rogerd - 5:43 pm on May 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

For years, most software developers were clueless about SEO. At best, they gave lip service to SEO but were a few years behind the curve. ("Yes! We now use the keywords META tag to improve your search engine rankings!"

More recently, we're seeing serious third-party SEO mods/plugins for software that can accommodate them, and even the original software developers making an effort to build in better SEO.

Having said that, most software developers remain almost completely focused on the visible page. Code bloat, weird URLs, etc. simply aren't on the radar screen.