Thread: SEO Career

I'm currently an engineer for a contracting firm. I'm studying SEO on the side in hopes to do a career change one day to SEO. I'm getting a lot of knowledge on optimization of websites but how do you make SEO your career?

Any personal stories or advices? Thanks guys!

You may be learning and reading a lot but SEO is more practical....You can gulp all the data on SEO and learn everything but you cant be an expert untill you apply what you have learnt...Continue working and buy some website and apply all what you have learnt on that website and see where you stand...

Hey Junersun,

My first job was web copywriter. But after 1 month, my boss asked me to study SEO/Adwords and be responsible for search marketing as well. That was in July 2005, Vietnam.

My first days as an SEOer, I crazily read any SEO books downloaded from the internet, and most of Danny Sullivan articles in SEW.

About 2 or 3 months later, I started to optimize some pages of current sites (mainly [URL="http://www.audio4fun.com"]audio4fun.com[/URL]) and new sites of the company. There were 10 sites in total I remember. At that time our site ranked no1 with the targeted keyword "voice changer" and many more.

I quit my first company about 1.5 year later and joined Liquidline (in 2005 acquired by [URL="http://www.vinagame.com.vn/"]VNG [/URL]JSC - formerly named [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinagame"]VinaGame[/URL], the most successful MMORPG publisher in Vietnam). My team had 2 SEO specialists and 1 Online traffic manager, supporting both Web and Game division.

Since 2009 I became the only and dedicated SEO specialist of Web Devision, till now, responsible for Zing main sites like [URL="http://mp3.zing.vn/"]Mp3[/URL], [URL="http://news.zing.vn/"]News [/URL](now the Portal), [URL="http://movie.zing.vn/"]Movie[/URL], [URL="http://video.zing.vn/"]Video[/URL], etc. But I'm leaving VNG now and will join a digital marketing agency in May. And I'm proud of partly helping their [URL="http://www.zing.vn/"]portal Zing[/URL] to be the most trafficked website in Vietnam at the moment, with more than 45m pageviews per day. We now have the most beloved [URL="http://mp3.zing.vn/"]music site[/URL] in VN and is building the SNS to compete with the giant Facebook and some local ones (from other local big companies like FPT, VTC).

That is my personal story. My advices? Learn the basics of SEO, read/use Google webmaster central/guidelines/tools and follow good resources like SEW, SEL, SEOMoz and many more.

Web designers, developers, copywriters, marketers or anyone interesting in SEO/Google Search can become an SEOer. And if you really like it, learn and practise it with great passion, then you'll become an SEO professionals one day.

Other advice is to learn some other channels of marketing too, such as social media, affiliate, banner advertising... as well. SEO is only a part of online marketing.

I myself now run/share some SEO knowledge/XP at [URL="http://www.lamseo.com/"]LamSEO [/URL](will have English version soon) and support/consult some companies as a freelancer.

Good luck.

PS: I posted some personal info here too:
[url]http://seoforums.org/introductions/1310-vietseoguy-vietnam.html[/url]

Hi,

Changed my career from Programming to SEO.

After completed my MCA I joined a company as a Jr.programmer. There I worked in .net. After 6 months some of the reasons I have left the company and have joined in agriya as a Jr.SEO analyst.

There my TL [URL="http://www.abdulmalick.com/blog/"]Abdul Malick[/URL] have taught me everything in SEO. My PM [URL="http://peterclaridge.me/"]Peter Claridge[/URL] who from uk encourage me to expert me in SEO. He has given a good guide to learn SEO from top to bottom.

Now I am working as a SEO specialist in [URL="http://www.effortz.com/"]Web Application Development Dubai[/URL] Company. I have 2+ years of experience in this field. Of course, you can get a good future in SEO and you have chosen a good career.

Hi,

Earlier I was network engineer and around 3.5yrs. back switched my career to SEO. Now doing well in SEO.

Yes. SEO having very brightful future. But don't stuck in SEO itself. You can learn web analytics like google analytics, omniture, web trends and etc, Internet Marketing concept, web technology concept, Email campaign, PPC, and so on.

If you want to grow to high position with good salary means you must learn above things which is consider in Manager Level

SEO is a good career and yes, very bright future. As long as there is internet marketing and there is the existence of websites, there will be SEO. We all know that SEO are very important, it can be the key for the success of an online business.

Yes of course you can choose SEO as you carrer. As in this career there are lots of opportumities to grow your graph as SEO. Also it is great to build your income but you must have knowledge of all the areas of SEO to start with it.

Yes seo career is really good which has much wider field.In which you can earn really good money and after the certain experienced you can start your own business in which you can sale your websites and client base work as well.

You guys are lucky and I think I am also. I am working for a [URL="http://www.unboggleit.com"]Web Development Irvine[/URL] company. I do web development and the yummy SEO and I've just been working for 4 months since graduating. I think I am going to the path of an SEO professional.

My story is that I took up my OJT in college in a company that apparently just lost it's SEO manager. So all the SEO stuff went to me (I had no idea what SEO was at the time - zero knowledge) I was a blogger of one blogsite (my own). The company trashed all the SEO work on me and it was a hell lot of work too. All the while I tried to read stuff about SEO on the net and applied it to my blogsite. Little by little it worked for me. And that's how I realized that I can do this stuff.

After that I offered my services to companies here in the Philippines and clients have been coming in ever since. I've started my own SEO company (still in its freelance stage coz I'm not yet officially registered) and have been servicing companies and website owners locally. I also do speaking engagements and consultations when I am asked to do so.

It's more of trial in error. Learn and apply. If you're passionate about it, all the better.

SEO is because of marketing. And marketing is required to be in competition. I think and all of we know that competition will never end in the word and by the time competition is increasing SEO work will also increase. So, I seriously believe there is a bright future as an SEO. The world is fully dependent in internet. As long as people depend on internet there is bright future for SEO.

hi

my self dilipreddy.

now iam percuing MCA final year.i did seo job 6 months with my friends office.i worked their
article submissions,
book markings,
directory submissions.
press releases

i got training in serch engine optimization(seo) also.plz give som suggetions where we have to find seo clients.
i will do off page optimization with high page rank sites.keyword suggetions.
if any one one is their plz recommend me.

mail id:vijayam13@gmail.com

SEO is a technical and internet marketing field, in which career is secure for future. For improve your knowledge in SEO read SEO books and watch Matt cuts video......

SEO is such a growing industry that sooner than later, print advertising firms will be solely reliant on SEO techniques to stay afloat. I.e., there will be many jobs cropping up until then.

I fully agree: SEO is learned yes, but it is better practiced. Due to the everchanging personality of technology as a whole not to mention search algorithyms and Web 2.0 startups, it is next to impossible to know everything there is to know.

I got started by - as you said "gulping information" and subscribing to newsletters. Then I began signing up local customers and designed their websites/fully optimized. After that, I worked my way to not only web design but social media and online marketing. And the rest as they say is history. I have an amazing business that I love waking up for. Every day there is something new to do and someone new to meet.

I reference to my earlier post...

I am a serial entrepreneur at heart. I highly recommend getting your feet wet, while keeping your day job! Sure it may mean late nights, super early mornings, and sneaking away to a WiFi area on your lunch breaks, but it is the most surefire way to get your business up and going.

Good luck to you!

SEO career has bright future. But practice is required for Seo rather than theoretical knowledge. Better to try all your theory on your own website first. Then you can think of working for clients. SEO is a trail and error method and ongoing process.

Just be patient and all the best.

As a SEO the future is very bright and learn all the thinks very sincerely and give some time to this profession success will come surely.

I was an technical support specialist before then when I'm done with the contract with the company, i look for something new, then suddenly one of my friends refer me as an SEO to their company i don't know everything about SEO but i tried to search in the net and then i realized that SEO is one of the most commonly used by everyone in their everyday life like advertising, promoting, and competing in the market as an individual from here i applied my experience through SEO activities and never stop in learning about SEO today.