By Peter Kent
Links from the Book – 2nd Edition
This site is a companion for the book Search Engine Optimization For Dummies, 2nd Edition. It gives you the possibility to access, with just a click of the mouse, every site that I list in the book.
The list below is for the 2nd Edition of this book.
For the 6th Edition, click here.
For the 5th Edition, click here.
For the 4th Edition, click here.
For the 3rd Edition, click here.
In accordance with the book’s philosophy, this list is all but exhaustive and it reflects my personal selection of the sites I like best. For your convenience, I’ve listed the resources chapter by chapter, following the order in which they appear in the book.
- Chapter 1: Surveying the Search Engine Landscape
- Chapter 2: Your One-Hour Search-Engine-Friendly Web Site Makeover
- Chapter 3: Making Your Site Useful and Telling People about It
- Chapter 4: Picking Powerful Keywords
- Chapter 5: Creating Pages That Search Engines Love
- Chapter 6: Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate
- Chapter 7: Dirty Deeds – Facing the Consequences
- Chapter 8: Bulking Up Your Site – Compete with Content
- Chapter 9: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
- Chapter 10: Submitting to the Directories
- Chapter 11: Buried Treasure – More Great Places to Submit Your Site
- Chapter 12: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
- Chapter 13: Finding Sites to Link to Yours
- Chapter 14: Using the Shopping Directories and Retailers
- Chapter 15: Pay Per Click – Overture, Google AdWords, and More
- Chapter 16: Ten-Plus Ways to Keep Up-to-Date and Track Down the Details
- Chapter 17: Ten Myths and Mistakes
- Chapter 18: Ten-Plus Useful Tools for Search Engine Optimization
- Appendix A: Search Techniques You Should Know
- Appendix B: Staying Out of Copyright Jail
Chapter 1: Surveying the Search Engine Landscape
Search Engines, Indexes and Directories:
Google
Yahoo! Directories – BROKEN LINK
Open Directory Project
Yahoo!
Grub
Nutch – BROKEN LINK
Tools:
Google Toolbar
Alexa Toolbar
Chapter 2: Your One-Hour Search-Engine-Friendly Web Site Makeover
Finding Out if Your Site is Indexed:
Google Toolbar
Google
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Directory – BROKEN LINK
Keyword Related Sites:
Overture – BROKEN LINK
Flash Intros:
Skip-Intro.com
Chapter 3: Making Your Site Useful and Telling People about It
404 Error Info:
404 Research Lab
Chapter 4: Picking Powerful Keywords
Keyword Tools:
Overture – BROKEN LINK
FindWhat – BROKEN LINK
Google Adwords
WordTracker
Metacrawlers:
www.dogpile.com/
Chapter 5: Creating Pages That Search Engines Love
Using Company and Product Names:
Terri Welles’ Site
Chapter 6: Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate
Pop-Up Blocking Software:
PopUpCop
jTFlashManager
URL Rewriting:
www.asp101.com/articles/wayne/extendingnames/
httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Cookies:
Nokia
Chapter 7: Dirty Deeds – Facing the Consequences
Penalties:
Google Spamreport
Chapter 8: Bulking Up Your Site – Compete with Content
Websites and E-mail Newsletters:
Coollist – BROKEN LINK
EzineHub – BROKEN LINK
Ezine-Universe
E-Zine-List – BROKEN LINK
Low Bandwidth
listTool
Newsletter Access
NewJour – BROKEN LINK
Tile.Net
Topica
WebScout Lists
Government Sources:
FedWorld – BROKEN LINK
Government Printing Office:
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications – BROKEN LINK
New Electronic Titles
Library of Congress – Browse Government Resources
CIA’s Electronic Reading Room
U.S. Department of State’s Electronic Reading Room
U.S. Historical Documents Archive
FBI’s Electronic Reading Room
Content Syndictation Sites:
ArticleDashboard
Bull Marketer – BROKEN LINK
EZineArticles.com
FreeSticky.com – BROKEN LINK
GoArticles.com
IdeaMarketers.com
The Open Directory Project’s List of Content Providers – BROKEN LINK
Purple Pages
Stickysauce – BROKEN LINK
World Wide Information Outlet
Traditional Sydndication Services:
AbleStable Syndication – BROKEN LINK
www.featurewell.com (articles from $70).
www.gale.com (kinda pricey; $10,000 for a subscription!)
MagPortal
Moreover
The Open Directory Project’s List of Content Providers – BROKEN LINK
OSKAR Consulting
Pages
United Media’s uclick
YellowBrix – BROKEN LINK
Yahoo! News and Media Syndicates page – BROKEN LINK
RSS Syndication Feeds
Blogdex
Feedster
Fagan Finder
Lockergnome
myRSS
NewsKnowledge
Syndic8 – BROKEN LINK
freshmeat
SourceForge.net
Open Content and Copyleft:
Creative Commons
Open Content List – BROKEN LINK
The Open Directory Project’s Open Content page
Press Releases:
Hot Product News – BROKEN LINK
Internet News Bureau
M2PressWIRE
Online Press Releases – BROKEN LINK
PR Newswire
PR Web
USANews
Q&A Areas:
Resource Index
Blogs:
www.blogger.com
Chapter 9: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
Free Submission Sites:
Google – BROKEN LINK
Inktomi (via the MSN site) – BROKEN LINK
Inktomi (via the Lycos site) – BROKEN LINK
AltaVista.com – BROKEN LINK
FAST/AlltheWeb – BROKEN LINK
Zeal (if you have a noncommercial Web site) – BROKEN LINK
MSN
www.grub.org
Paid Inclusion Sites:
Inktomi – BROKEN LINK
AltaVista
FAST/AlltheWeb – BROKEN LINK
Teoma/Ask Jeeves – BROKEN LINK
Position Technologies
Lycos
Ineedhits
Network Solutions
Submitting to Secondary Systems:
www.exactseek.com
Gigablast
Search Engine Tips and Tricks
SearchEngineBulletin.com
Search Eingine Watch
Directory Search
All Search Engines
www.searchengines.com/generalKids.html (search engines for kids)
www.searchengines.com/worldUSCan.html (regional search engines)
Yahoo! Directories – BROKEN LINK
ShortKeys
Registration Services and Programs:
AddPro
IneedHits
DynamicSubmission.com
Web Position Gold
Submit Wolf
Chapter 10: Submitting to the Directories
Understanding Search Directories:
Wayback Machine
Directories:
Yahoo! Directory – BROKEN LINK
Open Directory Project
Rescource Zone
Second Tier Directories:
SearchEngines.com
Dir-Search.com
Business.com
Business Week Online
Chapter 11: Buried Treasure – More Great Places to Submit Your Site
Specialized Directories:
Rodent Directory
Nature Photo Index
Finding Directories:
Yahoo! Directories – BROKEN LINK
Open Directory Project
Yellow Page Sites:
Yahoo! Yellow Pages
InfoSpace
WorldPages.com
SBC SMARTPages
BellSouth RealPages.com
Yell.com
YellowPages.com
DexOnline.com
Verizon SuperPages
Yellowbook.com
Yellow.com
Chapter 12: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
Page Rank Info:
www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
Google Toolbar
Chapter 13: Finding Sites to Link to Yours
Announcement Sites and Newsletters:
URLWire
USAToday.com’s Hot Sites
Yahoo! Picks: picks.yahoo.com/picks/ – BROKEN LINK
Press Releases:
PR Newswire
PR Web – BROKEN LINK
WorldAnnounce
PRESSLine – BROKEN LINK
pressbox
Link Popularity Sites and Software:
LinkPopularity.com
Marketleap – BROKEN LINK
Link Survey – BROKEN LINK
OptiLink
Chapter 14: Using the Shopping Directories and Retailers
Shopping Directories:
Google Catalogs – BROKEN LINK
Froogle
Yahoo! Shopping
Shopping.com
PriceGrabber.com
BizRate
NexTag
Price Watch
PriceSCAN
Yahoo! Store
PrecioMania
More Shopping Services:
StreetPrices.com
iBuyernet.com
Ask Jeeves Shopping
Dogpile
MetaCrawler
PricingCentral.com
Lycos Shopping
MySimon
Shopper.com
AOL Shopping
MSN Shopping – BROKEN LINK
Kelkoo
Third Party Merchant Sites:
Amazon.com zShops
Half.com – BROKEN LINK
eBay
Amazon Auctions
Yahoo! Auctions
Chapter 15: Pay Per Click – Overture, Google AdWords, and More
Advertising Services and Tools:
Google Adsense
Pay Per Click (PPC)
FindWhat – BROKEN LINK
Espotting Media
Enhance Interactive
EPilot
PayPerClickSearchEngines.com
GoToast
Chapter 16: Ten-Plus Ways to Keep Up-to-Date and Track Down the Details
Extra Help:
SearchEngineBulletin.com
CurrentWisdom.com
Google’s Webmaster Pages:
Google Webmasters Guidelines
Google Information for Webmasters FAQ
Inktomi’s FAQs:
Inktomi Web Search FAQ – BROKEN LINK
Inktomi Content Policy FAQ – BROKEN LINK
AlltheWeb’s FAQs:
Webmasters’ FAQ – BROKEN LINK
Crawler FAQ – BROKEN LINK
AltaVista’s FAQ:
Altavistas Adding & Removing URLs FAQs
MSN’s SEO Tips:
Search Engine Optimization Tips by Submit It! – BROKEN LINK
Teoma/AskJeeves’ FAQ
Teoma/AskJeeves’ Site Submit FAQs
Search Engine Watch:
Search Engine Watch
Google’s Newsgroups
Google Groups
WebMaster World:
WebMasterWorld.com
Pandia:
Pandia
IHelpYouServices.com
IHelpYouServices.com
HighRankings.com
HighRankings.com
The Yahoo! Search Engine Optimization Resources Category:
Yahoo! Category – BROKEN LINK
The Open Directory Project Search Categories:
dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching
dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines
dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories
dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/Specialized
RescourceZone.com
Chapter 17: Ten Myths and Mistakes
NONE
Chapter 18: Ten-Plus Useful Tools for Search Engine Optimization
Checking Site Rank:
Digital Point’s Keyword Tracker Tool
Google API
WebCEO
Position Vision
Checking for Broken Links:
LinkAlarm
Xenu’s Link Sleuth
Google Toolbar:
Google Toolbar
Google Zeitgeist:
Google Zeitgeist
Alexa Toolbar:
Alexa Toolbar
Finding Links:
Antssoft – BROKEN LINK
Seeing What the Search Engines See:
SimSpider – BROKEN LINK
Delorie
Delorie Lynx Simulator: www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
Keyword Density Analysis:
Search Engine World’s Keyword Density Analyzer – BROKEN LINK
KeywordDensity – BROKEN LINK
Site Traffic Analysis:
ClickTacks
More Tools:
Search Engine World – BROKEN LINK
SEO Help
Pandia SEO – BROKEN LINK
Appendix A: Search Techniques You Should Know
Froogle:
Froogle
Topic and Domain-Specific Searches:
Apple Macintosh – BROKEN LINK
BSD Unix – BROKEN LINK
Linux – BROKEN LINK
Microsoft – BROKEN LINK
U.S. Government .gov and .mil sites – BROKEN LINK
Universities
Finding Recent Changes:
Research Buzz Goo Fresh Tool – BROKEN LINK
Google Search Methods:
Google Search by Location – BROKEN LINK
Google Catalogues – BROKEN LINK
Google Directory – BROKEN LINK
Google News
Google Webquotes – BROKEN LINK
Google Labs
Google Feature Help
Appendix B: Staying Out of Copyright Jail
Copyright Info:
U.S. Copyright Office
U.N.C. Copyright Chart
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