Comments on: Scunnered With Your Job Then Try A Career in SEO and be Truly Scunnered

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:26:46 +0000

Nice post. Thanks

By: Toronto SEO Guy

Toronto SEO Guy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:45:29 +0000

I agree that the best SEO’s I have met have good life experience to back up their online search engine knowledge. I have done many things in my career including, stockbroker, real estate sales and restaurant manager. Around 9 years ago I got involved in online marketing as a hobby (selling stuff from an online game I was playing) and I never looked back. Everyday I come across SEO’s (I used that term loosely) that offer search engine submissions and Paul and Jane’s link wheels services….

By: Paul Steven

Paul Steven — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:12:31 +0000

Ah, the ol’ cleavage trick, it’s never worked for me

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:41:04 +0000

I never looked at it like that, now with 7 years experiance I’ve heard all the bs there is and can spot a fakers CV a mile away. I must have interveiwed at least 100 people for online marketing positions and I’ve yet to hire someone straight out of Uni, they just don’t have the understanding. Once I explain what link building is and that’s what they’ll be doing every day for a wee while they look stuned. They’ve just noticed that the 7 P’s of marketing that they learned is useless.
I even had a girl fly over from Switzerland to Dublin for an interview, the position was for seo assistant at the time, everything seemed to go ok, she had firends in Ireland and could stay with them, she could speak a few languages, it was looking could until I asked her what her salary expectations was, I actually burst out laughing and showed her the door when she said £80K a year.
I had another girl pull her jumper lower down displaying more clevage when I told her she didn’t have the right experiance.

By: Paul Steven

Paul Steven — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:15:44 +0000

Totally agree Phil, having overlapping skills in any industry is always a plus point.

By: Phil Dunseath

Phil Dunseath — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:45:00 +0000

I enjoyed reading your post then headed over to read the original. I echo the points made about age. I too came to this game reasonably late. However I think there is real benefit from having commercial experience which means you can look at a client’s overall business objectives. Combining SEO with online PR and other tradtional marketing can be a good recipe.

By: Paul Steven

Paul Steven — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:26:43 +0000

LOL, yeah I’ve has some mad dreams as well – some of them have even ended up as blog posts on here :p

By: David

David — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:17:35 +0000

Well put.

I found this all out when one day I woke up from a groggy pseudo-dream in which I was trying to figure out how I would get ‘link building’ into my laptop bag and bike to work. I know, it doesn’t make any sense.

By: Paul Steven

Paul Steven — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:42:10 +0000

Yeah, I hear ya Calum, us SEO types get moody from SERPs and suffer from a condition where we need to be checking our analytics every 5 minutes.

If that’s not bad enough, what other job does having some form of OCD count as a good thing

By: Calum Macleod

Calum Macleod — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:10:50 +0000

Amen Paul, I remember you telling me how addictive SEO was and I didn’t believe you. Not only does it take over my thoughts during my spare time but good serps can put my mood up and down. If that’s not an addiction I don’t know what one is.