How to read forums and blogs
One of the most important things you can do to learn search engine marketing is to read blogs and forums. That is how I got my start. I joined
Webmasterworld. I spent hours reading. I asked questions and presented my own ideas. I asked some dumb questions and made some wrong conclusions but I was persistent and learned from my mistakes. I made friends and went to conferences. I spend a lot of time at the
Webmaster Radio chat room chatting about different aspects of seo. You have to take everything you read with a grain of salt. Try things out. Create sites you can play around with. Try to read both sides of every issue. The most important thing is to apply logic to what you read. If you find a subject that there are respected people on both sides you need to do your own testing. Don’t think that because something is on all the forums it is true. Watch senior members of forums and moderators. See if they are consistent. The most important thing of all is test, test, and test. I see stuff all the time that seems to be accepted at a lot of forums as fact when I know from experience that it is not true.
