Reddit reviews The Art of SEO

As someone else said - don't spend $900 on this. There's nothing you can't learn through the internet.

I started with the SEOMoz Beginner's Guide - it's lenghty, but free, and after reading it you should have a solid understanding of where to go through there.

I also own The Art of SEO which might be good if you want to get serious about it and have a reference on hand.

I read Search Engine Land daily and check the SEOMoz blog regularly. There are plenty of good news sources, which are important to keep up on as things change so quickly. Those are the two I read most often.

Knowing the basics of HTML, PHP, hosting and such will also help you in SEO; and there's CodeAcademy and Youtube for that. I'm assuming you are familiar with HTML but if you aren't it's easy to learn. PHP and SQL is good if you're looking to get more advanced but you can do without.

If you want to send me the link to the website I can make some broad recommendations. Most importantly, have a goal. Is it e-commerce - you want someone to buy something - or articles that you're generating ad traffic on? SEO is marketing, so understand what you're selling and who you're selling to.

Best of luck - I got into this about 2 years ago; I'm a marketer and SEO is there; but I'm hoping to use it to eventually reach a management/director position down the line.

Seomoz guide is great for getting an overview
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

The art of seo goes in to more details and gives a pretty good introduction to basic whitehat seo
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SEO-Eric-Enge/dp/1449304214/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1341331571&sr=8-8&keywords=Seo

Read lots of blogs. I like inbound.org, kaiserthesage.com, viperchill.com for the white/grey and Blackhatworld.com for the darker stuff. BHW has some really good ressources, but also some really clueless people, so take everything with a grain of salt. And of course frequent r/seo

take a look at this http://kickass.to/usearch/adwords/ and http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SEO-Eric-Enge/dp/1449304214

The Art of SEO is probably the most comprehensive - and Paddy Moogan's The Link Building Book is fairly worthwhile. You'll need to supplement these with blogs, but you'll get very far with the books alone.

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-link-building-strategies-fail
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SEO-Eric-Enge/dp/1449304214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342790729&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+of+seo
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building

that should be a good beginning

Not a class, but the book "The Art of SEO" from O'Reilly came highly recommended to me. They keep updating it so be sure to get the latest version.

I would recommend you the two guides -

1. Online Version: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
   
2. PaperBack - http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SEO-Theory-Practice/dp/1449304214