What's the best course, training, book, or resource on SEO?
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Angie Schottmuller, Interactive Jedi
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Best SEO Resources:
- Experts
Follow these folks socially and subscribe to their blog or email newsletter. (Sorry if I left someone out.) In no particular order....- Matt Cutts (@mattcutts)
- Rand Fishkin (@randfish / @seomoz)
- Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan / @sengineland)
- Joost de Valk (@yoast)
- Eric Enge (@stonetemple)
- Dave Naylor (@davenaylor)
- Ian Lurie (@portentint)
- Bruce Clay (@bruceclayinc)
- Adam Audette (@audette)
- Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick / @seroundtable)
- Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow)
- Michael Gray (@graywolf)
- Greg Boser (@gregboser)
- Aaron Wall (@aaronwall)
- Angie Schottmuller (@aschottmuller)
- Jessica Bowman (@jessicabowman)
- Todd Friesen (@oilman)
- David Mihm (@davidmihm)
- Lee Odden (@leeodden / @toprank)
- Matt McGee (@mattmcgee)
- Jim Boykin (@jimboykin)
- Bill Hunt (@billhunt)
- Gregg Stewart (@greggstewart)
- Kristi Hines (@kristihines)
- Kristopher B. Jones (@krisjonescom)
- Danny Dover (@dannydover)
- Blogs
- SEOmoz - http://seomoz.com/blog/
- Google Webmaster Central - http://googlewebmastercen
tral.bl... - Matt Cutt's Blog - http://mattcutts.com/blog
/ - Search Engine Watch (SEW) - http://searchenginewatch.
com - Search Engine Land (SEL) - http://searchengineland.c
om - Search Engine Roundtable - http://seroundtable.com
- Conversation Marketing - http://conversationmarket
ing.com - David Naylor Blog - http://davidnaylor.co.uk/
blog/ - Yoast Blog - http://yoast.com
- Bruce Clay Inc Blog - http://bruceclay.com/blog
/ - SEO Book - http://seobook.com/blog/
- SEOmistry - http://seomistry.com/blog
/
- 101 Starter Guides
- Beginner's Guide to SEO by SEOmoz: http://seomoz.org/beginne
rs-guid... - What Is SEO? (Guide) by Search Engine Land: http://searchengineland.c
om/guid... - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide by Google Webmaster Tools: http://j.mp/Hwnh2j
- Beginner's Guide to SEO by SEOmoz: http://seomoz.org/beginne
- Twitter
- #seochat - Weekly chat Thursdays at 6pm-7pm CT: http://j.mp/Ii11c7 (Live feed: https://twitter.com/searc
h/realt...) - #SEO hashtag - http://twitter.com/search
/%23SEO - #localsearch hashtag - http://twitter.com/search
/%23loc... - #whitehat or #whitehatseo hashtag - http://twitter.com/search
/%23whi... - #blackhat or #blackhatseo hashtag - http://twitter.com/search
/%23bla... - Lists for SEO or Search Marketing - Ex: http://twitter.com/aschot
tmuller...
- #seochat - Weekly chat Thursdays at 6pm-7pm CT: http://j.mp/Ii11c7 (Live feed: https://twitter.com/searc
- Books:
- "Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media, & Content Marketing" by Lee Odden (1118167775) published Apr 2012: http://j.mp/HvpZHG
- "Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing" by Kristopher B. Jones (ISBN 0470620757) published Aug 2010: http://amzn.to/f4v8Jy
- "Search Engine Optimization Secrets" by Danny Dover and Erik Dafforn (ISBN 0470554185) published Mar 2011: http://j.mp/uZycCm
- "The Art of SEO" (ISBN 0596518862) by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, and Jessie Stricchiolia; published Oct 2009: http://j.mp/IsoJkY (SEO primer, beginner-to-expert guide)
- "The Truth About Search Engine Optimization" by Rebecca Lieb (ISBN 0789738317) published Feb 2009: http://j.mp/HENl9f (SEO for beginners)
- "Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media, & Content Marketing" by Lee Odden (1118167775) published Apr 2012: http://j.mp/HvpZHG
- Training Course
- Market Motive's SEO Online Certification: http://marketmotive.com/s
eo-trai...
- Market Motive's SEO Online Certification: http://marketmotive.com/s
- Conferences
- SES - Search Engine Strategies - http://searchenginestrate
gies.com - SMX - Search Marketing Expo - http://searchmarketingexp
o.com - MozCon - http://seomoz.org/mozcon
- PubCon - http://pubcon.com
- SearchLove & LinkLove - http://distilled.net/even
ts
- SES - Search Engine Strategies - http://searchenginestrate
- Reports
- SEOmoz Search Ranking Factors Report (Biannual spring report. i.e. March '11): http://seomoz.org/article
/search... - Local Search Ranking Factors by David Mihm (June 2011): http://www.davidmihm.com/
local-s...
- SEOmoz Search Ranking Factors Report (Biannual spring report. i.e. March '11): http://seomoz.org/article
- YouTube Videos
Find the channels for the aforementioned resources above. There are also numerous "Google" channels: http://youtube.com/results?searc.... - Delicious Bookmarks
Super users bookmark good tools and content. Search for tags: seo, seotools, seo+tools, etc. (http://delicious.com/tag/seo) Tip: Add folks posting good content to your "Network" to filter and clean up the content stream.
Ian Lurie, SEO since 1997. Knows what an inverte...
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Dan Perry, SEO Director, Turner Broadcasting
7 votes by Rand Fishkin, Chris Pantages, David Mihm, (more)Rand Fishkin, Chris Pantages, David Mihm, Sarah Cornwell, Nick Manteris, Anurag Nair, and Nisreen Banjar
Matt McGee, Started doing SEO around 1999/2000. H...
3 votes by David Mihm, Allen Taylor, and Nathan Ketsdever
Clark Taylor, Principal SEO at Stone Temple
3 votes by Nikita Kasyanov, Angie Schottmuller, and Nick Manteris
David Evans, Founder of www.TKOSEO.com and co-owne...
1 vote by Fabiano Moura
SEO Roadmap - http://www.seotrainingsw.
Sreecharan Yadati, Online Marketing Consultant & Web Ana...
The Art of SEO is Good book http://www.amazon.com/Art
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