Online Resources for Would-be SEOs - Some Necessary Sites
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It would be very much amiss for me to not mention our own SEO Chat site, of course. We publish new articles three times a week, and we have more than a score of free tools to help you optimize your web site for the search engines. We also have a weekly newsletter that includes content you won’t find elsewhere and very active forums. I’ve spent a good bit of time in those forums myself, mostly lurking and learning from the knowledgeable SEO amateurs and professionals who post there, often helping out the newcomers. It’s been said that we have some of the most newbie-friendly SEO forums online, and I can easily believe it.
Matt Cutts’ blog (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/) is always worth a look, and many SEOs seem to start their day by reading him. For those who don’t know, Matt Cutts has been working for Google since the beginning of 2000, and currently heads the search engine’s Web spam team. He sometimes posts about SEO and answers SEO-related questions online, though he emphasizes that “The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer.” Cutts has been posting to this personal blog very regularly since June 2005. “Google/SEO” is one of the specific categories you can check in Cutts’ blog.
Of course, if I’m mentioning Cutts’ blog, I should also mention Jeremy Zawodny’s blog (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/). He’s employed by Yahoo, and Cutts and Zawodny occasionally comment on each other’s blogs. I admit I haven’t read his blog much, but he is popular with some SEOs.
Search Engine Roundtable (http://www.seroundtable.com/) says that its mission is “to provide you with a single source to locate the best search engine marketing threads on the Internet.” Each post is a brief summary of the thread, with a link back to the original forum and thread. In addition to the nearly dozen forums they cover, they have their own forums. SER is where you’re likely to find out about problems that other webmasters are experiencing, weird behavior from the search engines, major sites getting penalized, who does local search better, and more.
If you’re a real addict about Google-related news, you may want to go to the source, so to speak. News from Google (http://googlepress.blogspot.com/) is available by newsfeed and features all of Google’s press releases.
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