Well it feels pretty weird, but as of last Friday, I am no longer doing link building / link baiting / social media consulting for anyone else. I’m not sure what I’ll do with my client services site, I will keep it up and indexed for now and maybe make it a personal homepage in the future.
Now, for the record, let me say I don’t regret working for my clients for the past four years one single bit. I made a lot of friends, learned a ton, helped many sites rank in Google, paid the rent, and built up a bankroll to finance other projects. So I am definitely thankful to all my past clients for those reasons, and for putting up with me of course 
But at the end of the day, economics won out–doing SEO for clients simply isn’t a business model (as others have said before). And honestly with the link baiting service, I began to hate the lifestyle (I think every bury at Digg moved my heart attack up a year, at this rate I’m due for my first at age 26.)
So in fulfillment of my manifesto I’m now 100% affiliate marketer slash competitive webmaster, and a little bit closer to living the dream… still no sign of cutting back on hours though!
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Congrats, Andy! That is amazing and I know a lot of people are jealous. I’m sure you’ll have even more words of wisdom to share now that you are going it alone. Keep up the good work.
yeah, i never understood why SEOs worked for clients. i think you’ll like this lifestyle a lot better.
Hey Andy, any linkbait clients send em my way and we can split the proceeds
Congrats on getting a little closer to that dream. Of course it’s the journey that’s the fun part.
Congrats Andy! This is a great step, one I’m sure you’ll be very happy with.
Good Luck Andy, Clients *can* be pain, SEO clients tend to…
Good for you. That’s what I did with my web hosting clients. I used web hosting to finance my operations in other areas and then became sick of the 24/7 responsibilities. I am now mainly working in affiliate marketing, Adsense, and anything that goes with. Not enough to make a full living yet, but we’re getting there (so to speak). Good Luck. Christoph
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Hasn’t this left a big dent in your income? I guess if you can make it work go for it!
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