SEO Training

Robin Nobles and John Alexander run the Search Engine Workshops - arguably THE place to go for SEO tuition.

Go see!

Online SEO Training.

SEO Seminars - you need to be there.

Advanced SEO Training.

Marie Coggin and Jill Kavanagh run the U. K. version of the Search Engine Workshops - arguably THE place to go in the U. K. for SEO tuition. Marie lives the other side of the park from me so say I said "Hi!", yeah?

Industry biggie Dan Theiss offers varieties of seo training.

The IWA offer a course open to both IWA members and non-members at appropriate rates. They suggest it as being an introductory course but do say you'll be needing at least some internet experience.

An Online Learning facility.

I confess I'm not sure whether this is for this or last year - I'll check back from time to time to establish this.

I should perhaps declare an interest here. I actually did one of Robin's courses back when she had the Academy of Web Specialists. I was aware that successful graduates were entitled to display certification on their sites and felt that would perhaps encourage potential clients. I took the advanced course and on passing duly placed the certification on my home page, to a deafening lack of response from potential clients.

After a couple of years I took it off.

Along with the links to The HTML Writers Guild, and the International Webmasters Association. I never got any response from being a member of them either.

All of which is by the by. A point I would like to make, though, is that while the training courses will save you an enormous amount of time reading articles and arguing in forums and puzzling over exactly who you should believe, they won't give you the grounding, the "feel" for SEO if you will, that you'll only get from pursuing that course. The courses can give you knowledge, but they can't give you the experience to know how to apply that knowledge. More importantly, perhaps, you won't know how to expand on that knowledge because outside of the Workshops' instruction you simply won't know who to trust.

I'm happy to heartily recommend the Workshops courses, but only as a part of the learning process, you really do need to be out there getting to know folk on a personal basis.

Those of you planning to start your own business should take careful note; being able to offer a service, which is what your training is (IMHO) designed to teach you to do, is not the same as being able to run a business. They're different things.

With that in mind, you might want to visit the Small Business Ideas Forum where there are indeed ideas-a-plenty and kind folk to advise you.