People approach me with no clue about anything, thinking all they have to do is put a web site up there and people will find them. The truth comes as a bit of a shock. We all know SEO is the time consuming part of web sites.
I only work with small businesses and independant hotels and I do everything, from researching their client type to design and build of the website and SEO. So I think it's all part of the web proffession.
From reading all these reply it seems the bigger the company, the more remote the SEO is from the web design, that can't be a productive way for a company to function. What happened to teamwork?
My bottom line is if you can't do a bit of everything you understand nothing.

Big Juice - I look forward to the day when SEO no longer concerns us and we can just build good sites!