I 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 SEO

I 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).