With the SEO / SEM Industry maturing and people becoming “professional” SEOs, there has been a growth in Search Engine Optimization training seminars and online schools. Currently, there exists no way to rate a good school from a bad one, and the risk of paying for an incomplete education is high. So what does a school have to cover to graduate competent SEOs?
Here is a list of what a comprehensive training course for SEO would cover:
- SEO Plan Creation
- Goal Determination
- Basic HTML
- Understanding Meta / Robots.txt
- Keyword Research
- Link Building
- Viral Content Basics
- Social Media Leverage
- Analytics / Tracking
The issue with paying for this information is that a majority of it is given for free on the web at places like SEOmoz. So here is a list of sites and corresponding articles that will help you get a better handle on SEO and polish the aspects that you may need to re-learn.
General SEO Tips
How I’d Promote My Blog If I Were Starting Out Again: Problogger
25 Paths to An Insanely Popular Blog
27 Tips for Building a Kick Ass Blog
Basic HTML
Understanding Meta / Robots.txt
Tell Google How to Treat Your Content
Keyword Research
Doing Keyword Research? Here Are Some Resources To Help
Link Building
20 Essential Blog Directories To Submit Your Blog
11 Experts on Link Development Speak
Untapped Link Building Strategies
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Link Builders
Viral Content
Three Very Successful Examples of Viral Content To Emulate
Social Media Leverage
7 Social Media Websites and Their Impact on SEO
The Ultimate Social Media Post
Analytics / Tracking
20 Resources for Google Analytics
Feel free to send all payment for this FREE Online SEO Training Seminar to @LeftTheBox on Twitter!
