If you have a personal interest in website building and design and regularly visit forums on the subject, it’s likely that you will have developed an interest in Search Engine Optimisation.
Search engine optimisation has been part of website success stories since search engines began to appear online and gain in popularity.
Back in 1996 and until around 2000, SEO was a pretty straight forward task where you could rank highly for your chosen keywords by simply adding a few keywords into your page’s code!
To many companies, search engine optimisation is a mystery or is often over looked. A company will invest time and money into constructing their website and then expect the enquires to flood in. This isn’t going to happen and sooner rather than later they will realise that they need to optimise their website.
With more and more companies opting to employ somebody on a full time basis to perform SEO tasks, now is a good time to hone your skills if you are interested in a full time role.
If you visit any webmaster forum, you will find a section dedicated to search engine optimisation. This is where many people of different levels of knowledge share their abilities and stories.
These are great places to learn and hone your skills. In reality anybody can learn the ins and outs of search engine optimisation this way, providing they put in the time and effort.
Once you have seen some improvement on your websites rankings and know why they have happened, you could then try your skills against with other people’s websites. Offer your services for free and you will be amazed at how many people will take you up on your offer!
In exchange for your time and effort, ask for a written testimonial, stating the websites starting positions and where they were ranked after you had completed your work. Ask for a few lines about their satisfaction about the service you provided and keep it.
If you are developing your skills and are getting good results, you could ask for some financial reward your work on a freelance basis, be sure to research your local legislation before doing so though!
This will soon build into a useful portfolio of websites that you have worked on and will impress anybody looking to hire somebody on a full time basis.
There are a growing number of jobs boards at the moment which specialise in SEO Jobs, if you continue to check them on a daily basis, you may be lucky enough to find a permanent position performing search engine optimisation work on a company’s website.
This article is written by Jonathan Walker of
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