical in the SERPs. My wild guess is that it will aggregate financial products next and a cute little module, allowing consumers to compare directly on search results.
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CONTENT PREDICTIONS
What would a discussion about SEO be without content? These ‘BORING’ predictions focused around how people will/should approach content in 2023.
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SOCIAL PREDICTIONS
Social and SEO? That can be BORING and RIDICULOUS. Don’t worry, we’ve got both possibilities covered.
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LINKS PREDICTIONS
Many would argue that links are one of the most important ranking factors in SEO. So of course we want some ‘BORING’ predictions that reassert the dominance of LINKS.
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E-A-T PREDICTIONS
Sure. Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness (E-A-T) are relatively new-ish in the world of SEO, but surprisingly there was only one E-A-T ‘BORING’ prediction.
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Local SEO PREDICTIONS
Local SEO continues to mess with small business owners and enterprises alike. Naturally, there were a few quality ‘BORING’ local SEO predictions.
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- Zero-click results will continue to expand as Google finds more innovative ways to help their users directly in the SERPs.
- Google Business Profile will require more high-quality data to feed the Google zero-click machine.
- All of the Google algorithm updates in 2023 will push SEOs to focus more on content to help their users instead of appeasing the bots.
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VOICE SEARCH PREDICTIONS
Honestly, what would a BORING SEO predictions article be without a reference to voice search? It’s inevitable.
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JOHN MUELLER PREDICTIONS
It’s practically BORING to predict that John Mueller, an advocate on the search relations team would have something SEO-related pop up. Don’t worry. John appeared in both BORING and RIDICULOUS fashion.
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AI SEO AND CONTENT PREDICTIONS
AI content has really been the rage over the past 12-24 months in the world of content and SEO. I’m not surprised that we had a few RIDICULOUS predictions on what to expect going forward.
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FUTURISTIC TECH PREDICTIONS
We didn’t see anything about taking a rocket to Mars, but when you’re making a prediction about the future, there are some amazingly RIDICULOUS tech-related SEO predictions. Thank you internet for stirring our imaginations. There’s also VOICE SEARCH.
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GOOGLE-CENTRIC PREDICTIONS
The behemoth search engine always has something up its sleeve. Does it have too much power? Yes. Is anything going to change for the better? We’ve got some RIDICULOUS Google predictions.
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- Google will add a Discover feed on the homepage itself. This will give news websites more exposure and traffic.
- There will be more ads in different formats on the SERP.
- There can be a paid version of the knowledge panel, just like Twitter Blue. 😉
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- Prediction/projections on keyword level.
- Won’t approve any keywords that has less than 2K monthly search volume.
- Any negative comment on Google Business Profile – SEOs are responsible and expect it to be removed.
- Set DA as the primary SEO KPI. 😉
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WHAT DO YOU PREDICT WILL HAPPEN IN 2023?
Look into your crystal ball and share your most boring or outrageous SEO predictions.
My two cents? Whether or not the economy collapses and there’s an actual recession, most companies are already tightening budgets.
What should lean marketing teams do with their SEO in that situation? We’ve got an SEO in a recession playbook for you to map out your plan.
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