If someone claims they are and "SEO Expert," wouldn't they be rich?

[Hal Smith]

Some of the answers here especially the ones on where SEO experts "live" and what family "status" they have are laughable at best and are totally a joke.

It's like Inda Cloud said, any SEO expert wouldn't have:
1) The time
2) The business. You need a business first to build an SEO campaign around it, otherwise it's just adsense not earning through SEO, and most experts already have that setup

Other than that, most SEO experts got to being experts by first doing it on their sites and working with it and building a reputation and clients and then building a company around all that reputation and keeping those clients satisfied. SEO is not a one day code writing competition to see who does what best, there are so many things to SEO that require time and patience and a steady hand.

Hal Smith
URLdreamer Consultant