Future Of SEO

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In fact I very like your, Jennifer, article and surprised why nobody did it before, including me 8)
In spite of your irony on my comment, I will continue.

SEO will be the Huge Industry within Search Engine's politics forever without doubt.
SEO specialists will deliver to SE' developers human mistakes / bugs.
Nobody wants to be lost.
A huge companies (++150 employees) will seek for SEO teams which could deliver Top results.
Also we wait for RSS-specialists, which could publish RSS-streams fast and effectively.
SMO-guys wait for a special tactics similar to bulk-posting for Social communities.
Including rising of Visual Recognising SEs, we can wait for picture/image optimizers. Media optimizing - is the future of SEO specialist.
Mobile community wait for SEO specialists of mobile search optimization. XHTML isn't enough for mobile sites. Including Mobile Social Networking rise we can wait for a special mobile social network promoters in very close future.
But also Semantic Web is a new aspect of SEO freeelancers knowledge. Anyhow.

Conclusion.
SEO freelancers are the specialists of the future. A competition in search will do SEO-specialists bigger, smarter, taller of all even programmers, that is why it is unimportant how web site built: Perl, PHP, Ruby, XSL, LAMP - how cool software is - the question - what position it has.