Hello WebProWorld,


I’m an IT student on a work placement, my managers are having me do research on SEO.
Having no prior knowledge on the subject I started surfing the web and scouring forums, and so came to start an account here.
I’ve been following threads in this forum for three weeks and learned a lot in the process, you’ve really got me hooked on the subject now!

Why I started this thread is because I have some trouble ‘placing the profession’.
From what I’ve been reading, SEO seems to be a mixture of marketing & web design, but not fully involved in either.
SEO corrects flaws made by web designers, and ‘delivers the product’ to marketing’s target group search results.

To me it seems that SEO is a profession that exists because of things web designers & marketing folk neglect,
and a lack of communication between the two. In my mind SEO could/should be a secondary skill of a professional web designer,
a skill that a marketing department would make use of. Thus removing SEO as a single profession in larger type companies, if you catch my drift?


I stand here to be corrected. Please tell me your ‘business view’ on this unique profession.


MJW.