SEO in 2026: How Id Learn it if I Were Starting Over (with Claude)

In this video, I'm going to give you the exact nine-step [music] roadmap I'd follow if I were learning SEO from scratch today. Picking your first website to learning the fundamentals to turning this skill into income with AI doing the heavy lifting at every single step. I've been doing SEO [music] for more than 10 years. I've

ranked websites from scratch, built systems that are bringing in thousands of [music] monthly visitors, and watched complete beginners in our community land their first SEO client within [music] weeks of beginning. But, most people trying to learn SEO in 2026 are following guides that were written [music] years ago, spending months on theory before building anything real.

So, without further ado, let's get into it. So, how would I learn SEO from scratch in 2026? I think the first and most important question you need to ask yourself is, is it even worth it? I really think it is, and I think proof is in the pudding. A quick search in LinkedIn will show you

that if you look for SEO jobs around the world, particularly in the United States, there are a lot of companies offering really good salaries for SEO roles, including 190k plus per year. And you probably know that this is a good career when the largest AI companies are listing jobs for SEO leads. The job

market posts what the job market demands, and they clearly demand skilled people in the SEO field. With that being said, before we even get to how to start learning SEO, I want you to keep this in mind throughout this entire thing. That is, don't trust anyone. That includes me and Google, by the way. Test everything

yourself. SEO tends to contradict itself always. Some people say that it's all about backlinks, other people say it's all about content, and it's not that one person is right and the other person is wrong. It's that they've done things their own different ways, and that way might have worked and others don't. My