Yesterday, one of the most popular web design portals, AListApart, unveiled their latest project – a survey for web designers and developers. Here’s their pitch:
People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?
The survey itself itself is here (and I’ll probably take it myself). More relevant to this blog, however, would be learning more about our own industry – the search marketing field. Granted, SEOmoz doesn’t reach everyone in search the same way that ALA reaches almost everyone in webdev, but we’ve got about 12,000 feed readers (on a good day) and 10,000+ unique visitors (on weekdays), so there’s at least a sizable audience. My question for you is – would you be willing to contribute in and see value in results from a “state of the search marketing profession” style survey?
If you are interested, please also leave comments below about the questions you’d like to see asked and the kinds of things you’d hope to learn from the study. My feeling is that if we could get 2-5,000 participants, the work would be both valuable and demographically representative.
p.s. Yes, yes, I know about the SEMPO studies and I’ve participated a couple times. Let’s just say I’m not a fan, and the invite-only model has its advantages and drawbacks and is basically a different animal.
