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It is, without SEO you'll not grow your community/company/blog up. SEO is a main factor in getting traffic, regardless of how much of offers you posted here and there.

Well it's half true I think. Because now you can grow websites, forums or anything without using SEO. All you have to do is promote those using social media sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. But also it doesn't mean SEO is dead is there is massive number of people still using Google. Must more and more younger generation move to social sites from using search engines. You can ask a question in Facebook group and find better answers than if you do a Google search for many things.