I know I have been asked many times over and over, if you are so good at doing SEO, why don’t you do SEO for yourself and not for clients, just continue to build more and more sites that generate income.

Well the answer is I do this, as well as servicing clients. Servicing clients guarantees me an income. With this in mind I decided to put a list together of what the positives and negatives are.

Doing SEO for your own sites

Positives:
1. You have the skills to generate your own traffic saving you money from getting someone else to do it
2. You keep 100% profit of what you earn apart from your own expenses of course
3. You get all the fame once your site is a success, not your client or the person your doing the site for

Negatives:
1. The income you generate may not be guaranteed and all depends on the product you are selling on your website
2. If you are selling your own product, it is up to you to have an investment towards that and depending how far you want to take it could be big.

Doing SEO for Others including clients:

Positives:
1. You build up a good reputation servicing clients and they refer others to you.
2. You get paid to do the SEO work for already established businesses
3. You get paid regardless of their product sells or profits

Negatives:
1. Setting up Invoices
2. Keeping track of accounting
3. Managing your own success according to clients expectations
4. Meeting targets and time lines

If you have any experiences or can relate to this feel free to let me know about it. For those who are thinking about doing SEO yourself I encourage you to buy the Do-It-Yourself For Dummies book!