I am sure SEO is good as a career, In European Countries it is wel doing field. But I am not sure about USA.....
SEO is more than just the knowledge. It is based on experience on mastering the craft of ranking and choosing keywords. With the amount of traffic brought by the search engines, it is very high in demand. So pricing is high.
Well if you get some good clients and have good results the first time.. then you can get a lot of referrals.. People will pay anything if you can prove you can get the results. You should uses some tools like Keyword Elite and SEO elite.
Is there any problem with the SEO as a career?? Why can't one choose Seo a career. These days SEO is needed by every company to promote its site.. Please help out why not SEO as career..??
It depends on how much time are you putting on it. I'm working as an SEO specialist and the money that I'm getting from my work isn't always the same each month.
SEO as a business will be a good choice but there requires lots of recognition from the business industry too. Your company needs to be one of the best in the country or industry, in order to succeed. Once succeeded, making 100k a month in 3 to 4 years time is not a very difficult task. End of the day, you need to have the skill and responsibility to deal with your clients.
If you have confident none of the career is unsafe. for particular SEO ..yes nurture your skill this profession has still lot to give to IT industry. But I am sure with in next few year rules for content writing will be strict and all algorithm will be re generated as people are just doing stupid link building every where. So, if you are skillful in analysis then there are millions to earn yet...
I first learnt of SEO back in May 2007. For almost a year, I learnt and worked hard for practically nothing. After my dedication was noticed by an SEO firm, I'm now employed and earn a very comfortable living from home. It won't be the same success story for everyone, but it's certainly possible.
after acquiring a serious SEO addiction...i might as well charge for my knowledge. But all the advanced seo suff is being done with php and I aint a programmer. Do you go full on and learn PHP or just get the basic understaning and outsource stuff to programmers ??? Or give up!!