New to SEO need help

hi my job role at work has changed and they want me to manage external SEO no one in my company including me knows anything about and they want me to learn and try my best but i could do with some help can anyone recommend any courses in the UK or any Internet based or anyone that can help with external back links we are trying to get onto the first page on four search terms can some one please help advise me on basics
Many thanks in advance

I would first start by reading every single sticky post on this forum. They are quite long, so you will probably be there for a while.

Fathom does a course. You might want to pm him about it.

ITSmartie,

set up your own website and experiment. You'll get to work out the key aspects of both on and off page SEO.

thank you very much for the advice and i will try this

This what happened to me. With the help of these guys, in the past 4 months or so I've learned more than I thought I could possibly learn. Just listen and read to the people on the forums, they (usually) know what they're talking about. Just note their reputation points as well. Don't take advice from people with negative feedback or that have no posts.

[QUOTE=seogoat]I would first start by reading every single sticky post on this forum. They are quite long, so you will probably be there for a while.


thanks for advice this is my first todo job this week do allot of reading about it all

After you've read the stickies, don't be afraid to ask questions. But, in order to get the best help and most informative answers, make sure:

1. You search first to see if the question hasn't already been asked
2. Ask specific questions - not broad or inane ones like 'how do I get to number 1 in google'

If you put in the leg work, you can learn a lot in a fairly short space of time. Good luck...

Welcome to the most tedious process in the world SEO. To give you an idea SEO is like developing a good diet plan and sticking to it. It takes time to get results and you should not cheat on your diet or you will gain weight. Same for SEO. It takes time and there is a correct way to do it, and you must stick to it. So much you need to learn but my first bit of advice is to go to wordpress.com or blogger.com and set up a blog for your company. Make your first post and center the post around the keywords you want to optimize. What are you selling? How is your product searched for in google? What keywords? These are things you need to know. Once you do you can build that first post in your blog. Link a few of those keywords back to the site you want to optimize. Use Anchor text and HTML code to do that. Any questions on this just post back here. But a blog is a nice way to get some free in content link love back to your site

Great thank you is that the same as doing it in a normal forum or does it have to be bloggs?

Links are everything but you need to gain experience in doing that.

Also, if they want you to learn SEO, ask them for a small budget/time to build 2-3 websites in the same niche but targeting longer keywphrases.

Testing with that websites will increase your learning speed - for on-site seo. And you will see how some changes reflect on your positions.