With the SEO / SEM Industry maturing and people becoming "professional" SEOs, there has been a growth in Search Engine Optimization training seminars and online schools. Currently, there exists no way to rate a good school from a bad one, and the risk of paying for an incomplete education is high. So what does a school have to cover to graduate competent SEOs?

Here is a list of what a comprehensive training course for SEO would cover: 

• SEO Plan Creation
• Goal Determination
• Basic HTML
• Understanding Meta / Robots.txt
• Keyword Research
• Link Building
• Viral Content Basics
• Social Media Leverage
• Analytics / Tracking 

The issue with paying for this information is that a majority of it is given for free on the web at places like SEOmoz. So here is a list of sites and corresponding articles that will help you get a better handle on SEO and polish the aspects that you may need to re-learn.

General SEO Tips

SEOBook

How I'd Promote My Blog If I Were Starting Out Again: Problogger

20 Hard-Core SEO Tips

25 Paths to An Insanely Popular Blog

27 Tips for Building a Kick Ass Blog

How To Optimize Your Images 

Top 25 SEO Blogs

Basic HTML 

Basic HTML Tutorial

Understanding Meta / Robots.txt

Tell Google How to Treat Your Content

Keyword Research

Doing Keyword Research? Here Are Some Resources To Help

20 Essential Blog Directories To Submit Your Blog

11 Experts on Link Development Speak

Untapped Link Building Strategies

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Link Builders  

Viral Content

Three Very Successful Examples of Viral Content To Emulate

6 Ideas for Viral Content

Social Media Leverage

7 Social Media Websites and Their Impact on SEO

The Ultimate Social Media Post

Analytics / Tracking 

20 Resources for Google Analytics  

Feel free to send all payment for this FREE Online SEO Training Seminar to @LeftTheBox on Twitter!