mattieo - 2:24 am on May 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hello there.

According to by Estelle Phillips and D.S. Pugh in their book - How to Get a PhD if you demonstrate that you are an independent researcher and a master of the knowledge the field you have chosen then this is acceptable to gain a PhD award.

It seems to me that SEO is a great topic to gain a PhD in because my experience with SEO is that I've gotten some of my really good results with rigourous analysis and experimentation...

The thesis of a PhD is more of a demonstration of mastery and the ability to run science rather than a snapshot in time for your knowledge.

Philips and Pugh state that an acceptable PhD thesis can come from developing a new technique or experimentation protocol... that would be a great start for a PhD in SEO if you believe SEO is experimentation driven.

I'm toying with the idea myself... my old Uni professor is taking me out for lunch today to work on me some more on this concept.... have you enrolled yet?

M