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I know I have been asked many times over and over, if you are so good at doing SEO, why don’t you do SEO for yourself and not for clients, just continue to build more and more sites that generate income.
Well the answer is I already do this, as well as servicing clients. Servicing clients guarantees me an income, and doing SEO for yourself is really an everyday growing business which makes money on the side.
With this in mind I decided to put a list together of what I find the positives and negatives are.
Doing SEO for your own sites
Positives:
1. You have the skills to generate your own traffic saving you money from getting someone else to do it
2. You keep 100% profit of what you earn apart from your own expenses of course
3. You get all the fame once your site is a success, not your client or the person your doing the site for
Negatives:
1. The income you generate may not be guaranteed and all depends on the product you are selling on your website
2. If you are selling your own product, it is up to you to have an investment towards that and depending how far you want to take it could be big.
Doing SEO for others including clients:
Positives:
1. You build up a good reputation servicing clients and they refer others to you.
2. You get paid to do the SEO work for already established businesses
3. You get paid regardless if their product sells or profits
Negatives:
1. Setting up invoices
2. Keeping track of accounting
3. Managing your own success according to clients expectations
4. Meeting targets and time lines
If you have any experiences or can relate to this feel free to let me know about it. For those who are thinking about doing it yourself I encourage you to buy the Do-It-Yourself For Dummies book!
I agree with all your points. Doing SEO for your own sites only can provide you tons of money but a little experience.
If you do it for your clients as well, you get more experience and knowledge about different different CMSs.
I rarely do SEO for others, mainly for my own sites, just link building for clients, that's all!
If you can manage your time and have endless amount s of business ideas on how to make money online then doing SEO for yourself is great.
You are absolutely right, I also don't do the SEO process for my websites other than On Page. sometime I fill that
You are absolutely right, I also don't do the SEO process for my websites other than On Page as it requires lesser time as comparison to off-page process. secondly, we have to do on page just once, whereas offpage is an on-going process.
The simple concept behind this is that if you are money minded than serve others, if not than do it for yourself. And one main thing one you will serve others you will get chance to learn new things…..
Great stuff.I'm thinking why dont i do seo for myself.I have been doing lot of client projects.Though i have the spare time.now i'm realizing my laziness.I will do it from right now.
If you have time to spare and you want to save some money then why not to do some SEO yourself? Basic on-site search engine optimization isn’t a rocket science and most of it can be done by yourself without any knowledge of HTML or any experience in internet marketing.
I totally agree with ajay but for your websites only your skills will be limited to your website type only. If you want to be a professional and need to be updated with current trends of SEO you need to be completely involved in that.