Veteran SEO take: if you've optimized sites for years but own no profitable site, you never understood SEO
gefei55 · x · 2026-10-11
Poster gefei55 makes a provocative claim: anyone who has done SEO for a lifetime but is still optimizing other people's websites as an employee—without owning a single profitable site of their own—fundamentally never understood SEO. The take sparked discussion about SEO practitioners' real skills and independent monetization.
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