qinazaza Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 I have been working as a content writer fro some time but am at a disadvantage when a client asks me if I am a SEO expert. I know it's not that difficult to be one but I don't know whether I have to take a course to qualify as one or just work with a SEO firm to pick up the tricks. Please help. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Festy Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 ...or you can practice it yourself. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-791559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I have been working as a content writer fro some time but am at a disadvantage when a client asks me if I am a SEO expert. I know it's not that difficult to be one but I don't know whether I have to take a course to qualify as one or just work with a SEO firm to pick up the tricks. Please help. Courses are not necessary, but no one is going to write a list of things for you to learn. Google and find out what the best practices are. Have you read the sticky at the top of this board? http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,210428.0.html Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-793995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregor171 Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 This is common that we all know to little some times ;-))) To became seo expert o0r any expert you have to practice and try to make your learning curve as little as possible. But SEO means also that you constantly have to upgrade. Go to blogs and do some reading, from basic to expert. Join and visit some SEO meetups. They are free and will boost you with ideas. Do some practice pages and try not do to destroy ranking of some existing site ;-)) Analytics knowledge will help you (Sybex.Advanced.Web.Metrics.with.Google.Analytics.Mar.2008) Finally you can also do some certification. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-835389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpxada Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 SEO is way complicated. You have to keep up with Google and as one of my students put it, it was like learning photo shop from scratch. You do not just pick up a book and read it and done. Even with a one on one class like: http://www.kortia.com you will need follow up and refresher courses. Things just just change to much and Google does not send a memo every time they make an algorithm change. last year they did over 400 changes. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-841564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 I know it's not that difficult to be one That is totally untrue. To keep on top of SEO, track competitors, etc is hard work. You may also need specific tools or applications writing to stay ahead of your competitors, just think if there are free SEO tools to download then everyone else is using them so how do you gain an advantage. You have to be able to invent new SEO strategies and put them into practice as search engine algorithms change frequently. Be able to create supporting websites to assist with rankings of a primary money making site. There are so many people out there who claim to be SEO specialist because they have read a book about link building and putting a few keywords in the website content. Most of them are full of shit and do not understand that SEO goes right down to the design phase of the website. If you do not design a website for search engines then it will never get ranked. You cannot just pick up any site and get it ranked number 1 for xyz. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-842976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBlue Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 SEO is only a small part of of webdesign, it roughly comes down to the external links pointing to your page, and internal linking of your own pages. Of cause you can do other things to speed things up, such as keeping the content first in your source. SEO is a skill of its own, but it is by no means hard to master like many "seo specialists" will claim. As said, its a small part of webdesign. And as such any SEO related work might as well be carried out by the designer, who would be able to make coding related changes. In other cases the SEO may work together with the designer, to have potentially suggested coding changes applied. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-846169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
itpetex Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 My offer is learn parts of seo, like web design, friendly urls, keywords analizes & etc... just one by one Choose yourself. And in opinion you can't think that google is some type of good and follow him... There are yahoo, alexa, other systems. In example take a look how much google shows links of one site, and look how much links shows google about the same site... And there is just one misunderstanding... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-852951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiz Risner Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 You should learn some web design, maybe something simple. Try penn foster, its short and cheap with web design. Then u can go to www.searchenginecollege.com and there is a load of cheap short courses that will teach you all you need to know to become a full SEO or SEM. Plus taking those will look great on a resume if u want to get hired as an SEO/SEM. and they make a good pay. a better pay than web design Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-860034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Wow, I've never heard of nor seen of an SEO college before. Do you know anyone who's actually graduated? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-860292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryansmith Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 SEO is an interesting stuff. As you are an content writer its easy for you to pick up this and you can achieve more in this. Read more blogs related to it and think about how google works. It will help you a lot. All the best.... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-875606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
defeated Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 First you have to learn the secret handshake Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-879366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BestEast Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 To be a trained SEO professional, firstly, you could learn by yourself to know some basics of SEO and than take some SEO professional courses for improvement Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/150669-what-do-i-have-to-do-to-become-a-trained-seo-professional/#findComment-922681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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