John Wiehe's Start-up SEO

Forgive me for giving an explanation of SEO, Search Engine Optimization, four days into my 30-day challenge. I may have never have without this message below:

By good fortune, here’s an attempt of explaining SEO from a guy a few month’s into it:

Search engine optimization helps companies find customers and customers find companies through each others’ Web presence. It should improve a company’s visibility and trust to their target audience on the Internet and social media. I view SEO as another arm of advertising, following print, TV and radio. I also believe SEO’s the best form of advertising – more on that at a later post.

Thanks for reading,
John

PS If you’d like to find explanations from others just search three letters, SEO. Or if you know of a better one, please, please, please do not hesitate to comment below.

Hello,

How many times have you come onto this blog and asked yourself, “Why on God’s green earth is this schmo from the Midwest blogging about SEO again?”

I’m glad to answer: So someone will hire me. It’s that simple but simplicity never involves ease.

My purpose of this blog is to learn by doing and enjoying SEO. I seek to learn from my rookie mistakes and enjoy the success that will come after my improvement. In a way, I’m optimizing my own SEO now so I can learn how to SEO for a company who’ll see my refinement from this blog later. I’ve read many SEO blogs since April that involve themselves teaching SEO, which I’m utterly thankful for, but I’ve yet to come across a blog where a reader can see the real-time workings of SEO by someone who’s having fun as they learn…until I started my blog.

See you tomorrow,
John

Hello,

I wanted to share my quick bio of my beginnings of SEO,

Around April, I started looking into how I could learn SEO. I had heard a little info about it being an advertising major but was still unclear about it. I asked about the SEO basics from my good friend, Glen, who’s been an SEO account manager in London since January. Glen & I share a fair amount of similarities and when I heard how he started SEO, I thought to myself, “Glen makes SEO look kinda easy. If he could do it, I could too.” Now, move your eyes upward and take a look at the sign’s first sentence: my thought process into seeking a new career had bad idea written all over it.

Recently my thought process has transformed into the second sentence of the sign above – a good idea. SEO looks fun (& it is, of course) so I should do it. I’m truly appreciating learning SEO on my own. Learning about SEO from guides, videos and blogs is not SEO and it’s also 0% fun after a certain point. SEO is SEO and it’s 100% fun. Every Web site – even Facebook, Seth Godin, & Google, etc. – started with little to no audience but their creators had a good idea and a lot of fun about it that led them to work as hard as they can to show it to others. I want to show others I know, am learning, and enjoy SEO.

Thanks for reading,
See you tomorrow.

This talk from Matt Cutts, one of the many masterminds at Google, inspired me to follow his great advice and start my own “30-day challenge” – SEO, search engine optimization. This blog will be a recording through trial, error and success along with my plan to flesh out what I’ve learned of SEO these past few months as best as I can in thirty days (and after that, of course.)

Enjoy,
I’ll keep you posted.

Video courtesy of TED.com