By Peter Kent
Links from the Book – 3rd Edition
This site is a companion for the book Search Engine Optimization For Dummies. 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 3rd Edition of this book.
For the 6th Edition, click here.
For the 5th Edition, click here.
For the 4th Edition, click here.
For the 2nd Edition, click here.
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: Planning Your Search Engine Strategy
- Chapter 4: Making Your Site Useful and Visible
- Chapter 5: Picking Powerful Keywords
- Chapter 6: Creating Pages That Search Engines Love
- Chapter 7: Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate
- Chapter 8: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
- Chapter 9: Bulking Up Your Site – Competing with Content
- Chapter 10: Finding Traffic via Geo-Targeting
- Chapter 11: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
- Chapter 12: Submitting to the Directories
- Chapter 13: Buried Treasure – More Great Places to Submit Your Site
- Chapter 14: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
- Chapter 15: Finding Sites to Link to Yours
- Chapter 16: Even More Great Places to Get Links
- Chapter 17: Using Shopping Directories and Retailers
- Chapter 18: Paying Per Click
- Chapter 19: Ten-Plus Ways to Stay Updated
- Chapter 20: Ten Myths and Mistakes
- Chapter 21: Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
- Appendix Staying Out of Copyright Jail
- Bonus Chapter: Search Techniques You Should Know
Chapter 1: Surveying the Search Engine Landscape
Search Engines, Indexes and Directories:
- Yahoo! Directories – BROKEN LINK
- Open Directory Project
- Yahoo!
- Ask.com
- AOL
- My Web Search – BROKEN LINK
- MyWay.com
Tools:
Chapter 2: Your One-Hour Search-Engine-Friendly Web Site Makeover
Finding Out if Your Site is Indexed:
- Google Toolbar
- Yahoo!
- Yahoo! Directory – BROKEN LINK
- Open Directory Project
Chapter 3: Planning Your Search Engine Strategy
- Rodent Racing Engineering
- Google’s History Patent
- Craig’s List
Chapter 4: Making Your Site Useful and Visible
Chapter 5: Picking Powerful Keywords
Keyword Tools:
- Yahoo Keyword Tool – BROKEN LINK
- Google Adwords
- Microsoft Adcenter
- WordTracker
- DogPile
- Metacrawlers
- Trellian’s Keyword Discovery
- KeywordSpy
- Wordze.com
Chapter 6: Creating Pages That Search Engines Love
Using Company and Product Names:
This chapter also refers to an article about picking a hosting company, which you can find here.
Chapter 7: Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate
Pop-Up Blocking Software:
- PopUpCop
- jTFlashManager
URL Rewriting:
Cookies:
Chapter 8: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
Penalties:
- Google Spam Report
- Yahoo Spam Report
- MSN Spam Report
- Ask.com Spam Report – BROKEN LINK
Chapter 9: Bulking Up Your Site – Competing with Content
Convincing Someone to Write It:
Websites and E-mail Newsletters:
- Coollist – BROKEN LINK
- EzineHub – BROKEN LINK
- Ezine-Universe
- listTool
- NewJour
- Newsletter Access
- Tile.Net
Government Sources:
PDF Conversion Sites:
Government Materials:
- FedWorld – BROKEN LINK
- 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
- FBI’s Freedom of Information Web Site
Content Syndication Sites:
- ArticleDashboard
- EZineArticles.com
- FreeSticky.com – BROKEN LINK
- GoArticles.com
- IdeaMarketers.com
- The Open Directory Project’s List of Content Providers
- Purple Pages – BROKEN LINK
- World Wide Information Outlet
Traditional Syndication Services:
- AbleStable Syndication
- Featurewell.com
- Moreover
- The Open Directory Project’s List of Content Providers
- OSKAR Consulting
- United Media’s uclick
- YellowBrix – BROKEN LINK
- Yahoo! News and Media Syndicates page – BROKEN LINK
RSS Syndication Feeds:
- 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:
- Emailwire
- Free-press-release.com
- Hot Product News – BROKEN LINK
- I-newswire.com
- Internet News Bureau
- M2PressWIRE
- Online Press Releases – BROKEN LINK
- OpenPR.com
- PR Newswire
- PR Web
- PR.com
- PR9.net
- Pressbox.co.uk
- PR-GB.com
- PRLeap
- PRLOG.org
- TransWorldNews.com
- USANews
Q&A Areas:
Blogs:
Chapter 10: Finding Traffic via Geo-Targeting
The Big Four Go Local:
- Yahoo! Local Listings – BROKEN LINK
- Google Local Search
- MSN Local Search – BROKEN LINK
- Ask Local – BROKEN LINK
Finding More Local Searches
- Insider Pages
Chapter 11: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
Free Submission Pages:
Third-Party Site Map Creators
- XML Sitemaps.com
- SitemapDoc
- GSiteCrawler – BROKEN LINK
- AuditMyPC.com Sitemap Generator
- George Petrov’s Google Sitemap Generator
- VIGOS Gsitemap – BROKEN LINK
- Coffee Cup Google SiteMapper – BROKEN LINK
- Sitemaps Pal – BROKEN LINK
- Google Sitemap Maker – BROKEN LINK
I also mentioned a list of “secondary” search engines and directories, which you can find here.
Paid Inclusion Programs:
- Yahoo Submit Basic Search – BROKEN LINK
Submitting to Secondary Systems:
- www.exactseek.com
- Gigablast
Search Engine Tips and Tricks:
- SearchEngineBulletin.com
- Search Engine Watch
- All Search Engines
- www.searchengines.com/generalKids.html
(search engines for kids) - www.searchengines.com/worldUSCan.html
(regional search engines) - Yahoo! Directories – BROKEN LINK
Registration Services and Programs:
- AddPro
- IneedHits
- DynamicSubmission.com
- Submit Wolf
- Web Position Gold
Chapter 12: Submitting to the Directories
Understanding Search Directories:
Directories:
- Yahoo! Directory – BROKEN LINK
- Open Directory Project
- Resource Zone
In this chapter I also mentioned a directory registration company; you can find information about it here.
Chapter 13: 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:
Chapter 14: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
Page Rank Info:
Chapter 15: 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 16: Even More Great Places to Get Links
Syndication Directories:
- All Net Articles.com – BROKEN LINK
- https://www.amazines.com
- https://www.articlecity.com
- https://www.certificate.net
- https://www.connectionteam.com/sources.htm
- ccs=111&cs=1696 – BROKEN LINK
- https://www.ezinearticles.com
- https://www.ezine-writer.com.au
- https://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb – BROKEN LINK
- https://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/submitselfsyndicate.asp – BROKEN LINK
- https://www.gold-investor.com
- https://www.greekshares.com
- https://www.ideamarketers.com
- https://www.jogena.com
- https://www.marketingtips.com/tipsltr.html – BROKEN LINK
- https://www.marketing-seek.com
- https://www.netterweb.com
- https://www.vectorcentral.com
- https://www.webpronews.com
- https://www.web-source.net/syndicator.htm
- https://www.writers-and-publishers.com
Syndication Services:
- https://www.submityourarticle.com
- https://www.articlemarketer.com
- https://www.articlesender.com
- https://www.articlesubmitterpro.com – BROKEN LINK
- https://www.rypmarketing.com
Social Networking:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software
#Social_bookmarking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Chapter 17: Using the Shopping Directories and Retailers
Shopping Directories:
- Google Product Search – BROKEN LINK
- Yahoo! Shopping
- Shopping.com
- BizRate & Shopzilla
- Pricegrabber.com
- NexTag
- Price Watch
- PriceSCAN
- PrecioMania
More Shopping Services:
- Shop.com
- StreetPrices.com
- Ibuyernet.com – BROKEN LINK
- Ask Jeeves Shopping
- Dogpile
- PricingCentral.com
- Pronto.com
- Lycos Shopping
- MySimon
- Shopper.com
- AOL Shopping
- MSN Shopping – BROKEN LINK
- Kelkoo
Third Party Merchant Sites:
- Amazon.com Web Stores – BROKEN LINK
- Amazon “Sell Your Stuff”
- eBay
- Half.com
Chapter 18: Pay Per Click
Advertising Services and Tools:
- Google Adsense – BROKEN LINK
Pay Per Click (PPC)
- Yahoo! Search Marketing – BROKEN LINK
- Google Ad Words
- Microsoft AdCenter – BROKEN LINK
- Ask.com
- Miva.com
- Enhance Interactive
- EPilot
- 7Search
- ABC Search – BROKEN LINK
- Searchfeed
Automating PPC Management
- Atlas Search
- Bid Rank
Chapter 19: Ten-Plus Ways Stay Updated
Extra Help:
- SearchEngineBulletin.com
- CurrentWisdom.com
Google’s Webmaster Pages:
Yahoo!’s Search Help:
MSN’s SEO Tips:
- MSN/Live Search’s SEO Tips – BROKEN LINK
ASK.com
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Ask.com Webmaster Help
Search Engine Watch:
Google’s Newsgroups:
Google’s Inside Scoop:
Webmaster World:
- Webmaster World
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 - ResourceZone.com
Chapter 20: Ten Myths and Mistakes
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Chapter 21: Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
Enhanced Image Search:
Checking Site Rank:
- Web Position
- Google API
- WebCEO
- SEO Reporter
Checking for Broken Links:
Google Toolbar:
Alexa Toolbar:
- Alexa Toolbar – BROKEN LINK
Seeing What the Search Engines See:
Keyword Density Analysis:
- Search Engine World’s Keyword Density Analyzer
- KeywordDensity – BROKEN LINK
Site Traffic Analysis:
- ClickTracks
Checking for Duplication and Theft:
More Tools:
- SEO Help
- WebConfs.com
- Pandia SEO – BROKEN LINK
Appendix: Staying Out of Copyright Jail
Copyright Info:
- U.S. Copyright Office
- U.N.C. Copyright Chart
- Wikipedia Copyright Chart
- Wikipedia Public Domain
Bonus Chapter: Search Techniques You Should Know
Froogle:
Topic and Domain-Specific Searches:
- Apple Macintosh – BROKEN LINK
- Books
- BSD Unix – BROKEN LINK
- Linux – BROKEN LINK
- Microsoft – BROKEN LINK
- News (up to the minute)
- News Archive Search
- Public Source Code – BROKEN LINK
- Scholarly Papers
- Universities
- U.S. Government .gov and .mil sites – BROKEN LINK
Finding Recent Changes:
- Research Buzz Goo Fresh Tool – BROKEN LINK
Google Search Methods:
- Google Directory – BROKEN LINK
- Google News
- Google Alerts
- More Google Products
- Google Feature Help
