By Peter Kent
Links from the Book – 6th Edition
This site is a companion for the book SEO For Dummies. (The prior 5 Editions were titled 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 6th Edition of this book.
For the 7th Edition, click here.
For the 5th Edition, click here.
For the 4th Edition, click here.
For the 3rd Edition, click here.
For the 2nd Edition, click here.
NOTE: Broken links have been removed. Sorry, the Internet moves on! See a more recent edition for updated info.
- Introduction
- 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: Using Structured Data Markup
- Chapter 9: Avoiding Things that Search Engines Hate
- Chapter 10: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
- Chapter 11: Bulking Up Your Site—Competing with Content
- Chapter 12: Finding Traffic Through Local-Search Marketing
- Chapter 13: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
- Chapter 14: Submitting to the Directories
- Chapter 15: Product Search—Remember the Shopping Directories and Retailers
- Chapter 16: Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
- Chapter 17: Finding Sites to Link to Yours
- Chapter 18: Even More Great Places to Get Links
- Chapter 19: Social Networking—Driven by Drivel
- Chapter 20: Video—Putting Your Best Face Forward
- Chapter 21: When Google Bites Back—A Guide to Catastrophe
- Chapter 23: Ten Plus Ways to Stay Updated
- Chapter 24: Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
Introduction
Chapter 1: Surveying the Search Engine Landscape
- https://www.aol.com
- www.yahoo.com
- www.google.com
- dir.yahoo.com – Yahoo! Directory
- www.dmoz.org
- dir.google.com – Google Directory
Chapter 2: Search Results, Deconstructed
Chapter 3: Your One-Hour Search-Engine-Friendly Web Site Makeover
- www.dmoz.org
- adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal [Now adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner]
- https://www.pingdom.com
- https://www.uptimerobot.com
- https://www.domaintools.com
- https://www.archive.org
- www.getfirebug.com
- www.ask.com
Chapter 4: Beating the Competition–Planning a Powerful Search-Engine Strategy
- Google’s Historical Data Patent
- Rodent-Engineering.PeterKentConsulting.com
- https://Avvo.com
- https://Nolo.com
- https://www.lawinfo.com/
- https://Lawyers.com
- https://www.Craigslist.org
Chapter 5: Making Your Site Useful and Visible
- www.amazon.com
- www.youtube.com
- https://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html
- www.peterkentconsulting.com/sitemap.html
Chapter 6: Picking Powerful Keywords
- https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner
- https://www.bing.com/toolbox/keywords
- adcenter.microsoft.com – New URL: https://ads.microsoft.com/
- adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
- www.wordtracker.com
- https://moz.com/tools
- www.keyworddiscovery.com
- https://www.keywordspy.com
- https://www.SpyFu.com
- https://www.SemRush.com
- https://www.UberSuggest.org – NEW URL: https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/
- www.dogpile.com
- www.keywordspy.com
- www.keyworddiscovery.com
Chapter 7: Creating Pages that Search Engines Love
- https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites
- https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly
- https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6073543
- www.google.com/analytics
- www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
Chapter 8: Using Structured Data Markup
- https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170
- https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/marking-up-your-site-with-structured-data-3a93e731
- https://schema.org/PostalAddress
- https://schema.org/AggregateRating
- https://www.schema.org
- https://microformats.org/
- https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper
- https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool
Chapter 9: Avoiding Things that Search Engines Hate
Chapter 10: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
Chapter 11: Bulking Up Your Site—Competing with Content
- https://www.brafton.com
- https://www.idealaunch.com
- https://www.ntis.gov
- https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916033500/https://www.fedworld.gov/govlinks.html
- https://catalog.gpo.gov/
- https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys
- https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/extgovd.html
- https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/
- https://www.ezinearticles.com
- – Closed
Publishing/Services/Free_Content - https://www.universaluclick.com
- https://www.yellowbrix.com
- https://www.akzomedia.com
- https://www.creativecommons.org
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis
- https://www.emailwire.com
- https://www.newswire.com/
- https://www.presswire.net
- https://www.openpr.com
- https://www.prnewswire.com
- https://www.prweb.com
- https://www.pr.com
- https://www.pressbox.co.uk
- https://www.prleap.com
- https://www.prlog.org
- https://www.transworldnews.com
- https://https://blogger.com
- https://www.wordpress.com
- https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Chapter 12: Finding Traffic Through Local-Search Marketing
- www.google.fr
- www.yahoo.co.uk
- www.ip2location.com
- https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/
- www.geo-tag.de/generator/en.html
- www.mygeoposition.com
- https://www.google.com/business
- https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/local-listings [was
https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/localworks] - https://www.bingplaces.com
- https://www.google.com/streetview/
- https://maps.google.com/help/maps/mapcontent/streetview
- https://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/indoormaps
- www.UBL.org
- www.Yext.com
- https://www.5280.com/restaurants
- www.visitphilly.com
- www.infoaroundphilly.com
- www.philadelphia-city-directory.com
- www.judysbook.com
- https://www.vitals.com/
- https://www.HealthGrades.com
- https://www.MerchantCircle.com
- maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos
- maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/partners
- UrbanSpoon.com
- Yelp.com
- OpenTable.com
- Gayot.com
- Zagat.com
- Menutopia.com
- MenuPix.com
- https://www.CitySearch.com
- Wcities.com
- 10Best.com
- https://www.ViaMichelin.com
- www.yellowpages.com
- www.superpages.com
- www.yellowbook.com
- www.dexknows.com
- www.yell.com
- www.yellow.com
- www.mywebsearch.com
Chapter 13: Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
- https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
- https://www.bing.com/toolbox/submit-site-url
- https://www.bing.com/toolbox/submit-site-url
- https://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgeneratorcode.
google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/ - www.sitemaps.org
- www.google.com/webmasters
- www.bing.com/toolbox/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
- www.shortkeys.com
- www.trellian.com/swolf
Chapter 14: Submitting to the Directories
- www.archive.org
- www.dmoz.org – Closed
- dmoz.org/guidelines/describing.html
- www.resource-zone.com
- ThePetDirectory.us
- netvet.wustl.edu
- ncrr.nih.gov
- AltPet.net/rodents/breeder.html
Chapter 15: Product Search—Remember the Shopping Directories and Retailers
- www.google.com/intl/en_us/ads/shopping
- www.pricegrabber.com
- advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/product-ads
- www.amazon.com/ProductAds
- www.become.com
- DealTime.com
- Epinions.com
- www.shopping.com
- www.shopzilla.com
- www.nextag.com
- www.pricewatch.com
- www.google.com/shopping
- www.pricegrabber.com
- www.preciomania.com
- www.shopzilla.com
- www.bizrate.com
- Beso.com
- PrixMoinsCher.fr
- SparDeinGeld.de
- Shopzilla.co.uk
- Shopzilla.de
- Shopzilla.fr
- Bizrate.co.uk
- Ask.com
- Buy.com
- Overstock.com
- PriceGrabber.com
- ePage.com
- BackPage.com
- eBayClassifieds.com
- PriceGrabber.com
- Pronto.com
- Amazon.com
- www.shopzilla.com
- www.nextag.com
- www.shopping.com
- www.pricewatch.com/dinfo.htm
- www.bizrate.com
- shopping.aol.com
- www.become.com
- www.best-price.com
- www.buycheapr.com
- www.coolsavings.com
- dogpile.pricegrabber.com
- www.mysimon.com
- www.paypal-shopping.com
- www.pricingcentral.com
- www.shop.com
- www.shoplocal.com
- www.shopmania.com
- www.smarter.com
- Craigslist.com
- BackPage.com
- eBayclassifieds.com
- eBay.com
- Amazon.com
- Overstock.com
- Sears.com
- BestBuy.com
- sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/fbacalc/fbacalculator.html
- docs.google.com
- office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps
- SingleFeed.com
- GoDataFeed.com
- ChannelAdvisor.com
- Mercent.com
- SellerEngine.com
- repriceit.com
- appengine.com
- Zoovy.com
- Fillz.com
- Monsoonworks.com
Chapter 16: 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 17: Finding Sites to Link to Yours
- www.google.com
- www.opensiteexplorer.org
- ahrefs.com/site-explorer
- www.majesticseo.com
- www.urlwire.com
- www.inman.com
- www.Guru.com
- www.eLance.com
- www.oDesk.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 18: Even More Great Places to Get Links
- www.ap.org
- www.amazines.com
- www.articlealley.com
- www.articlecity.com
- www.articlesbase.com
- www.ezinearticles.com
- www.freesticky.com
- www.goarticles.com
- www.examiner.com
- answers.yahoo.com
- Guru.com
- eLance.com
- oDesk.com
Chapter 19: Social Networking—Driven by Drivel
- www.Facebook.com
- www.Twitter.com
- www.LinkedIn.com
- www.google.com/+
- Myspace.com
- www.Pinterest.com
- www.Flickr.com
- www.Delicious.com
- https://www.stumbleupon.com/
- www.Classmates.com
- www.ShopAtHome.com
Chapter 20: Video—Putting Your Best Face Forward
- YouTube.com
- https://www.android.com/tv/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_websites
- TrafficGeyser.com
- www.oneload.com
Chapter 21: When Google Bites Back—A Guide to Catastrophe
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport
- www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
- www.archive.org
- www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
Chapter 23: Ten Plus Ways to Stay Updated
- www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
- www.google.com/support/webmasters
- www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
- onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/gg132923.aspx
- www.mattcutts.com/blog
- www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp
- www.theshortcutts.com/
- www.searchenginewatch.com
- www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters
- googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
- www.google.com/insidesearch/
- www.google.com/trends
- www.google.com/trends/correlate/
- moz.com/blog
- www.webmasterworld.com
- www.highrankings.com/
Chapter 24: Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
- developers.google.com/custom-search
- moz.com/products/analytics
- www.semrush.com/
- www.webceo.com
- www.authoritylabs.com
- www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker
- www.googlerankings.com
- linkalarm.com
- www.semrush.com
- home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
- download.alexa.com
- www.compete.com
- www.quantcast.com
- www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density
- www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php
- www.google.com/analytics
- www.crazyegg.com
- 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.hostednumbers.com
- dial800.com
- www.mongoosemetrics.com
- www.copyscape.com
- 99designs.com
- www.Guru.com
- www.eLance.com
- www.measuring-up.com/seo-reference/seo-resources.html
- www.webconfs.com
- www.pandia.com/seo-software
- www.moz.com
- www.semrush.com
- RipOffReport.com
- PissedConsumer.com