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Search Engine Optimization as an industry is growing, and will continue to grow for years to come. As a result, more and more companies are seeing the value in hiring an in-house SEO consultant, which means more opportunities for us. It also means there will be more competition in the future. Notice I said, “In the future”; I recently went on an SEO job hunt and had people contacting me left and right, so depending on your area of the world, it may not be as competitive as you think, and finding an SEO job may be a lot easier than you predict.

So here are my top 5 places to find an SEO job:

1. SEOmoz

The SEOmoz team has put together an amazing resource for SEO professionals. They’ve also went the extra mile and created an SEO services board where you can find very credible SEO jobs. Some of these jobs are very specific (ie: link building, social media manager) and others are very broad (ie: SEO consultant).

http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/jobs

2. SEMPO

The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization is a non-profit site which feeds useful data to the hungry minds of SEO/M professionals. They’ve taken it a step further and added a regularly updated job board for SEO and SEM jobs alike.

http://www.sempo.org/jobs/

3. Indeed:SEO

If you haven’t heard of, or used indeed yet you are missing out. This glorious search engine searches nearly every job site on the internet to find exactly the job you’re looking for. It’s not always 100% accurate as far as search results go, but it’s definitely very useful, not to mention a huge time saver.

http://www.indeed.com/q-Seo-jobs.html

4. SEO Jobs Finder

This site is growing on me as I see more and more quality SEO and SEM jobs posted every day. Sort jobs by freelance, part time or full time, and everything is properly labeled. This site has a great user interface which makes it easy (and quick) to search for the SEO job of your dreams.

http://www.seojobsfinder.com/

5. Craigslist

Of course, you can’t leave out good ol’ Craigslist. Yes, there tends to be a lot of spam, especially when searching for telecommute or SEO jobs. However, you can often find a diamond in the rough since Craigslist is one of the first places tech-savvy employers post to. To date I have been hired from 3 out of 3 jobs I found on Craigslist.

http://www.craigslist.org/

Blog commenting is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to build quality links. So what’s the catch? It’s time consuming, obviously. You have to find the blogs, skim through the post, write a relevant comment and pray for approval. Is it worth it? Absolutely. Strategic blog commenting can boost your rankings fast. As a bonus, if the link is not marked as nofollow, you can gain a higher page rank by carefully picking the right blogs. I have been blog commenting for close to 3 years now and have found enormous results for the fruits of my labor.

Whether you’re a webmaster, SEO, or a blogger, you should be using the following method regularly. Adapt it to your niche and watch your rankings soar.

Step One – Compile a List of Blogs

1. Go to Google.com
2. Type in: yourniche “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments”
3. Replace yourniche with a keyword related to your niche
4. Click Search
5. CTRL-Click on the first ten results
6. Go back to steps 3-6  and type in a different keyword, repeat as needed.
7. Copy and paste the URLs you’ve gathered into a list for future reference

Step Two – Find High Page Rank Posts

1. Use an internal page rank checker  like This One
2. CTRL-Click 1-3 posts with the highest page rank for each URL you gathered

Step Three – Prepare your Comment

1. Get ready to be witty, inquisitive, and argumentative.
2. Skim through each post and try to find an interesting fact

Step Four – Make it SEO Friendly

1. Go down to the comment section
2. Fill out the comment form like so:

• Name: YourKeyword (Don’t use anything that looks like spam)
• Email: You@YourEmail.com (Use a junk email address, but make it real, some blogs require email confirmation to activate your comment)
• Website: Enter your site’s URL (The one you’re building links to)

Step Five – Write the  Comment

It is very important that your comment doesn’t look automated, if it’s unrelated or too short it probably won’t get approved. Many bloggers are also webmasters who know of techniques such as these. It is your job as a blog commenter to convince them you are a reader who wants to express his opinion. Comments like “I agree with this post. Great blog, keep up the good work!” almost never get approved. Bloggers are smart, and many are SEO savvy enough to know what you’re trying to do. I’m a blogger, and I know of these techniques. However, I embrace blog commenting, as long as it doesn’t look automated.

Comment Approval Tips

• Keep it clean, don’t use profanity
• Check your spelling and grammar
• Comment in the same language as the post, don’t waste your time translating a foreign language, just move on to the next blog
• Ask a question
• Make an argument
• 4 Sentences, minimum
• Only 1 comment per post
• Maximum of 2 words per keyphrase (for the Name: field)

Company: BackLinks.com

Services: Buy & Sell Text Links

The Rundown

Backlinks.com exceeded my expectations within 15 minutes of registering as a new user (advertiser). The advertiser’s user interface is very straight forward. You can add your sites very quickly without having to worry about writing long descriptions and lists of keywords. Simply enter in your site URL, your desired anchor text, and select from the large (but manageable) list of website categories. Click next and you’ve just added your first site.

Once your site has been added to their system, click select links to begin finding relevant backlinks to your website. You will be brought to a page which lists all categories, or you can simply search for the type of site you’re looking for. One click later you are presented with a list of websites related to your selection. I was impressed on the speed of the backlinks.com system, there is almost no wait for returning search results and I must say they’ve built up quite a large and impressive clientele.

Anyway, back to the process. You are now shown a list of sites,  each site is labeled by their brief description, followed by Google Page Rank, whether or not the link will be on a homepage or subpage, and the cost of the link. But the best feature, which sets backlinks.com apart from the rest of the link marketplace; click the description of any website and you are shown the URL of that site, but don’t worry it is in the form of a “CAPTCHA” type of image. This ensures that nobody is penalized by search engines for intentionally purchasing or selling links.

Pros

• Rapid sign-up process
• Great user support
• Quality, categorized web sites
• Shows URL’s but in a secure way
• Pay, and get paid fast via PayPal

Cons

• Limited sorting capabilities
• Confusing User Interface

Overall I have become a fan of backlinks.com and will continue to use them for backlink building. I have already purchased 3 high quality links for $15. As far as results go, well I have already seen a 3 position jump on one of the keywords I used as anchor text through backlinks.com not to mention several clicks (some unexpected traffic). I would highly recommend these guys to any SEO or backlink building professional.

Goto BackLinks.com Here

SEO Is Growing Up Fast

If you haven’t noticed, there are SEO and SEM companies, websites, and jobs popping up left and right. Being an SEO, I am always looking for new sites on the forefront of this evolving industry. It seems that each new year is bringing new, innovative SEO companies.

So, I did some research and the results are pretty amazing. Below is a graph of the SEO Job growth from July 2005 to Today.

seo Job Trends

Company: SEOmoz.org

What is it? SEO Link Building Tool

The Rundown

Find High Authority, Juicy Links for next to nothing

This is the tool that “roped” me into buying a pro account with seomoz, and boy am I glad I jumped on the bandwagon with this one. The juicy link finder has helped me take client sites to the top of Google rankings for highly competitive keywords within a matter of weeks.

How It Works

The genius of this tool is in the simplicity of the user experience, the front end is incredibly simple. Input your keyword/keyphrase, select the number of results: 50,100, 150 or 200, and let seomoz work their magic. A few brief minutes later you are presented with the results in order of importance. The “juiciest” link being at the top of the list, and the least juiciest link resides at the bottom.

The beauty of this tool is that you will very often find unlikely hidden gems with high authority. I once found a very old site related to one of my niches hosted on an old geocities account. However, this site had HUGE authority within my niche and the webmaster didn’t even know it. I contacted him immediately to negotiate a link on his site and he was more than happy to give me a permanent link for an incredibly low price. 2 weeks later our site was ranked #3 in Google for that keyword (which was highly competitive).

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Company: LinkDiagnosis

Services: Free tool to examine your link competition

The Rundown

Analyze Back Links

This is a great tool for examining your site’s back links. The best part about LinkDiagnosis is that it’s 100% free to use with no restrictions. Just go to their website, enter the desired URL, and click Start. It normally only takes a minute or two for most sites(depending on the amount of back links to the site you’re examining). After the brief wait you are presented with some extremely useful data. It shows your total unique back links, a unique back link is defined as one unique domain name linking back to your site.

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