So maybe you just need to brush up on your SEO knowledge. Or maybe you’re learning SEO for the first time. Either way … I wanted to create a quick 7 day program that will help do either one. Each day has reading material and a task for you to perform before you move on to the next day.

Day 1: The Beginner’s Guide to SEO from SEOMoz

This guide from SEOmoz has been read by over 1 million people who are looking to either a) learn SEO or b) brush up on their SEO skills. This free guide covers the basics of how Search Engines like Google work and how to make your site search engine friendly.

Link: material/curriculum

Your Task: Leave a comment below on the top 3 new things you learned about SEO that you didn’t know before reading this guide.

Day 2: Search Engine Ranking Factors from SEOMoz

Every couple of years SEOmoz performs a survey with top SEO professionals from around the world to find out directly from those “in the trenches” what factors in SEO influence rankings the most. Each participant was asked to rate more than 100 search engine ranking factors on their importance in SEO. This report is the final results from the last survey.

Link: material/curriculum

Your Task: Create a task (and complete that task) for yourself for each of the top 5 ranking factors on your website or blog.

Day 3: Keyword Research Strategy Flowchart

Long-time SEO expert Aaron Wall put this chart together to help you understand how to perform effective keyword research for your SEO strategy. The flowchart comes in either a large infographic image or a PDF version that you can download.

Link: material/curriculum

Your task: Follow through each item of the flowchart and actually perform keyword research for one of your own websites.

Day 4: The Basics of Link Building

Now it’s time to learn how build back-links. Link building is one of the most important activities for SEO so DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP. After days 1 and 2 you should have learned the importance back-links have on improving rankings and increasing traffic. But not all links are created equal. This resource will guide you through the technical specifics behind creating an effective link building strategy.

Link: material/curriculum

Your Task: Identify and build 5 back-links to your site or blog using the tactics and strategies you learned from this guide.

Day 5: How To Create Compelling Content That Ranks Well

This free 27-page report from ScribeSEO (Brian Clark) gives you a step-by-step strategy for creating content that generates links, is engaging, high quality, and ranks well in Google. Day 4 you learned how to build links, but now it’s time to make sure you have some content that’s worth linking to.

Link: material/curriculum

Your Task: Take 5 articles you currently have published on your website or blog and redo/improve them using the methods you learned in this ebook.

Day 6: Advanced Keyword Research from CopyBlogger

In this 5-part guide from Brian Clark of CopyBlogger, you learn how to do keyword research from not just an SEO perspective but from a Copywriters perspective. Helping you find niches of opportunity in any vertical/industry that you are in.

Link: material/curriculum

Your Task: Create a list of 10 articles that you can write based off your keyword research that CopyBloggers guides you through.

Day 7: Advanced Link Building Strategies

This guide from SEOMoz breaks down the more advanced link-building techniques that Master SEO’s use to increase traffic, rankings, and influence. These are not strategies you want to quickly scan through. Read through each one in detail. If you do one of these wrong it could have a negative impact on your site’s rankings.

Link: material/curriculum

Your Task: Identify 2 of these strategies that you think you can implement on your site right away. Get at least 1 link from each and you have passed this course.