Search Engine Forums
There are many search engine forums available to help you develop a good search engine strategy for increasing the number of visitors to your site, but if you really want to get involved with some of the cutting-edge discussions, the following search engine forums are places you will want to spend some time. Most forum members are happy to help newcomers so don't hesitate to ask your questions and get help from some of the most experienced SEO professionals you'll ever find in one place.
- SEO Chat - Part of the Developer Shed network and easily one of the most popular forums for webmasters. SEO Chat has a very good collection of informative articles on search engine optimization, as well as good discussion on day to day SEO issues.
- Search Engine Watch - Signup for the SearchDay newsletter and receive search engine news daily. The forums are the highest rated by the search engine community simply because so many SEO experts frequent the forum.
- WebmasterWorld - The highest Alexa ranking for an SEO related forum. The large number of members can be a bit overwhelming but if you ask a focused question, you'll probably get a reply within a few minutes.
- HighRankings - This forum is focused mainly on increasing your website rankings. Although somewhat less formal than the other forums, you can pick up a lot of "in the trenches" strategic advice for improving your rankings.
- Search Engine Roundtable - Barry offers excellent SEO advice, and is a “white-hat” SEO – meaning that he is as concerned with the ethics of the SEO tactics he uses.
- Threadwatch - Threadwatch gets the news to you fast, and it covers everything from SEO to marketing to search engines to technology issues.
- Search Engine Watch Blog - This site wins out for its professionalism and sheer quality of reporting and boasts top SEO minds such as Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman.
- SEOmoz - If you want an intelligent discussion on SEO without the hype and bias, go to SEOmoz.
- Stuntdubl - educates the reader about how search engine optimization actually works – for searchers, for search engines and for webmasters.
Search Engine Employee Blogs
We all know about the search engine blogs – Google has one for its search engine, for AdWords and even for AdSense. Similarly, Yahoo has a blog or two as well. However, these blogs toe the official party line, and while they are genuinely helpful, there's no substitute for one-on-one help that you can get from a search engine employee (such as GoogleGuy, the Google representative who posts on Webmaster World). Here are two blogs by search engine employees, and these offer valuable insights on how people on the inside think about SEO.
