I hope u/inappropriatebanter finds a good in-house SEO job or maybe a new field that makes him feel better about his work. Good Luck my man.

Everyone had great advice in the comments. However, his rant must have left some of the beginners on this sub questioning whether SEO is the right path for them or not. Last week when I had a little rant here, I got so many requests from website owners to have a look at their website and to offer my views.

So, let’s do something nice here.

Everyone share their good experiences working in the SEO industry. Let us help boost the morale of this sub.

I’ll start. I have always had a full-time SEO job for the past 8 years as an On-page, Keyword research and content specialist. Majority of the time I work remote, so life is pretty chill.

Over the years, I have helped hundreds of small businesses (mostly in Washington) rank at the very top. I love it, seeing a website go from nothing to being at the first page, pulling in leads. I mean, what we do gives life to new business, increases sales, increases employment.

But my best one has to be the time I was writing for a major publication in Canada. Was handed over a tough KW to rank with one article as a dare. Safe to say It happened. It stayed at the first rank for 3 days exactly and then slid down to 4 after a week. All I did was study the already ranking blogs first and figured out how to beat them by drafting a custom blog outline. I mean, it did help that publication I wrote for was a high DR website, but the competitors were even stronger.

Fun Fact: When my article dropped from rank 1 to rank 4, the first rank was overtaken by a website that had copy pasted my article word to word. Upon research I got to know that their website business model is to copy paste every top ranking article lol, worked for them I guess. Anyhow, do share your good memories, dares, challenges down in the comments.

And website owners who need a free SEO consultation, my DMs are open. Or you can reach out to SEO gurus who will comment down on this post.

Just do not expect a complete website audit report and detailed solutions. I can take a look at you and your competitors only to tell you what needs to be done.