How I got into SEO? This is going to be a 3 part blog post =)

I thought it would be a good idea to talk about exactly how I got into SEO,

It all started back in around early 2004 when I was still at high school, selling things on eBay for fun, I was well aware of the online world, I was selling DVD’s and other things on eBay for profit and tinkering around with online marketing since way back in like 1999.

At the same time I was active on many car forums as I was looking to purchase my first car been Honda or a Mazda. I saw a post about what people do for a job and I saw this one guy talking about how he was making decent money online off ranking his “Car Wallpapers” website, ranking near the top of page one in Google USA, this guy pretty much was shoing what he was making with Adsense and CPM and said any one can do it.
At around the same time I had been tinkering with websites for many years and I know the basics of online marketing yet I never knew a lot about SEO. The specific guy advised me that if I want to make money online I need to get onto websites like sitepoint.com and digitalpoint.com, instantly I decided to check out these two websites and learn everything I could.

Before this I was on website like .TK and had built various website on free hosts so I knew a bit about we hosting, web design and internet marketing as I had done it all for my eBay business and free hosts.

Back in 2004-2005 Digital Point was a fantastic place to learn about internet marketing, compared to what it is like today back 7 years ago it was a wealth of information, if you wanted to learn about SEO you found countless links to other websites, if you want to learn about social media there was the same wealth of information.  Another great thing about Digital Point was the fact that you could outsource link building for SEO campaigns for great prices.

I was posting on Digital Point and Site Point on a daily basis and learning every thing I could. Around the same time I decided to purchase my first few domains on Godaddy, off recomendations from DP I used Hostgator for my business and I was in business. I also set up various free blogs on Blogger and the likes to assist my network in forming.

I will continue the story in part 2 =) Stay Tuned…

Two tips from this post -

1. Join SEO forums, Blogs to learn all you can about internet marketing.

2. Make your own website or blog to learn all you can from the ground up.