SEO Future?

[Nefrit]

I've been reading quite a bit of material on Google recently and I've personally come to the conclusion that sooner rather than later, search engines such as google will almost dismiss the current SEO techniques used today with a couple exceptions. I would think that Keyword rich content, Titles, links etc are and will always be very important, but the older Google gets possibly 99.999% of it's results will be based on content and interaction only? Think about the difference from 2001 to 2006 and how much less value h2 tags etc give to SEO now. (this is all of course an assumption).

Question-!

My question is, from what you all know, is it really worth the time to label images and make sure h1 h2 tags etc are labeled with Keywords ?? and if so what % would you give to the "tried and true techniques" ? At this point I think it's still important enough to spend some time on, but what do you all think??

Thank you for your input!
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[ryanhellyer]

Semantic markup isn't just for search engines, it also helps many other current and future technologies. Most notably screen readers etc. for disabled people.

[BigAlReturns]

I still think it's very important. As you rightly say, content is, and will continue to be the most important factor to any page, but remember that the h1,h2 etc. tags are all part of your content. Appropriate semantic markup is all part of writing good content, be it for accessiblity as Ryan mentioned, or simply to improve the readability of a page for any user.

[shakir]

I think google consider only the keyword on content . Its not giving much privillage where its given. checking only its density.. age...etc