Both of them have blogs available for free. Skip back to early 2006, start reading. (I recommend 2006 as both routinely published on beginner-friendly topics back then, but their focus has become more refined since then. There are only so many ways you can say "Your title tag is really freaking important, and you should get links." By the way, your title tag is freaking important, and you should get links.)
SEOMoz has a quite decent beginner's guide as I recall.
I've got a couple dozen articles on my blog on the subject, but they're not arranged in any sort of coherent fashion, and most are not filed under the SEO category. I'll trade: if you want to grab all the relevant URLs and organize them by theme, I'll let you ask me anything you want to for an hour. (That may or may not be a good deal.)
Your chat-for-an-hour offer made me think of Hacker Roulette. Participating HN members with info to share or a project to discuss would sign up and then be paired off to meet up (if near each other) or talk (Skype, IM, email) about what each was up to, bounce off ideas, brainstorm, whatever. Could be interesting.
There are 494 posts on the blog, and they're mostly organized chronologically based on what I was working on at the time. Probably about 50 of them are about SEO, and only 28 are categorized. I could track down the rest of them, but I don't have the patience to weed through a hundred posts from 2007 looking for where I initially described my core SEO strategy.
I don't need links from SEOMoz -- I just want an outline that I can refer people to, because the experience of trying to find specific topics in my blog is terrible.
SEOMoz has a quite decent beginner's guide as I recall.
I've got a couple dozen articles on my blog on the subject, but they're not arranged in any sort of coherent fashion, and most are not filed under the SEO category. I'll trade: if you want to grab all the relevant URLs and organize them by theme, I'll let you ask me anything you want to for an hour. (That may or may not be a good deal.)