By Peter Kent
Links from the Book – 4th 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 4th Edition of this book.
For the 7th Edition, click here.
For the 6th Edition, click here.
For the 5th Edition, click here.
For the 3rd 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.
NOTE: Broken links have been removed. Sorry, the Internet moves on! See a more recent edition for updated info.
- Chapter 1: Surveying the Search Engine Landscape
- Chapter 2: Your One-Hour Search-Engine-Friendly Web Site Makeover
- Chapter 3: Beating the Competition — Planning a Powerful 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 Through Local-Search Marketing
- Chapter 11: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
- Chapter 12: Submitting to the Directories
- Chapter 13: Product Search – Remember the Shopping Directories and Retailers
- 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: Social Networking — Driven by Drivel
- Chapter 18: Video — Putting Your Best Face Forward
- Chapter 19: When Google Bites Back — A Guide to Catastrophe
- Chapter 20: Ten Things to Know & Do When Picking an SEO Firm
- Chapter 21: Ten Plus Myths and Mistakes
- Chapter 22: Ten-Plus Ways to Stay Updated
- Chapter 23: Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
Chapter 1: Surveying the Search Engine Landscape
- www.yahoo.com
- www.google.com
- dir.yahoo.com
- www.dmoz.org
- dir.google.com
- addons.mozilla.org
- toolbar.google.com
- www.Alexa.com/toolbar
- toolbar.yahoo.com
- toolbar.bing.com
- toolbar.ask.com
Chapter 2: Your One-Hour Search-Engine-Friendly Web SiteMakeover
- toolbar.google.com
- www.google.com
- dir.yahoo.com
- www.dmoz.org
- https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Chapter 3: Beating the Competition — Planning a PowerfulSearch-Engine Strategy
- https://RodentEngineering.PeterKentConsulting.com
- The United States Patent & Trademark Office
Chapter 4: Making Your Site Useful and Visible
Chapter 5: Picking Powerful Keywords
- adcenter.microsoft.com
- https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
- www.adwords.com
- www.google.com/sktool
- www.wordtracker.com
- www.dogpile.com
- http://keywordsspy.com
- http://www.keywordspy.com
- http://www.trellian.com/toolbar/
- http://www.wordze.com
Chapter 6: Creating Pages That Search Engines Love
- http://google.com/analytics/
- www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
Chapter 7: Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate
- www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html#h-16.4
- www.popupcop.com
- www.asp101.com/articles/wayne/extendingnames
- httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
- www.nokiausa.com
- www.Vistaprint.com
Chapter 8: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport
- http://help/yahoo.com/1/us/yahoo/search/abuse.html
Chapter 9: Bulking Up Your Site – Competing with Content
- www.Elance.com
- www.Naukri.com
- www.Guru.com
- www.oDesk.com
- www.brafton.com
- www.idealaunch.com
- http://convert-in.com/pdfhtml.htm
- www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
- www.ezinelocator.com
- www.ezinehub.com
- http://new-list.com
- www.ntis.gov
- www.fedworld.gov
- http://catalog.gpo.gov/F
- www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/net
- http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/news/extgovd.htmlwww.foia.cia.gov
- http://www.state.gov/m/a/ips/
- foia.fbi.gov
- www.articledashboard.com
- www.ezinearticles.com
- www.freesticky.com
- www.goarticles.com
- www.ideamarketers.com
- certificate.net
- www.dmoz.org/Business/Publishing_and_Printing/Publishing/Services/Free_Content
- framecentre.com
- www.featurewell.com
- http://www.brafton.com/
- www.moreover.com
- www.studioonenetworks.com/
- www.uclick.com
- www.yellowbrix.com
- www.dmoz.org/News/Media/Services/Syndicates
- dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business
/News_and_Media/Syndicates - www.inman.com
- www.newsknowledge.com
- syndic8.com
- www.feedzilla.com
- blogsearch.google.com
- www.freshmeat.net
- www.sourceforge.net
- www.creativecommons.org
- dmoz.org/Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis
- www.emailwire.com
- www.free-press-release.com
- www.hotproductnews.com
- i-newswire.com
- www.presswire.net
- www.onlinepressreleases.com
- www.openpr.com
- www.prnewswire.com
- www.prweb.com
- www.pr.com
- www.pr9.net
- www.pressbox.co.uk
- www.pr-gb.com
- www.prleap.com
- www.prlog.org
- www.transworldnews.com
- www.resourceindex.com
- www.Blogger.com
- www.Wordpress.com
- http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
- www.blogger.com
Chapter 10: Finding Traffic Through Local-Search Marketing
- www.google.fr
- www.yahoo.co.uk
- www.ip2location.com
- http://www.google.com/local/add/
- https://www.bingplaces.com/
- www.UBL.org
- http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/
- http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/partners/
- www.ubl.org
- www.5280.com
- www.philasence.com/
- http://infoaroundphilly.com/
- www.SearchEngineBulletin.com
- www.judysbook.com
- www.Vitals.com
- www.HealthGrades.com
- www.TripAdvisor.com
- www.Kudzu.com
- www.Local.com
- www.MerchantCircle.com
- www.yellowpages.com
- www.superpages.com
- www.yellowbook.com
- www.dexknows.com
- www.yell.com
- www.yellow.com
- google.com.sg
- www.YellowPages.com
- www.Ask.com
- www.mywebsearch.com
Chapter 11: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
- www.google.com/addurl.html
- www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx
- code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/
- www.sitemaps.org
- code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators
- www.sitemaps.org
- www.google.com/webmasters
- www.bing.com/webmaster
- www.exactseek.com/add.html
- www.gigablast.com/addurl
- www.searchenginewatch.com/2156161
- dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/
- /Searching_the_Web/Search_Engines_and_Directories/
- www.shortkeys.com
- www.addpro.com
- www.ineedhits.com
- www.dynamicsubmission.com
- www.trellian.com/swolf
Chapter 12: Submitting to the Directories
- www.archive.org
- dir.yahoo.com
- www.dmoz.org
- dmoz.org/guidelines/describing.html
- www.resource-zone.com
- www.resource-zone.com/
- http://netvet.wustl.edu/
- www.yahoo.com
- www.google.com
Chapter 13: Product Search – Remember the Shopping Directories and Retailers
- www.google.com/products
- www.pricegrabber.com
- advertising.microsoft.com/search-advertising/bing-shopping
- merchant.pronto.com
- www.thefind.com
- www.shopzilla.com
- www.nextag.com
- www.shopping.com
- www.pricescan.com
- www.pricewatch.com
- www.preciomania.com
- www.pronto.com
- www.bizrate.com
- shopping.aol.com
- www.become.com
- www.best-price.com
- www.buycheapr.com
- www.coolsavings.com
- dogpile.pricegrabber.com
- www.kelkoo.com
- shop.lycos.com
- www.mysimon.com
- www.paypal-shopping.com
- www.pricingcentral.com
- www.shop.com
- www.shopcompanion.com
- www.catalogcity.com
- www.shopper.com
- shopper.cnet.com
- www.shoplocal.com
- www.shopmania.com
- www.smarter.com
- www.streetprices.com
- office.microsoft.com
Chapter 14: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
- www.google.com/corporate/history.html
- www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank
- www.toolbar.google.com
- https://archive.google.com/pigeonrank/
- get.adobe.com/reader
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebomb
- ad.doubleclick.net
Chapter 15: Finding Sites to Link to Yours
- www.google.com
- www.majesticseo.com
- www.majestic12.co.uk
- www.dummies.com
- etips.dummies.com
- www.opensiteexplorer.org
- www.SEOElite.com
- www.urlwire.com
- www.inman.com
- www.urlwire.com
- www.prnewswire.com
- www.prweb.com
- www.emailwire.com
- www.prleap.com
- www.Free-Press-Release.com
- www.pressbox.co.uk
- www.I-Newswire.com
- www.prlog.org
- www.pr.com
- www.pr-gb.com
- www.openpr.com
- www.transworldnews.com
- www.seroundtable.com/archives/006742.html
- www.adbrite.com
- www.zetacap.com
- click.adbrite.com
- www.glossarist.com
- www.researchbuzz.com
- scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2001/scout-010727.html
- www.usatoday.com/tech/2001-08-09-hotsites.htm
Chapter 16: Even More Great Places to Get Links
- www.amazines.com
- www.articlealley.com
- www.articlecity.com
- www.articlesbase.com
- www.authorconnection.com
- www.ezinearticles.com
- www.freesticky.com
- www.goarticles.com
- www.greekshares.com
- www.ideamarketers.com
- www.searchwarp.com
- www.submityourarticle.com
- www.distributeyourarticles.com
- www.contentcrooner.com
- www.articlesender.com
- www.articlesubmitterpro.com
- www.examiner.com
- knol.google.com
- www.blogsvertise.com
- www.loudlaunch.com
- www.payperpost.com
Chapter 17: Social Networking — Driven by Drivel
Chapter 18: Video — Putting Your Best Face Forward
Chapter 19: When Google Bites Back — A Guide to Catastrophe
- www.scribd.com/doc/2299019/Google-Quality-Rater-Guidelines
- www.stopbadware.org/home/reviewinfo
- tools.lilengine.com/penaltychecker
- www.seopenalty.com
- www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
- www.scribd.com/doc/2299019/Google-Quality-Rater-Guidelines
- www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
- www.archive.org
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
Chapter 20: Ten Things to Know & Do When Picking an SEO Firm
Chapter 21: Ten Plus Myths and Mistakes
Chapter 22: Ten-Plus Ways to Stay Updated
- www.dummies.com/go/seofd3e
- www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
- www.google.com/support/webmasters/
- www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
- www.bing.com/docs
- www.searchenginewatch.com
- www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters
- googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
- www.mattcutts.com/blog
- www.webmasterworld.com
- www.highrankings.com/forum
- www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/
- www.google.com/trends
- www.google.com/insights/search/
- freekeywords.wordtracker.com/top-keywords/
- sp.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml
- buzz.yahoo.com
Chapter 23: Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
- www.webposition.com
- www.google.com/apis
- www.webceo.com
- www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker
- www.googlerankings.com
- www.linkalarm.com
- home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
- download.alexa.com
- www.compete.com
- www.quantcast.com
- www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/
- www.keyworddensity.com
- analytics.google.com
- www.crazyegg.com
- www.hostednumbers.com
- www.dial800.com
- www.copyscape.com
- google.com
- www.google.com
- www.99designs.com
- www.seo-help.com/seo-reference/seo-resources.html
- www.webconfs.com
- www.pandia.com/optimization