SearchCap SEO Aware Style- Favorite Articles From the Past Year

These are articles I have bookmarked, blogged about, adding to favorites and sent to clients. Great articles by some very smart people.

SEO

Long SEO list, so I am splitting it up a bit

• Measuring SEO Success: Solve Personalized Search Misperceptions AimClear
• Search Engine Optimization for Local Search Utah SEO Pro
• SEO in a web 2.0 startup world Vanessa Fox
• ;21 Essential SEO Tips & Techniques; Matt McGee
• Search Engine Optimisation-friendly Design in a Web 2.0 World- Lisa Barone
• SEO Tip - How to Develop Backlinks to Your Videos Reel SEO
• 50 Questions to Evaluate the Quality of Your Website Search Engine Journal
• Breaking News: Danny Sullivan = Old, Rand Fishkin = Not Old SEOmoz
• Answer these Ten Questions Before You Charge for SEO Services SEOmoz
• 12 Ways to Butcher Your SEO Campaign Fathom SEO

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• Scalable On-Page SEO Strategies Search Engine Land
• Aggressively Seeking Links: How Much Is Too Much? Search Engine Land
• SEO Is Easy? Let’s Look At The Hard 5 Percent Search Engine Land
• SEO “Don’ts”: 20 Fatal Mistakes You Must Avoid To Succeed
• Tips for Controlling the Top 10 Michael Gray
• Seven Tactics For Leveraging Paid Search To Build Brand Awareness Search Engine Land
• SEO & Importance of Valid Source Code (W3C Validation) Search Engine Journal
• How Glossaries and FAQs Can Improve Search Engine Rankings Step Forth
• Top 21 Signs You Need a Break From SEO (2007 version) Matt Mcgee
• The SEO Success Pyramid Matt McGee (again, what can I say? He is smart)

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• Local Search Ranking Factors David Mihm
• 15 Ways to Be a SEO Conference Douchebag Stuntdubl [I am going to SMX East and won't do any of these things not that I would anyway...]
• SEO Plagiarism Jill Whalen
• How to quickly check your rankings - Search Engine Journal
• How to Use Bounce Rate as a Metric to Improve Your Website Performance kichus
• Advanced Link Operator to: Explore Your Competitor’s Backlinks Ann Smarty- Search Engine Journal
• Don’t Sour Your Link Juice by Forgetting Basic SEO - Loren Baker - Search Engine Journal (I see all of these non-stop)
• Some Thoughts on SEO Ethics by Matt McGee, Michael Gray, Jeff Quipp, Jim Hedger and More SEO Aware
• 10 Questions to Ask When Hiring an SEO Expert SEOpranos

you know….

• One Week of Sphinn SEO Lessons Search Engine People- Tons of Reading
• Five Situations where you SHOULD use No Follow Search Engine Journal
• Optimizing Image Tag Alt Attributes: Good Use and Abuse SEO Sydney Blog
• How Might the Machine Understand Text Relevance Search Engine Journal - Ann Smarty
• How to Use Bounce Rate as a Metric to Improve Your Website Performance Kichus
• The SEO Guide to Information Architecture Audette Media
• Search Engine Query Cheat Sheets e2Internet
• Why Deciphering The Truth From Speculation In SEM/SEO Is Important SEOspot

Keywords

• Tools to Find Your Competitors Keyword Rankings Search Engine Journal - Ann Smarty
• Eight Keyword Research Mistakes That Are Costing You Money Search Engine Land
• How Many Keywords Should Your SEO Be Targetting? massa.techndu.com
• Beyond Keyword Research: Competitive Analysis Snydey Sense
• Winner Best Keyword Research Tool Online Marketing Blog

Analytics

• 8 Stupid Things Webmasters Do To Mess Up Their Analytics Linda Bustos
• Analytics on the Cheap: 6 Free Stat Packages for the Start-up or Small Business - Tamar on 10e20
• 5 Tips for Content Distribution Networks Online Marketing Blog

Link Building

• Mastering Both Kinds Of Link Building - Authority & Reputation
  SEOFast Start
• Small Business Link Building: Part A - Analysing Opportunities SEOmoz
• Advanced Link Building Strategies SEOmoz
• Divide and Conquer: Creating and Managing Your Link Campaign SEOmoz
• How SEOmoz Built One Million Links in Thirty-Three Months SEOmoz

Google

• Helping Hacked Sites- Matt Cutts
• Spying on Google: What is Spam? What is Relevant? Read This to Find Out SEO Book
• How many Google Penalties are there? Loren Baker - Search Engine Journal
• 11 FireFox Extensions to Search Google Properly - Ann at Search Engine Journal (again, I know)

Social Media - SEM

• The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking - The Top 24 Sites 10e20
• 50+ Sites To Help You Bury Negative Posts About You or Your Company! Jeff Quipp
• The Unwritten Laws of Social Media Utah SEO Pro
• Why the Social Media World NEEDS to Understand SEO Search Engine Guide- Jennifer Laycock
• Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 - Tamar- you can read all day here
• 50 Top Niche Social Media Sites, and Their Power Accounts Kolbrener
• Social Bookmarking List over 120 sites with Page Rank Arsenal Marketing
• 27 Website Promotion Sources That Have Nothing to do with Google or SEO Spark Plugging
• The Internet Marketing List: 59 Things You Should Be Doing But Probably Aren’t Conversation Marketing
• Social Media Analytics: How to Measure and Track Social Media Activity SEO ROI
• Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media SEO 2.0
• 10 Of The Best Alternative Social Media SitesSetFireMedia
• Why Deciphering The Truth From Speculation In SEM/SEO Is Important

Web Design

• Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part I Michael Gray
• Why A FAQ Web Page Is One Hard Working Marketing Tool
• How to Maintain Rankings After a Redesign - Step Forth
• Tips for Controlling the Top 10 Search Engine Land
• When NOT To Use Coldfusion coldfusion.sys-con
• What you don’t know about optimizing PDFs can hurt you | 17 Strategies for success francis-marketing.com
• The anatomy of a server sided redirect: 301, 302 and 307 illuminated SEO wise Sebastian
• SEO Guide for Designers Web Designer Wall
• Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content Google Blog

Blogging

• Fighting Duplicate Content On Worpress Search Engine Journal
• New SEO Plugin for Wordpress: Internal Link Building SEO ROI
• 27 Tips for Building a Kick-Ass Blog Performancing
• the power of search: driving traffic to your blog (a BlogHer recap) Vanessa Fox
• How to Make Your Blog Attractive to Advertisers and Traditional Media - Tamar
• 4 Tips and 11 Resources for Increasing Subscribers, Search Engine Guide
• 7 Blogging Lessons Learned From a Best-Selling Author Skelliewag.org

Business

• Online Key Performance Indicators in 2007Search Engine Guide
• Pre-Bid Discussions - Andy Rutledge
• Pay Attention: The No Asshole and No Complaining Rules Personal Branding Blog
• Small Business Link Building: Part A - Analysing Opportunities SEOmoz
• Real Estate Webmasters Banned by Google Greg Boser

Other

• 27 Great Tools for Copywriters Site Pro News
• 38 Must Reads on Online Reputation Management ViperChill
• What Can You Do With MyBlogLog? Tips from 18 Members Online Marketing Blog

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Melissa- SEOAware.com