White hat SEO is the practice of making sure sites are well structured and well covered by related sites.<p>Like making sure a book has a contents, index and the pages in the right order, a title that is going to look attractive, and a description that will make readers want to know more.<p>That part will never change no matter what search engines do, because people always make sites that aren't put together properly.<p>Good SEO's also look at converting the visitors that originate from search engines, nobody is going to change that either.<p>I think this article means to say 'The end of the recent black hat techniques in SEO' - as we all know, those breaking the rules always find new ways.