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How to Learn SEO Free:
Article Guides, Video
Tutorials & Courses
Greetings, this is Joanna Vaiou and today it is a great day as I made time to prepare a
“how to learn SEO Free for Beginners ” TOP Resources” List.
Many times I am asked by social media acquaintances how easy or hard learning SEO
is and if it is free (or how much it costs to learn SEO).
Why I Personally Share my TOP Free SEO for Beginners Training Resources I started learning SEO by myself online in March 2009.
I shared more details about my SEO Solopreneur Career journey in a few international
media outlets.
To sum it up, when I first started, I had no mentor to teach me by my side how SEO
works.
The Struggle was REAL… How the Past 11 Years of my Life Went Since I Started my SEO Learning Journey.
1. It took me 4 years to start my own remote SEO business. 2. It took 4 more years to become profitable.
3. It took 3 more years to start living a lifestyle that includes traveling, saving, investing and spending money as per my priorities & desires.
I soon realized I had to learn all things related to Search Engine Optimization science
and art on my own.
Today I am giving back to my much younger self who struggled and anyone else who wants to learn SEO and save some struggle along the way. After 11 years from the start of my SEO career, I am sharing an A-Level list of free
beginners’ SEO resources.
Why?
If I was a beginner today I would want to be offered the same.
I have consumed and used all the resources I am sharing with you today and this is why I
recommend them here.
All these resources have helped me become a better SEO Professional and reach where I
am today.
Today I am giving back to all of you who are thinking of changing your life and in the
future pursue a new job or a professional career in the SEO industry.
I am a Client SEO and also an Investor (I invest in my own SEO Projects).
As we speak, I run a 15 Total SEO Projects Management remote business.
While I don’t do SEO Training 101, I can give you my own personal wealth of Free
SEO resources for complete beginners for you to start educating yourself and
understand if:
1. you are right for SEO 2. SEO is right for you.
I Struggled to Learn SEO Fast I did struggle for real.
I struggled with information overload.
I cried as I had no one by my side to motivate me to keep going.
Nevertheless, I stuck to my guns.
I relied on my own power and worked on my own motivation through my involvement
with Personal Development (another investment I made simultaneously to my SEO
self-educational investment).
It took me four years to feel confident enough and start my own remote SEO company.
Today, you don’t have to struggle in order to start educating yourself around SEO.
You will need though to work on your own motivation sources and build an amazing
relationship with yourself.
All the SEO free tutorials and resources that I am sharing with you today are in the
form of:
1. Article training materials & guides 2. Video training playlists from YouTube 3. PDF
I have compiled an A-List with 15 Top FREE SEO learning & training Resources for
Beginners for you to access at your own pace.
Please note: MOZ offers all its courses for free through the end of May 2020.
Make sure you sign-up for MOZ Search Engine Optimization courses in time.
My SEO industry and the global community are AWESOME.
What you don’t need to learn SEO A great budget to learn SEO is not needed.
I remember when I started, I had 1300 Euros saved from all the previous years’ jobs that I
had and decided not to go to another job but sit down and learn SEO.
Fact: There are so many amazing free SEO educational resources laying around online
by TOP reputable SEO companies and brands.
The budget you really need to
start learning SEO is for:
1. Buying a domain and installing a WordPress website/blog on it 2. Paying for its monthly/yearly hosting
The above costs are for you to practice all the things that you will be learning from
the free SEO courses/resources that I am sharing with you today.
Fact: Learning SEO as a beginner is not easy.
Learning SEO Free requires the
following:
1. Your Positivity 2. Your Passion 3. Your undivided time 4. Your laser focus
5. Your willingness and comfort in spending countless hours online, reading, following SEO recommendations by your chosen online resources
6. Your never-ending “SEO knowledge updating” appetite and 7. Willingness to always test new SEO strategies and improve your SEO skills through trial
and error
Few of the TOP SEO Companies:
1. AHREFS 2. SEMrush 3. MOZ
, as well some other Search Engine Optimization Specialists from USA whose training
I have been consuming religiously, offer free training guides for those beginners who
want to learn SEO for free but don’t want to GO INSANE due to:
1. INFORMATION OVERLOAD online with the quantity and quality of SEO courses and teachings
2. Not knowing where to focus their attention and time on
My aim with sharing these resources with you is for you to understand if you can see
yourself doing SEO longterm.
The information here is more than enough for you to understand and go from SEO
beginner to owning the basics of SEO knowledge that can set you off to a new job or
professional career path.
You may choose your favorite type of training resources or your favorite SEO brand from
my list according to how you learn SEO better.
Some of us learn better with online step-by-step SEO training videos while others like to
read articles.
How to Learn SEO Basics in 2020 - TOP Resources List | Access Free SEO for Beginners Training/Courses
Here I am sharing with you some Free SEO Resources. These are my own suggestions from TOP reputable
sources (SEO Personal Brands and Companies) on how to learn Search Engine Optimization.
I am in the SEO Industry since 2009 and one of the things that I found more challenging at my beginning
was where to focus my attention on.
Now, I want to save you time and stress by offering my TOP recommended suggestions to you to dive in
and understand if Search Engine Optimization is your "thing".
These are the resources that I would start with when it comes to learning SEO if I started today.
It took me 11 years to compile those and I am very happy to share these with you today.
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# Brand -
Source
SEO Resource - Course
Link Notes Free/Paid Cost
1 ITHEMES Learn Wordpress 101 Video
Course
The first thing you need to do in order to learn and practice SEO is to get acquainted with a
self-hosted SEO friendly platform. I started my SEO learning journey with Wordpress as I had
no coding skills and found it friendly to use.
FREE
2 Chris M.
Walker
How to Set up your First
Self-Hosted Wordpress
Website
After you familiarize with a self-hosted Wordpress administration interface, you can choose to
start a website-blog on your own to start practicing content creation, blogging and SEO in a
niche that you are passionate about
Free "how-to"
Training video
walkthrough
resource
You need to pay for your
chosen domain name and
your website's Hosting
provider
3 Chris M.
Walker
SEO 101 for Beginners
Video Training Series
Access 7 SEO beginners' training videos from scratch FREE
4 Matt Diggity SEO Beginners Video Series
on YouTube
Learn the SEO basics from the ground up. Here, you'll be walked through keyword research,
onsite optimization and link building
FREE
5 Brian Dean How to Learn SEO Fast (in
Record Time)
Brian Dean covers in 9 chapters (articles & video resources) the following SEO Topics: 1)
SEO Fundamentals, 2) Keyword Research, 3) On-page SEO, 4) Technical SEO, 5) Link-
building and Content promotion, 6) UX signals, 7) Video SEO, 8) Amazing SEO Case Studies,
9) The best SEO resources ever
FREE
6 AHREFS Blogging for Business Video
Course
Access 10 free video tutorials (almost five hours total) by AHREFS team. Learn how to blog
for business
FREE AHREFS is a paid SEO
Tool that offers a free
trial you can sign-up for
7 AHREFS How to Learn SEO (and Stay
Sane!)
A great article/guide from AHREFS on how you can use SEO FREE
8 AHREFS A Simple 7-Step SEO
Tutorial for Complete
Beginners
An awesome article/guide for SEO beginners on what SEO is and how it works FREE
9 SEMRUSH
Academy
Free SEO & Digital
Marketing Courses
SEMrush offers a series of SEO & other digital marketing courses for free FREE SEMrush is a paid SEO
Tool that offers a free
trial you can sign-up for
to use it
10 MOZ Beginners Guide to Search
Engine Optimization
Access an 8-Chapter Introduction SEO Course for Beginners by MOZ team FREE MOZ is a paid SEO Tool
that offers a free trial
you can sign-up for
11 MOZ
Academy
MOZ Academy - Get all
MOZ's SEO Courses for
free (Deadline May 31, 2020)
Through May 31, 2020, , Moz offers all their courses in their Academy for free. You need to
log in to your moz.com account (or sign up for free if you don’t have one) and use the code
“wegotthis” at checkout to redeem your training
FREE through May
31, 2020
# Brand -
Source
SEO Resource - Course
Link Notes Free/Paid Cost
12 Google
Webmasters
Search Console Free Video
PlaylistTraining
Google shares a beginners training video playlist on their YouTube Channel on how to use
Search Console, the free technical and analytics SEO Tool to monitor your websites health and
performance in time
FREE
13 MOZ Google Search Console
Guide/Training for Complete
Beginners
Here you can follow Moz's article/detailed guide on how to use Google's free "Search Console"
Tool to monitor your websites' organic performance and technical health
FREE
14 GOOGLE Download Google Search
Quality Evaluator Guidelines
2020 (Updated)
Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines pdf report, offers detailed insights on what human
quality raters use in order to evaluate websites and SERPs. It doesn'’t directly affect rankings
but their judgments are used to improve Google’s search algorithm. And if go the SEO route
you should care about what Google raters want to see in order to remain at the sunny side of
Google as they change their algorithms constantly
FREE
15 GOOGLE Analytics Academy
How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners
Google Analytics offers a free video training series on how to use Google Analytics free tool to monitor your website projects' overall performance
FREE
Thank you for visiting.
~ Joanna Vaiou
Email - Linkedin – SEO in Greek