June 21, 2009
What’s Involved Taking A SEO Training Course
The job placement websites – at a time of high unemployment – appear to be full of very well paid positions for SEO executives, an a there is a large amount of advertisements for SEO training courses.
You cannot just go and enroll in an SEO course at your local night school, they don’t teach it in schools, there are no college courses in SEO, that I’m aware of, and there are very few real chances to learn real SEO from someone who knows how it’s done.
I believe the reason most SEO consultants don’t offer to train, is that training is much harder work than just doing SEO – and at the same time, when training new SEO consultants, we are making real competition for ourselves – and now in the moment there is not lots of competition from SEO experts who actually do the work, and I believe most specialists would agree that they’d like it that way – it’s difficult promoting a clients site when you are up against another professional, so truly for us, the less true SEO professionals out there, the better!
So – most SEO consultants are self taught. I have been teaching myself SEO for roughly ten years, and I dread to consider how much I have spent over these years on ebooks, courses and programs, but I’m sure regardless of the amount, I’d have saved money by doing a comprehensive online course if there had been one available when I started !
I have now started to offer SEO training course courses, to help people who are serious about becoming professional SEO advisors. My training courses cover the current methods of SEO online.
Are SEO training course courses absolutely necessary? No – they are not, however finding a professional SEO expert to coach you, will help you to take a massive jump towards becoming an SEO consultant, drastically reducing the learning curve that most SEO executives have to go through.
SEO is a very valuable skill, and a good SEO specialist can make a large amount of money, thus logical thinking will tell you that no SEO specialists willoffer to train you for a small amount of cash, they are in effect training a future competitor, so they need to earn more money than they would make in the same quantity of time working for a customer, otherwise what just need to give the inducement to offer coaching courses? So, if you do find a course which seems very inexpensive – just think logically of such a SEO training course, and why such valuable training is being offered for bargain prices.
There are some good reasons that a course would be offered for a smaller cost, for instance a course that was teaching a number of people at one point, would enable a lower cost – but in my opinion SEO taught in a class is never going to be as valuable as one to one training with a professional SEO.
A good SEO training course should include after training support. I continue to support people for one year after the course, and I offer packages for continued support after a year.
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