In 2014, I started learning SEO on a mobile phone with a 25MB data pack that cost 9 Taka. No laptop. No desktop. Just a phone, curiosity, and a burning question: how does the internet actually work?
I had built my first website on wapka.mobi – a mobile-only website platform – after paying my brother 150 Taka to show me how. I studied the code, broke it, fixed it, and gradually started to understand HTML. That curiosity is what pulled me into web development and, eventually, into SEO.
By 2016, I had completed a web design course at IT-Bari while still coding on my phone. I did not own a laptop until 2017, during my HSC final exams. Everything I learned about HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript before that point was done on a mobile screen.
The constraints actually helped me. Working on a slow connection with limited data taught me to think carefully about page weight, load speed, and what actually matters to a user. These are now core principles of good SEO – and I learned them out of necessity, not theory.
In 2018, I completed an SEO course at IT-Bari under Abdul Kader, found my mentor HB Arif, and joined SoftBangla as my first professional SEO role. Everything that followed – three agencies, 100+ clients, six countries – grew from that original mobile-phone curiosity.
The lesson I take from this: the tools matter far less than the drive to understand. If you can learn SEO on a 25MB data pack, you can learn it anywhere.