About the SEO Dude

Thanks for stopping by $1 SEO.  It is my mission to open your mind to the process of Search Engine Optimization.  It may seem like a foreign language at first but after some time you learn the basics.  This will only wet your appitite for more.  LAnding at the top of the search results can not only be financially rewarding, it fells like a personaly victory in which you can be extremely satisfied. (insert image of #1 result)

I first began working in Search Engine Optimization many years ago as a copywriter for an online environmentally Friendly Furniture Company.  Well the owner of the company was a web savvy guy who knew that to survive you needed to rank well in the SERP Results.  Back then we would optimize the web pages on the company website and buy into directorys as a way of backlinking.  This was my first exposure to SEO.

Down the road I went to work manamging the SEM of an Online Traffic Scool website.  I had multiple websites offering anything fromDefensive Driving to Drivers Education.  All of this was offered entirely online.  Working at that job managing thousands of keywords I met a webmaster who was really into SEO.  We would bounce ideas off each other and I soon took the role of optizining the websites in addtion to managing the online spend on Adwords.  Here I learned about the power of blogs and backlinking.

After a stint as a Proof Reader for the Los Angeles Times I took a job as a Dedicated Search Engine Optimization Analyist for a company that builds car dealer websites.  It was a perfect fit because not only did I love SEO but I love cars even more.  The knowledge I learned from optimizing site after site was priceless.  I got to see the precess of taking a website with ZERO optimization and growing it week after week till we had the desired search engine rankings.  It was common for me to optimize a new website from the ground an make it rank at or near the top for its targeted keywords.  The clients were all very satisfied with their results and I had more work than I could handle alone.  Not only did my company grow during the worst recent economical environment in awhile, but the SEO department became one of the largest deparments in the company and I was at the center.