Ever since Google introduced nofollow links in 2005, they have been hotly debated in the SEO community. Their controversy seems to have grown each year, and with recent changes in Google’s algorithm the blogosphere is buzzing more than ever about them.
If you have a website and have a link building strategy (which you should), it is very important to know about the difference between dofollow and nofollow links. This post provides a solid overview of nofollow links, and some additional resources to learn more about them.
These are the best online marketing blogs I have come across on the web. This list continues to grow with marketing resources I find particularly useful. The list is divided into SEO, Web Analytics, Social Media, and General Internet Marketing.
SEO
Daily SEO Tip - Informative SEO Tipcs by Ann Smarty and Loren Baker
Graywolf SEO - Popular and unique SEO blog by Michael Gray
SEO Book - Good readability, design, and content for SEO
SEOmoz - A dominant and very popular SEO blog
Alltop - Search engine headlines and articles from major SEO blogs
Search Engine Roundtable - The pulse of the search marketing community
Search Engine Land - A popular news site about search engines and search marketing
SEO Scoop - A community based SEO blog
Search Engine Journal - A search marketing journal updated several times each day
Web Analytics Blogs
Google Analytics Blog - The latest news, tips, and resources straight from the Google Analytics team
Occam’s Razor - My favorite web analytics blog by Avinash Kaushik
Immeria - An immersion in web analytics by Web Analytics Advocate Stephane Hamel
Web Analytics Demystified Blog - A leading education, guidance, and thought leadership blog
Omniture - The official blog of the leading web analytics tool in terms of market share
Web Analytics World - Manoj Jasra has some great insights and posts on web analytics
Anil Batra’s Web Analytics - Web Analysis, Behavioral Targeting and Advertising blog
Marketing Productivity Blog -Web analytics blog by a web analytics leader
Social Media
Mashable - By far my favorite social media blog, updated frequently and full of unique content
TechCrunch - Profiles, reviews, and news a wide range of interesting digital media products and companies
Read Write Web - Web technology analysis, reviews, and news
The Foush - The adventures of a new media strategist involved with the Obama campaign
Social Media Today - A social media and web 2.0 blog
PR 2.0 - The latest in social media, PR, and Web 2.0
The Viral Garden - Mack Collier’s influential marketing/social media blog
General
TopRankBlog - My favorite general internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing
Seth Godin - One of the most popular blogs on the internet (with good reason), covering many marketing aspects
ProBlogger - Darren Rowse offers blogging strategies and tips for both novice and veteran bloggers
Copy Blogger - Copywriting tips for online marketing success
Keyword research is the first step in SEO to drive website traffic. Free keyword research tools used in combination with web analytics can be just as good as using paid tools. Not implementing website analytics to measure and optimize your SEO efforts is a big mistake.
Here are my four favorite free keyword research tools that I use (I used them to research this very post):
Google and Yahoo made up 85% of US search engine queries in April 2009. Google owns 64% of the search engine market in the US, while Yahoo comes in at 20%.
The search engine results can be quite different because of the different search algorithms each one uses. It’s important to know what these differences are so you can incorporate them into your optimization strategies.
Here are three important differences between Google and Yahoo’s search engine algorithms:
Google has the lion’s share of the search engine market. If you’re trying to drive website traffic from search engines, spending more of your time optimizing for Google makes sense. Bear in mind the following factors and tips will work for other popular search engines such as Yahoo! as well.
Here are 55 Google SEO Factors to improve your search engine rankings in Google.
