About
My name is Mat Siltala, and here is a little look into my life - the life of a search engine optimizer!
I really started getting into computers when my mom would bring home the apple IIGS (she worked at a school and could check them out for summers) with Math Crunchers, and other games like that I can’t even remember.
We never did have a computer growing up, so these times of using the computer I cherished! I always knew I was going to have a long term profession in computers of some sort, I just did not know what at that point.
I really started to figure things out when I was living in Fiji for a couple of years serving a mission for my church. I was put in charge of doing a lot of tasks on the computer, and I ended up teaching most people in the office how to run a computer and get it to do basic tasks. (I was learning the process myself too and that is what was funny). I got it though, and I guess that was the difference.
I started taking computer classes at a college in 1997 and ended up getting a degree in Computer Information Systems. The focus was in networking and I learned nothing about ecommerce, web design, internet marketing or search engine optimization. I had dove into this side of computers on my own though.
I created my first three websites for a Radio Station I was a morning co-host on. From that moment on, I knew what direction I would be going in my professional life. The Internet was my passion! I saw how easy it was to manipulate search engines and get amazing rankings, and this was before I even knew what I was doing. I did not even know of terms such as search engine optimization, or internet marketing!
Several years later and hundreds of personal business consulting clients later while working at Prosper Inc, as well as several internet business of my own brings me to where I am today.
I take on some consulting jobs if it is the right job. I love what I do and still don’t know how to explain to my family exactly what it is that I do to make a living! I love the internet!
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