Online Resources for Would-be SEOs - Some Necessary Sites
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It would be very much amiss for me to not mention our own SEO Chat site, of course. We publish new articles three times a week, and we have more than a score of free tools to help you optimize your web site for the search engines. We also have a weekly newsletter that includes content you won¡¯t find elsewhere and very active forums. I¡¯ve spent a good bit of time in those forums myself, mostly lurking and learning from the knowledgeable SEO amateurs and professionals who post there, often helping out the newcomers. It¡¯s been said that we have some of the most newbie-friendly SEO forums online, and I can easily believe it.

Matt Cutts¡¯ blog (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/) is always worth a look, and many SEOs seem to start their day by reading him. For those who don¡¯t know, Matt Cutts has been working for Google since the beginning of 2000, and currently heads the search engine¡¯s Web spam team. He sometimes posts about SEO and answers SEO-related questions online, though he emphasizes that ¡°The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer.¡± Cutts has been posting to this personal blog very regularly since June 2005. ¡°Google/SEO¡± is one of the specific categories you can check in Cutts¡¯ blog.

Of course, if I¡¯m mentioning Cutts¡¯ blog, I should also mention Jeremy Zawodny¡¯s blog (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/). He¡¯s employed by Yahoo, and Cutts and Zawodny occasionally comment on each other¡¯s blogs. I admit I haven¡¯t read his blog much, but he is popular with some SEOs.

Search Engine Roundtable (http://www.seroundtable.com/) says that its mission is ¡°to provide you with a single source to locate the best search engine marketing threads on the Internet.¡± Each post is a brief summary of the thread, with a link back to the original forum and thread. In addition to the nearly dozen forums they cover, they have their own forums. SER is where you¡¯re likely to find out about problems that other webmasters are experiencing, weird behavior from the search engines, major sites getting penalized, who does local search better, and more.

If you¡¯re a real addict about Google-related news, you may want to go to the source, so to speak. News from Google (http://googlepress.blogspot.com/) is available by newsfeed and features all of Google¡¯s press releases.
 

(From: seochat)