Just How Many Websites need SEO?

I was wondering today just how many sites in the world need SEO.

Google announced in 2008 that it had indexed over 1 trillion unique URL's.  

Now if we use the percentage I have heard, that at least 70% of all websites need SEO of a varying degree, this means there are 700 million websites out there for us SEOs to work on.

Does anyone have any more accurate statistics than this?

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Bing! Bing! Google

So what do we all think of Bing then?

Personally, I don't think Google needs to be too concerned just yet but I'm sure Microsoft will be throwing shed-loads of money at the project so it could go stratospheric quite quickly.

All I know is, at the moment, it likes my site http://www.marketingcontent.co.uk a lot less than Google does.  The site regularly appears on the first page with the big G but not for Bing .... yet.  

I am not too concerned about this as Google is, and let's be honest probably always will be, the world's Search Engine of choice.  I do wonder, however, if the methods that we would consider to be traditional SEO might be affected by this new search engine in the future. 

For the time being I, for one, will still be concentrating on keeping Google happy but I wonder if anyone (other than Microsoft employees) has a different opinion?

By the way, Microsoft employees are welcome to reply but I'm guessing you might be a bit biased towards your product, with good reason.

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Long Live SEO!

SEO is all the rage right now and long may it continue to be so.  

For the uninitiated amongst you (although to be honest that's probably a low number because of the article's title) SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation, or the US equivalent with a Z, as the spell checker is reminding me.

A whole industry has grown up around SEO and it is certainly a very buzzy area at the moment but just how long will this remain the case?  Will web designers in the future still doggedly refuse to optimise their sites effectively, allowing us SEOs to work our magic afterwards.  

Alternatively will SEO become a no brainer for all web designers and be included as a standard feature?

Somehow I suspect that the former scenario is more likely and the majority of websites will still perform less efficiently in search results than they could.

I wonder what my fellow bloggers and SEOs think on that subject.

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