SageRock Web Marketing Blog

I am getting ready for a 12 hour course spread over 4 classes all about SEO. It should be pretty comprehensive. If you are interested, you can find out more about it here: Ohio Web Marketing: Learn SEO at Cleveland State

Today, I’m starting to put together a list of resources that I think the class would find particularly useful. It’s mostly made up of the usual suspects. But if you happen to think of any others you think they should know about, drop me a comment.

Here’s the list:

• http://www.webmasterworld.com/ - WebmasterWorld News and Discussion for the Web Professional
• http://www.searchengineguide.com/ - Search Engines at the Small Business Guide to Search Marketing
• http://searchenginewatch.com/ - Search Engine Watch: Tips About Internet Search Engines. This is the definitive resource. If you are finding conflicting information, go here for the resolution. There is a free section and a subscriber section. If you get involved heavily in SEO, I would suggest purchasing the subscription.
• http://www.clickz.com/ - ClickZ Internet Marketing Solutions for Marketers
• http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ - Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen’s Newsletter on Web Usability. This is the definitive usability resource.
• http://www.highrankings.com/forum/ - High Rankings? Search Engine Optimization Forum
• http://www.sagerock.com/weblog/ - SageRock - Web Marketing Blog

Domain Age Checkers:
This tool is to check age and Yahoo backlinks of the top 10 domains in Google under your specified Keyword or phrase

This tool is to check age of a selection of domains and the Yahoo backlinks

Backlink Checker:
This tool is to check your backlinks and the anchor text used in those backlinks.

Yahoo Site Explorer - more comprehensive information about a particular site than any engine has put out so far.
SBC Yahoo! Site Explorer
Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.

Search Engine Ranking Factors
SEOmoz | Search Engine Ranking Factors - this recently has come out and I felt it was a good resource to use.

Tools

• Free SEO Tools
• SEO Chat - SEO Tools
• Spider Simulator - Summit Media
• Poodle Predictor - See your site like Google does. Simulate search engines and predict your Google listings.

Rank Checkers
We Build Pages Cool SEO Tool
Check the top 10 sites in Google and shows pages indexed (google/yahoo), backlinks, link domain, allinanchor rank, domain age and keyword phrase count.

Search Engine Rankings - FREE!
Search Engine Rankings offers instant, online reports of web site rankings in 7 top search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, AOL, Teoma (Ask Jeeves), AltaVista, AllTheWeb, and the top 3 web directories; Yahoo! Directory, Open Directory (Dmoz), and LookSmart - FREE!

Search Engine Placement Check - Marketleap Search Engine Verification Tool
Our verification tool checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword.
It checks multiple engines

Links to Places Where You Can Make Money On Your Site
The Amazon Associates program
Amazon Link Example:

Commission Junction:
Publisher Sign Up
Publishers Info: Online marketing solutions: performance-based affiliate programs

Login - Yahoo! Publisher Network

Google AdSense

Affiliate and Advertising Resources:
WMW Advertising Sales and Affiliate Programs
ReveNews Online Revenue News

These are additional links that I have collected over the years that have struck me as valuable resources:

• SEO Browser - A text browser to let you see what the search engines would see when looking at your site.
• SEO / SEM Blogs at Fantomaster.com
• business2blog - features interesting and unusual marketing strategies.
• msnsearch’s WebLog
• adwordprofitsoft.blogspot.com - This blog will give you updates on Google Adwords, SEM, SEO, PPC Advertising, Overture, RSS Marketing .
• Threadwatch.org Blog - Finding the signal amongst the noise of SEO forums and blogs
• Top Ten Google Analysis - Shows specific details of the top 10 listings in Google for a particular phrase.
• Search Engine Watch Blog
• Yahoo Search blog - from Yahoo itself.
• Web ranking tool - Gives you Google’s PageRank, Alexa’s traffic rank, and total external backlinks from Yahoo. Handy!
• Adrants - Oddities and Wonders of Advertising and Media
• Search Engine Watch forums - Part of the ClickZ Network
• AnalyticalNews.org - Web Site Tracking and Statistics Tools Reviews and News
• Google Blog
• A nice list of SEO Blogs and Search Engine Blogs by SEO Book.com
• Duct Tape Marketing Weblog
• Keyword density analyzer, and keyword placement & prominence analysis
• Yahoo! Submit Your Site
• DotMarketer SEO Blog :: Search Engine Optimization and Emarketing Weblog
• Laura Seeley’s SEO Blog
• Google Adwords: Keyword Suggestions
• John Battelle’s Searchblog
• Free search engine submission list can be used to submit url or submit web site
• Search Engine: Personal Injury Lawyers & Attorneys Helping Victims - News…
• Compare Your Clicks: Traffic From Search Engines! - Live comparison of keyword prices at pay-per-click search engines
• Acronym Finder - Find out what over 317,000 acronyms & abbreviations stand for
• Search by Location at Google
• Googler.Blogs.Com - a blog about Google
• Marketing Forum Watch: offers constantly updated, searchable, customizable headlines from your favorite internet marketing and search engine optimization (plus a few ecommerce) discussion forums and message boards
• HotSpotList.com - a directory of public 802.11b hot spots for finding WiFi wireless Internet access network nodes
• NITLE Weblog Census - The NITLE weblog census is an attempt to find as many active weblogs as possible, across all languages
• Traffick | Minding the Search Engines’ Business
• SEO Consultants Directory - Search Engine Marketing Resources
• Inktomi Pure Search
• Submission Pages of Major Search Engines
• Movie Review Query Engine
• seotie - Identify your sites inclusion fast and easily!
  Monitor your status of domains submitted to the DMOZ directory and more.
• Zeal.com - “Zeal is a community of enthusiasts and editors building the world’s most widely used Web directory.”
• Directory and Search Engine JoeAnt.com
• Yahoo! Directory of Business Directories - Great places to submit your site.
• Visible Earth - a searchable directory of images, visualization, and animations of the Earth
• Search Engine Relationship Chart - by Brett Tabke
• The SageRock.com RSS Feed.
• Overture- Search Term Suggestion Tool
• Unanswered Messages at WMW - if you have some insight here are a bunch of posts that are waiting for someone to answer them.
• Search Engine Marketing & Optimisation | searchengineblog
• WebmasterWorld Google Knowledgebase V2
• Homland Security Directory and Search Engine
• Google Alert - Google Alert keeps you up to date on what the web is saying about you or your interests.
• Brewed Fresh Daily - Cleveland Consumes Copious Quantities of Coffee - I realize this isn’t a web marketing related link. But I owe this blog to George. He was my inspiration.
• Google Update Check
• SamSpade.org
• Google Information for Webmasters - These are all the approved tactics of design (and optimization) posted at Google.
• WebmasterWorld News and discussion for the advanced web professional - This is where I get all my best information.

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