Popularity of SEO Marketing and Freelancing

Wow. My post the other day about SEO marketing (Search Engine Optimization) got a lot of hits, thereby proving exactly what the article was about.

People searched Google for information on SEO marketing, and found my post about it. That’s called “organic” traffic, in that the hits were coming from people who wanted to know about SEO marketing enough to go searching for it. Those are the people that the AdWords advertisers are targeting with the ads you see to the right of the screen.

Bloggers and website owners have an opportunity to be a money-making middle man by providing space for these ads as a small income stream in addition to whatever other purpose their website provides.

There are site admins out there who do nothing except pitch for these ads, and that’s a shame, because their content tends to be useless rubbish. But if you provide decent quality content for your readers in addition to pimping the AdSense stuff, then you can make a few bucks from it.

How does this relate to freelancing? Well, somebody needs to actually write the content! Not every site admin has the time or the talent to research and publish keyword-laden articles to their site. So they provide the keywords to freelancers like me, and I turn out readable, SEO-friendly content for their site. It’s a win-win situation.