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A San Diego SEO Freelancer, That’s Me!

James Harrison — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:22:05 +0000

First off, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my SEO blog. I really do appreciate it. You can read another related post (found below) or subscribe here. Once again, thank you for visiting James’ SEO blog.

I thought I should re-introduce myself since things have changed since I started this blog and because I haven’t had a chance to update my ‘about James Harrison‘ page. For starters, despite showing up for New York SEO related terms, I do not live nor work in New York. I go to New York 4-5 times a year and it’s usually just to hang out with buddies for a week or so. Occasionally I’ll meet with a client but most of the time its pure pleasure. I just love New York City in fact given the opportunity, I would move there in a heartbeat, that is as long as I could convince my girlfriend, fiancé.

Currently, I live in Pacific Beach, San Diego, California. I’ve been an SEO freelancer for over 5 years now. However, I’ve only been running a professional SEO freelancing business (back by some agency experience from MEA Digital & Engine Ready) for over a year now.

Let me make that clear. I’ve been doing SEO for awhile now, but it wasn’t until working for a couple of the best online marketing agencies that I got the real, effective, professional skills and experience that sets me apart from the ‘rest’.

The freelancing business I run now is SEO by the Hour, a San Diego SEO company, firm, business. I know it says “we”, “firm”, “our”, etc. But it’s still just me, working from home, going after another SEO term. Once SEObytheHour.com is on the 1st page of Google for “SEO Firm“, I’ll revert back to my “Freelance SEO Specialist” feel. SEO by the Hour is still a 1-man shop. Every once in awhile I’ll get programming help from a buddy of mine, Joesph at Get SEO’ Now. Or, I’ll have some writers draw my up some content for bulk articles or a press release. Sometimes, I’ll pay an old co-worker of mine to manually submit a site to a list of websites for me. But for the most part, it’s just me.

Business is good, I can’t complain. I’ve learned a lot about running a SEO business and how to provide even more effective SEO services more efficiently so my clients can get more “bang for their buck”.

However sometimes I can’t help but miss the 9-5..

Sometimes I prefer having a job or being responsible for 1 department as opposed to a whole business.

Being an salesman, receptionist, accountant, service worker, linking expert, bill collector, reporter and client contact can be hard, time consuming and stressful at times.

Back to Work – PPC Management

James Harrison — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:23:42 +0000

1st off, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my SEO blog. I really do appreciate it. You can read another related post (found below) or subscribe here. Once again, thank you for visiting James’ SEO blog.

Today was my first day back to work after being on winter vacation since the Friday before Christmas. I really appreciated this break, for I was able to accomplish a lot of things I been wanting to accomplish. (like finally creating this wordpress blog)

I spent my whole break indulging in SEO, but my profession is PPC. Although I love the creative side of search engine optimization, I was happy to be back in the “PPC World”.

Anyway, here are some things I had to do today to get back on track.

Examine client’s month-end budgets & set new ones for the new year
Keyword reports to make sure we are allocating the budgets correctly
Keyword reports to find more negative keywords.
Eliminate keywords performing way above the CPA (cost-per-acquisition)goals.
Eliminate last month’s ad creatives that failed to hit expectations
Study last month’s traffic (analytics)
& caught up on a ton of emails.

That was just for today. Now that I am all ”caught up”, the work should really kick in.

JameSEO.com: Ranking Number 1 for James Harrison

James Harrison — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:50:54 +0000

It’s always been a goal of mind to be ranked #1 for my name James Harrison. I remember some years back when people found out that they could “Google” a paticular person’s name and possibly find out information about them. I’ve been studying “SEO” for a few years now and been helping sites rank for many terms. But now its time to invest a little bit of my skill into myself.

JameSEO.com will rank number 1 for “James Harrison“

Unfortunately, I have a VERY common name. If you Google “james harrison”, Google will return 3.05 Million results. I helped my friend; Ashley LaVelle rank #1 for her name within 2 weeks, but their are far less Ashley LaVelle’s in this world. If you Google her name, Google only returns 177,000 results.

After seeing that, I am totally prepared to take on the key term “james harrison”
I’ve added in this sentence for SEO purposes: I played football in high school. You’ll get this if you Google James Harrison ;)

James Harrison’s First Wordpress Post

James Harrison — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:15:59 +0000

After spending weeks of thinking about starting a wordpress blog, I finally decided to install it onto my server. Thanks to GoDaddy’s extremely easy Wordpress setup, I was literally able to set up my blog within 10 minutes.

I started this blog because I like to update my website daily with fresh new content and figure blogging with Wordpress seems to be the easiest way to do it. I’ve been blogging for many years with these blogs with Blogger; TravelersTrade Photo Blog, Childcare San Diego Blog, Blog Optimizers & San Diego Movers.

But, I wanted to break away from the blogspot.com domain.

So far, after just setting up an account and writing a post, I’ve found Wordpress to be an amazing interface with many more features than Blogger. If anyone has any pointers for starters, please let me know.

Thank You

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