How long does one person to take for learning of SEO?

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The length of time it takes to become knowledgeable in SEO is not that important. It is amazing how many so-called SEOs believe that there are actual resources on the Internet as well as from various books and forums that entitle the reader/attendee to become proficient SEO specialists. And the search engines themselves do not want to release any important inside information about how they search algorithms work (i.e., Page Rank of Google.com) even at the company sponsored seminars. Therefore, there exists many "secrets" which when collected over the years gives a minority of SEOs a special advantage and these SEOs can garner any price from clients who expect and demand high search engine rankings of their websites. Yes, there's a special and very secret formula that can be activated with proper web design, placement of critical metatags, choice of host provider and timing which in the long run, achieves the goal of high search engine placement of major websites.

Currently, there are no certified SEO courses which really produce competent SEO graduates. In another sense, you have to be invited into a secret society of "know-it-all" SEO specialists.

Even though I have not been invited into this "inner" circle, I can currently claim any number of websites which are within the TOP 10 ranking at Google.com and in many instances, within the TOP 5 ranking at Yahoo.com. And these high rankings were not achieved by devious or spamdexing techniques which involves submissions of often changing keyword entries using specialized software programs.

Good Luck!