How did you learn search engine optimization?

How did you learn search engine optimization?

Many people learn by spending countless hours working on websites, while others go to SEO workshops, classes and/or read books/ebooks.

What approach did you use and what do you feel is the best way for beginners to learn search engine optimization – SEO?

Thanks

 

I learned from forums like this one, seek and ye shall find... or pay some money for an SEO book.

 

It is the same for me. Forums, blogs and so on.

 

I'm still learning, but forums are the best way to go, they are free and have a ton of information.

 

well I learn it from forum, blog I visit, e-books, and the Busby SEO Test, I never pay for some SEO book, because I think if I combine everything that I found on internet, and filter everything the result will be the same.

 

Trail and error, reading forums and blogs

 

I ran a blog in a pretty competitive field a couple years back and wanted to get more exposure - appearing higher in the SERPs seemed like a no-brainer, so I started looking into SEO.

My advice for an absolute beginner is to find reputable, updated blogs or publications. Narrow it down to a short-list of five publications which cover a range of SEO-related topics, and then read all of them religiously. One of the fantastic things about SEO is that practices are always in a constant state of flux, so you have to remain current on every new development. It keeps it interesting, and there are always new things to learn.

Beyond that, practice. Learn how to understand analytics data so that you can measure your successes (and failures - everyone has 'em) and learn what works and what doesn't. Set up a personal site about something you're interested in and see what you can do with it in terms of SEO.

You can attend all the conferences you want, read every single frontpage Sphinn article, but none of that matches trying out your own theories and going from there.

 

I first read the book about seo,then i read the articles in seo forums.

Now I seo my 25 websites!

 

From forums and blogs only

 

Forums, blogs and more than other things - Mistakes

 

Reading, reading, reading.

I learned a lot from posts of this forum, talked to some people who showed me the basics and that's it.

 

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i suggest to - http://www.seobook.com/

 

I would suggest you learn all you can on here and then start doing it for yourself - that is when you can start to tap into the knowledge of others

 

I used to visit seo blogs and what I learned mostly are from adsense weblog.

 

search in google,you can get much knowledge from it

 

Read and listen. Then try it for yourself.

You have to sift through the rumor, half truths, and what actually works.

 

Google is your friend. Just google "SEO guide" and you'll get a lot of tips.

You can also visit http://www.seochat.com/ for some articles.

 

I'm still learning....credit goes to trial and error approach, learning from mistakes, forums, blogs

 

Loads of free information on SEO on the internet
Made use of this and hey presto, number one positions for loads of keywords

Free info rocks

 

From reading forum posts, google and yahoo guidelines, articles and trial and error. Websites such as marketleap.com have good info and helped as well.