Hi all,
I'm Jim, I'm 26 and this is my first post. I basically am a seo/web designer, I know html, css, php, photoshop, etc. Every musts for online creations. I'm from Southeast Europe, where the average paycheck is 300$/month.
Luckily I've quit my job this summer.
Since then I went freelancing for local owners im my town (200k population). I'm doing some websites (price range from 200$ - 500$) and local seo (around 500$ a site, for an average kw, ~2-3k searches, #1 spot).
The web design part, even though I love coding, because it's so under priced and because clients are so picky, got me fed up. And beside, there is no actual scaling, how many websites can I do in 1 month? 4-5?
On the side, I had 2 news sites in my language with nation-wide audience. Each was hitting about 60k-150k UV / month with a whooping 70-100$ adsense earnings / month (each). I did not had both at the same time since they weren't autoblogs and ate most of my time. Sold the 1st one for 2k € and second for 1k € (this with 4-5 months invested in each).
Web design sure is not the way to go and here comes my dilemma: I don't like to brag, but I know my way around SEO so I was thinking to set up my nation-wide seo firm since I already had success in this area and I have some sort of portfolio. But it's a little bit tricky... SEO can never be fully on auto pilot, the keyword research for clients must always be done by me (now I also have a couple link building techniques that I do manually).
In the beginning I gave some economic pointers about my country and now I ask you, Is a SEO company Fastlane?
Or should I use my set of skills in making and ranking my own web site in another area, non SEO related? Or better yet, don't even try doing something in my country (remember my 200k city population? only 70k of them have Facebook accounts, and mine is the second biggest town here)?
If my SEO dream is not my Fastlane I'm sort of lost and I'll get back to the drawing board since I've never thought about any other area...
Any pointers will be much appreciated and also please excuse me for my poor English, but it's not my native language.
PS: I have about 1k-1.5k € (startup) cash so there's no way to invest money in something right now, maybe after I make a couple (more) sites...
I'm Jim, I'm 26 and this is my first post. I basically am a seo/web designer, I know html, css, php, photoshop, etc. Every musts for online creations. I'm from Southeast Europe, where the average paycheck is 300$/month.
Luckily I've quit my job this summer.
Since then I went freelancing for local owners im my town (200k population). I'm doing some websites (price range from 200$ - 500$) and local seo (around 500$ a site, for an average kw, ~2-3k searches, #1 spot).
The web design part, even though I love coding, because it's so under priced and because clients are so picky, got me fed up. And beside, there is no actual scaling, how many websites can I do in 1 month? 4-5?
On the side, I had 2 news sites in my language with nation-wide audience. Each was hitting about 60k-150k UV / month with a whooping 70-100$ adsense earnings / month (each). I did not had both at the same time since they weren't autoblogs and ate most of my time. Sold the 1st one for 2k € and second for 1k € (this with 4-5 months invested in each).
Web design sure is not the way to go and here comes my dilemma: I don't like to brag, but I know my way around SEO so I was thinking to set up my nation-wide seo firm since I already had success in this area and I have some sort of portfolio. But it's a little bit tricky... SEO can never be fully on auto pilot, the keyword research for clients must always be done by me (now I also have a couple link building techniques that I do manually).
In the beginning I gave some economic pointers about my country and now I ask you, Is a SEO company Fastlane?
Or should I use my set of skills in making and ranking my own web site in another area, non SEO related? Or better yet, don't even try doing something in my country (remember my 200k city population? only 70k of them have Facebook accounts, and mine is the second biggest town here)?
If my SEO dream is not my Fastlane I'm sort of lost and I'll get back to the drawing board since I've never thought about any other area...
Any pointers will be much appreciated and also please excuse me for my poor English, but it's not my native language.
PS: I have about 1k-1.5k € (startup) cash so there's no way to invest money in something right now, maybe after I make a couple (more) sites...
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