This is a follow on of my SEO Story, if you haven’t already, go back to this post to read it from the start – How I started in SEO

Still No Inspiration – Then Got The Bug Back 🙂

If you have read my last post you will know we are now up to 2015 and I am in a bit of a rut and lost all inpiration for web work and SEO.

My daughter has just started a graphic design course at Stratford College which means I am effectively a part time taxi driver as I’m taking her into college and picking her back up again 5 days a week which gets me out the house for a couple of hours a day.

My directory site is still ticking over and just about earning enough so that I don’t have to get a job.

I was still playing around with the V1 websites I mentioned in a previous post and even bought the personalised reg plate V1 SEO which I put on my new car with the intention of using to help advertise my SEO services by parking it in prominant places when visiting local business parks, industrial estates, etc.

I told myself this was the reason I bought it, but really it was just because I liked it 🙂

Although I wasn’t really looking to do work for anyone else I was getting approached by more local small businees wanting help so decided that as long as they agreed it was on my basis I would look at the optimising of their sites which quite often led to me taking over the websites or even building them new ones and I got the webworrk bug back.

I wasn’t charging a lot and tended to just concentrate on people who just wanted basic simple sites

by the end on 2015 I had over a dozen people/small businesses I was looking after as well as about 20 of my own sites.

I never really charged them what I should have done but had an understaning with them that once it felt like it was becoming work rather me enjoying what I was doing I would either stop or start charging them accordingly.

Most the people I was looking after only really needed a couple or three hours work a month, but a couple of them I was spending a good 10 hours a week on, but fortunately still not seeing it as work.

With the income the directory was bringing in and the income from the sites I was looking after, the thoughts about maybe having to get a proper job were no longer a worry.

I wasn’t making a fortune but enough to be able to carry on enjoying what I was doing through the next couple of years

Story Continues Here – The Good and Bad Years

The Sim64 SEO Story

The Sim64 SEO Story Continues (start from the bottom post)

• Working From a Hospital Bed
• TJS Marketing Ltd – Setting up new business TJS Marketing Ltd
• The Good And Bad Years
• Still No Inspiration – Then Got The Bug Back
• More Web Work and SEO
• Back to the Web Work
• Google Panda Update
• Google Plus Google Author Rank and More
• Setting up Google Maps Listings
• Why I don’t like doing SEO for Other people
• Sim64 The Start of the WordPress Years and SEO
• Released From The Google Minus 30 Penalty
• No More Self Editing
• Business Directory Listings Explode
• Giving up the Day Job
• Sim64.co.uk Mothballed
• We Had No Google Webmaster Tools or Google Search Console Back Then
• The Google Minus 30 Penalty -30
• V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
• Building a Business Directory
• TJ You are a Genius
• Always Expect The SEO Bubble To Burst
• ** How I Started Out In SEO **

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