seo-arrowLast year, seo-blog.com featured a great article called “The Ten Levels of SEO“.

All websites owners, should read this once every 2-3 months. Highly recommended and also lots of fun. Here are some excerpts from this article:

You have built your first website, hosted it on Geocities and submitted it to Google and Yahoo. A week later you can’t find it anywhere in the search engines.

Your nephew tells you about the keyword meta-tag and says you have to submit every day. This doesn’t work either. You use Yahoo Answers to ask why the search engines are ignoring your site. Replies are moronic but there is one answer that looks promising from cool_guy_97. He says that you need to know about search engine optimization. You decide to investigate further, you have discovered SEO.

You are now a moderator on your favorite webmaster forum and one of the other moderators asks if you are going to the upcoming Search Engine Marketing and Optimization Conference in New York. You book the conference, tell Nicole and arrange leave from the office, you have discovered networking.

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Just before you go on holiday you take delivery of your new Porsche. You are a successful SEO.

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Most days you spend a few hours on the laptop building those new websites you always knew would be gold mines and keeping in touch with old friends by email. Nicole does all the link building and writes lots of content. Occasionally you dispense SEO advice to old clients for obscene amounts of money. Very occasionally you take on a new client simply because you like them.

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You have reached SEO Nirvana.

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