What is the best SEO product you've ever bought?

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Jerry West - SEM Mastery. Not bought, but sounds good.

Also, try out my own book down in my sig.

Karan

Have you heard about Market Samurai... The first and the most important step of having a website: Getting a keyword with less competition and high payout. MS deals with all of that including tracking of your websites and generating SEO reports. Must buy for a serious guy who really wants to establish himself well.

Buying a SEO product is not recommended. Try a free SEO guide instead.

i dont buy things...there lots of useful tools that you can have for free..

Sticking with the theme of the self promos, I bought into myself and learned to learn.

Best investment yet.

JT

I would learn the basics of SEO before buying an entire system. Aaron Wall has a free 7 day course that would be good for someone with little to no experience: SEO Book.com ~ SEO Training Made Easy (not an aff link)

The best SEO product that I have ever purchased is SEO Spyglass by Link Assistant.

The entire suite is excellent but the link assistant is particularly good - it's ability to identify backlinks and provide information about those links is unmatched as far as I have seen.

And Dexter, I do in fact have Market Samurai as well as Keyword Elite. One of the best investments I've ever made

Market Samurai
Keyword Elite
Micro Niche Finder

And i have bought so many courses that I don't even remember

I have purchased and gone through a complete SEO Training - includes video, pdf and action plans. Lisa is a very smart internet marketer and the training was very professional. I think it would be a great training tool for your assistant - you of course could quickly go through the action plan and tweak any steps to fit your business.

You can click the link in my sig file or google inlineSEO System

SeNuke
Market Samuri
NanoBloggers

I would also recommend Market Samurai

And I'll definitely have to check out NanoBloggers.

I think these SEO products are a bit over-rated espesically when everyone jumps on the band-wagon - better to go for an SEO guide - learn SEO properly and then go about some long-term, white-hat techniques that develop sustainable rankings.

Do all SEO works manual...For reporting, and analyzing you can use some tools like IBP..But if u use it for link exchange then you will harvest emails and spam people...

Ivan is looking for a good SEO course, not a good SEO software.
MS, MNF are tools not courses, although both does include mini courses, but hard for a beginner to follow.

There are just too many SEO courses out there, and it really doesn't matter how credible an author (or how pricey the product) is if your employees cant learn a thing from them, whereas, learning alot from a less credible source (cheaper product).

I don't want to recommend a specific course as you may have already done your research. But Steven Clayton's courses provide fundamentals on SEO learning that is excellent for beginners, as it has been testified with many great compliments already here at WF.

I would recommend the SEOMoz course, it's taught us a lot about SEO and there are a ton of videos/guides and ALL of it is whitehat, which is very important for corporate-oriented SEO.

Most people here and elsewhere on the web are going to say, "Read blogs and forums online! There's lots of free information online." But this is a terrible approach to learning SEO IMO. 99% of the people in SEO forums and who write blogs about SEO online either 1) just spout out basic information you can get from any SEO book or 2) don't have a clue what they are talking about.

Go to the bookstore and buy a book or two and read. Make sure the books have been written in the last year or two. Even Search Engine Optimization for Dummies will work. The advantage of starting with a book is that it will lay out the basic terminology and concepts in an orderly fashion making learning MUCH easier.

Reading blogs and forums to try to learn is like knowing nothing about math and reading about how to add/subtract, then how to calculate derivatives (calculalus), then how to multiply, then about numerical methods, then how to divide, then linear algebra, etc. There is no organization to what you'll be reading.

Once you're read a couple of books then begin following a few well respected SEOs online like Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand, Aaron Wall at SEOBook, Eric Enge, Rand Fishkin and crew at SEOmoz. But stay away from forums/blogs other than those associaled with well known SEOs.

As you learn, start experimenting with your own site to learn. Experience is the best teacher. 90% of SEO is experimenting and then observing looking for cause and effect.

You may want to look into taking in a good SEO conference. Pubcon is put on by WebmasterWorld every Nov/Dec in Vegas. It's relatively cheap and is a great conference. The networking opportunities there are phenomenal. Most people their own their own affiliate sites or sell stuff online or are domainers and more... in other words, they make a living off of their own sites. These are some of the best SEOs around. SMX and SES are two other well known conferences, but they are more corporate oriented IMO.

I would avoid trolling random SEO forums for the next 6 months to a year until you've done the above and have a good grasp of the fundamentals of SEO. You don't want to start reading random forums and blogs until you know enough to know who is blowing smoke up your @$$ and who actually knows what they are talking about. 99% of the info you'll find in most SEO forums is either 1) the most basic of information that you can get from most any book or 2) just flat out wrong - misinformation. You need to be able to tell the difference or you will be led astray over and over again, possibly permanently damaging your site's reputation with the search engines.

If your on a Budget and want a good grounding - Try GuaranteedSEO

Learn from the best. Search for "SEO" on Google and you will find them.

For me that's Seomoz and seobook.

Tyrus

Market Samurai is top notch.

But if you're not too good with SEO, then checking and monitoring your employee is going to be difficult. Make sure you have a basic grasp about on page and off page SEO, what works and what doesn't before letting someone else, who doesn't know what good SEO is, in charge of it

I do all my research using the free tools (adwords keyword tool and SEMrush) and then pretty much only use SEO for firefox to check the competition.