25 Free Social Media Marketing & SEO Ebooks, White Papers + Other Downloads


Over the past two years I collected quite a few PDF and other downloads about social media in general, blogging, social media marketing and SEO.

While blogs offer quick tips and overviews ebooks and white papers have the necessary depth to cover more intricate topics.

Ebooks are particularly apt for the quite abstract concepts of social media marketing and SEO. That’s why I compiled this list of 25 free social media marketing and SEO ebooks, white papers plus other downloads.

These downloads stem from highly respectable sources and are free as agencies and specialists tend to promote themselves showing off their expertise for for free to gain recognition as experts. So this is a win to win situation for the sides, you the reader as well as the authors.

  1. Social Media Marketing Industry Report
  2. Conversation Agent: Marketing in 2009 (free eBook)
  3. The Social Pulpit Barack Obama’s Social Media Toolkit (PDF link)
  4. A geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter
  5. The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II
  6. Blogs and Social Media
  7. How to Start a Business Blog: Free Ebook
  8. The New Rules of Business Blogs (PDF link)
  9. Benefits of Business Blogging Cheat Sheat – BlogFire Studios
  10. The New Rules of Viral Marketing (2008) (PDF link)
  11. A Social Media Guide from the Edge
  12. Social Media Marketing Kit
  13. User-Generated Content & Social Media
  14. New Media, New Influencers, and Implications for the Public Relations Profession
  15. Template for Social Media Press Release | PRactical P.R. Blog
  16. Social Media and Social Network Starting Points | chrisbrogan.com
  17. What is Social Media (PDF link)
  18. Customer Service, The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media
  19. The Simple Web: A Philosophy for Getting What You Want
  20. BKV – Search Engine Optimization: SEO In The Web 2.0 Era – White Paper
  21. Link Attraction Factors: Getting Dugg and Going Viral – ReadWriteWeb
  22. Search Engine Marketing Research: iProspect Blended Search Results Study
  23. SEO and CMS: Best practices to make your CMS SEO-friendly – non~linear creations inc.
  24. Research Study Examining The Role Traffic Source Plays in Visitor Purchase Behavior (SEO vs PPC)
  25. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
  • To get some of these ebooks you need to give away your email address but most downloads come without any obligations whatsoever.
  • Where possible I did not link the resource itself though but instead the page describing it.
  • The list starts with social media marketing (SMM) and end with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ebooks and downloads.
SEO 2.0 living and working in Germany as a blog & SEO consultant. I'm blogging in English for SEO blogs around the world. My real name is Tadeusz Szewczyk but my friends who don't speak Polish - my mother tongue - call me Tad Chef or onreact.

34 Comments

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  1. Jason Cohen says:

    Great list! I especially liked “Geeks Guide to Promoting Self with Twitter”…. I’m still trying to figure out Twitter without losing my mind.

    Missing from many of these (not that I’ve read ALL) is that all this takes a TON of time. The media itself is close to free, but using it (properly!) is NOT.

    http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/please-stop-saying-social-media-marketing-is-free.html

  2. Dan Spring says:

    My work reported a virus on this link:
    “SEO and CMS: Best practices to make your CMS SEO-friendly – non~linear creations inc.” is it safe?

  3. Kash says:

    Great collection compiled. Unware of some. But the best I liked was “Geeks Guide to Promoting Self with Twitter” and The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet from SEOmoz. I will download all and will go through!!

    Thanks a lot.

  4. Tad Chef says: (Author)

    Jason: True. There is a substantial time investment involved.

    Dan: The link itself or the download? What kind of security suite are you using at work? I don’t know whether it has been compromised by the page by itself is legit.

    Thanks for the feedback Kash!

  5. huge collection, great job. Thanks a lot :-D.

  6. Kat says:

    Hi, great list! I’d like to suggest you add eMarketing: the essential guide to online marketing, it’s free to download as well.. http://www.quirk.biz/emarketingtextbook/

  7. SEO Tips says:

    Great list here mate, thanks for putting it together I enjoyed the social media marketing kit a lot and a couple of the others not got round to reading yet.

    I would like to add my own personal Ebooks if you don’t mind. There are three, All in one SEO, All in one Keyword Research and the 11 things to consider before you start blogging E Book, take a look if you want.

    http://back-links.org/internet-marketing-e-books/

  8. Really 1st time i got such list, I Downloaded all links. thnx a lot for a nice post.God bless u dear.

  9. Great list

    Should be nice reading for the easter holidays.

  10. Hi Nice post, thanks for sharing the links.

    Murray

  11. lousagar says:

    I just love this…What a terrific listing of great articles, informative insights, and blog posts…I will share this with my network for sure…Great work.

  12. Steen Seo Öhman says:

    Just finished reading “Geeks Guide to Promoting Self with Twitter” – great stuff.Hope I will get the time to read the rest during the Easter Holidays

  13. agnes says:

    very good list.It is very useful one that you have gained over the past two years.you have done a great job.Thanks for providing the list.

  14. Jeanette says:

    Great list and quality link throughs – especially liked ‘A geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter’. Thank you for taking the time to compile it.

  15. Brian says:

    Great list – what a goldmine!

  16. Here is another free Social Media eBook http://www.authoritydomains.com/social-media-consulting/social-media-ebook/ Feel free to share as you see fit.

  17. Molly Anglin says:

    Dan, I’m not sure if you’ll ever see this comment but I work for non~linear creations. Like Tad, I can’t comment on the whether the link on this particular site has been compromised, but if you type in http://www.nonlinearcreations.com/pages/whitepapers.htm I can assure you that the site is safe. If you’d prefer, we can send the SEO/CMS whitepaper to you directly (it’s worth it, it’s a pretty extensive report.) Email us at info [AT] nonlinear [DOT] ca or read the abridged two-part summary on CMSWire – http://www.cmswire.com/cms/featured-articles/seo-and-cms-deployment-best-practices-part-1-001044.php

    To the folks at SEOptimise: Thanks so much for including the link to our report on your list! Great resource.

  18. james mccourt says:

    nice ebook, can i post it on my site for getting ebooks for free? thanks great site keep up the good work!

  19. Social Media Marketing says:

    Thanks for Sharing…Its a wonderfull collection…Social media has become a platform that is easily accessible to anyone with internet access. Increased communication for organizations fosters brand awareness and often, improved customer service. Additionally, social media serves as a relatively inexpensive platform for organizations to implement marketing campaigns. With emergence of channels like Twitter, the barrier to entry in social media is greatly reduced.

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    Stephen

  20. Md. Azharul Islam Jijon says:

    outstanding ebook. I think this will help us to learn seo.

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