SEO For Charity

There’s a thread currently on the Digital Point forum talking about picking up SEO experience by doing pro bono work for charities and other nonprofits. This seems like a really great idea for several reasons.

The first reason is that you get to deal with people who are most likely just thankful for the help. While this isn’t necessarily universal, odds are that the nonprofit will be somewhat less demanding therefore less stressful to cut your teeth with.

Working with nonprofits, you’ll most likely be working in slightly less competetive spaces (unless you want to start spammin’ and jammin’ on PPC from the get-go). This gives you the chance to sharpen your skills before you start playing with the big boys.

You can write off your time on your taxes as a charitable donation!

Also, as Ammon Johns pointed out, this is a great networking opportunity. You’ll have the chance to meet and work with people of a caliber that you otherwise would never have been able to meet. You’ll get your name out, and you may even pick up some other jobs as a result!

Charities can be a great reference, or at very least, they can throw you a good link (thanks, mcanerin).

Finally, you get the satisfaction of helping someone out that really needed you. And that’s something that money can’t buy.

Coming Soon: Ideas for Approaching Nonprofits