How did you learn SEO ?

Most of the information can be found on the google webmaster blogs, I first got the ideal about seo/affiliate marketer from the Google sniper 2.0 and most of what I know now from the warrior forum...

Most of the information I learned was from free ebooks that talked about SEO and basic things like how to structure a website, H1 tags, h2 tags, Title Tags etc.

Sometimes I think people package the same information in books and then sell them...lol.

Also there was a couple of blogs I read that helped out but I think the best way to learn is to actually DO IT and learn from your mistakes. There is no better teacher than experience.

-Omar

I learned SEO from trial and error. I sandboxed a lot of domains before I learned a method that was halfway decent.

I learned it by reading some article, webmaster forums like warriorforum, digitalpoint and some others and also there are some books that reading them can help you to get more information about it. For example you can start by reading a book. Also when you start managing and doing your seo skills on a website, you will learn more every day.

I learned SEO by reading a lot articles and forums regarding SEO, then some of my friends taught me until i recognize. I have built my experience through initial participation in SEO blogs, then forums and finally conferences.

i have learned SEO (search engine optimization) through Google Webmaster optimization tips/guidelines and i used to follow the seo blogs and forums like this to stay up to date with the latest happening in the SEO.

By doing mistake you will learn SEO... no doubt.

I learn lot of seo from forums,so refer forums. The best forum is warrior forum to learn seo.

I would insist you to read this Google's beginner's guide first.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/...rter-guide.pdf

Other good resources for enhancing your SEO knowledge,
- Google webmaster central blog
- Google Youtube channel
- Search engine journal
- SEOMoz
- SEO book
- Problogger

i learned SEO by trial and error, coated with following forums like WarriorForum and blogs. Just keep choochooing till I got\get it right.

By reading these forums and trying out a lot of things and making my own list of things that work and do not work

I started learning from Google webmaster central blog, SEOMoz and from so many other places. But I think it's important for everyone to implement properly whatever he/she learns from different sources, and continue studying to make them updated with latest trends and strategies etc. that I also do.

From mistakes, :-) i've started with blackhat methods .. that worked well some time ago .. now i m following Google webmaster central blog, Google Youtube channel and SeoMoz

i don't have time to read and wanted a fast answer that works.. so this is what i did.

1. analyze keywords of your site. Take those with low competition & like 100 searches monthly.

2. buy SEO packages and implement each package on each keyword that you have analyze from step 1. You can find a lot of cheap packages from this forum or other forums.

3. track all the results in 1 month time.

4. choose the top 5 keywords that perform best.

5. look at the SEO packages that you have implement on those 5 keywords.

6. try to implement those packages again on other keywords.

7. if it works, then you roughly know the seo trick.

SEO packages are cheap and it saves me a lot of time..

The basics which I learned from the books are like H1, h2, h3 tags, Title with the keyword in it, Keyword density, etc. As you do this again and again, I learned new strategies by tweaking and modifying some of my own sites as well as clients sites until you find the perfect balance of optimization. Its not always about optimization, sometimes its about relevancy as well. Google is looking for sites that is the most relevant to what the users are typing in google. So, if you structured your site in those ways with the keywords, etc, You can pretty well rank your sites well in search engines.

Trial and error, and a lot of studying and watching Google closely. First only trusted on Off-page SEO only to found out my sites were not ranking properly because I lacked in On-page SEO. That was 3 years ago, and now it just easy.

you should need lot of concentration and patience to learn both SEO strategies such as On page and Off page, you can get knowledge through different tutorials and SEO related Blogs.

Conferences are a great way to learn SEO, but not necessarily in the manner you'd traditionally think.

You can learn SEO all you want, but at the end of the day, everything you learn is useless unless you actually experiment with what you’ve learned.

Ironically I learnt mostly from reading up on forums etc. Asking questions regularly and as the post above said, just messing around.

I learned mostly from the warrior forum, bought a couple programs like Matt Carter's, and lots and lots of mistakes!

SEO learning never ends, Google changes it's algorithm many time in a year so it's all about staying updated with Google algorithm and coming up with new strategies Google it self helps SEO by their tools Google analytic tool, Google webmaster tool, Google webmaster forum etc. you can analyses your website and by these tools and talk about new strategies on forums which will help you to boost your knowledge and their are certain knowledge which come from experience.

SEO is always reinventing itself , so you have to always keep learning what not to do!

Started learning 1 Year ago. I learn SEO by reading and reading a lot articles and searching a lot of information.

I got started in SEO last year. I'm a recent computer science graduate from the University of Wisconsin, so I like to take an analytical and mathematical approach to understanding SEO. My senior year I did a project for an Algorithm Analysis course on the Mathematics Behind Google's PageRank Algorithm. As well as the IR algorithm which is what the Panda algorithm uses to determine final ranking score in Google.

There are several forum that you can make use of or else use this wonderful website Let me google that for you

i would say trial and error, and keep reading loads until your brain goes dead, then relax and do something else, and then get back to it. When I first started I couldnt even get my head around the whole idea of the existence of SEO.

There are many blogs available in internet for learning , you can search on google.
for learning best knowledge of SEO. I am still learning it. Learn from the best.

Hi there!
Im a SEO newbie too..
I learn SEO by just reading articles on the internet..
I watched some back linking tutorials on youtube..
The last think I do is I also watched Matt Cutts videos..

Be a regular member at Warrior forums give an hour time daily atleast and very soon in few days you will be pro in SEO and yes for starter reading your can follow SEOMOZ blog and various other resources with help of Google Search.

I learned SEO in reading eboks. watching SEO video tutorial, research and lastly my best weapon is reading some information about SEO in warrior forum.

80% of the time taking dummy actions

> Fail

> 20% of time searching and learning

> 80% of time testing

> 20% work and 80% fail

> 20% of the time learning

> 80% of the time testing

> 80% work & 20% fail

> 20% of the time laying out everything that works and make a great ranking plan

> 80% of the time following the plan and rank everything and any way you want

Testing / testing / testing.

Reading forums but know who to trust, there is so much bad information spread.

Talk a lot with professional SEO suppliers, not always that easy ofcourse as most don't like to share much so you need to be in a certain position for that, I sell SEO for cheap so SEO companies contact me and then I hear them out about what else they do for their customers apart of buying my packages.

Then again, testing/testing/testing, dont believe people right away on their blue eyes

Btw testing = not easy. Sometimes you build links and you see results within a week that later on get you penalized, and sometimes you build links that you think don't work but then 3-4 weeks later poof there you are without risking any penalty later on, so it's not like oh I build links today and tomorrow or next week I know how it works out.

So key = split testing!

ps You won't learn SEO in the WSO section here, so much old and flawed information, thats how I started and later on I could start to restudy cause 90% was plain wrong.

I learned from lots of reading and trial and error.

One of the very first things I learned was Google is FOS. If you follow their lame "TOS", you website will never be found in their search.

The key is finding the happy medium. Push the envelope with link building, but don't get crazy.

We were born with the Knowledge encoded in our DNA !
As simple as that
j/k

Now seriously, no one has "learned" - i.e. there is no past tense, this is not an ever finished practice. You learn everyday, adapt and evolve with the ever changing reality.

Forums, blogs and studying will help you a lot, will guide you along the way, but it's you who will have to try things out and gather the conclusions that will make you one day - hopefully - an expert.

Participating in forums,reading articles and keep in touch with SEO experts.

I was taught by my web designer and then I took what he taught me and ran. I had hired out two SEO companies with little to no success and after two years I decided to take it over myself. In six months I did what two SEO companies could not do ( or did not want to do ) in two years. I have my most competitive keyword and most searched for my service on the 1st page and high on the 1st page. I do it the slow and steady way or what's known as the natural way.

Forums, SEO buddies and EXPERIMENTING and also EXPERIMENTING .....

I paid some guy on Fiverr $5 to teach me

For me, initially I learned most of my intro/basic SEO knowledge from some of Brad Callen's guides, the rest from just reading tons of threads and sifting through all the info here on WF, and more still from my own trial and error.

Reading ebook, watching videos and also researching by practice it.

Do not believe what everyone tells you about SEO...Do research and find out what Google actually says about what they like and what they do not like when it comes to providing their users with the best information possible.