Who taught you SEO?

[brandonbaker]

I always wonder where people get their SEO knowledge from...whether it's through these forums, or from one person in particular who sort of guided you along the whole way.

For those of you who feel confident about your expertise in this field, where did you learn what you know? Did you have to pay for it?

[Brad Callen]

Who taught me? I would have to say Father Time. Experience and a lot of different ventures & strategies learning what worked & what didn't work. A LOT of time!

[Vincenzo Oliva]

I got sucked in by Andy Jenkins and STOMPERNET!
Then later Leslie Rohde and Dan Thies.

[QuinNguyen]

Came with experience and failure lol Also, hundreds of ebook xD

[TristanPerry]

Myself (trial and error) and forums (here, BacklinksForum) mainly.

[scott g]

Lots of trial and error. Lots of tweaking and templates and ebooks. This forums been a TREMENDOUS help! Luckily not everyone on WF are a$$holes and actually help...!

That's why I like to help! You gotta give it back!

CHEERS!

[yukon]

Everyone that owns a website, well that & their source-code.

[almondj]

Originally Posted by TristanPerry

Myself (trial and error) and forums (here, BacklinksForum) mainly.

This and the one below.

Originally Posted by scott g

Lots of trial and error. Lots of tweaking and templates and ebooks. This forums been a TREMENDOUS help! Luckily not everyone on WF are a$ and actually help...!

That's why I like to help! You gotta give it back!

CHEERS!

These two where really what taught me it. For the past 2.9 years I've been #1 for my main keyword. Traffic started at about 9,000 searches a month and now I'm getting roughly 3,000 people a day from the SERPs.

[Elvin]

Originally Posted by almondj

This and the one below.



These two where really what taught me it. For the past 2.9 years I've been #1 for my main keyword. Traffic started at about 9,000 searches a month and now I'm getting roughly 3,000 people a day from the SERPs.

That is tremendous. I admire you for what you have accomplished. It is true that if you apply yourself, you will get the results. You are a living example.

[almondj]

Originally Posted by Elvin

That is tremendous. I admire you for what you have accomplished. It is true that if you apply yourself, you will get the results. You are a living example.

Thank you .

[scott g]

Originally Posted by yukon

Everyone that owns a website, well that & the their source-code.

You actually took the words out of my mouth (that I didn't type!)! I've learned so much from reading existing source code LOL! Ganking their "template" and making it my own

[Gibly32]

Read information on popular forums such as the warrior forum. Trial and Error, rinse and repeat.

I find it very rewarding to learn on your own. There is no reason not to, we are on the internet after all :P

[tomlow]

Lots of ebooks, trials & errors , practises , money and many tools and programs (get conned by many along the way ) are part of my experience in improving SEO.

Dan Thies gave me quite a good insight on more advance techniques of SEO in my early part of learning process.

And to me the most important is to do all the task yourself initially as you learn, not depending on outsourcing (that will come later). From knowledge zero since 2 years ago, I learn and get my hands dirty on web design, use different web editors, different ftp clients, write coding, set up own websites, CMS sites, tried all kinds of research and seo tools, write SEO contents, do on-page taggings, and backlinks using articles, press release, social media, rss, forums, blogging, videos, linkwheels etc etc .

Get yourself proficient in these areas before you do any outsourcing. Its the fastest way to increase SEO knowledge

[2d0k]

I taught myself..

[EamonnTurley]

I started off with search engine news, it is a good starting point and saves time keeping uptodate reading forum post etc

[entrepreneurjay]

I taught myself throughout the years trial and error and research!

[Monica-Redshaw]

I have learnt from my first job as an internee at a local company. From there i learnt a lot and learning never complete its continue...

[Vicken]

SEO is all about experience, like i learn why Google penalize when it penalize one of my site. I think best source of knowledge are these forum, and also search engines.

[junkdna]

SEO Spy Glass .... followed by Terry Kyle ... followed by more Spy Glass

[creativekone]

I taught myself all over the years trial and error and research!

[brandonbaker]

Originally Posted by junkdna

SEO Spy Glass .... followed by Terry Kyle ... followed by more Spy Glass

If I had to give an answer, this would probably be it. Verbatim.

[sunbros]

I have learn my seo from various forums only and thanks to people who taught me and I have learn something from the reading books too

[Sayed]

Vita Vee in his emails and from 0 to profits course which he offered free for his forum members (Also you can get the paid option with complete support).

[Darla]

Originally Posted by QuinNguyen

Came with experience and failure lol Also, hundreds of ebook xD

Same here. Came with experience and failure for me....with emphasis on the FAILURE part!! :-) I am living proof that failing can be good IF you learn from it...and boy have I failed! But each time I picked up a new nugget to build upon... and now I have a pretty solid understanding of SEO.

I had some pretty good mentors along the way who showed me what I was doing wrong and how to correct it. Plus, I always invest in courses that teach me something new about how to run a profitable business online.

[John Williamson]

My own experience, Brad Callen's SEO Mindset, and Terry Kyle's Backlinks Hydra. I highly recommend you check them out. Those 2 are really ALL you need to be an expert and to get your sites ranking for competitive keywords.

[randypatok]

I thought myself to crawl over hundreds of ebooks and tutorials and of course All the GURU out there...

[nmarketing]

I worked for a larger SEO firm for a few years before WP was hitting the scene. Learned the cores of SEO and how it works. After building several hundred website with them, I moved on to private web builds and my own seo sites. I also learned a lot from a friend who made some very successful sites in his time what SEO was all about. No ebook, app, program or download can compare with someone with tested proof in a real-world arena - 'who actually tells you the truth'/

[dadamson]

I think everybody has to remember to do some of their own testing as well as following certain "gurus", especially if you are learning your stuff from the Warrior Forum.

There is a large case of the blind leading the blind in this industry so sometimes testing different thoeries on your own sites can lead to radical findings in SEO.

Cheers,
Dave

[jushuaburnham]

I keep on reading SEO related books and and do research on related topics and apply, SEO is just a trial and error every time you got mistake is a new learning, there's no such exciting experience than experimenting.

[maryparker]

I learned SEO from my first job which was in an SEO outsourcing company. I keep reading forums and other SEO stuff on the internet and I'm still practicing and enhancing my skills until now.

[pethanks]

My friend taught me about SEO. I also read information from the internet about SEO.

[Kate Crinsler]

SEO is very much creative and spontaneous job, but failure makes you more perfect. Reading a lot of blogs, participating in forums, listening to videos as in where u can understand it properly. Implementing on what you learn is essential.

[theentry]

You never know everything SEO so you always learn all the time.. And I know stuff mainly from my own research and from boards

[ramonacole]

I had some SEO course to get the basics and now I just read blogs and forums all the time.

[CikaPero]

Surfing and these kinds of forums. Also some mini books.

[CikaPero]

Now there are so many resources about SEO on internet that you can just sweep through all these forums/blogs and gather useful tips that are the most frequently mentioned.

SEO is not hard to grasp, it is just time consuming if you are doing it alone and in the fair way.

[dipenmehta]

Ihad attend the class of seo. then i joined a job in private firm and here i read lots of article about seo,forum is the best way to learn the latest knowledge of seo.

[Marx Vergel Melencio]

Originally Posted by brandonbaker

I always wonder where people get their SEO knowledge from...whether it's through these forums, or from one person in particular who sort of guided you along the whole way. For those of you who feel confident about your expertise in this field, where did you learn what you know? Did you have to pay for it?

No, I didn't pay. Mostly, I got paid. I learned SEO from: (1) my former local employer, who paid me to implement the SEO/SEM/content marketing strategies of his clients; (2) my own previous and current corporate and business clients, who pay me to train qualified people to properly implement their SEO/SEM/content marketing strategies; (3) the search engines themselves, through my constant observations, tests and comparative analysis of my results; and (4) my self-learned knowledge in software programming, Unix/networking/server management and hardware level programming, which could possibly place me some steps towards the closest statistically accurate way possible to develop inferences about how crawling, indexing and ranking processes are done by search engines via mathematical instructions formulated to automate such crawling, indexing and ranking processes to most likely provide search engine users with the most relevant, most timely, most popular and most useful results. Though I'll never be universally accurate, not unless I get hired by one of the top search engine companies, but this would also mean I would still not be universally accurate since I'll most likely be statistically accurate only for that particular search engine company, so I for one think the observation-inferencing-testing-comparative result analysis work at this side of the fence is more challenging.

[Marketing Ignite]

I took my first online marketing course in Hawaii back in 1998 at Hawaii Pacific university...fun times by the way. I have also throughout the years participated in many courses and also started my own SEO firm (since 1998) and applied the theories with practical applications...It works well for me..

[citiusonline.com]

Hi,

Everyone here is right.

As much you can read and learn, you will get that much knowledge. And of-course, many forums, blogs, articles and e-books, even websites are there, from where you can learn continuously.

[MrWonton]

One of my best friends when we were back in school. He now has his own SEO company!

I learnt most through reading, and trial and error.