How Some Well-Known SEOs Got Into SEO

Apr 5, 2011 - 8:18 am 2 by
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click for full sizeChris Winfield compiled a fun industry related post to read named How Did You Get Started in SEO?

He basically asked some of the more well-known SEOs in the space, how they got their start in SEO. Some stories are pretty standard, while others are not. The standard story is, I had a client, they wanted to know how to come up in a search engine and here I am now. Then there were some not so standard stories.

Here are quick links to the stories:

By the way, we ran a poll a while back on Why SEOs Got Into SEO?

Forum discussion at Sphinn.

 

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