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Old 05-03-2008, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by TheMenace View Post
glengara, if you're suggesting that an SEO with no understanding of IA, usability, accessibility, Web standards, design and best practice (and the practical application of these) is somehow a valuable asset to this industry, then you're more deluded than I thought you were. There are quite a few SEO's out there who are multi-skilled and they'll probably do well as a result but someone working in a professional capacity as an SEO with no other knowledge or industry background (effectively jumping on the bandwagon) actually invites resentment. If you don't know why, then I'm not going to explain it to you.
Those guys are the cowboys. The "I will SEO your site for 100 dollars, here is my paypal a/c" brigade who you trip over at sites like DP. They're the bull****ers but I wouldn't consider them to be SEOs.

SEO isn't bull**** but that doesn't stop bull****ers calling themselves SEOs. It's the same in nearly every industry.
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