SEO Consulting...is it a lucrative profession?

I'm looking to go fulltime online, but it's going to take awhile to build up enough income($100/day) from my sites. In the meantime I'm looking at taking a course next month to become SEO certified. I'd like to do some consulting on the side to enable me to make a couple $k/month and work fulltime from home. I figure that this would also enable me to devote more time to working on my online ventures. Are you finding SEO consulting parttime profitable? Would you recommend this as a means to working for yourself and a way to get out of the 9-5 grind?

Mike

 

Hello Mike,

Yes, BUT taking a course won't make you qualified to be an SEO consultant. You should have at least a year's experience doing SEO work on various sites (IMHO) before you try to sell your services.

~Adam

 

why not if you have a skills... and besides in that way you can test your tactics.

 

just what I want someone doing. testing tactics when I am paying them money to produce results. fantastic where do I sign up?

 

offer a money-back guarantee.

 

I do O.K., some clients are ball breakers but most of them love you off big time when you show them a 1st page result on Google, even the ball breakers love you off when you eventually get em out of the sandbox.

 

I wouldn't offer a money back guarentee, just because it is such a difficult market to penetrate and it totally depends on the keyword, etc. Having a client tell you that they want to be ranked above Amazon when Amazon is #1could be more difficult than first thought.

 

I don't think it's possible that you would earn couple of $k by just working as an SEO considering you're quite new to these field right? Becoming an SEO is easy but becoming a professional SEO isn't that easy to achieve. You must invest time and effort to be one.

 

Everything needs some time devotion
My advice is do that thing in which you can devote your mind
Because for becoming professionals you need devotion or a expert without devotion have no value thus no money

 

unless u have some passion for it, SEO is not for the weak minded.

 

SEO Consultancy can pay off big time if you know what you're doing. IF you know what you're doing and have confidence in yourself, you could also do some performance based contracts, that's way easier for clients to get into most of the time.

 

Its all very well having the skills but how would you get your clients? Thats the hard part for most people.

 

If you're a search marketeer and you can't find clients, you're not that good of a search marketeer

 

Start by building a portfolio full of good results and high ranking. Clients will want to see results rather than what cert test you passed.

 

I am curious what kind of SEO course you are going to take. Is it online? Please let me know.

Thanks

 

i totally agree jdevalk. experience also counts. getting a course or something to that effect will not get you to it just like that. This is sweat, blood, tears and TIME!