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What Would You Do If New Clients (and Members) Came to You? That’s the question I always asked myself I’d seen enough to know that organic traffic was real, but it still sounded too good to be true. I didn’t really understand SEO, but I knew it meant getting traffic from Google. Traffic that’s free, really doesn’t have limits - and seems to work forever. The same traffic that made Online Stars like Pat Flynn and Ramit Sethi an overnight success. If they could do it, I figured I could too - I just didn’t know where to start. Getting Started Is the Hardest Part I didn’t know a thing about code , and I didn’t even know what Wordpress was. To be honest, I still wasn’t fully sure what SEO meant...I was looking for it in the paid advertising section. So I did what I knew how to do, I Googled it and got to work. I figured it’d be like the normal “Google and Go” - but this was a little more intense. This required a lot more research and testing - disqualifying old techniques and filtering the necessary information from new techniques.The information was there , but it never got me where I wanted to be... So I had to learn by trial and error, a.k.a more tools and a lot more money. And whether I liked it or not, it also meant copying the bigger companies - hoping for similar results. It made sense, but it didn’t work. Focused on Results, Not Fluff So I took a different route. A route that focused on results. Also a route that focused on underlying logic, not technicalities .That’s allowed me to do a lot of different things, and for the most part - they keep getting results .Results that started in month 2, when I first reached page 3. Not quite where you want to be, but for that time frame - it was a confidence booster. One that launched me into the next stage... The front page . That’s an