By Peter Kent
Links from the Book – 5th 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 5th Edition of this book.
For the 7th Edition, click here.
For the 6th Edition, click here.
For the 4th 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: Search Results, Deconstructed
- Chapter 3: Your One-Hour Search-Engine-Friendly Web Site Makeover
- Chapter 4: Beating the Competition–Planning a Powerful Search-Engine Strategy
- Chapter 5: Making Your Site Useful and Visible
- Chapter 6: Picking Powerful Keywords
- Chapter 7: Creating Pages that Search Engines Love
- Chapter 8: Avoiding Things that Search Engines Hate
- Chapter 9: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
- Chapter 10: Bulking Up Your Site—Competing with Content
- Chapter 11: Finding Traffic Through Local-Search Marketing
- Chapter 12: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
- Chapter 13: Submitting to the Directories
- Chapter 14: Product Search—Remember the Shopping Directories and Retailers
- Chapter 15: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
- Chapter 16: Finding Sites to Link to Yours
- Chapter 17: Even More Great Places to Get Links
- Chapter 18: Social Networking—Driven by Drivel
- Chapter 19: Video—Putting Your Best Face Forward
- Chapter 20: When Google Bites Back—A Guide to Catastrophe
- Chapter 21: Ten Things to Know & Do When Picking an SEO Firm
- Chapter 22: Ten Plus Myths and Mistakes
- Chapter 23: Ten Plus Ways to Stay Updated
- Chapter 24: 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
- www.SearchEngineBulletin.com
Chapter 2: Search Results, Deconstructed
Chapter 3: Your One-Hour Search-Engine-Friendly Web Site Makeover
- toolbar.google.com
- dir.yahoo.com
- www.dmoz.org
- adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
- www.getfirebug.com
- www.ask.com
Chapter 4: Beating the Competition–Planning a Powerful Search-Engine Strategy
- Rodent-Engineering.PeterKentConsulting.com
- www.searchenginebulletin.com
Chapter 5: Making Your Site Useful and Visible
Chapter 6: Picking Powerful Keywords
- www.SearchEngineBulletin.com
- adcenter.microsoft.com
- adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
- www.adwords.com
- www.wordtracker.com
- www.dogpile.com
- www.keywordspy.com
- www.keyworddiscovery.com
- www.trellian.com/toolbar
- www.wordze.com
Chapter 7: Creating Pages that Search Engines Love
- www.google.com/analytics
- www.SearchEngineBulletin.com
- www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
- support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170
- www.schema.org
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
Chapter 8: Avoiding Things that Search Engines Hate
Chapter 9: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport
- asksupport.custhelp.com/app/ask/sno/0
Chapter 10: Bulking Up Your Site—Competing with Content
- SearchEngineBulletin.com
- www.ntis.gov
- www.fedworld.gov
- catalog.gpo.gov/F
- www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/net
- lcweb.loc.gov/rr/news/extgovd.html
- www.foia.cia.gov
- www.articledashboard.com
- www.ezinearticles.com
- www.freesticky.com
- www.goarticles.com
- www.ideamarketers.com
- www.dmoz.org/Business/Publishing_and_Printing/Publishing/Services/Free_Content
- www.featurewell.com
- www.brafton.com
- www.moreover.com
- www.studioonenetworks.com
- www.uclick.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
- www.feedzilla.com
- freshmeat.net
- sourceforge.net
- www.creativecommons.org
- dmoz.org/Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content
- 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.pressbox.co.uk
- www.pr-gb.com
- www.prleap.com
- www.prlog.org
- www.transworldnews.com
Chapter 11: Finding Traffic Through Local-Search Marketing
- www.google.fr
- www.yahoo.co.uk
- www.ip2location.com
- adwords.google.com/
- www.geo-tag.de/generator/en.html
- www.mygeoposition.com
- www.google.com/local/add
- listings.local.yahoo.com
- www.UBL.org
- maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos
- maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/partners
- www.SearchEngineBulletin.com
- UrbanSpoon.com
- Yelp.com
- OpenTable.com
- Gayot.com
- Zagat.com
- Menutopia.com
- MenuPix.com
- Wcities.com
- 10Best.com
- www.5280.com
- www.visitphilly.com
- www.directoryphiladelphia.com
- www.infoaroundphilly.com
- www.philadelphia-city-directory.com
- www.philadelphia-philadelphia.com
- www.judysbook.com
- www.yellowpages.com
- www.superpages.com
- www.yellowbook.com
- www.dexknows.com
- www.yell.com
- www.yellow.com
- www.mywebsearch.com
Chapter 12: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
- ssl.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx
- www.sitemaps.org
- www.google.com/webmasters
- www.bing.com/webmaster
- www.exactseek.com/add.html
- www.gigablast.com/addurl
- www.searchenginewatch.com/article/2067248/Guides-To-Search-Engines
- dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines
- dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/
Searching_the_Web/Search_Engines_and_Directories/ - www.shortkeys.com
- www.addpro.com
- www.ineedhits.com
- www.trellian.com/swolf
Chapter 13: Submitting to the Directories
- www.archive.org
- dir.Yahoo.com
- www.dmoz.org
- dir.google.com
- dmoz.org/guidelines/describing.html
- www.dmoz.org
- www.resource-zone.com
- Ratster.com
- ThePetDirectory.us
- netvet.wustl.edu
- ncrr.nih.gov
- AltPet.net/rodents/breeder.html
Chapter 14: Product Search—Remember the Shopping Directories and Retailers
- Ask.com
- Buy.com
- Overstock.com
- PriceGrabber.com
- ePage.com
- BackPage.com
- eBayClassifieds.com
- PriceGrabber.com
- Pronto.com
- Amazon.com
- www.google.com/products
- www.pricegrabber.com
- www.bing.com/shopping
- www.thefind.com
- www.shopzilla.com
- www.nextag.com
- www.shopping.com
- www.pricewatch.com/dinfo.htm
- www.google.com/products
- www.preciomania.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
- BackPage.com
- eBayclassifieds.com
- sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/fbacalc/fba-calculator.html
- docs.google.com
- office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps
- SingleFeed.com
- GoDataFeed.com
- ChannelAdvisor.com
- Mercent.com
- SellerEngine.com
- Zoovy.com
- Fillz.com
- Monsoonworks.com
Chapter 15: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
- www.google.com/corporate/history.html
- toolbar.google.com
- www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank
- www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
- get.adobe.com/reader
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebomb
Chapter 16: Finding Sites to Link to Yours
- www.google.com
- www.opensiteexplorer.org
- www.majesticseo.com
- www.majestic12.co.uk
- dummies.com
- www.SEOElite.com
- www.urlwire.com
- www.inman.com
- 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.SearchEngineBulletin.com
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/paidlinks
- www.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 17: 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.ideamarketers.com
- www.wrytestuff.com
- www.submityourarticle.com
- www.distributeyourarticles.com
- www.contentcrooner.com
- www.examiner.com
- knol.google.com
- www.blogsvertise.com
- www.loudlaunch.com
- www.payperpost.com
- answers.yahoo.com
- Guru.com
- eLance.com
- oDesk.com
Chapter 18: Social Networking—Driven by Drivel
- www.google.com/+
- support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
- www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button
- developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Chapter 19: Video—Putting Your Best Face Forward
- YouTube.com
- www.google.com/tv/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_websites
- TubeMogul.com
- TrafficGeyser.com
- HeySpread.com
Chapter 20: When Google Bites Back—A Guide to Catastrophe
- www.stopbadware.org/home/reviewinfo
- googlepenalty.com/penalty-checker
- tools.lilengine.com/penaltychecker
- www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
- www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
- www.archive.org
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
Chapter 21: Ten Things to Know & Do When Picking an SEO Firm
Chapter 22: Ten Plus Myths and Mistakes
Chapter 23: Ten Plus Ways to Stay Updated
- www.SearchEngineBulletin.com
- www.dummies.com/go/searchengineoptimizationfd
- www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
- www.google.com/support/webmasters
- onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/gg132923.aspx
- 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/zeitgeist
- www.google.com/trends
- www.google.com/insights/search
- freekeywords.wordtracker.com/top-keywords
Chapter 24: Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
- code.google.com/more
- www.wordtracker.com
- www.webceo.com
- www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker
- www.googlerankings.com
- home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
- download.alexa.com
- www.compete.com
- majesticseo.com
- www.quantcast.com
- www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density
- www.keyworddensity.com
- www.crazyegg.com
- www.hostednumbers.com
- dial800.com
- www.mongoosemetrics.com
- www.copyscape.com
- www.google.com
- AnnualCreditReport.com
- 99designs.com
- www.measuring-up.com/seo-reference/seo-resources.html
- www.webconfs.com
- www.pandia.com/optimization
- RipOffReport.com
- PissedConsumer.com