My interview with the Search Engine Journal went up today. Todd Mintz creatively called me the SEO Auteur thanks to my film background. It was a great interview that sheds some light on:

• How SEO has evolved over the last decade
• Making the transition from an in-house SEO to a full-time independent SEO consultant
• How I differentiate my SEO services
• The power of User-Generated Content for SEO purposes
• How to leverage social media to drive SEO
• What domainers need to know about SEOs, and vice-versa

Read the whole interview here: Dustin Woodard Search Engine Journal Interview

I’ve been beta testing my new career as a 100% freelance SEO consultant after a decade of working in-house for some of the most successful Seattle-area web companies. So far I’ve limited my clients to “by referral only”, meaning I haven’t actively sought out any business & only considered companies who were referred to me by close friends.

The past few months my SEO & Social Media consulting services have been a hit–enough so that I can take a much needed vacation in March.

Consider this post a declaration that SEO Naturale is open for business. I’m based near Seattle, but am available to both Seattle and non-Seattle based companies. I’ll be accepting new clients, but not until late March. Feel free to contact me (dustin@ this site’s domain) before then if you’d like to get on the list to improve your websites traffic.

PS – Despite similarities, the title of this post makes absoultely no reference to a late 80s boy band as that would be almost as lame as the band itself was.

Excited to announce the super-soft launch of SEO Naturale  as things have come together as I take the leap to fully self-employed.

I’ve already got a steady client base via word-of-mouth and am looking forward to taking on new clients. The site is up as I “take off” to Vegas to speak at PubCon on UGC SEO.

This may seem like one small step to other’s who have been independent, but for me it feels like a giant leap as I leave the comfort zone of working under an employer.

Been holding onto this domain for a while, knowing there might come a day where I decide to put my SEO experience of over a decade to use as a consultant. More details to come, but I wanted to let you know that something is brewing…