I spotted a thread at Quora about someone asking why would an SEO company patent the process behind search engine optimization (SEO)?
I checked the patent database and two recent patents were awarded in the past couple months around the subject of SEO processes.
They include:
Website and method for search engine optimization by prompting, recording and displaying feedback of a web site user
Operationalizing search engine optimization
“Website and method for search engine optimization by prompting, recording and displaying feedback of a web site user” was awarded on April 3, 2012 to Worldwide Creative Techniques, Inc. Here is the abstract:
“Operationalizing search engine optimization” was awarded on March 13, 2012 to Brightedge Technologies, Inc. Here is the abstract:
The big question here is should an SEO company be able to process their process and steps they take to perform SEO? Clearly some have but is the SEO process patentable?
Forum discussion at Quora.
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