Chris Winfield compiled a fun industry related post to read named How Did You Get Started in SEO?

He basically asked some of the more well-known SEOs in the space, how they got their start in SEO. Some stories are pretty standard, while others are not. The standard story is, I had a client, they wanted to know how to come up in a search engine and here I am now. Then there were some not so standard stories.

Here are quick links to the stories:

Aaron Chronister
Aaron Wall
Adam Audette
Danny Sullivan
Dave Naylor
Debra Mastaler
Jill Whalen
John Andrews
Joost de Valk
Loren Baker
Marcus Tandler
Marshall Simmonds
Melanie Mitchell
Dr. Michael Dorausch
Patrick Altoft
Rae Hoffman
Rand Fishkin

By the way, we ran a poll a while back on Why SEOs Got Into SEO?

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