In Search Engine Optimization: An Hour A Day, we listed some of our favorite SEO blogs and tools. Here are the links from the book, and some updates.

SEO Blogs we Love

> Search Engine Land - search news by Danny Sullivan (formerly of Search Engine Watch)
> SEOMoz Blog
> Aaron Wall's SEO Blog
> Matt Cutts' Blog (for Google information)
> Jim Boykin's Blog
> Matt McGee's Small Business SEM
> Problogger.net (for those with blogs)
> Occam's Razor - web analytics blog by Avinash Kaushik
> Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

Fun Tools for Site Assessment

> Link validators: dead-links.com, elsop.com
> Slow page load checker: websiteoptimization.com, netmechanic.com
> Link popularity comparison: marketleap.com
> Keyword density tools: live-keyword-analysis.com
> Accessibility check: cynthiasays.com, w3.org (for more links to accessibility evaluation tools)
> Backlink Checker: backlinkwatch.com
> Social Search Tag checker: socialmeter

More SEO Tools We Recommend

> Wordtracker Keyword Tool for researching keyword search popularity. Wordtracker also offers a limited free keyword research tool. (This is an affiliate link so if you purchase access through this link, Wordtracker will show us a little love, too!)
> Keyword Discovery - this fee-based keyword research tool has garnered many positive reviews - free trial available
> Yahoo! Search Marketing's Keyword Selector Tool NOTE: this link sometimes works, but is no longer supported and often doesn't work - sorry!
> Google AdWords's Keyword Tool
> SEOMoz Page Strength Tool (or see their other SEO Tools)
> A truly fabulous spider emulator at seo-browser.com
> MSN's set of SEO tools includes finding similar keywords, clustering keywords, and several others.
> Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer is a handy way to check if your 301 redirects are sending the right server message.

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last updated 10.10.2007

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