By Meagan Smith SEO is not dead, some people have completely abandoned the search engine optimization because of all the algorithm updates done by Google. The reality is that yes even though those updates are very annoying you should not give up SEO as part of your traffic strategy. Instead the goal is to adapt to the changes and avoid getting affected by any future updates. There are many old things that are still working in the SEO world and I suspect they will not change no matter what Google does. For example the use of sitemaps, sitemaps have multiple purposes like being useful for visitors to find older content on your site. It also allows search engines like the Google spiders to crawl and index your content much faster than without a sitemap. If you upgrade your website often, you will get more attention from search engine spiders. Write quality content that people will want to share. Interesting content will also draw return traffic, especially from people who have...