Hi SEO experts.
I have been working on SEO for the last 8 months.
The company i work for is looking to improve our knowledge as all we know is from forums and google searches.

If anyone knows of any books that we can purchase to improve our knowledge and set specific points on our sites, would be a great help. Obviously these need to be the latest information offered so we arn't working on out of date techniques.
We are reasonably experienced from previous sites so basic SEO is not really essential.

Any comments or suggestions would be a great help.

SEO books why by a book when all the info is on the internet

I am doing my own SEO Tutorial now that has been sofare a big hit to helping people, the SEO tutorial is being made from a website that I am doing and I am showing what to do from the very start to the very end and will show good ranking, it has already ranked well within 21 days so the SEO tutorial has been a big hit

madkad is right. You can get all the tips on Internet..Try here : http://www.seochat.com/

I agree. There are some decent books if you're new to seo and are looking to learn the basics, but for up to the minute information you need to read online. I'd suggest forums and blogs.

By the time most books would get published the specific details you're looking for are possibly going to be out of date.

Thanks for the advice.
As we are getting more requests to Optimise websites, i worry that the techniques i use are more 'hear say' rather than fact.
Thank you for your advice

There are very very few facts in the SEO world, the only things you should trust are

1/ your own instincts on scams and dubious claims.
2/ your own results when testing out different things

There is very little science and formula to SEO, what works for one site/subject/marketplace will not work with the same degree of success for another. Even different pages on the same site may need a slightly different approach. This is where the real skills come in play. Knowing how to interpret the results and apply them to improve conversions and positions.
Books can't teach you that, only the "hands on" experience can earn you that kind of knowledge.

Chris is exactly right. I think the basics are always true. Use the right keywords for your site, build a site that can be easily spidered, write good page titles, headings, etc, and get links pointing to your site.

I read one book on the basics when starting out a few years ago, Search Engine Visibility and I did learn the basics from it. It's been a few years since reading it so I can't really say if all the details still hold, but I'd guess for the most part the info in it is still valid.

Since then I've mostly spent a lot of time reading articles online and forums. I also subscribe to several daily newsletters from the seo forums. Of course sorting through all of the misinformation is the hardest part.

The only way to know for certain is to test and even then that test may only be valid for the one page. There are so many factors affecting ranking that it can be difficult to know what it is that's really causing one page to rank better than another. And then just when you think you've figured it out the algorithm changes.

That's why I try to simply spend more time working on the basics. They'll probably always remain true and continue to work even if it does mean having to spend more time working to get your site to show up in the results pages.

I think seo is just as much art as it is science and I will say that the more I read in forums and blogs, etc the more I think I become better at the art.

you rule

The best one is SEO Book.

Akash