Top Ten SEO

ThreadWatch – Community blog about search, marketing, and technology

SEO Book – Aaron Wall’s blog about SEO and related topics.

DaveN – known as one of the best spammers in the world, sometimes DaveN gives away a few of his tips on his blog. Always straight to the point.

JenSense – Jennifer Slegg’s blog about contextual advertising.

Search Engine Blog – Peter Da Vanzo’s blog about search. Short punchy humorous posts.

Search Engine Watch Blog – Danny Sullivan, Gary Price, and Chris Sherman all work on this blog.

Stuntdubl – Todd Malicoat’s blog about SEO and internet marketing.

Searchblog – John Battelle’s blog about search.

Online Marketing Blog – Lee Odden’s blog about search & online marketing.

FantomNews – Ralph Tegtmeir’s blog about search and internet marketing.

Search Engine Roundtable – Barry Schwartz’s blog about search & SEO.
Search Engine Lowdown – WebSourced’s blog about search.

SEO Moz – The SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog provides tips, tricks and advice for optimizing websites and getting better search engine rankings.

SEO Scoop – Donna Fontenot’s blog about SEO.

Traffick – Andrew Goodman’s blog about search.

Brad Fallon – Brad Fallon’s blog on search.

SearchNerd – Chris R’s new blog about search.

Search Engine Roundtable Forums the Search Engine Roundtable Forums. Open discussion on search engine optimization topics and search engine news.

Search Engine Watch Forums – Danny Sullivan’s search related forums.

SearchGuild – Chris Riding’s SEO forums.

DigitalPoint Forums – Shawn Hogan runs one of the more open / least moderated SEO forums on the market . He also offers many free SEO tools.

WebmasterWorld – Brett Tabke’s SEO forums.

SEO Chat – SEO forums owned and operated by DevShed.

Cre8asite Forums – Kim Krause’s SEO forums.

JimWorld – one of the original SEO forums. Sorta past it’s prime, but occassionally there might be a few good threads here and there.

V7N – John Scott’s forums.

HighRankings – Jill Whalen’s SEO forums. She is known as a proud whitehat SEO. My friend Debra also moderates over there.

Lil Engine – another somewhat small SEO forum.

SEO Guy forums – small to mid sized SEO forum. Morgan Carey is a swell chap.

SitePoint forums – web development forums.Daniweb – web development forums ran by my friend Dani, mostly focused on programming.

WebProWorld – fairly large forums which work in conjuntion with WebProNews.

WebWorkshop – Phil Craven’s SEO forums.

Top25Web – smallish forums about SEO and site coding.

Ozzu Forums – general webmaster forums

Resource Zone – forum associated with the Open Directory Project.

Geeks on Steroids – smallish forums about SEO and webmaster related issues.

Band of Gonzos – I believe many of the guys from BOG used to also moderate at WebProWorld. Some swell chaps there.

Anthony Parsons forums – Anthony is a well known Australian SEO.

Abakus SEO Forums – well known German SEO. also has a larger German SEO forum.

IHelpYou – Some people consider Doug Heil to be a bit of a nutter, but some of his threads are at least a bit funny. He is an evangical whitehat SEO who thinks most people are unethical spammers.

SEO Roadshow – Free once a year non-commercial bar meetings. They are free and uber cool…need an invite to go though. NFFC is cool.

Search Engine Strategies – Geared more toward the marketing and advertertising professions, these are usually ran by Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch. Host about 8 to 10 of them a year. about $1,700 for a 4 day conference (some local SES conferences are shorter and cheaper – also if you register early you save $100, and if you hunt you can usually find a coupon to save a couple dollars on the entry cost).

WebmasterWorld Conference – Geared more toward the independant webmaster, these are hosted by Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld. Occurs about 2-3 times a year. about $500 to $1,000 for a 3 day conference (price depends on when you buy, which conference you attend, etc.).

ThreadWatch Conference – Similar to SEO Roadshow, with much overlap in who attends.

1. SEO Book
2. Search Engine Marketing
3. Search Engine Marketing Kit
4. Free PPC Guide