How to become a SEO Expert?

Try many different methods to get your website to the top of the rankings.

Find out what works and replicate it. If it works over and over again, you are now an expert

Try everything, black hat, white hat, gray hat but not too over with bad thing. Keep apply and analyze, accumulate from experience. Read and study how other expert doing.

Personally I think there is no such kind of standard because technology keep changing, search algorithm keep improving.

flatbro94,
I was exactly where you are now a while I ago, I wanted to learn about SEO but did not know where to start...I actually purchased several SEO training products and then was able to put what was taught into action to see if it worked. You will learn FAR more by DOing than you will by reading about it-so once you have a plan, put it into action and that is where the most valuable training and learning is as you will learn by experience what works and what does not.

I really wanna be one I hope someday! I am inspired by Matt Carter.

It takes 10,000 hours of work to become a master

be patient...don't get caught up trying all the supposed quick and easy methods

Usually SEO , lot people might think it is a dead thing but it not. Because Google Alogrithm do change frequently and influence by Google Panda and Google Penguin .
So you might keep update yourself what you should target and what should not to become an SEO expert .

The way I progressed in my SEO efforts is by first creating an Affiliate Site and then applying the necessary On Page and Off Page SEO tactics to it.

However, I do suggest that you breakdown the various elements of SEO - Keyword selection, Website Optimization i.e. On Page and then Off Page SEO; One by One and deal with them separately.

All the best to you

The best thing you can do is test, test and test again.

Don't waste your time buying lots of courses - most of them are by people who talk a good game but cannot get results and many people will tell you something works just because they heard it somewhere or when they tried it 3 years ago it worked.

The only data you can trust is your own.

Focus on results rather than methods. Don't get caught up thinking one methods 'works' just because it worked once. Every situation you come across is a new one that you should approach with fresh eyes and do more testing with.

Just because articles might work in one time for one keyword phrase don't assume they will work for all. And vice versa - just because something didn't work one time, don't assume it never works.

Use your brain - test - and track until you build a set of resources and understanding you can rely on.

My recommendation - pick a keyword phrase you would like to rank for. Set up a squeeze page. Buy 20 domains with that keyword/phrase in and put your squeeze page on each one - then use a different SEO strategy on each domain and see what happens. Track them all and see which strategy gets you the most traffic, which one gets you the most converted traffic (readers/buyers) etc. Then for the strategies that worked best, use them on the other domains and see how they do.

The pick another keyword and do the same again.

Until you know how to get traffic and convert it.

Conferences are a great way to learn SEO, also read SEO blogs.

Being an SEO Expert is possible but also understand that is it an ever-changing game. You need to keep up with the SERPS and pretty much learn how to game the system (no matter what anyone tells you).

If you can keep up with all the changes and stick to it...then you should be able to accomplish your goal.

-Omar

Success and expertise in SEO don't happen overnight. You're doing the first step in becoming an expert ~ ask. Keep learning and applying the recommended on page and off page tactics, give it time, and you'll be more than familiar with the entire concept.

Forums are the best place to learn about SEO. Just read the answers of webmasters given on different threads. All this will help you learn about different SEO techniques

The best way to learn search engine optimization is actually doing it. There is a wealth of information available online. You can start up a simple website on topic you are interested in and start learning and practising SEO on that. There are may good SEO blogs like SEOMoz or SEOBook and you can learn a lot by participating in online forums like WarriorForum. SEO is changing constantly and very fast and there are new practises and guidlines being introduced every week so to keep on top of it all, is to be involved in relevant online communities. I don’t think that actual classroom based training course is needed to learn SEO.

The first thing to start with would be a plain old simple book. I'd recommend "The Art of SEO by Stephan Spencer" but there are probably countless other recommendations for books.

The other thing would be to learn how to do web analytics, so you can measure what you're doing properly. Read the Occams Razor blog by Avinash Kaushik. He'll get you started with figuring out what you should really be measuring on your site.

Oh and do expect it to drive you nuts sometimes

this tips from this thread.
http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ase-study.html

Practice, practice, practice and research?

google can help you better...

You can learn SEO online and by asking experienced ones. But from I've observed it is an advantage if you already have a background of marketing, programming, journalism, designing. These skills evolve around SEO and everything will be easy for you.

very funny question...

i guess the answer is : working, working, working .. experiment, test, research.. aprox 12 hours per day at least 3-4 year..

And you are a seo expert... cause you have seen all...

I think you should apply for a particuar SEO company that can provide the training and knowledge that you need. Depending on the information in the net will not help since many of these sites have different perspectives in terms of correct SEO procedures.

SEO is a very complicated industry because of the rapid shifts and changes in techniques. So, I suggest that you start working for a SEO company first so that you can know the ins and outs of the business which will surely help you in establishing your own SEO company in the future.

Sure just claim you know what you're talking about when you really don't and then criticize other people when they have different opinions.

If you want to become a SEO expert.First you have to learn what Is Search engine and how it works after that only you can understand what Is Going to be done in SEO work.SEO is The way to increase your websites traffic - Your business goals – leads to boost up your websites ranking in various search engines like google,yahoo,MSN and other more than 365 search engines.SEO is very deep field and If you want to learn SEO you have to be a great reader.This is a growing field in IT.If you become a SEO expert you can develop a great career in this field.
Basically SEO is departed in Two main parts :-
On page SEO
Off page SEO
I Hope my answer might be of use to you!

Invest into paid education.

The other methods here are just ways of throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks.

I suggest you read posts by yukon. He always has great information he shares freely. Also i recommend checking out "matt cutts" youtube channel.

Google Webmasters - YouTube

His videos will help you understand certain things about SEO.

If you need any basic help with seo feel free to add me on skype and ill help you out.

Thanks

I think of the term SEO Expert much the same as the term Honest Politician, 2 words that should never be next to each other.

Observe.!
Adapt.....!
Improvise!

1. Learn some SEO.

2. Publish an ebook or other product that calls yourself an SEO Expert and teaches others about SEO.

3. Viola, you're an "SEO Expert".

BUY AND LEARN THE SEO SOFTWARE.
THE BEST SO FAR IS SENUKE X CR
HIRE SOMEONE TO TEACH IT TO YOU AND YO ARE ON YOUR WAY.

The absolute best way to become an SEO Expert is to first learn as much as you can about SEO, and secondly, test things out on your own sites until you have proven data telling you what works and what doesn't.

In the past, we have had 400+ domains out there running thousands of different tests. Doing things like that will help you know what works and what doesn't.

Sell a WSO. It automatically makes you an "expert."

This is part two of my article on becoming a SEO expert. You can read part one of this SEO Education series first if you want.By spending time in online marketing forums, you may find you absorb a lot more search engine optimization (SEO) information than you realize. When I joined my first tech forum, I was baffled by the techie language. Within a few months, I could hardly believe I'd ever notunderstood what they were talking about.

If you go to google, you can type in seo and then see what google looks for in seo and some of the basics. What I have found that works is Returning users, quality links, low bounce rate, no spammy links, aged domain, no overusage of keywords, and new content every now and again.

You must go to the SEO Dojo and learn from the SEO Sensei. There is no other way.

Please don't be trying to all fast and easy way, you must have patience, success waiting for you...

The basic seo knowledge is simple and a seo expert is from many practices.

I started to do "seo" in 1994 from a 386 and a dialup modem In the pre-internet era, some sketchy businesses were starting their company name with a bunch of A's so they could get on the top of their competitors in the local newspaper.

Seo was using similar brainless techniques to rank: like copying the dictionnary at the bottom of their pages, repeating the same word a zillion time, then the techniques started to evolve, little by little.

The first time I tried Google, I thought I was in paradise. Finding relevant results on Lycos, Infoseek or AltaVista was taking over half an hour sometimes, and now, on the top 5 results, Google had 90% of the time an answer to my question.

Some people think they are Mastering SEO because they know how to use a few spamware like Senuke, Scrapebox or Xrumer. They found the weakest link of the chain and they over exploit over and over. Until Google finds a way to strenghten that link, until the Spammer win and everyone starts having a hard time finding relevant information or until someone come and beats Google with a brand new way of bringing more relevant information with a new "out-of-the-box" thinking.

If you keep your goal of becoming an SEO Expert for a few years, you might start to believe that you are truely an expert and will enjoy being able to push an organic listing on the top of the page. Someday you will end up on the #1 spot for highly competitive keywords in competitive markets, and will receive a lot of visitors. If at that time you haven't found yet what is the true purpose of SEO, you will start to knock your head on the walls and ask yourself how come you worked so hard for so many years to finaly get here, on the top of the world and realize that it brings you such a small return ?

I hope at that time you will understand that ranking is far from achieving. It's fun to know about how to rank, but if you haven't learn by then how to deal with people and convert visitors to customers, your success will be very little. There are a lot of people in this forum who know a lot about generating traffic, and all they do with that traffic is either selling their click through for a few cents or trying to sell poor content, tutorial, "digital" goods that will make them happy if the convert 1/1000th or 1/100 of their customers to actual cash.

When you learn how to target your clientele, analyse your web trafic and strategically build it around a commercial offer that will generate true revenues, and learn how to optimize for conversion, then you will be an expert in SEO ! Good luck

Everyone pass this stage when we start he/she is little confuse from where we start, how he/she make perfect. Go with Google, search and try. Many e-book and forum sites of seo are available from them you can get more knowledge to become SEO expert.

I highly recommend you start reading MULTIPLE blogs about SEO on a daily basis for a couple months. Since SEO is a world in which nothing is guaranteed and nothing is really ever 100% proven you really have to read multiple blogs and do that consistently so you'll get multiple angles/opinions about everything that's going on in the world of search. Good blogs to check out: SEOMoz, SEO Theory, SEO Book, Search Engine Land. These four should give you some very different perspectives on things.

While you're reading, start experimenting with some of the stuff you learn. You'd better be prepared waiting for a long *ss time before seeing some results though: it can take months if not years for a new site to rank well consistently. Sure, a site can rank quickly thanks to all kinds of link spam, social spam, and other gray hat and black hat garbage... but those rankings will never last. Making rankings last is about being (very) patient and trying different things.

Perhaps even more important: talk to anyone who seems to know a thing or two about SEO... and then question absolutely everything they do.

Summary:

- Read multiple blogs daily for a period of several months
- Experiment with techniques
- Socialize with SEO professionals
- Question SEO professionals, ask them for absolute proof, discuss, etc.

Till Last year I thought I was a Master of SEO: after all I had been ranking sites for 10 years but this year I'm unlearning as much as I'm relearning. This forum is the best place to learn SEO. Most people learn at SEOCHAT and SeoMOZ forums but they are for idealists. Here you get the real life experiences of SEO practitioners as they share their successes and failures. There are some shady characters lurking in the corners but you can avoid them well enough.