The best way to get experience, and get an SEO job is to find a website to practice on. Here is what you should do to start early, and get lightyears ahead of your future SEO job competition:
- Talk to friends, relatives, family, and find someone that owns a website, and that doesn’t have any SEO.
- Set a baseline with them on how many monthly leads/sales they currently receive.
- Set up a deal where they pay you a percentage on any more sales/leads that you can generate through SEO.
This will do several things for you. It will give you:
- An SEO Job
- Experience in the field
- A paycheck
- Huge upside potential
You will take an already active site, and optimize it for search engines, and get mounds of visitors coming there. You will have found an SEO job. You will have experience to hearken back to during interviews. You will also have a happy customer. Since your pay is based off of your own performance, as you make the site owner pay you more, they are also making more, so win-win! Possibly even better than that, you will get paid for results, so you will put more time, effort, and practice into further optimizing the site. You have created the perfect motivation to keep learning – direct performance-based work. Work as much or as little as you want, and it directly affects your paycheck.
If you follow these steps early, you will have experience to get an SEO job as soon as you graduate or enter the job market, and you will hit the ground running. You will find yourself many years younger than your supervisors and bosses, and you will make a name for yourself. People always tie expert behavior at a young age with genius. Your employer at your SEO job will realize they need to keep a genius on board. Go out there and make it happen. More to come!
