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[Jill]

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[torka]

Just as you are unlikely to turn an SEO consultant into a web designer, you can't turn a web designer into an SEO.

Quote taken from Christian Nielsen's guest article this week.

Yikes. As a Web designer/copywriter who's working reeeeeeeeally hard to learn SEO so I can incorporate it into the services I offer my clients, I hope this is an overstatement for the sake of drama, and not the literal truth. I'd hate to think I'm simply wasting my time attempting to turn into something I inherently cannot be.

==Torka

[Scottie]

I don't think it is impossible- but I do agree it takes different skillsets for each type of work. Some people can do both, but it's rare to find someone who can do both equally well, IMO.

[Mel]

I would prefer to say that its rare to fine web designers (especially .NET programmers) who understand how to incorporate search engine friendliness into their designs.

[toprank]

It's much more common to find SEO professionals with good web design and development skills than to find a programmer with intimate knowledge of SEO.

Although stating that they are mutually exclusive is off the mark I think. The good news is that the fact that so many web programmer-types are not SEO proficient brings us more work!