SEO Career

What are some of the good reasons and bad reasons to choose SEO as a Career? :)

The reason to consider not to choose SEO as a career is that seo wont be around for ever. I mean as search engines will become better and have more user generated rankings seo will convert to smm or web marketing in general.

I totally disagree with Nicolas..maybe one day planet Earth won't be around
but we live now, on this planet..:)

Alex that's true, but seo is transforming to smm very fast. In 5 years social media will be more interesting area than seo and that's why all seo experts in our days convert to the social media marketing.

Well I really do not agree 100% with nikolas, but the fact is have to effort alot

Hello,

Good reason is if you can market directly to local businesses then you can sometime charge a pretty penny. The bad side is the costs are quite competitive so you can sometimes be competing with someone that will work for almost nothing.

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Cameron

As for me, SEO is not a career! It's only a job during a crisis!   

Working from home.
A topic who changes all the time. Not boring.
Good payment.
Despite the crisis you could find a lot to work.

You are right. It's a very free work. It's an advantage. But I don't like it very much. 

I love SEO.  I think SEO will be there till search engines are there.  Even if search engines get better and better, the revenue will depent on the quality and users like Google.  So, they have to rely on organic listings majorly to attract users.  As an SEO, its our part to get the site ranked higher with all ethical ways.

Though I will get hard and hard to rank higher as search engines get smarter and smarter.

But what would we do, if Google, Yahoo become bankrouts?

Hi,

SEO is always a challenge as every website is different and SEO is constantly changing so you have to keep update yourself in the world of internet.

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SEO is not a Career but a profession for me... it makes me build and help website to reach what they want..

I think we should talk about web analytics in general, not only about search engine optimization.

lol... I agree with you dude.. somehow.. :)

I consider SEO as a Career because it's almost one of the types of work which I think is included in the category of Web Marketing Promotions. It also helps you a lot to earn extra income from it. Being an SEO Specialist is a skill, you need to compete to other people to market your own.

if u really interested in it , it will be fortunate for u to do it as a career

I totally agree with Nikolas.

SEO will dissapear sooner or later, but it will.
I suggest you to change your question, and think if you want an online marketing career.

SEO has been around since the beginning of search engines. It used to be you could flood your key words to get you a better ranking then it moved to flooding a landing page and so on down the road we go. Now it is all about flooding community based sites. It is a never ending circle that as a webmaster you have to play. But to think that SEO will disappear when it has always been here seems a little off to me. And really with web 3.0 on the horizon it will be a guessing game to see where the push and drive goes. With sites like Facebook and Myspace already blocking the valid use of these sites it won't be long til the engines devalue all networking sites for what ever they desire the new flavor to be. Keep in mind with the ability to index flash now this could change the way websites are forever. No longer will a standard blog or static site suffice. I am already seeing this with some of my higher end customers that are willing to pay more then $1000 for the site.

maybe because SEO won't die , we can't be starve to death I guess

You love it and have interest in it is the best reason for u to do so!

If SEO will be take place by something or any advance thing, then search engine optimizer also change its profile and get into that advance relate thing. For every new thing, there is a solution.  So don't worry.

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That's called positive thinking.

Life never ends.  You can numerous things.  

hello everyone! im also optimistic about seo, but as for me as a starter, i think im gonna make it a second career first, i'll see in the near future if it can provide me sufficient income to cover my daily expenses. it's worth a try at least.

Hi,

I think one should not worry about it. If SEO changes into SMM, then optimizer also change its profile. I t is not like that SEO will  totally  change, if it happens then every optimizer will change and adopt the new one.

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Hi,

I think one should not worry about it. If SEO changes into SMM, then optimizer also change its profile. I t is not like that SEO will  totally  change, if it happens then every optimizer will change and adopt the new one.

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seo as a career has bright future, coz every site needs seo...........!

With the increasing development, SEO as a career has a bright future in the long run.

But you have to admit that SEO is ever changing and you can hardly get control of everything.

SEO career is the best

SEO is never ending Job that needs to be done Daily...

The great thing about SEO is it is measurable and you can see the benefits of your hard work paying off. It is extremely important as 90% of all traffic is now generated through the search engines. We definitely see it as a long-term commitment.

Seo is really an interesting thing for me...I like it because it is quiet a challenging task...it really need patience...

well I think it is possible that seo will last long but only the quality will survive as  someone said "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going", also since google algorithm  also keep's on changing so only the best will  survive.

My SEO career has only just begun, I expected a better tomorrow!

As technology advances, the way we produce and sell goods and services changes. And today, the one thing that is changing the selling/purchasing game all over the world is the Internet. More and more sellers are starting to have a presence online, while more and more customers are taking their money to the Internet and exchange it for products and services.

A market niche that offers this opportunity is in e-commerce services, and specifically on SEO. SEO, search engine optimization, has a great potential for companies and individuals in India. The India of today offers a good amount of fresh programmers and professionals that have trained themselves in SEO services, and their competitiveness is one of the highest in the world. Moreover, SEO services are done from a distant location, so even a company in the USA doesn?t have any location advantage over a company in India when it comes to deliver SEO solutions to a client in the USA.

Seo is really an interesting thing for me because it is quiet a challenging task.

Its a very difficult to decide that whether the seo going to exist or not,what i personaly feel that this is going to exist in further as well,as seo is one of the most important area of online marketing.There are going to be some new seo techniques in which people are gonna work on..So this can be an endless topic to talk on..