78 Essential Search Engine Marketing & SEO Resources!
Despite reading tons of blogs each day it’s actually quite rare that I bookmark posts in FireFox. But by being selective, I’ve managed to build up a nice collection of quality articles and blog posts over the last three or four years about pretty much anything to do with search engine marketing.
Seeing that I find these bookmarks such a useful resource to check back frequently whilst working on SEO projects, I thought I’d share these links with our readers.
Understanding Search Engine Marketing
Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Ranking Factors
Why you’ll never be able to automate Search Engine Marketing
The Website Marketing Mind Map
Google SEO
Distribution of Clicks on Google’s SERPs
The 950 Penalty or a New Ranking Theory?
Google Likes Tag Pages
What is a #1 Google Ranking Worth?
Yahoo! SEO
How to Optimize for Yahoo!
On-Site Optimisation
How to SEO Your Site in Less Than 60 Minutes
The Best Damn On-Page Optimization Process Checklist, Period
All About Title Tags
Keyword Research
Using Social Media to Spot Trends
Eight Keyword Research Mistakes That Are Costing You Money
Doing Keyword Research? Here Are Some Resources To Help!
Keyword Research for Bloggers: A Comprehensive Guide
An Experts’ Guide to Keyword Research
Local Search
Local Search Engine Optimisation Tips
Optimize your site for local search engine traffic
Top 10 Fatal Localisation Mistakes
Advanced SEO
What do search engine spiders see?
View All Your Google Supplemental Index Results
Can The Nofollow Tag Hurt Ones Rankings?
What’s A 404 To Do?
Forward Links - Because who you link to matters
20 Hard Core SEO Tips
Ranking As The Original Source For Content You Syndicate
Link Building
Five Link Development Experts: A Group Interview
20 Essential Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog To
66 Ways to Build Links in 2007
Link Development vs. Traffic Development
Why Online PR and SEO Go Hand in Hand
Press Releases as Marketing Tools
A Big Roundup Of Link Building Tools
Michael Gray Interview: Advanced Link Strategies
17 Creative Link Building Ideas : Please Add Your Own
Social Media
The Enormous Linkbait List
Andy Hagans’ Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and SMM
Social Media Marketing, eh? Let’s See What’s in Our Bag o’ Goodies
Ultimate Social Media Optimisation List
Beginners Guide to Digg
How to Get Traffic from the top Social Media Sites
Social Media Marketing Beginner’s Guide
Blogging
The Ultimate Guide to Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendly
How I Increased Search Engine Traffic by 455% in One Month
Optimize WordPress for Search Engines
Blog Setup: 40 Practical Tips
101 Blog Posting Ideas
WordPress SEO resources and tips
The Secret to Building a Popular Blog
Online Reputation Management
Basics of Online Reputation Management
Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools
10 Ways to “Own Yourself” Online
Online Reputation Management, Are You Doing It?
.htaccess/301 redirects
mod_rewrite, 301/401 Redirects & Optimizing Apache
Canocial domain 301 redirects
5 htaccess Tricks Every Webmaster Should Know
Apache Redirect Directive
Domain Strategy
Subdomains and subdirectories
Buying the perfect domain name: twelve things to consider
How Changes To The Way Google Handles Subdomains Impact SEO
Pay-Per-Click
Using Paid Search? Here’s How You Can Maximize The Impact of Your Ads
10 Ways To Increase Your Adwords Quality Score
Revitalize Your PPC Campaign in 5 Days!
13 Myths of Pay Per Click
$10k PPC Experiment
Google Analytics
How do I track e-commerce transactions?
Advanced use of Google Analytics and the new interface
All About Google Analytics Goals
Usability/Conversion Optimisation
SEO with Usability: What The People Want
Three Sure-Fire Steps every Search Marketer should take in Landing Page Optimisation
12 Easy Quality Indicators to Combine to Prove Trust
Two Practical Landing Page Tricks That Will Save You Money
Four Steps To Better Business Leads From Search
Google Website Optimizer 101 – a quick-start guide to improving your website’s conversion rate
Web Design/Software
Convert XHTML/CSS To Wordpress
Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheet Guide
Optimizing phpBB 2.0 for Search Engines
And a couple of Black Hat Tactics too, haven’t tried these ones out yet though! 
Negative SEO is Possible, Yet Difficult, Says Matt Cutts
Playing Dirty With PPC
I’ve also exported all of these links to an HTML file so that you can import them directly into FireFox. I’m sure there’s loads more useful links which can be added to this too, so which articles and resources do you find the most useful and keep visiting back to?
Nice list Kevin!
I’ve got quite a few of these bookmarked myself!
I like these type of posts as everyone has their preferences of where to look and how often.
We all have some sort of lists; some posts are guaranteed to prop up on everyones lists others go un-noticed until someone creates a good post like this and you think, why haven’t I seen that one?
I’ll probably add this post to my list…
Comment by mrpurple — July 8, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
Great Post, thanks for the excellent list. bookmarked!
Comment by Keith — July 8, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
Hot damn!, thats a mighty big collection you got there.
Comment by Dyde — July 8, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Great Post. I think this post is a must read for me. Thanks.
Boorkmarked!
Comment by IMFreakz — July 8, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Yeah great post. The one article that I can immediately recommend for the list is Wieps Link Factors (http://wiep.net/link-value-factors/). It compliments the Search Engine Ranking Factors quite nicely.
Comment by Yossarian — July 8, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
Great list. Very comprehensive.
Comment by final seo — July 8, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Hi Kevin, cheers for the add! I was a little surprised my article on search engine spiders made the cut to be honest
Comment by Frank — July 8, 2008 @ 10:30 pm
hey thanks for the resources. they will be helpful.
Comment by seo submitter — July 8, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
Kevin, thanks for saving me a lot of time. I owe you a drink, going to SES San Jose?
Comment by David Temple — July 9, 2008 @ 3:28 am
Thanks for such a informative n helpful blog…..keep it up.
Comment by seema — July 9, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
Awesome post - great resources, bookmarked and added to del.icio.us - thanks !!
Comment by Social Networking North — July 9, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
excellent list. it even has lists in it! This will keep me busy for hours.
Comment by Glenn — July 9, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
There’s some really useful sites there! My bookmarks are full of junk :/ but yeah, I’ll be reading these for a while.
Comment by Chris — July 16, 2008 @ 10:21 am
Thanks for sharing
Comment by Palapple — July 22, 2008 @ 8:51 am
that’s a huge list, cannot read it all at a time so I bookmarked it! Thanks
Comment by Norhafidz — July 26, 2008 @ 5:19 am
Really useful list, thanks very much for spending the time to put it together. 35 bookmarks suddenly become one! I will definitley be linking to this from my blog at some point!
Comment by Toby Mason — July 28, 2008 @ 10:36 am
something is wrong with your sphinn button.
your original url starts with http://www. and has 57 sphinss. when I clicked on the sphinn button on your site, I got to submit a url that starts with blogs. instead of www that has 0 sphinns.
Great post, btw.
Comment by Yair — July 29, 2008 @ 10:22 am
Thanks Yair, this is because we have recently moved the blog from blog.seoptimise to http://www.seoptimise.com/blog
Comment by Kevin Gibbons — July 29, 2008 @ 11:36 am
Thanks for the info. Lots of notes to review from your informative post.
Comment by Search engine optimization coaching for excellence — August 12, 2008 @ 12:26 pm
Great list. Thanks for sharing.
Comment by seo company india — September 15, 2008 @ 11:11 am