Hi, I am new to this group. I have given about 5-6 months to learning SEO. At first it was interesting and fun to actually learn the concepts. I spent most of my time in learning new concepts, new methods, and new strategies. Some of it was spend on mock projects, like doing keyword research for a hypothetical website, that doesn't exists. It was clean for a completely new site. But, recently I got the opportunity to work on a real client. And, it was a mess. Everything was a mess. All the pages were getting cannibalized by the home page. All the backlinks were going to the homepage. Most of the backlinks were from sketchy sites. That was the first time, I realized how frustating, and ambiguous this field is really going to be.

So, my question is if this field is always going to be this uncertain, and we need to make these edicated guesses, while staying under the pressure from our clients.…