The trouble with Google is that you can never find anything. That is to say, it tends to spit out the same tired old sites over and over and over and over again.
This is especially frustrating when it comes to finding new and exciting information. And it’s why I’ve decided to compile this list of useful SEO resources. Enjoy!
- Google Webmaster Guidelines – the place to start any SEO journey
- The DIY SEO Seminar – the best SEO course aimed at non-technical people
- The DIY SEO Guide – a free downloadable ebook
- 66 ways to get links to your site – a superb collection of link building ideas that continues to be updated
- 101 free link directories – all offering free one-way links to your sites. Link building is still the backbone of professional SEO link building
- SEO Quake – the brilliant Firefox (and now Chrome) add-on that does most of SEO’s heavy lifting for you (keyword density, meta tags, PageRank and more)
- Search Status – an add on for Firefox that does many useful things (e.g. highlighting all the no-follow links on a web page)
- SEO Books Free SEO Tools
- SEO Moz’s SEO Tools – some of which are free to use
- 32 article sites – useful for building contextual links
- Contextual links explained – put the power of contextual links to work for you
- More on contextual links
- Google PageRank explained – what do those mysterious numbers mean, and do you need high PageRank to top the search results?
- What is link juice – and how it can it be used to understand the flow of SEO value?
- Deep linking techniques – what are they and how can you take advantage?
- How to make Google understand – a discussion of a Google problem and its solution
- Yahoo Site Explorer – find out how many people link to your site
- What do you do when SEO gets in the way of the sales copy?
- Comprehensive introduction to SEO for beginners
7 Comments for Useful SEO Resources
Wilhelm Braun | 19 August 2010 at 12:12
30 ways to convert visitors into leads | 19 August 2010 at 12:14
As it happens I do. Click the above ’30 ways to convert’ link.
Toby Mandeville | 21 August 2010 at 11:59
Here’s a better list of article sites. It contains links to 50 sites, includes the PageRank of that site and other info.
Nelson PK | 25 August 2010 at 12:00
The trouble with article sites is you put all that time in creating an article, and then you only get one link. If you count up all the links on the page and take into account the article’s page will have 0 pagerank, the small amount of link juice means it’s not worth the effort.
Author comment by Wayne Davies | 25 August 2010 at 12:01
Toby that is a great list. Thanks for linking.
executive caxi | 10 June 2011 at 10:45
Great article you have here. It’s worth reading it. I’ve learned something from your post thanks a lot!
Brilliant – this is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I don’t suppose you have anything on lead generation?