How to learn SEO

How to optimise my pages.

[designmaster]

I’m VERY new to this, but eager to learn.
Is there a free site / thread / e-book etc. that can teach me about SEO. I don't want to pay an expensive company, I actually want to learn about it, so, I can help myself.

Can anyone suggest a site or book etc?

Thanks,
T

[benihana]

Is there a free site

your looking at it.

start here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

welcome to WebmasterWorld!

[pleeker]

And be sure to make friends with the "flag this thread" link down below. Use it to save the threads that are most educational -- once saved, they'll be in your Control Panel (see link at top). You will find yourself wanting to return to them time and time again.

[designmaster]

Thanks so much for your help~! Im so buzy now with all the good suggestions on that link!
T

[edit_g]

As an answer to 'how to optimise my pages' all you have to say is spam. Doesn't sould like you Craig. ;)

Seriously - you cannot do much better than starting here - the SEO issues which aren't covered here are few and far between (and probably fall into the category - 'I could tell you, but I would have to kill you' - and even some of those can be found floating around).

Apart from that - there's a lot to be said for analysing sites which are ranking for the terms you are wanting to target.

[edited by: mack at 2:38 pm (utc) on July 22, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed quote from a deleted post. [/edit]

[stef25]

well i read alot of threads here and now rank in the top 10 google and yahoo for a few keywords and phrases. ive only been live since the beginning of this month.

my site is personal and non-commercial for now, and pops up above well established commercial sites, and my site aint even completed yet

i do get nbr one results for phrases i never thought of, so i need to make some changes there too. but thanks to the information on this forum (and ONLY this forum) i can see my site progressing to something i could be making money off a few months from now. doing SEO on your site is evolutionary and requires alot of attention.

the info here is really great and it works!

[isitreal]

ive only been live since the beginning of this month.

don't want to bum you out, but this is a documented pattern in google, you jump up in the rankings for a new site, almost immediately, then you drop out of them for a month or two, then you creep back up, not as high.

Search 'sandbox affect' to learn more.