How to Make Money From SEO?

SEO can be a great way to make money online. With SEO skills, you can either start ranking your own website or helps other to rank their websites in order to make money.

There is no limit of the potential money you can get from SEO, but again, it is not a fast path to online riches.

In this post, we’re going to show you how you can make money from SEO so that you have the big picture of what you are going to do after complete our SEO course.

1. SEO 9-5

Level: Beginner

Getting a SEO job probably is not a dream for most of the people who get into SEO.

However, this can be a great way to expand your SEO knowledge and experience handling various clients.

If you are strangled financially or have no income at all, get an SEO job is the best option at the moment.

You need to get some fixed income to get your bill pay.

Meanwhile, you can start slowly building your own SEO side hustle after work.

Pros: 

• Secured and stable income.
• No risk.
• Recommended for people that are just starting out SEO.

Cons:

• Since it is a payslip earning, it has low growth.
• Fixed location (In some circumstances. Most of the companies requires all their worker to work in the physical office while very few of them allow the SEO job to work remotely anywhere).

Estimated Money You Can Make: $40K to $100K a year

2. SEO Side Hustle #1: Becoming a SEO Copywriter Freelance

Level: Beginner

There are many side hustle you can do with SEO knowledge. One of it is by becoming a SEO copywriter.

The term SEO copywriter means that you provide and sell a written-content that has already optimized for the search engines.

As an SEO copywriter, you can collaborate with some SEO agency and produces them contents for their clients, or pitch business to the website or business owners directly offering them your SEO copywriting services.

The rates for SEO copywriting service is depending on your experience, the niche, and the length of the content.

Pros: 

• Flexible location (You can work from anywhere – all you need is internet connection and laptop).
• No risk.
• Recommended for people that are just starting out SEO.

Cons:

• It has low growth. No matter how good or how experienced you are as the SEO copywriter, there is a maximum limit of fees that the client willing to pay for each single content.
• Inconsistent income/cash flow.
• Juggling multiple clients.

Estimated Money You Can Make: Average $42K a year

3. SEO Side Hustle #2: SEO Freelancer

If you are not ready to create an SEO business/agency yet, becoming a freelancer SEO might be a good start.

By becoming an SEO freelancer, you can offer any services related to SEO such as SEO audits, backlink builder, keyword research, and SEO consultant.

The best thing of becoming freelancer is it can be done part time. You can pitch your business in the social media’s group, or post on some freelance marketplace site such as Fiverr.

Pros: 

• Flexible location (You can work from anywhere – all you need is internet connection and laptop).
• No risk.
• It can be turned into an SEO business/agency if you are ready to expand.

Cons:

• Inconsistent income/cash flow.
• Juggling multiple clients.

Estimated Money You Can Make: Average $50-200 per hour range.

4. Start an SEO Business

Every websites on the internet need SEO in order to survive and drive traffic to their site. Increasing traffic to a website is not as easy as just publishing a few blog posts. It required SEO professionals to generate more organic traffic on their behalf.

The SEO market is developing rapidly and estimated to be worth of over $80 billion. As the internet users are increasing from time to time, the SEO market will continue to grow even more. This is where you can create a company that specialized in increasing other’s organic traffic.

However, creating an SEO business is not for everyone. It can be complicated as you need to manage the relationship with clients, maintain your work for your brand reputation, and managing the downstream.

Pros: 

• Consistent income from the loyal clients.
• The revenue ceiling is very high.
• As the SEO market is keep growing, so that your business will be.

Cons:

• Maintaining the brand reputation can be hard and stressful
• Maintaining the relationship with clients can be very time consuming
• You will need to handle team management and hiring.

Estimated Money You Can Make: $80K – Unlimited

5. Create Own Website

If you have solid SEO skills and you have proven yourself that you can generate certain amount of traffic for every project you did, why not you create your own website and earn from it?

You can either create a blog, e-commerce store, online movie streaming site, affiliate site, and others!

All the sites above have different nature of business. But the main source of income is still the same, traffic.

Therefore, choose one, apply SEO on your site, and start earning from it.

Pros: 

• Consistent income since your source of traffic (SEO) is consistent too.
• The revenue ceiling is very high.
• Flexible Timing and Place.

Cons:

• The risk depends on the type of website you run.

Estimated Money You Can Make: Unlimited

6. Create and Sell Own SEO Course

Once you have seen a tremendous results and been practicing SEO for a long time, you can wrap up all the knowledges that you had learnt and sell it as a course.

Nowadays, the internet is flooded with low quality SEO courses that mainly teach you the basics that you can find freely everywhere.

In order to make a course, make sure that your course is worth the price you’ve set.

Pros: 

• Consistent income since your source of traffic (SEO) is consistent too.
• The revenue ceiling is very high.
• Will become your passive income once you’ve completed the set up.

Cons:

• It is hard to make your course unique from all the SEO courses out there.

Estimated Money You Can Make: Unlimited