16 HELPFUL SEO RESOURCES
Jan 25, 2013
The problem with Search Engine Optimisation is that it’s hard to keep on top of it. With so many changes happening all the time, it’s difficult to know whether you are doing the right thing. Thankfully there’s a whole host of blogs and websites to help us keep up to date.
Here’s a list of tools we’ve found helpful with understanding and applying SEO:
Getting Started
So, what exactly is SEO, anyway? These infographics and guides help make things clear.
The Beginner’s Guide to SEO: Bookmark this guide and refer back to it whenever you need to. It’s clearly set out and as an added bonus it’s beautifully designed!
The Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors: Like science for SEO.
Google SEO Starter Guide: Written by the masters themselves.
The Google Panda Update: Decipher Google Panda with the help of some cartoon pandas.
Useful Blogs to read
Learn insider tips and be the first to know updates with these SEO blogs.
Daily Blog Tips: An extensive site about SEO from a blogger’s perspective.
SEOMoz Blog: Featuring lots of guest writers and always on the ball with updates.
Google’s Blog: Find out what the biggest search engine is up to.
Google Webmaster Blog: A slightly geekier Google blog about crawling and indexing sites for the Google index.
Search Engine Land: Another big site full of SEO tips and tricks.
Tools
There are many SEO tools out there, some of which you have to pay for. Here are the free ones we use a lot.
Google Adwords Keyword Tool: If you only used one tool for SEO, use this. Find out popular keywords and their competition.
Majestic SEO Site Explorer: Type your URL into the search box and find out what your backlinks are up to.
Analyze Backlinks: Another backlink checker.
Content Inspiration
We all know that quality content is SEO gold, but it’s hard sometimes to come up with ideas for blogs and latest news. These websites are great for inspiring your next article or news update, but be careful – they can become very addictive!
StumbleUpon: Create an account, choose your preferences and get recommended posts that are great to share on social media.
Digg: Displays the most popular articles on the internet.
Reddit: Another content goldmine.
YouTube: Remember, video is categorised as quality content too. See what’s trending on YouTube and use these as inspiration for your own video content.
For more inspiration for quality content, keep an eye out for our next blog posts!
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