Hi There, I'm a Newbie With 15 Years Experience

• I was a moderately successful freelance gray hat SEO until 2010 (focused on the Insurance & Mortgage niches, ranked top 5 with hyper-competitive kws, generated 50-100 organic leads a day)
• Switched to Media Buying
• Did even better
• Bitconnnnnect (well, not really... but, you get the idea)
• Moved to Singapore from USA
• Got off my butt and decided to start another company (totally unrelated marketing)
• Realized SEO would actually be really beneficial for my firm so I'm relearning SEO.

CrMas37 said:

Lucky you worked in the golden age of SEO. Some of us were stupid kids back then

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malayan said:

Interesting, when I was getting started I was envious of the people who were doing SEO when all you needed was to keyword stuff and spam your meta keywords tag.

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CrMas37 said:

Lucky you worked in the golden age of SEO. Some of us were stupid kids back then

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LeanLow said:

"Golden age of SEO" ? You must be joking, 8-10 yrs ago you could rank top within days for tough terms with GSA and other softwares alike, now it takes years, a ton of money and know-how.

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MisterF said:

Yet some still think this is the SEO 2020 method.

Welcome to BHW.

What do you make of Singapore, compared to USA?

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LeanLow said:

"Golden age of SEO" ? You must be joking, 8-10 yrs ago you could rank top within days for tough terms with GSA and other softwares alike, now it takes years, a ton of money and know-how.

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Mission IMpossible said:

And x10 times the competition. With everyone trying to start an online income its only going to get tougher.

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malayan said:

Tl;dr version

• I was a moderately successful freelance gray hat SEO until 2010 (focused on the Insurance & Mortgage niches, ranked top 5 with hyper-competitive kws, generated 50-100 organic leads a day)
• Switched to Media Buying
• Did even better
• Bitconnnnnect (well, not really... but, you get the idea)
• Moved to Singapore from USA
• Got off my butt and decided to start another company (totally unrelated marketing)
• Realized SEO would actually be really beneficial for my firm so I'm relearning SEO.

Howdy all.

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Ezy501 said:

So are you grey, black or white now?

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