Trying to keep up in a busy year of posts on search engine optimization? Relax - we've done the work for you in finding the 50 must-read top 50 SEO posts of the year. These blog posts will help you understand what happened in SEO this year and help you plan for 2008.
We scoured the Internet to find the very best SEO posts of the past year. If you're looking to take your website to the top, these posts might just be your ticket. They're insightful, practical, well-written, and you can start using them today! Enjoy! |
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The Top 50 SEO Posts of the Year
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| Google's PageRank Update Goes After Paid Links? |
Search Engine Land |
Danny Sullivan |
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| View All Your Google Supplemental Index Results |
SEOBook |
Aaron Wall |
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| Hey Google, I'm Over Here! (a 301 Experiment) |
SEO Moz |
Rand Fishkin |
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| How to Report Paid Links |
Matt Cutts |
Matt Cutts |
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| How To Use HTML Meta Tags |
Search Engine Watch |
Kevin Newcomb: |
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| Can The Nofollow Tag Hurt Ones Rankings? |
Search Engine Roundtable |
Barry Schwartz |
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| 8 Things We Learned About Google PageRank |
Search Engine Journal |
Loren Baker |
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| Press Releases as Marketing Tools |
Online Marketing Blog |
Lee Odden |
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| Why We Rank #1 for 'John Chow' and Why You Shouldn't Mess With Google |
Pronet Advertising |
Neil Patel |
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| Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have |
Marketing Pilgrim |
Andy Beal |
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| How to Steal to the Top of Google |
SEO Chat |
Jonathan Caputo |
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| NoFollow is for Blog Spam...no Paid Text Links, wait...Paid Ads...Aww Heck, Just Stop Linking and Let Calacanis Decide the Rankings |
Search Engine Guide |
Jennifer Laycock |
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| Google Torpedoes Navy: You Sunk my Battleship! |
SEO Blackhat |
Andrew Corley |
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| The SEO Playbook - Welcome to the Rabbit Hole Alice |
Stuntdubl |
Todd Malicoat |
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| Google Adsense Tips, Tricks, and Secrets |
Graywolf's SEO |
Michael Gray |
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| On Personalized PageRank and Personalized Anchor Text Scores |
SEO by the SEA |
Bill Slawski |
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| Do Nofollow Links Count? |
Link Building Blog |
Andy Hagans |
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| LinkBait alone won't do it. You need Link Ninjas. |
Jim Boykin |
Jim Boykin |
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| Dreamhost asking clients to block GoogleBot |
SEOpedia |
Cristian Mezei |
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| Want some Authority Quickly |
DaveN |
David Naylor |
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| The Lisa's Problem With Wikipedia Explained |
Bruce Clay |
Bruce Clay |
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| 100's Of Links/Hour Automated - Introduction To Black Hole SEO |
Blue Hat SEO |
Eli |
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| Andy Hagans' Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and SMM |
Tropical SEO |
Andy Hagans |
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| 10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum |
SEO Refugee |
James Cook |
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| 10 Likely Elements of Google's Local Search Algorithm |
Small Business SEM |
Matt McGee |
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| Secret Confessions of a Link-A-Holic |
Problogger |
Darren Rowse |
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| Digg Favorites Slapped By Google |
Andy Beard |
Andy Beard |
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| Hundreds of SEO Interviews |
SEO Scoop |
Donna Fontenot |
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| Help! I'm New, I Need Links, What Can I Do? |
The Link Spiel |
Debra Mastaler |
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| Link Cloaking - The why, the where, the how |
Shoemoney |
Jeremy Schoemaker |
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| Could Relona Be the Google Killer? |
Search Engine Lowdown |
Jeremy Mayes |
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| How to bury negative publicity sites |
SEO Buzz Box |
Aaron Pratt |
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| Why Bloggers Don't Need SEO |
Perfomancing |
Nick Wilson |
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| Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb |
Copyblogger |
Brian Clark |
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| Choosing your anchor text for incoming links |
Jennifer Slegg |
Jennifer Slegg |
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| SEO with Usability: What The People Want |
CRE8PC |
Kim Krause Berg |
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| Google Shoots Arrow into Heart of "Link Economy" |
Traffick |
Andrew Goodman |
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| 37 Things To Keep in Mind When Writing Web Content |
SEO Space |
Jody Nimetz |
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| Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google's butt in four years |
Scobleizer |
Robert Scoble |
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| John Scott on Link Building |
V7N |
John Scott |
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| Top 20 Most Ingenious SEO Company Names |
Ask Kalena |
Kalena Jordan |
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| The Blog Merchandising Problem, or, Blogs, V 2.0 (2.1? 3.0?) |
John Battelle's Searchblog |
John Battelle |
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| Getting Into Google - New Unavailable_after Tag and More! |
High Rankings |
Jill Whalen |
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| If You Market, They Will Come� |
McAnerin Muse |
Ian McAnerin |
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| Before You Launch that Local Small Business Website |
Sugarrae |
Rae Hoffman |
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| Understanding the Google |
Johnon |
John Andrews |
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| SEO Forecasting |
Oilman |
Todd Friesen |
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| �Doing Search' Only Counts If You're Seen |
Search Insider |
Jon Whitfield |
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| Predatory Jerks Give SEO a Bad Name |
aimClear |
Marty Weintraub |
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| How To Guide: Prevent Google Proxy Hacking |
SEO Egghead |
Jaimie Sirovich |
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