Thanks very much for your comment – and the clarifications. I saved the URL of your original post, but somehow it got lost when I wrote my post. I’ve updated the post and included the link.

I am aware that your findings are referring to the number of job openings.

The title of my post tries to reflect the overall trend that California has been a hotbed for SEO/SEM for quite some time (supply- and demand-side) – and include your latest findings in these developments.

Even if we want to play devil’s advocate, I agree with your assessment that a ‘boom’ of SEO jobs in California does not lead to less qualified professionals.

I think the growing SEO job market and the increased competition raises (again) the awareness that SEO is still a relatively young industry – an industry, which is challenged to establish education and implement ethics standards.

Thanks for your interesting findings! Keep up the good work!

Marc

Thanks for posting this.

First, would you mind linking to the original post? I think you readers should be able to click through to read the source article.

And, to clarify, my data did not show where the most SEO Experts are, it shows where the most job opportunities are. Others surveys might suggest that, but this did not.

One could actually draw the opposite conclusion that you did: if there are more jobs in a certain state it might suggest that there is a lack of qualified experts in that region. While I don’t believe that to be the case, I’m just pointing out the # of jobs isn’t the same as # of professionals.

My original article is here:
http://exposureonline.com/2008/12/Where-the-SEO-jobs-are.cfm

Thanks, Tim