20 Great SEO Sites
Search engine optimization is an ellusive art. Almost no one on the planet actually knows how Google ranks sites. “Experts” are able to test, observe, and read whatever hints Google gives, and offer to the rest of the world some tips and advice for climbing the search ladder. Even though authority is more important than SEO, that doesn’t mean that search engine optimization isn’t important – it’s just a close second to authority.
Below are links to 20 sites, mostly well-known, that I listen to for advice about optimizing for search…
- SEO Book
- SEO Moz
- GInside (news about Google)
- Search Engine Journal
- Search Engine Roundtable
- Search Engine Land
- Free SEO News
- SEO Pittfall
- SEO Scoop
- SEO Fast Start
- Top Rank Blog
- Blog Storm
- Search Engine World
- SEMVironment
- Local SEO Guide (local is BIG!)
- Your SEO Mentor
- Daily SEO Blog
- 97th Floor
- SEO.com (of course)
- SEO Diva
Obviously this is not an extensive list, as there are hundreds of thousands of blogs and sites out there related to search engine optimization. In an upcoming post, I’m going to talk about some of the basic rules of SEO that I’ve gathered after tweaking dozens of web sites into higher rankings, but here are some reminders…
- Title things well, both the article and the page’s <title> tag.
- Use appropriate keywords, but don’t overdo it – write as you normally would.
- Offer relevant links with good anchor text.
- Use one <h1> tag per page, and only one, and think the content of it through – it’s highly important.
- Think like a searcher. If you were searching for you, how do you think you’d want to find you?
- Share the web with others and links to your site will naturally build over time.
- Don’t rush it.
- Avoid duplicate content at all cost.
- Just create good content consistently – Google will find you!
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