Here are five stories about me. Two of them are false.
#1 – When I applied for my first SEO job, I knew absolutely nothing about SEO.
#2 – I presented on mobile marketing to a group of professionals in San Diego. I did this with a flip-phone in my pocket. It was 2011.
#3 – I once spent a half hour looking for the “save” button in FileZilla.
#4 – I may have been the only person at the 2012 MozCon without a Twitter handle.
#5 – Although I’ve been employed as an SEO expert for nearly seven years, I’ve never owned a website until now.
#2 – I presented on mobile marketing to a group of professionals in San Diego. I did this with a flip-phone in my pocket. It was 2011.
#3 – I once spent a half hour looking for the “save” button in FileZilla.
#4 – I may have been the only person at the 2012 MozCon without a Twitter handle.
#5 – Although I’ve been employed as an SEO expert for nearly seven years, I’ve never owned a website until now.
I lied. Sadly, they’re all true.
I’ve had an atypical background for someone in the SEO industry. I didn’t grow up tinkering with websites, publishing articles, writing code, crunching numbers, daydreaming about Madison Avenue or anything else related. I was a normal kid from the country who
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