#1974 - Q&A: “If everyone learns SEO, how can you ever win?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Should you bother trying to optimize your website for search engines? Our caller wonders if it’s an arms race that no one can win.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's caller is wondering about SEO, also known as search engine optimization. |
| 0:14.2 | You've probably heard of that. |
| 0:15.2 | You might know something about it already. |
| 0:16.9 | It's something mentioned in a lot of our stories, a lot of our case studies are talking about |
| 0:20.8 | how they have improved their business or got the word out to potential customers and they |
| 0:25.3 | say something about search engine rankings or search engine results. |
| 0:29.0 | Trying to get ranked in Google or other sites. |
| 0:32.0 | Now basically our caller is wondering, like you'll hear more from them, basically they're |
| 0:35.4 | wondering can everyone do this? |
| 0:37.3 | Like can everyone improve their SEO? |
| 0:40.0 | And actually if everybody improves their SEO, won't everyone just be at the same level? |
| 0:45.0 | So is it all, is it all essentially an arms race? |
| 0:49.2 | Everyone's trying to level up, but therefore no one's really getting ahead. |
| 0:52.6 | Not a bad question at all. |
| 0:54.1 | But as you'll hear, I do think it's worth paying some attention to SEO and not just because |
| 0:58.4 | it's an arms race. |
| 0:59.4 | Okay? |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome to Side |
| 1:12.9 | I Chris, this is Carl and I've been listening to the show for a couple of years. |
| 1:17.4 | Many of the case studies and success stories cover the importance of learning SEO. |
| 1:21.7 | On the one hand, I get it. |
| 1:23.1 | But on the other hand, if everyone is always trying to get their site ranked first in search engines, isn't |
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