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I’ve spent some sig­nif­i­cant time this last week study­ing mate­r­ial on SEO from Stom­per­Net and Jeff John­son. Bril­liant guys, with very dif­fer­ent styles. Now, let me share with you some quick thoughts about my expe­ri­ence going through what both of them offered.

Stom­per­Net SEO Course

When I first sub­scribed to StomperNet’s newslet­ter (after they were pro­moted to me by another inter­net mar­keter), I imme­di­ately started notic­ing how unique they were but even­tu­ally began get­ting rather ANNOYED.

Okay, so I’ll elaborate.

StomperNet’s pre­sen­ta­tion is pretty sweet look­ing and highly pol­ished. I don’t know about you, but their videos are the best I’ve seen in the inter­net mar­ket­ing field, which is a nice thing, but along with the huge hype they push con­tin­u­ously to their email list reg­u­larly, I began doubt­ing them.

At the time I still hadn’t tried their full, paid mate­r­ial yet, but I was only get­ting their pro­mo­tional stuff. I was think­ing to myself “man, these guys are annoy­ingly bom­bard­ing me with offers which just seem like hype, hype, and more pol­ished hype.”

They promised a lot, and I had high expec­ta­tions but big doubts in whether they were going to deliver or not.

Now that I’ve gone through the full mate­r­ial, I’ve got to say it was awe­some. It inspires a new per­spec­tive of look­ing at things and fills infor­ma­tion gaps. Best of all, the instruc­tions were so effec­tively laid out, my own grand­mother could exe­cute them. It’s pretty good spoonfeeding.

Jeff Johnson’s 25K Seminar

First things first, Jeff John­son is an excel­lent speaker and a highly knowl­edge­able guy.

The mate­r­ial he pre­sented is dif­fer­ent from StomperNet’s in the sense that it’s not as gen­er­al­ist but instead very spe­cific. He also comes across as highly tech­ni­cal, and when he starts rolling, it’s an avalanche of cool revelations.

What’s also great, is that the atten­dees were invi­ta­tion only experts so the qual­ity of dis­cus­sions that you watch and hear are superb. Expect noth­ing pol­ished or flashy in terms of pre­sen­ta­tion though.

Stom­per­Net Vs Jeff Johnson

For some­one still start­ing out in the SEO game, StomperNet’s mate­r­ial is the obvi­ous choice. You just can’t go wrong with how clearly they deliver their knowl­edge. On the other hand, Jeff Johnson’s teach­ings are tar­geted at peo­ple already famil­iar with SEO’s tech­ni­cal­i­ties, so I wouldn’t pass his mate­r­ial to my grand­mother, because she might end up with a headache.

Nev­er­the­less, if you really want to boost your under­stand­ing sig­nif­i­cantly and go down the rab­bit hole, I wouldn’t rec­om­mend one over the other. Both strongly com­pli­ment each other, and both are bril­liant, so look out for what these guys have com­ing out next.

In the com­ing weeks, I’ll start shar­ing some of our suc­cess­fully imple­mented SEO tac­tics with you.

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Having been invited for conferences co-organized by Harvard University and attended international ones, Amir is a blogaholic and a passionate observer of the blogosphere who's built a number of successful blogs. On top of that, he's obviously a full-time web junkie at MindValley where he focuses on blogging, SEO and social media marketing trends.

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