When you have a website or blog it is good that the search engines find your content. Finding your content is not enought though it should list in the top 3 results of the topic you are writing about, if you want people to read it.
Robert Scoble is rebuilding his site from scratch. At this moment his blog on WordPress.com has no styling.
To make a good new start, even when his blog gets lots of visitors, he is aksing out loud what are good resources for SEO and SEM. Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing or the optimization and marketing of your site for the search engines. Great content alone doesn’t do it.
He asked this question on Friendfeed – which is much better than Twitter for these kind of questions, because the answers are listed just below the question. The question goes back to the top of the FriendFeed timeline as soon as there is a new reply or like. So you can identify interesting topics easily.
The first and many other replies are by the Google expert himself Matt Cutts. So here is a list of sites with the best SEO/SEM info (crowd sourced).
- Google webmaster blog is well-known as reputable: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/ –Matt Cutts
- Live has a good webmaster blog too: http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/ Their most recent post about getting out of the penalty box is quite good. – Matt Cutts
- Google also just started a video channel for webmasters: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleW… Over 30+ videos already up to answer common questions. – Matt Cutts
- I’m a big fan on http://www.seobook.com (Aaron Wall) and http://highrankings.com (Jill Whalen) – Jason Kane
- The Yahoo equivalent is the Yahoo! Search blog: http://ysearchblog.com/ – Matt Cutts
- SEO Book: http://www.seobook.com AND SEOMoz: http://www.seomoz.org – Vinny
- http://blackwaterops.com – Brandon Wirtz
- The only SEO that has been able to show me actual results is http://NowSourcing.com – MarkCarras
- @virante.com (http://www.virante.com/seo-tools/) – Mark Traphagen
- http://centuryhouse.net/ upcoming SEO Blog – Robert
- Let’s see. There’s my blog of course: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ . For search news, Search Engine Land is quite comprehensive: http://searchengineland.com/ . I often check Google Blogoscopedhttp://blogoscoped.com/ or Google Operating System http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/ for other interesting news. – Matt Cutts
- Robert — while not a one place checklist, visit http://forums.digitalpoint.com/. I’ve implemented some of their recommendations thus far and I feel like it’s already making a difference. – Aanarav Sareen
- And then there’s the HTML documentation that we offer for webmasters: http://google.com/support…plus our help forum http://www.google.com/support… – Matt Cutts
- I’ll let other folks suggest additional outside info. There’s everything from Eric Goldman who talks about legal aspects of search http://blog.ericgoldman.org/ to SEO by the Sea http://www.seobythesea.com/which talks about patents related to SEO/SEM/search. It’s a really broad field. It’s almost like asking “What are some good sources for information about blogging?” 🙂 – Matt Cutts
- comprehensive:http://www.seomoz.org/dp… – Craig Bailey
- Must read SEO blog: http://www.thegooglecache.com/ – Mark Traphagen
- “Does anyone have a good checklist?” We wrote an SEO beginner’s guide at http://googlewebmastercentral…. that I proofread before it went live. You can also do searches like [wordpress seo guide] and there are several good resources in the search results. – Matt Cutts
- http://delicious.com/search… – Jay Neff
- Aanarav, I would recommend some caution regarding Digital Point. Some of the more aggressive stuff that gets pitched in corners of DP can get you in trouble. – Matt Cutts
- I am a fan of Search Engine Guide http://www.searchengineguide.com Great advice and solid writers. –Ross Dunn
- The sites listed here are (mostly) excellent for sure. I’m also kinda partial to the SEO Success Pyramid (since I wrote it). http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/the-seo… – Matt McGee
- TR: http://www.seoteknikleri.com , http://delicious.com/wolkanc… – Volkan Yılmaz(wolkanca)
- This is a MUST read in my opinion: SEOMoz http://www.seomoz.org/article… – Doug Lawrence
- Of course Google is going to be the Dali Lama of SEO but there are many gurus of interest:http://www.searchengineacademysc.com – Laurel Phelps LaFlamme
- Not that I’m biased, but LinkMoses http://www.ericward.com/articles/ and the Link Building Best Practices QandA http://www.ericward.com/bestpra… are on my must read list. – Eric Ward
- For WordPress I recommend http://www.yoast.com – You (edit | delete)
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog for technical specs on SEO and http://www.seobook.com/blog for business insights in relation to SEO – Dave Fuentes
Mona asks if SEO / SEM is still relevant:
Is SEO/SEM still relevant? – Mona Nomura
- Mona: yes. Techcrunch tells me 60% of it’s traffic comes from search. – Robert Scoble
- @Mona: …can you expand on your question? What has made optimizing content and Web sites for search engines less relevant? – .LAG liked that
- I’ve recently heard Google changed their algorithm, plus with aggregating sites indexing for us (FriendFeed, Facebook, Twitter), there are many outlets and methods of people reaching our media — that is, if we remember to segregate to keep various audiences interested. ie: staying away from ping.fm like services. – Mona Nomura
- Mona, Yes. something like 90% of all traffic starts with a search engine, so unless you are a destination site ,you rely on search to send your traffice. There are times when RSS Subs can be more valuable, like when you are doing loyalty building, but generally NEW users are finding you through a social media or through search. More people are in search than social media..Ergo its still relevant –Brandon Wirtz
The list will continue to grow. The actual list: Who has the best SEO/SEM info? Post URLs here
You can also find a list of the URLs mentioned on FriendFeed on delicious –
I’m adding all these to http://delicious.com/jayneff… thanks! 🙂 – Jay Neff
Provided the ” the best ” search blogs.Thanks a lot.