With all the marketing that is going on today, many people are diving into the world of SEO. Learning the strategy of SEO can extremely increase someone’s exposure, sales, and overall success. There are seven places that you can learn about SEO listed in this article.

The site www.seo.com offers SEO education, specifically for bloggers. You learn the ins and outs of why SEO needs to be optimized in a different manner to meet a blogger’s needs. This site is laid out into sections. You start at the beginning and learn as you go. They claim that you can learn the SEO strategy in seven days.

Life123.com offers SEO knowledge and training that is targeted to anyone. They explain exactly what SEO is and how it should be used. There is a wide variety of videos and tutorials for you to follow if you desire. They are very thorough in their explanations.

You can get a very in-depth free SEO tutorial through www.seo-guy.com. This site is not so technical that you can’t understand it. It has a very nice layout. There are also forums to help you get the answers to anything that you may not understand.

There is a great site www.learnseoforfree.com, which offers the basics of SEO strategy. This knowledge is offered from a man who has years of SEO experience. He has learned through trial and error. Many people have called him a mentor. He is willing to share all of his secrets and help you learn his strategies.

(update: learnseoforfree.com has been taken over with spam since writing this blog post. I would not recommend this site. Instead I would highly recommend SeoMoz.com for a ton of great tips, free tools and general seo discussion)

You can obtain a free email course from www.gnc-web-creations.com. This class is offered through a Yahoo Group called SEO Techniques. All information is sent to you, and you are able to work at your own pace. You can attend all SEO classes as long as you remain active. If there is a section, you do not understand you can visit it again when it is repeated. The class keeps repeating itself, so you can jump in wherever you want to.

If you are looking for some tips and tricks, you can visit www.seoftw.com. his site runs you through all the little things that many people miss when creating SEO content. It talks a lot about back linking. You can learn about everything pertaining to SEO through the links given on this site.

You can get a free SEO kit from hubspot.com. You actually get quite a bit. The kit includes one SEO video, a PowerPoint SEO webinar, a video combining SEO, Social Media, and Blogging, a video on how to optimize landing pages, and an e-Book on how to be found on major search engines. This seems like a great overall program to learn exactly what you need. You have nothing to lose since it is free.

Many sites out there will offer SEO strategies, classes, secrets, and everything in-between. What is listed in this article is free. There are many SEO classes that you can pay for, but all of these offer great SEO knowledge at no cost to you.

Whether you are new to the world of search engine optimization or a seasoned pro, you will find the need to get a quick glimpse of some basic SEO metrics from time to time. If you have an iPhone, there are a couple of apps for you.

While the tools presented here are not advised to base your entire SEO business off of; you will find them practical to utilize when talking to a client, in a meeting or any other situation where find yourself out of your computer’s reach.

SEO Ranking- A great little iPhone app to quickly find your SERP based off any given keyword. This app uses Google’s AJAX API, which – at the time of this writing -allows for unlimited SERP calls. SEO Ranking also includes a handy line graph to display the results of your keyword rankings over a period of time.

proSEO – This iphone app goes the extra mile, as far as iPhone apps are concerned. proSEO gives you the ability to break down the source code of any page on the net. After adding your URL, this application allows you to view a “Source Code Analysis” which breaks down the source code by meta tags, total tag counts, title tag text and a complete view of the underlying source code.

The next function of the proSEO analysis is dubbed the “Body Text Analysis”. This report gives you a stop word ratio percent, a total word count with stop words and outputs a count of how many keyword phrases are present by length of phrase.
Two other breakdowns allow you to view the anchors and link text of a page as well as the image and alt tags presented.
It should be noted that this iPhone app is a little pricey at just under 10 bucks, but I have found the fast decomposition and grouping of reports to be well worth the added cost.

AnalyticsApp.com – Out of the handful of available web analytics reports found in the iPhone app store, this app is the closest thing to logging into your Google Analytics account. It offers over 45 different reports, the ability to track multiple domains, custom date views, and the ability to inspect your adWord’s campaign traffic.

Pokeseo- simple but effective this iphone app quickly checks page rank based off of Google’s PageRank algorithm. In addition this iPhone App displays the number of backlinks for any given domain or URL from four major search engines AOL, Google, MSN Live (BING) and Yahoo.

SEM- This free iPhone app allows you to do a multitude of calculations based off of common search engine marketing equations. Great for anyone who needs a quick calculation based off of CPM, CPA, CPC, CTR and more.

While these iphone apps will not completely change how you conduct your SEO related activities. It is good to know that there are some iPhones apps out there that can help you to quickly check: SERPs’ ,backlink counts, traffic analytics and more. Personally I would like to see one app that can do all the above mentioned checks, but until then, it is entertaining to know there are a handful that can do the job nicely.