Stuntdubl SEO Best Posts Roundup
One of the main reasons I started this site was to have a point of reference for things, and my own sort of public bookmarks for discussion. I often go back through and read some of the posts, and several I reference more often than others. I thought I’d do a list of my favorite posts that took the longest time, and hopefully came away with some of the best information available here. I’m a big fan of meta-aggregation. So here’s your one bookmark for the SD gold when you have time to sit down and dig in. Link donations are welcomed:)
Tools
Search Marketing Introduction and Theory
Industry
- What’s Your SEO Code?
- SEO History and Game Changing Factors
- A Shift to Business Management Consulting
- 16 Things I’ve Learned About Business
- Earn an Internet Marketing Degree
- The Competitive Webmaster’s Guide to Understanding Top Search Results
- If You’re New to SEO – Learn Who to Listen to!
- SEO is a Business School of Thought – Not a Process
- No Such Thing as SEO
- Top 10 Ad Agency SEO Lies
- 11 Reasons Marketing Hates SEM
- The Marketing Guy that Speaks Techie
For Business Owners
- 18 Questions Your CEO Forgot to Ask Before Building Your Website
- Domain Appraisal and Website Valuation Myths
- Website Appraisal – How to Buy or Sell a Website 101
- 20 Things You Can Teach a HIPPO to Make Your Website Better
- 8 Rules for successful social media marketing
- Handbook for Retail Website Success
- How to Hire an SEO Company or Consultant
- 10 Things to Ask an SEO Company
- 10 Things to Ask Your SEO Clients
- Responsibilities of an SEO Consultant – RANCEM
- The Difficulty of Hiring Good SEM Staff
- How to be a Crappy SEO Client
- The Economic Life Cycle of a Search Result
- Guide to Getting by the Gatekeepers
SEO/SEM Theory
- Understanding the Google Algorithm Factors with Ted “Tedster” Ulle
- SEO Warfare: Competitive Webmaster’s Guide to SERPS
- No Hats, Only Goals
- The Trustbox Revisited
- Peek Into the Google Algo Part II
- Clickstreams as a Algorithm Validator
- SEO Algo – Quality Indicators
- The Trust Knob is WAY too High
- SEO is a school of thought
- Yellowpage Optimization
- SEO for 2006
- Why I Try To Spend Less Time Analyzing SE Algo Updates
- How to Remedy Duplicate Content and Magical % Thinking
- Search Engines and Manual Review
- Logical SEO Variable Threshholds
- Metaphysics of Relevance – Pondering Relevance Quality
- Query Specific Search Engine Optimization
- Information Arms Race
- SE Penalty, Banning, Filter, and Re-inclusion Guide
- Google Sandbox Roundup
- Your SEM Niche – SEO Economics
- Why I Think it Took Seth Godin a While to Warm Up to SEO
- Death to Links
- PageRank is not Dead – It’s Just Stupid
- SEO is a Catchphrase Series
- SEO Makes You Smart Series
- Know Your SEO History – Community Advice from Andy
- How Examining My Search Patterns Made Me a Better SEO
- SEO Contradictions
Blog Theory
- How a Best Posts Page Will Increase Your Blog Subscribers
- How to be an Idiot Blogger that No One Likes
- Motivation for Posting – How to Post on Forums and Blogs
- Establishing Your Voice as a Blogger
- Do’s and Dont’s of an SEO Blog
- Frequency vs. Bookmark-ability
- Spread the Link Love – How to Link to Friends
Link Baiting
Link Development
- How Link Development is Like Picking up a Girl
- Text Link Valuation Guide
- 10 Tips for Training a Link Developer
- 5 Minute Link Value Test – Link Quality Indicators
- The Link Building Cycle – 6 Steps of the Link Building Process
- 12 Different Types of Links and How to Get Them
- I Am Not a Link Communist – Stirring the Pot of the Paid Links Debate
- Art of Writing a Good Link Request
- Art of Writing a Good Link Request Part II
- Example of a Good Link Request E-mail
- Balancing the Link Equation
- Buy, Borrow, Beg, and Barter for Links
- Link Hunting Tips Resources
- Link Development Question Round Robin
- Doing the Math on Link Building
- Improving Link Request Open Rates
- Presell Pages – Striving for the Perfect Link
- Pitching Viral Marketing Through an Understanding of Link Value
- Crafting Creative Queries
- Looking for Lunker Links – How Link Development is Like Fishing
Usability/ Credibility/ Conversion
- 12 Easy Quality Indicators for Improving Your Site’s Trust
- Custom 404’s – Don’t Make Your Users Feel Stupid
- Information Architecture 101
- Save on SEO – Increase Site Conversion
- 21 Tips for Increasing Your Website Credibility
- Stock Photography Sucks
- You’re Only as Smart, Sexy, and Funny as Who You Link To
- Readability Test – Dark Text/Light Back vs. Light Text/Dark Back
- A Few Eyetracking Resources