About Yan Huang

I'm Yan Huang. I am a 27 year old who makes a living on the Internet. I live with my beautiful wife, Marianne, in the heart of Los Angeles, California We got married last November at the Aria Chapel in Las Vegas. I consider myself to be an incredibly lucky guy. Everyday, I get to live and pursue my version of the American Dream with the support of my wife and best friend.

My Story

I used to work a 9 to 5 as a Digital Marketing Manager until my most recent business generated enough profit to give me the freedom to work from home, spend more time with my wife and avoiding the LA commute. I have always had a genuine passion for web and marketing. It all started in the fourth grade when I coded my first website in HTML and since then, I have worked for numerous companies and launched several online businesses.

YAN 411 is my way of giving back to the community by sharing my diverse technical knowledge spanning across the disciplines of design, user experience, web development, systems administration—and most importantly, digital marketing and the channels within including search engine optimization, paid search, display advertising and email marketing.

• 2015 Press Release Jet

  I founded Press Release Jet, a press release distribution company that helps businesses get visibility, traffic and sales. I have helped hundreds of business owners and sent out thousands of press releases through my business.

• 2014 Digital Marketing Jobs

  After I closed my web design business, I returned to corporate America with a 9 to 5. I worked at TOMS and at a media start up in Santa Monica, California doing digital marketing including email marketing, SEO, and PPC.

• 2012 Gray Hat Web

  I founded a web design and marketing agency called Gray Hat Web, specializing in Wordpress, Magento, SEO, PPC and email marketing. Some of the client work included for Baja Fresh Atlanta, William Shatner and Seth MacFarlane.
  

• 2012 Groove Host

  I co-founded a web hosting company based out of Seattle, Washington under ReHu Solutions, LLC. We provided shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers to businesses.
  

• 2011 Content Writers

  I co-founded a content writing business for SEO copywriting. Our writers have written over 4 million words and we delivered over 5,000 articles to customers at the time we sold the business.
  

• 2010 Mini Sites

  I ran a network of 50 miniature websites. These were 5 to 10 page websites built around a keyword niche, monetized through Google Adsense and Amazon Associates. These mini sites relied on Google's old search algorithm so when they changed their algorithm, these came to an end.

• 2008 One V8

  Immediately after graduating high school, I started an LLC called One V8 and founded a template-based web design and hosting company and ran it out of a tiny office in Downtown Los Angeles.
  

• 2007 Web Proxies

  Around the time I founded my high school's computer club and worked for a web hosting company, I founded a network of web based proxies to help students surf the web safely and anonymously. I collocated servers at a datacenter in Downtown Los Angeles, and this helped hone my skillsets in systems administration.

• 2006 High School Job Grind

  I was 16 years old at this point. I worked over 20 jobs either part time or freelance doing web development and SEO for advertising agencies, media startups, web hosting companies and my own clients.

• 2004 Need for Speed Fansite

  I founded a video game fansite for Need for Speed called NFSupreme. It received over 2,500 unique visitors per day at the peak. It was featured as Fansite of the Month by EA Games.
  

• 2000 Dragon Ball Z Fansite

  I founded a fansite for a TV show called Dragon Ball Z. I ran it for 5 years and this was the playing ground that built the foundation of for technical skillsets including design, programming and systems administration—after getting hacked countless times. It received over 10,000 unique visitors per day at the peak.
  
  I interviewed the show's voice actors, and I worked with the publicist at FUNimation, the company that owns the licenses in the United States for the franchise, recieving exclusive news before it was public. Oftentimes, my website would outrank the official website for related search terms around the show on Google.
  

• 1998 HTML for the First Time

  I was 9 years old in the fourth grade, and my teacher gave us the project of coding a website from scratch using HTML. It was ridiculously difficult. After the project, I revisited coding and although challenging, I found it enjoyable and decided that I want to pursue a career with websites.