I make a living as a freelance SEO consultant and income from a network of websites/social media accounts: the latter mostly through passive income from advertising revenue and affiliate product sales driven by free organic search engine traffic.
My network for the most part runs itself, maintenance: updating WordPress, server updates, checking for server issues etc… only takes a couple of hours a day.
Freelance SEO Consultant
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As you can see from my resume below I’ve offered SEO services for over 15 years and worked with a variety of businesses.
My freelance SEO consultant rates start at $2,000 a month retainer fee for pretty much unlimited SEO advice. See freelance SEO consultant for more details about the service.
Update: I’m not taking on new SEO consulting clients, building a new local SEO web design service and don’t have the time to do both.
For the record: I’m not interested in working for free on projects until they make money. I’ve received a fair number of offers to work on projects for a share of the profits over the years, but they are almost always ideas I could achieve on my own and the person asking for help didn’t bring a great deal (in skill terms) to the table. Sorry, I’m not interested in building a business from scratch for free.
Over 7,500 LinkedIn Connections
Over 3,000 FaceBook FollowersMy SEO/Marketing relevant Twitter Accounts…
Also own over a dozen more Twitter accounts which tend to have over 5,000 followers each. Some of these accounts are generating hundreds of thousands of impressions a month: millions in total. I particularly enjoy my two politics Twitter accounts:
The Brexit one for example can generate over 5 million impressions a month.
Curriculum Vitae for David Cameron Law
DOB May 19th 1970
Broad online business experience (~20 years) taking ideas for websites to long-term passive income streams.
Track record for generating tens of millions of organic search engine visitors, converting to millions of dollars in sales, for example over $400,000 worth of Amazon products sold through a simple Classic Literature site.
New website selling apparel generated over 8,000 unique organic search engine visitors a day in under 12 months.
As a freelance SEO Consultant for 15+ years I’ve worked with dozens of businesses including:
Top travel site in Italy: ~5 years
Helped them gain/maintain Italy Travel/Vacation relevant SERPs over several sites.
Global Rust Inhibitors and Protective Coatings Manufacturer: ~2 years
Helped them gain/maintain relevant Google SERPs to their products.
Financial Services Network: ~4 years
Helped them gain/maintain relevant Google SERPs over a dozen sites.
UK Personal Number Plate Business: ~2 years
Helped them gain/maintain number plate relevant Google SERPs over several sites.
UK Dating Site: ~2 years
Helped them gain/maintain dating relevant Google SERPs.
And many, many more related to retail, travel, dating, pest control, mobile phones, fake IDs, books, jewelry, various financial services… Also helped the odd charity for free.
Note: I never name drop past/current SEO clients, the above is as much detail as I’ll supply.
Work Experience
2002-Present – Built Network of 100+ Websites – Income Sources Including Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Product Sales
Skills Acquired:
- Content creation and acquisition.
- Buying domains/sites with content.
- Advanced HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP coding (building WordPress SEO themes and SEO plugins: list below).
- Troubleshooting advanced HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP issues.
- WordPress SEO optimisation and management.
- Server SEO optimisation and management.
- Online customer support via email and blog comments
- Affiliate sales and marketing.
- Ad networks used including AdSense, Chitika, Clickbank, Amazon, Sharesale, InfoLinks and Kontera.
Created Multiple Premium and Free WordPress SEO Themes and Plugins Including:
- Stallion Responsive SEO Theme
- Display Widgets SEO Plus Plugin
- Display Widgets Plus Plugin
- Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin
- WordPress SEO Comments Plugin
- WordPress Comment Titles SEO Plugin
- Older Free SEO/AdSense Themes : Including Talian 5
- Plus others never released to the public
2002-2014 & 2017-Present – Freelance Search Engine Optimization Consultant Working with Small-Medium Size Businesses
Skills Acquired:
- Advanced SEO techniques
- SEO client management
- Setting realistic SEO goals
- Managing backlink campaigns
- SEO copywriting
- Advanced SEO techniques (modifying HTML/Javascript/CSS/PHP code)
- Social media marketing and promotion (Facebook, Twitter etc…)
- Pricing a service fairly
- Basic server management
2015-2017 – Children’s Author (unpublished) – Finally worked on a project with my wife (artist/illustrator)
Skills Acquired:
- Writing short stories for children
- Writing rhyming stories
- Creating poetry
- Basic picture book layout/formatting
- Building an author platform (website: Children’s Picture Books)
- Building connections with authors/publishers/literary agents via social media
- Creating query letters
- Managing a list of literary agents to query
- Participated in BBC nature documentary about butterflies (was on TV)
2001-2003 – Sold Apparel Online
Skills Acquired:
- The importance of finding suppliers with high markup products (200% plus markup)
- Negotiating with suppliers
- Managing stock levels
- Dealing with customer services
- Creation of product descriptions
- Website management
- Weblog analysis
- Google Webmaster Tools
- Basic HTML/CSS/Javascript
- Organic search engine optimisation: on-site and off-site optimisation
- SEO research/SEO tools – keyword research, creation of SEO tests
- Basic SEO techniques (optimised title tags, alt tags, image optimisation etc…)
- Backlink building
1997-2001 – Sold Educational Software CDs Online
Skills Acquired:
- Advertising on newsgroups
- Building and using an email based mailing list to increase sales
- Basic customer services
- The importance of sales vs profits
1995-1997 – Incapacitated Due to Disability (concentrated on home schooling)
1992-1995 – Full-Time University
- Bought Items from Auctions to sell
- Used Student Loan to Trade Penny Shares and Traded-Options
1986-1992 (16-22 yrs) – Various jobs : Civil Engineers Assistant, Factory Work, Retail Experience, Worked in a Busy Hospital Microbiology Lab (testing samples for diseases)
Education
1992-1995 (22-25 yrs) – University (Full-Time)
- University of Sussex – BSc Molecular Genetics in Biotechnology (incomplete due to disability, expected a 2:1)
During the second year laboratory project I created a new protocol for screening recombinant DNA which was published in 1997 (Authors: David Law and Neil Crickmore) in “Technical Tips Online” under the title – “Use of a simplified rapid size screen protocol for the detection of recombinant plasmids.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1366212008700631
1988-1991 (18-21 yrs) – Further Education (Part-Time)
- Open University – Math, Science, Genetics
- Night School – A-Level Science Subjects
- Night School – GCSE Math and Science Subjects
Disability
In the final months of university my lower back was in so much pain (due to degraded discs) I literally couldn’t sit the final exams (approx. 21 hours of sitting): the degree was complete other than those exams.
With agreement from the University of Sussex I took a year off on medical grounds with a view to resolving the back issues so I could sit the exams and complete the degree the following year. 12 months later it was clear the disability was long-term and I wouldn’t be able to complete the degree or follow a career as a molecular geneticist: planned to work in AIDs/HIV research.
Was time to move on. Since I couldn’t sit in a chair, traditional work opportunities were (and still are) limited. My wife and I were home schooling our children so I sold educational software online. I built a work space where I could work lay down and have worked that way ever since: regularly work online 12hr+ days.
Despite having an operation on my spine (spinal fusion) I still can’t sit in a chair for long periods of time or travel, so can only work from my home office.
David Law
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