Where do I get started?

I am intimidated by the sheer mountain of information. Where do I start? I understand about how Overture works, and somewhat how Google Ad Words work. I know how to make Meta Tags.

Is there a good book out there, or a set of tutorials on line that would be useful?

I have found plenty of tutorials and books, but which ones are good?

There are lots of books out there and some of them are an overpriced pile of BS... I have spent a small fortune on them and some even advise tactics that will get you banned. No kidding!

The best info sources that I have found are where a person, interested in helping others with SEO, puts a generous amount of information on their own site. My favorites are:

http://www.seo-guy.com/

http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/en/

Each of these sites has different information and each of them are strongest in different areas. Abakus has top notch stuff on optimization and seo-guy has lots of top notch stuff on pagerank. Read them both - several times.

Also, both of these site owners post here. seo-guy owns the first site listed and Webby owns the second. Pay attention to what they post.

They have both helped me a lot.

The information you provided was perfect! Thank you so much.

Yes Jeepman we are all here to learn from each other, I look forward to helping you learn and learning from you as well it is the giving nature of our board that makes us strong. Welcome to the forum we look forward to another stong poster.