Relative Size of the SEO Community in the Sphere of WebDev

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By: Rand Fishkin June 27th, 2005

Relative Size of the SEO Community in the Sphere of WebDev

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Although the SEO community can, at times, seem overwhelmingly large (with hundreds of blogs and dozens of forums with thousands of users each), the true relative size of the SEO/M industry in comparison to the parent industry of web design and development is miniscule. There are a few ways in which one could reasonably confirm the differences in size:

del.icio.us - compare popular webdesign tags vs. popular seo tags
Forums - WebDesignTalk vs. SEOChat, HighRankings, Cre8asite, SEW or WMW
A Google search for "Web Design" vs. SEO
Technorati tags - Web Design vs. SEO

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but the comparison certainly is interesting. Is SEO a subset of web development? Almost certainly; and so is web design, albeit a more accessible and popular one.

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