If we look back around 10-15 years, nobody thought of career in SEO. But today and from few past years, there is a flow in SEO and digital marketing. Thousand of new websites, brand, business coming on internet and want to make strong online reputation, web presence and SEO helps to achieve their goals and objectives. Young generation willing to make career in SEO but get confused about that whether it will be fine to make career in SEO or not.
Questions are rising in there mind:
- Is SEO as a career is stable?
- SEO is forever?
- What SEO is ? How it's work?
- What it's value in coming next 5-10 years?
We all know that internet is an important part of every individual life whether you are a student, business man, white collar professional. Today there are numbers of online presence form are available and one of the best is having website of your own. Your website may be of your services, brand, business, information whatever it will be, you want to get discovered by others and this is the place where SEO starts in your mind. Now you can easily imagine that SEO is a need of every online website or business and you know very well that how many websites will be there on internet. No need to mention here the figure because I know it will be incorrect, every minute a website is going live on internet. So this the reason behind that why SEO as a career has growth in coming years.
But the question you have to ask is that Is SEO made for you? Is it good choice for your career?
NO doubt that SEO is a good choice as a career if you don't limit yourself. Let me explain in brief.....
Most of the professionals, youngster start their career in SEO have become successful beacause not knowledge of SEO but they have also knowledge of Social Media Marketing, Content Writing, Pay per Click and little bit knowledge of HTML. SEO plays a small role, not the only skill you need in this career. Id your knowledge will be limited to SEO only then definetly you are going to miss lots of jobs opportunities.
Example is in front of you.
- This website is designed by myself.
- Managed by me.
- All content written by me.
- Updation in codeing and all by myself.
You need to understand that if you are going to choose SEO as your career then you have to keep updated yourself with all SEO, Google updates. if you missed out even a small update you have to pay for that. There are numbers of SEO blogs like SearchEngineLand, SearchEngineJournal, SearchEngineWatch, moz you can follow to keep yourself updated.
Become an SEO or online marketing expert is one of the best career right now. But not so easy to stay because SEO industry is becoming more competitive day by day. It doesn't means SEO is dying. SEO is becoming more niche field where you can stay if you are professional and smart.