Post by amirmukaddas on Mar 13, 2024 5:17:27 GMT
I made SEO my profession relatively recently, about 1 and a half years. I actually started while I was employed in a web agency in the area (I was in charge of front-end) and I was asked "what do you know about SEO?". I replied with a half truth: “Nothing!”. This is because I had never practiced "seriously", but I had been following the SEO scene for a long time with curiosity, ever since I was told by a professor that somehow my Dragon Ball site was built when I was 13 (now I'm 28). I could try to get him first on Altavista. I have to say: I'm very grateful to my ex-boss. In response, I was given the opportunity to practice, study and do some audits for small clients. That was the spark that gave life to the crazy idea of becoming a freelance SEO: "why not make this passion of mine my profession. After much study and practice, here we are: a year has passed and I think it was the best choice of my life: taking courage and making a great passion my job. I certainly couldn't have done it alone: I also have to thank those who supported me in a somewhat crazy choice, given the times. 2) How did you learn to do SEO? I feel a bit like a child of the street , in the sense that being by nature a little solitary and very wary of courses/licences/gurus/conventions and so on, I preferred to draw from the knowledge of those who are really in the field, at my own pace. and my methodologies.
First of all I made a selection of the most interesting blogs and read practically every article, cataloging them by topic. For example, from a certain blog called SEO Garden (maybe you know it) I have created many beautiful PDFs that I reread every time on my best friend "10 inch ebook reader" (also a friend of the retinas, I recommend it). I visited (and never stopped visiting) American and international industry forums and communities. Webmaster World, Blackhat forum, Moz (when it was SeoMoz) etc. etc. They are an inexhaustible source of direct experiences, news and knowledge that Denmark Telegram Number Data come "from the source". Immediately in the RSS feed, to be browsed at least half an hour a day. It seems to me that many people ignore them due to the fact that the data is less immediate to use than an article in a blog: you certainly have to invest more time in consulting them but it is absolutely worth it. The news and facts are first-hand , and there are reflections, details and experiences that are even more intimate, if you ask me the term, and therefore interesting than those reported by the average blogger, who tends to (mistakenly) keep a little something to himself. Anonymity helps to unburden oneself and the author does not fear theft or sabotage on his sites, for one thing.
I also did something that I don't think I've ever heard of in these interviews, perhaps out of modesty: reverse engineering . I browsed the portfolio of very good SEOs and tried to understand how they had worked with their clients: on and off page techniques, patterns in creating sites, in organizing information, in searching for links. I have made the most useful and surprising discoveries (and still do) like this, it is truly a practice that I highly recommend. Observing the work of a good SEO is like going to a Steve Vai clinic : the enthusiasm is revived and you always learn something. Much better than taking notes while looking at slides. I then used the SEO literature, first of all the legendary "The Art of SEO", to reorganize ideas and to obtain the right mindset to start working. Maybe it seems a little convoluted to read a book at the end of a journey instead of the beginning, but for me it was very useful. I have done and still continue to do, as I imagine all our colleagues do, a lot of practice, many mistakes, some penalties and consequent recovery, etc. etc.
First of all I made a selection of the most interesting blogs and read practically every article, cataloging them by topic. For example, from a certain blog called SEO Garden (maybe you know it) I have created many beautiful PDFs that I reread every time on my best friend "10 inch ebook reader" (also a friend of the retinas, I recommend it). I visited (and never stopped visiting) American and international industry forums and communities. Webmaster World, Blackhat forum, Moz (when it was SeoMoz) etc. etc. They are an inexhaustible source of direct experiences, news and knowledge that Denmark Telegram Number Data come "from the source". Immediately in the RSS feed, to be browsed at least half an hour a day. It seems to me that many people ignore them due to the fact that the data is less immediate to use than an article in a blog: you certainly have to invest more time in consulting them but it is absolutely worth it. The news and facts are first-hand , and there are reflections, details and experiences that are even more intimate, if you ask me the term, and therefore interesting than those reported by the average blogger, who tends to (mistakenly) keep a little something to himself. Anonymity helps to unburden oneself and the author does not fear theft or sabotage on his sites, for one thing.
I also did something that I don't think I've ever heard of in these interviews, perhaps out of modesty: reverse engineering . I browsed the portfolio of very good SEOs and tried to understand how they had worked with their clients: on and off page techniques, patterns in creating sites, in organizing information, in searching for links. I have made the most useful and surprising discoveries (and still do) like this, it is truly a practice that I highly recommend. Observing the work of a good SEO is like going to a Steve Vai clinic : the enthusiasm is revived and you always learn something. Much better than taking notes while looking at slides. I then used the SEO literature, first of all the legendary "The Art of SEO", to reorganize ideas and to obtain the right mindset to start working. Maybe it seems a little convoluted to read a book at the end of a journey instead of the beginning, but for me it was very useful. I have done and still continue to do, as I imagine all our colleagues do, a lot of practice, many mistakes, some penalties and consequent recovery, etc. etc.