SEO Resources and Recommended Reading

Search Marketing is a $10 billion market and growing to $18.6 billion by 2011 (SEMPO Research). As a result there's a plethora of SEO information on the web. We at Ask2Link regularly read and subscribe to these experts and believe that they are the authoritative source for knowledgeable and accurate SEO information. Listed alphabetically.

1. Aaron Wall's SEO Book. A leading SEO resource focused on helping successful webmasters make money and increase their profits through driving targeted traffic to their sites by improving their rankings in search engines.




2. Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim. Online Marketing News by Andy Beal and his team.




3. Barry Schwartz' Search Engine Roundtable. A well-rounded view on search engines and search engine marketing from five segments of the Web population represented by senior members of the major SEO/SEM forums on the Internet.




4. Brad Smart's Ranked Hard SEO Company. Weblog of Brad Smart, elusive SEO Specialist, President of Ranked Hard Search Engine Optimization Company.




5. Eric Ward's Link Building Eric Ward coined the word 'Etiology' and is one of the world's foremost authority on link Building and building content publicity.




6. Search Engine Optimization Tips and Trick. Huge Articles about How to make and improve Website Design with SEO Friendly, How the Pagerank Works, SEO and Pagerank, How to make your website more Google friendly, Tips to Increase Website Traffic, Google Search Engine Ranking Factors, Tips on finding a good directory, How to submit to a directory, How to Make an Article Marketing Campaign Successful, Blogging Tips, Search Engine Optimization for Affiliate Marketers, How to easily get one-way links pointing to your website.




7. Jennifer Laycock's Search Engine Guide. Learn common sense search engine marketing, viral marketing and customer outreach via social media and blogs. A free resource for small business.




8. Jill Whalen's Forum on SEO. Forum on SEO founded by Jill Whalen, CEO and founder of High Rankings, an internationally recognized search engine optimization firm.




9. Jim Boykin's Blog. Blog of Jim Boykin, SEO expert and the CEO of We Build Pages (an Internet Marketing Consulting Company).




10. Loren Baker's Search Engine Journal. Latest Search Engine News from the Search Engine Journal.




11. Matt Cutt's Blog. The most famous Matt out there. Google employee Matt Cutt talks about SEO and Google.




12. Michael Gray's SEO Blog. SEO Consultant Michael Gray comments on SEO, search engine optimization, Social Media, Internet and new media.




13. Neil Patel's Blog. Blog of Neil Patel, social media marketing legend and entrepreneur.




14. Rand Fishkin's SEOmoz. SEOmoz is a hub for the search marketing industry, providing an SEO Services Marketplace, a popular SEO Blog, SEO Tools and premium content.




15. Scott Hendison's Search Commander. Personal Blog of Scott Hendison, the Search
    Commander, on search engine optimization.




16. Todd Malicoat's Stuntdubl Blog. Todd Malicoat's information on internet marketing tools, search marketing news, and recent industry events with a little bit of humor and sarcasm.




17. Vanessa Fox's Blog. Blog of Vanessa Fox, search engine optimization expert, writer and consultant.