4 Top SEO-Blogs & Their Priceless Resources Pt. 2

It has been a long time com­ing, in fact nearly 3 weeks — since I wrote the first install­ment of “4 Top SEO-Blogs and Their Price­less Resources.” If you missed it, in the first install­ment — I went over sev­eral key resources from SearchEngineWatch.

In Pt. 2, I’ll be tak­ing a look over at SEO­moz. Quite frankly, I’m pretty excited about this one because it just has loads and loads of good solid infor­ma­tion. Espe­cially their extremely detailed guides on some aspects of Search Engine Opti­miza­tion. Hope­fully, they’ll help you and do some good for your blog — one way or another!

SEO­moz is man­aged by a team of 18-dedicated writ­ers, that all have spe­cific strengths in Search Engine Opti­miza­tion. It’s def­i­nitely one of the most effect sources of infor­ma­tion for any inter­net mar­keter out there.

It doesn’t mat­ter if you are a sea­soned pro­fes­sional or a com­plete new-comer; SEO­moz will always have some­thing for every­one to learn from.

They have been online for as long as I can remem­ber and since Day 1 (look­ing at their archives) they have pro­duced some really good con­tent. Almost every aspect of Search Engine Opti­miza­tion has been explored, and all of it — in terms us non-experts can under­stand.

So, let’s take a look at some of their most crit­i­cally acclaimed con­tent — shall we?

SEO­moz

• Beginner’s Check­list for SEO

In this arti­cle, Danny Dover puts together one of the most use­ful check-lists for any new web-masters. Start­ing from the very begin­ning of learn­ing the basic WYSIWYG Sys­tem to installing your Google Ana­lyt­ics’ codes to track­ing your site’s per­for­mance. It’s a handy lit­tle check-list to keep by your side, when launch­ing your first few blogs/websites.

By fol­low­ing Danny’s sim­ple steps, you can assure your­self that you are in fact — cov­er­ing all the basic require­ments of launch­ing a suc­cess­ful blog. Some­times, in the rush of things or when we are clouded by the excite­ment of launch­ing a new web­site — we tend to for­get the basics or omit a step.

These can prove to be quite crit­i­cal and you might find your­self in trou­ble later down the track. So, just to be sure — keep this check-list by your side when you launch your first few blogs.

• Search Engine Rank Factors

Con­tributed to by over 40 SEO Experts, includ­ing the likes of Jeremy Schoe­maker, Joost de Valk , Elis­a­beth Osmeloski and many more big-names — Search Engine Rank Fac­tors V2 is the most com­pre­hen­sive SEO Guide on the internet.

No ques­tions ask, per­son­ally I think this guide has more infor­ma­tion than 90% of the “SEO Blogs” out there on the inter­net. Every­thing you need to know about SEO — from the basic require­ments to the advanced tech­niques to even the tech­niques you should be avoiding.

It’s a must read for every SEO activist or blog­ger that is inter­ested in reach­ing the higher SERPs. It’s quite a lengthy read, and might take a few days even to take in all the infor­ma­tion but it’s def­i­nitely worth it.

• Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet

I found this resource from SEO­moz to be quite use­ful, because every now and then we all for­get things — but this lit­tle cheat sheet can do you won­ders. In brief, it quickly explains some of the most com­mon terms that bub­ble up in Search Engine Opti­miza­tion practices.

Every­thing from your header-tags to your .htac­cess cod­ing to even  a quick note on URL Canon­i­cal­iza­tion. It’s one of those things that you should have book­marked — because when the time comes you’ll just kick your­self in the bum because some­thing so sim­ple can eas­ily make you waste hours research­ing for.

These are just three of the arti­cles that SEO­moz offers and there’s too many good arti­cles for me to omit. There­fore, I’ll let you browse their archives and search their con­tent — hope­fully you can gain from their moun­tain of knowledge.

Stay tuned for Part 3 — where we explore the won­ders of SEOBook!

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