Looking to learn SEO here at Site Reference? Here are some threads to get you going and up to speed on what we’ve covered in the past


Basics

SEO Learning Link Fest - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6435/SEO-Leanring-Link-Fest/
Using Relevance in your SEO - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6801/How-to-use-Relevance-in-your-SEO/
The Big 3.5 - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6038/Looking-at-the-Big-3-5/
SEO Acronyms - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5128/SEO-Acronyms/

What is 'Submitting to search engines' ? -  http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6748/What-is-search-engine-submission/
Submitting your site to search engines - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6462/Paid-Submissions/

Keyword research - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6814/How-to-choose-keyword/
Keyword Research tools - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6761/Keyword-research-tools-which-one-s-is-the-best/


On Page Optimization -

Title and Meta tags;
http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6448/title-and-keywords/
http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6186/robots-meta-tag/
http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6321/Important-components-in-SEO-Article/

How important are meta tags - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6429/How-important-are-meta-tags-to-search-engines/

SEO Friendly Directory Structures - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6760/SEO-friendly-directory-structure/
Site Structure and page naming conventions - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6421/SEO-and-site-structure/
Google and naming conventions, the underscore - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6042/Aloha-to-Underscores/

SEO and Image ALT tags - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5963/Does-Alt-Text-on-Images-helps-in-the-SEO-of-any-site/

Google and Duplicate content - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6484/Google-duplicate-content-and-you/
Duplicate Content or not http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5500/Dupe-Content-or-News/
Duplicate content penalty, or not - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/4597/No-Duplicate-Content-Penalty/
Duplicate content? Again? - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6819/Duplicate-Content-again/

Phrase Based Optimization - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/4938/Its-a-Phrase-Based-Search-world/  and of course http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/Google-and-Phrase-Based-Optimization.html


Off Site Optimization -

Link Building Basics - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6446/Link-building-Basics/

Article Directories - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5721/Popular-article-directories/
Article submission software - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5622/Link-Building-and-Article-Submission-Software/
Article writing - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/4785/Info-Needed-Please-for-an-Article-Im-Working-On/
Article marketing - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/3860/Article-Marketing-a-Dave-rant/ 

Directories and Back Links - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/4943/Directory-submission-link-text-question/
Link directories submission and strategy - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6682/One-way-link-directories-with-PHP-URLs/

Site-wide links in a link profile - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6150/Site-wide-links/
Google and Paid Links - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6412/Paid-links-brew-ha/

Social Media Marketing Articles - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6468/Social-media-marketing-articles/
Blog marketing and Social Search - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/4944/Blog-Marketing-and-Social-Search/


Server Side SEO -

Redirects - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6318/301-Redirect-DId-not-Send-PR/
Guide to redirects - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5502/How-to-redirect-a-site-without-the-pitfalls/
Redirects on a Windows Server (IIS) http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/7085/301s/

The Dark Side --

Negative SEO - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5907/Negative-SEO/
Google Proxy Hacking - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6456/Google-Proxy-Hacking/
Hidden text - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5746/Hidden-keywords/

SEO Tools;

Backlink checkers - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6589/Backlink-checker/


Other stuff --

Getting out of the supplemental index - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5672/Getting-out-of-the-Supplementals/ 

Alexa Rankings - http://forums.site-reference.com/viewtopic.php?id=6109
                             - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6557/Alexa-rankings-can-be-hopelessly-inaccurate/

SEO Software - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5528/SEO-software-is-it-worth-it/

SEO for WordPress - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/5312/SEO-for-Wordpress/

How can I increase my PageRank? - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6614/How-Can-I-Increase-my-PR/
Google ToolBar Page Rank - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/2987/Google-Toolbar-Pagerank-Demystified/ based on the article --  http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/The-Google-Toolbar-PageRank-Demystified.html

User Satisfaction and relevance factors - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6440/User-satisfaction-and-relevance-metrics/

Latent Semantic Indexing - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/4526/LSI-an-Xmas-Rant/

Is your SEO provider useless? - http://forums.site-reference.com/viewtopic.php?pid=46463#p46463

I just felt like putting what we had together so I can continue to add to the list and make life easier in the future for this lazy old man..... thank you.... Carry on....


SEO TOOLS

Keyword/Phrase Research;

Keyword Verification; http://www.marketleap.com/verify/default.htm
Keyword difficulty tool; http://www.seomoz.org/tools/kwtool.php
Nichebot; http://www.nichebot.com/
Keyword Density and Prominence; http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
Top KW Analysis; http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/tools/topword.html
Keyword Density Analysis; http://www.webjectives.com/keyword.htm
Spy Fu KW Analysis; http://www.spyfu.com/
Keyword Analysis Tool – http://www.mcdar.net/
Keyword Difficulty Checker – http://www.searchguild.com/cgi-bin/difficulty.pl



Keyword Suggestion

Overture Suggestion tool; http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Google AdWords Keyword tool; https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Miva Suggest; https://account.uk.miva.com/advertiser/Account/Popups/KeywordGenBox.asp
Digital Point KW suggestion tool; http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/



Links

Market Leap Link Popularity; http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/
Link Popularity.com; http://www.linkpopularity.com/
Search Engine Saturation; http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex/
Link Checker http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/perl/modules/W3C/LinkChecker/docs/checklink.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8



Ranking

Rocket Rank; http://www.rocketrank.com/
Keyword Tracking; http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
Ranking Report; http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/
iWeb Tools; http://www.iwebtool.com/rank
Geo Rank Checker; http://www.geoseo.com/


Developer Tools;

Meta-tag generator; http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/en/metatag/metatag2.php
Web Page Speed; http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
Spider Simulation; http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
Google Data Center Watching; http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php

missed this when it first came out - news letter highlighted it for me

Stirling work, dave

Tnx bro.... had Nic stickie it for me so we can track threads as we go for common topics... You know how it can get answering that same question for the umpteenth time....

Figured I can refer to this as needed now and good for noobs to browse as well.....

Yep,

almost asked Nic to make it a skicky, until i saw it already was!

NIce, now i have somewher specific to direct my new addition. I now have an employee of my very own to train up Shot Dave, you hit the spot.

Ryan_steyn wrote:

NIce, now i have somewher specific to direct my new addition. I now have an employee of my very own to train up Shot Dave, you hit the spot.

..and of course the SEO Handbook ... bwaaa ha ha ha ha ha.... silly....

This is awesome. You should maybe consider putting all these posts into a downloadble PDF and calling it 

"Site Reference SEO Guide"

Think this is the sort of information the begginer and intermediate SEO's would love.
Great link bait.

Yeah... I don't think forum threads would make much of a eBook personally because they aren't always completely on target ... there is lots of chit chat as well that folks wouldn't want to dig through IMO...

... besides, I already published an eBook on the topic... Mind you there is a bunch of stuff here that I haven't covered, so this list will be good for the 2008 version.....

TheGypsy wrote:

Yeah... I don't think forum threads would make much of a eBook personally because they aren't always completely on target ... there is lots of chit chat as well that folks wouldn't want to dig through IMO...

... besides, I already published an eBook on the topic...

Mind you there is a bunch of stuff here that I haven't covered, so this list will be good for the 2008 version.....

Some extra footnotes/tips on prediction and building relevance and creating user satisfaction may be helpfull in the 2008 version. And a section for Noobs that touches on the basics of Universal Search could be helpful.

LOL before you say it, yes I will help.

waveshoppe wrote:

TheGypsy wrote:

Yeah... I don't think forum threads would make much of a eBook personally because they aren't always completely on target ... there is lots of chit chat as well that folks wouldn't want to dig through IMO...

... besides, I already published an eBook on the topic...

Mind you there is a bunch of stuff here that I haven't covered, so this list will be good for the 2008 version.....

Some extra footnotes/tips on prediction and building relevance and creating user satisfaction may be helpfull in the 2008 version. And a section for Noobs that touches on the basics of Universal Search could be helpful.

LOL before you say it, yes I will help.

Oh U can have the US stuff.....

My problem is that it is meant as a guide to the basics for nobs. I am wary of starting to add more complex stuff into it I don't want it to get bloated..... So I might do an intermediate/advanced SEO book, or smaller offerings on various specifics like..

KWP Rsearch and targeting
Link Profile Development
PaIR and Google

etc.....

or simply keep adding to the original ( ie; SEO Book style.. tho it can get bloated)

Not really sure

NOTE; I am ust makin the rounds Charles - I have the info from Bill for playtime... talk soon

TheGypsy wrote:

waveshoppe wrote:

TheGypsy wrote:

Yeah... I don't think forum threads would make much of a eBook personally because they aren't always completely on target ... there is lots of chit chat as well that folks wouldn't want to dig through IMO...

... besides, I already published an eBook on the topic...

Some extra footnotes/tips on prediction and building relevance and creating user satisfaction may be helpfull in the 2008 version. And a section for Noobs that touches on the basics of Universal Search could be helpful.

LOL before you say it, yes I will help.

Oh U can have the US stuff.....

My problem is that it is meant as a guide to the basics for nobs. I am wary of starting to add more complex stuff into it I don't want it to get bloated..... So I might do an intermediate/advanced SEO book, or smaller offerings on various specifics like.. or simply keep adding to the original ( ie; SEO Book style.. tho it can get bloated)

KWP Rsearch and targeting
Link Profile Development
PaIR and Google

etc.....

Not really sure

NOTE; I am ust makin the rounds Charles - I have the info from Bill for playtime... talk soon

I was doing the same. Being the “wanker” that I am I will take the US stuff because there is a area that’s quite untapped and I am going to take it for myself. Have to go for a car ride but I look forward to playtime with Bill and Dave LOL

This might sound like a stupid question, but what the heck is SEO?

SEO is Search Engine Optimization. 

Terminator wrote:

This might sound like a stupid question, but what the heck is SEO?

Hmmm -- common sense would dictate using Google to search for the term SEO...

oh crap... here i thought it meant South Eastern Origame... no wonder there arent any bladdy paper animal pictures!!! DAMN YOU GOOGLE!!!

On the upside, i doubt he is the first one thinking it... i have images in my heads of about a hundred lurkers all set aback going oooohhhh... thats what it is

*heads = intentional...?

You are all wrong;

SEO = Search Engine Oportunist

sheesh, why you gotta make it sound so... so... whats it called when someone pimps something out so as to generate interest and an income?... urm... pimp+income=... na, im lost

Ryan_steyn wrote:

sheesh, why you gotta make it sound so... so... whats it called when someone pimps something out so as to generate interest and an income?... urm... pimp+income=... na, im lost

hype? or as it is known these days.. BAIT .....

nope.. solicitation.. we be pimps, sites be hoes... google be driving past in a mercedes ... or hype/bait... whatever tunes your fiddle i guess.

Great collections.... Thanks for the links....