Basics of SEO - advice

[CS1]

Hi

Ive just joined the forum and I have 2 questions:


1) As im a total novice at SEO and the web. Is there anyone who can either give advice or help out for free with SEO of my site?

2) What is the best way of learning more about SEO if they wanted to make a career out of it?


Thanks
CS

[paulus]

Reading this SEO beginner's guide (http://guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization) would be a good start.

2) What is the best way of learning more about SEO if they wanted to make a career out of it?
Read stuff on the internet but question everything. There is a lot of misinformation about SEO circulating. Work on your own sites to improve rankings/traffic/conversions to get some experience.

Remember that SEO isn't the end goal, it's just a means to an end.

[RedEvo]

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record buy The Art of SEO from Amazon.

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[QVA - Emma]

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record buy The Art of SEO from Amazon.

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Do you have that on Shortkeys yet? Save you some typing!! hehe

Emma

[OldWelshGuy]

Hi

Ive just joined the forum and I have 2 questions:

1) As im a total novice at SEO and the web. Is there anyone who can either give advice or help out for free with SEO of my site?


I expect there are people, in fact i know there are people :)



2) What is the best way of learning more about SEO if they wanted to make a career out of it?

The best way to learn is to do. Do it for yourself, suffer the pain of mistakes personally, and then, when you have served your apprenticeship and are confident enough to work for others, you will have the examples to cite to them.

[I, Brian]

Build a few websites, promote them.

Nothing like experience. :)

[jamiec8]

Experience is key, could spend forever and a day reading books on SEO there is always contradicting views. Get stuck in if you need any advice tweet me, I'd be happy to help.

[nitro23456]

If you want it for free you will have to do some reading. There is plenty of info on this forum to make a basic start. Advanced SEO comes with experience and thus a price.

It is unrealistic to expect people to give their time away for nothing and anyone willing to do so is unlikely to offer anything but the basic advice you could read for yourself on here.

[Findermonkey]

There are loads of threads about this and plenty of really good advice from lots of people on here.