Anyone Here Got A "Real" SEO Job?

jufo0o said:

I have been involved with IM (SEO specifically, although I have skills in a lot of different forms of marketing) for about 6 years, but I am a serious procrastinator. I have a business which is doing OK, but I am broke, and it's hard to do anything substantial when you are worrying about your finances.

I have had to bite my tongue and get a shitty warehouse job, working 8 hours picking items off of a shelf. It's obviously horrible, and not what I want to do to make some money on the side, but it's been my only option so far.

I am thinking about applying for an SEO job in my local town. I have seen jobs offering up to $3000 a month for a full time SEO, but I have a few doubts. I just don't understand what sort of stuff you would need to do for a local SEO firm .. I highly doubt they would have you building PBN's and Web 2.0s

Does anyone here have an offline SEO job? If so, what sort of things do you do on a daily basis .. also, was it hard to land?

I think it's just a confidence issue. I know a LOT about SEO, but I feel like they would want something more than what I know

Thanks guys!

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lostandfound86 said:

In my opinion, before they will officially set you into the field, you will undergo training. So, erase the negativities and explore what you can do more.

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• List real numbers and percentages of increases.
• What are you most proud of?
• Have a few sites that you have increased traffic to? List those and talk about the journey that you took to get them there.
• Increased revenue from a site by 40000 percent? Talk about it.
• Show them some difficult keywords that you are ranking for, prove that you own the sites and worked on them (Don't give away all your secrets, cause they don't care, but show them you can actually 'walk the walk' versus just 'talk the talk'.)

fusedapart said:

A few things that I would do are list some of your accomplishments in the SEO world.

• List real numbers and percentages of increases.
• What are you most proud of?
• Have a few sites that you have increased traffic to? List those and talk about the journey that you took to get them there.
• Increased revenue from a site by 40000 percent? Talk about it.
• Show them some difficult keywords that you are ranking for, prove that you own the sites and worked on them (Don't give away all your secrets, cause they don't care, but show them you can actually 'walk the walk' versus just 'talk the talk'.)

for reference... I work agency side and interview a lot of people who say they know SEO but when you pull up a website that they 'built' half the time it is the default WP install with hello world and 2014 theme...

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Sherbert Hoover said:

I recently dropped all of my ORM clients but one, and now I solely do ORM work for him. Net a little over $3k per month from him alone, but some months are $5k+. This is in addition to a real world job as well, and any income from alternative web projects. Looks like I will hit $100k again in 2016, which I wasn't expecting back in January. Feelsgoodman.jpg.

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