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99% of the SEO's you talk to can't code? As a marketer, deeply entrenched in the SEO space, I can assure you that MOST TOP SEO's are first and foremost develope
by davemel37 14y ago
99% of the SEO's you talk to can't code? As a marketer, deeply entrenched in the SEO space, I can assure you that MOST TOP SEO's are first and foremost developers...More importantly, the coders that understand marketing are the ones that thrived and continue to thrive in the SEO world.
Growth hacking is a bedrock of the best SEO practices out there. The best SEO is inherently viral to compel and force people to link to your content. Think about Youtube, and everyone embedding videos with links back to youtube... This is literally the definition of SEO strategy...finding ways to build into your product inherent link-bait.
I would argue that Growth Hacking is a prerequisite to execute excellent SEO.
- scottkrager 14y agoI would totally agree that the best SEOs can code. But still stand by my 99% number : ) Most SEOs are not coders (knowing how to customize a Thesis is not coding in my view)
- vitalique 14y agoI take it that you have either really high CS-culture standards even for 'coders', let alone 'hackers' (which is probably good), or really low standards for SEOs (which seems sad to me). I too am against slapping a 'hacker!' badge to every guy who knows how to write a fizzbuzz in Haskell, but I definitely wouldn't even consider calling someone a SEO if he can't code (and by coding I don't mean ability to tell HTML from CSS).