About Me
The Journey towards Freelance SEO
I am Tariq, a self-learned freelance SEO consultant. The story started in 2010, when I was a web developer & did not know about SEO. I was trying to help one of my friend’s business, who was struggling for his company’s website.
My Approach
Learn.
Experiment.
Understand.
Back in 2010, I was a website Designer & Developer. I was helping small businesses to create their online presence through websites. Until then, I knew almost nothing about SEO and never saw it in action.
It all started with a friend’s website, who was struggling to achieve his Google SEO results. He paid a lot of money with no results in 1 year. Upon asking his request to help him, I started digging into the world of search engine optimization. In next 3 months his website started shining on 1st position for multiple keywords. My friend’s website was on track with business inquires and I saw the excitement and happiness of my friend. This made me feel real good.
I wanted to dig more into SEO. So, after this first success, I created one of my own website to experiment and learn more about it. My excitement was ruined when I was not able to see any result in next 3 months. It took me 6 months to accomplish results for this new website of mine. I realized that I need to learn more.
Learning Curve
Although it was a very deep learning curve for me. I needed to spend lots of money to buy different tools. Only few tools were helpful rest were just a waste of my money. Self-motivated, I was struggling to learn more and more. Another thought took me to buy SEO books and courses online. Which lead me to dead ends as all that information was already with me.
Finally, I decided that I will spend more time and money on my own projects. At last, I created 30 websites of mine, with different niches and markets. I started my own experiments to check what works and what does not. Some of my experiments were quite useful. I started implementing them on all of my projects and it worked. My years of struggle (almost 3 years) started giving me required results. Although I spend lots of money and wasted a lot of time, but I learned a lot and experimented a lot.
Today, at Iconic Freelancer, I use my experience to implement for my client projects and my personal projects as well. I still read a lot of articles about the industry movements. This reading, learning and experiments are kind of my hobby now. I only implement the result oriented techniques for my client base. New experiments are being made on my personal projects, some works and others don’t. But I learn and that feels me more confident.
Are your looking for SEO of your website? You may contact me with confidence, I can ensure that your website will be in good hands. I don’t offer any guarantees or things which goes against any search engine policies. I can only offer you organic results with authentic techniques and according to strict search engine guidelines.
Travel keeps me moving.
The passion of travel gave me a nomad lifestyle. I keep on moving from city to city and country to country. In beginning, it seemed to be difficult to manage a nomad lifestyle and work together. But it makes me feel quite good to write an article from an airport or a railway station. I feel lucky that my work do not stop me to see beautiful places and people all around the world. Freelancing provides me fuel for my travel. And, I keep on gathering stories, lifestyles and behaviors of people all around the globe.