Wingnut SEO

I have always wanted my official title to be Lord of Awesome. I don’t know why, I just have… mostly because it’s awesome. Now that I have my own Denver internet marketing company I had business cards made to read Dave Winget - Lord of Awesome. I think I deserve this title as I do own and run PrettyMuchAwesome.org

I started thinking to myself that if I’m going to have this title I should put some reason behind it - or at the very least rank #1 in google for a search of Lord of Awesome. This is my mission now. I will spend time over the coming weeks to rank myself in the serps as Lord of Awesome.

This is where the SEO comes in - I will rank this page and others for Lord of Awesome as I have for my personal name Dave Winget. A search for Dave Winget comes up as the first 10 results pointing to things I have done and, given a little time, Lord of Awesome will come up as well.

If you want to help me out with this noble mission of branding myself as Dave Winget - Lord of Awesome feel free to link to this post and write about the best title - Lord of Awesome.

As many of you know I have recently made the switch back to freelance SEO from working at an agency.  This change has been great so far and if you’re interested in hiring me check out 10kThings.com and leave me a message - the site is still a mess but we still have bigger fish to fry.

Anyway, now that I am back in the drivers seat of my future and expansion of the company I am working for (myself) knowing how to choose the right clients comes into play.  Do you aim only for the top, bringing in only clients that you can get an ongoing monthly retainer or do you take on the small hourly jobs?

I have opted for both.  Naturally I want to expand my business with as many clients as I can, hire folks to handle the heavy lifting, wash rinse etc.  If I only aimed for ongoing larger clients I may get 1-2 signed a month, slowly building the base of the business - I can, however, take on small consulting work 3-5 hour projects at a much quicker rate.  In the past one and a half weeks of working on my own I have taken on 13 of these small projects.

With these small projects I have the luxury to pick and choose who I want to work with.  I haven’t chosen any that would be a once and out deal but rather I have spent this time to build relationships with other small design and development companies that will lead to more work in the future.  While these small projects are not long term contracts they ultimately can provide more value.

One sure fire way to tell when you have been doing something far too much - to the point of obsession - is when you start dreaming about it.

This happened to me last night. I had a dream that I wrote something amazing and it went hot on Digg and that I was getting all kinds of new subscribers, hits, advertising offers… and then I woke up.

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