Day in Life of a Newbie SEO | Ep. #898

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In episode #898, we discuss a day of the life of a new SEO. Tune in to hear what we did when starting out.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles, once Marketing School reaches 1M downloads in a 30 day period. Take action: Rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE. Check the progress</span> <a href= "http://marketingschool.io/stats/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">!</span></p> <p><strong>TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:27] Today’s Topic:</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Day in Life of a Newbie SEO</span></em></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:05] Eric made Light Show Videos and thought the site was going to be a hit.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:30] He thought people would want to see laser light shows from music festivals.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:48] He did keyword research and found high volume keywords.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:58] Then he created content by finding YouTube videos of light shows and writing about them.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:32] He then started reaching out to similar sites and got a few cross-links.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:50] He ranked #1 for keyword “light shows”, but he found that he wasn’t making money.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[03:20] Neil created a job board, but he wasn’t getting any traffic.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[04:08] He also did outreach and tried to make connections.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[04:23] After changing his email template, he got 1 response.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[04:41] It takes a lot of fine tuning to be successful.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[05:20] Double down on what works.</span></