30+ More Non-Google SEO “How to” Online Marketing Resources for 2009
Roughly two weeks ago I elaborated on the 10 non-Google SEO ways to promote your business online in 2009 and presented a list of 35 non-Google SEO how tos, tutorials & other resources. They covered only half of the strategies I suggested as the non-Google SEO ways.
Today I collected links for the remaining 5 non-Google SEO strategies:
- Shopping search engines
- Yahoo Answers
- Review sites
- Local sites and local search
- Niche communities
So based on these categories here they are, 30+ more non-Google SEO “how to” online marketing resources for 2009:
Shopping search engines or shopping comparison sites like BizRate, Shopping.com or NexTag seemingly exist for ages, some lost steam along the way like Kelkoo did. According to Google Trends their traffic peaked around the Christmas season of 2007. Nonetheless you still can’t ignore them in ecommerce no matter what you sell. Sadly there are only few resources dealing with optimization for shopping search, some of those there are stem from several years ago. They were published as early as 2003 or 2004. They’re still valid though so I included them.
- Shopping Search Tactics
- SES: Making The Most Of Shopping Search Feeds | WebProNews
- Shopping Search Engine Usage Booms with Holiday Shopping
- Tips on producing a shopping comparison feed | Blog | Econsultancy
- What Search Engine Marketing Does Your Site Need? – ClickZ
- Shopping Search and Merchant Reputations – Search Engine Watch (SEW)
Yahoo Answers is the Google of Q&A sites. It has an overwhelming market share in English, above 90%. Thus I focused on marketing advice on Yahoo Answers. Considering its impact and traffic numbers, here too the number of resources is limited. Luckily the few there are are of very high quality.
- Marketing Your Site on Yahoo Answers
- A Guide to Social Marketing on Yahoo! Answers
- How to generate traffic from Yahoo Answers – Daily SEO blog
- Yahoo Answers To Your Small Business Online Strategy | Cape Cod SEO
- How to Use Yahoo Answers for your Social Media Campaign
- Using Yahoo Answers To Capture Long Tail Searches | Search Engine People
Review sites made me struggle even more than shopping search engines. Although TripAdvisor, one of the most prolific social review sites has been around since 2000 I couldn’t find a thorough resource that covers SEO for TripAdvisor, only a short post. Also other resources are scarce. This is partly due to the fact that review sites are not considered a genre by themselves. Also shopping search engines, local sites or social shopping sites are in a way review sites too. So I only link two resources in this category. In case you have more please add them in the comments.
- Make the Most of Trip Advisor — Alaska SEO
- Mihmorandum | Local Search Citations in Continental Europe | Local SEO
Local sites and local search are considered a crucial part of local SEO. Local SEO is in a way the next big thing in SEO. For years to come we can expect local SEO to become ever more important due to the proliferation of mobile devices and other hard & software leading to more locally oriented search. There are at least a dozen excellent resources for local search optimization:
- How To Do Local SEO For Your Website in Five Minutes (or So) | Local SEO Guide
- Local Search Ranking Tactics – Steve Espinosa of ELocalListing.com | Local SEO Guide
- Small Business SEO: How To Launch That Web site
- Local Search Marketing Guide | Small Business Search Marketing
- Anatomy & Optimization Of A Local Business Profile
- 10 Likely Elements of Google’s Local Search Algorithm
- How to Optimize Local Business Profiles for Free Local Directories
- The Local Search Ranking Factors: Ranking High in Google Maps and Yahoo Local
- Mihmorandum | Local vs Traditional SEO: Why Citation Is the New Link
- Local Search Optimization Tips – SEO Workers
- Extreme Local Search Optimization Tactics : Natural Search Blog
- How To Create Effective Local Business Landing Pages
Niche communities have been a quite revolution in the recent years. Digg-like Sites like Sphinn (for search marketing news) or Tip’d (for finance news) have sprung up in every niche conceivable. In case you’re serious about search marketing you can’t ignore Sphinn nowadays. Instead of wasting your time with Digg for most businesses addressing niche social news sites is the way to go. Sadly here too there are less resources than I’d wish they were. Thus I focused on the two sites I know as an active user and mentioned above plus added a few articles from one source, a problogger who is successfully targeting and describing niche social news sites.
- SEOmoz | Sphinn – The Social News Site Every Search Marketer Should Be Using
- Beginners Guide to Sphinn
- 9 Ways I use Tip’d to Increase Traffic – Pimp Your Finances
- Niche Social Media Sites and Voting Buttons: A Powerful Combination | Traffikd
- Targeting Niche Social Media Sites: 7 Practical Steps for Success | Traffikd
- 7 Factors to Separate a Good Niche Social Media Site from a Bad One | Traffikd
That’s all for now. I’d like to make this list more represantitive though. So make sure to look up in your bookmarks whether you have some resources dealing especially with the 3 categories that are insufficiently covered as of now in this list. Add even more non-Google SEO “how to” online marketing resources for 2009!
Make sure they are how to articles or tutorials though!
March 12th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
More than 30 non-Google SEO resources
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March 12th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
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March 12th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
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March 12th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
@robinbertelsen This one? http://bit.ly/4cBDo
March 12th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Bonne journ
May 14th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Wow thats a lot….
May 14th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Thanks for your help these look promising
May 14th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Nice list. This should help out those people who aren’t solely focuesed on Google in their SEO efforts.
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May 16th, 2009 at 4:28 am
OK G dominate… but don’t put all your eggs in one basket… there are some great idea’s above that improve your traffic without having to use Google. Other method as shown above can get you a good base-line of visitors at a much less cost than paying Google.
Good advice, Thanking you.
May 16th, 2009 at 7:24 am
I’m bored with SEO, I think this is the best way to start new thing… Nice post, I love it..
May 21st, 2009 at 9:18 pm
As always great resources. Thanks for all the links to the resources.
Sharing them with many of my associates.
June 12th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Great post. Amazing compilation of useful resources.
Thanks A lot !!
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September 11th, 2009 at 6:12 am
The tips for local search are great!
Thanks.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
These are all good ideas. Google is important but I think way to many people are missing out on other web avenues like local search and shopping search.