What SEO specialists do?
What do SEO specialists spend their time with? When working in the Search Engine Optimization industry you have to prioritize your work. According to latest statistics most SEO specialists spend approximately 60% of their time on convincing the inexperienced that SEO is a Worthwhile Hig ROI Channer Worthy of investment. In parallel, they operate with budgets and resources to successfully accomplish important tasks.
The remaining 40% (spent not in equal numbers) of the time is spent on occupations such as:
# keyword selection;
# purchase options;
# monitoring changes in the market;
# internal optimization;
# Twitter + Facebook;
# drink coffee or alcohol.

Next on the chart it was pointed out what SEO tactics are used both for Withe Hat and Black Hat SEO. For example: in white hat seo the important things are internal optimization, keyword research, building internal linking structures, linkbaiting etc while Black hat optimizers consider methods such as cloaking over IP, pumping resource links, etc. The graphic bellow points out the methods used by SEO specialists:

The next chart shows the order of work done on optimizing a site, work necessary for its further promotion:
1. Creating intresting content that you want to share with others.
2. Improving the usability and site design
3. Monitoring the availability of the content for search engines
4. The availability of pages for search engines crawlers
5. Proper selction of keywords in order to attract the targeted users to the site.

The final illustration is the Venn diagram (a schematic representation of relations between sets of mathematical or logical statements, named after the English logician John Venn) for the specialties involved in internet marketing.

This last figure shows that SEO is at the intersection of areas such as technology, marketing and statistics. A good SEO specialist should have a very good understanding about each areas, despite the fact that the labor of the internet marketer recently undergone in separate divisions such as contextual advertising, SEO, SEM (search engine marketing) or analyst.