Our Favorite SEO Blogs and Tools

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 and his team of SEO experts
• SEOMoz Blog with Rand Fishkin
• Aaron Wall’s SEO Blog
• Matt Cutts’ Blog (for Google information)
• 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: elsop.com
• Slow page load checker: WebPagetest, Webmaster Tools
• Accessibility check: cynthiasays.com, w3.org (for more links to accessibility evaluation tools)
• Backlink Checker: backlinkwatch.com, Yahoo! Site Explorer, OpenSiteExplorer
• Social Media Search: Socialmention.com, Wiki of Social Search Tools
• Firefox/Chrome Extensions:  SeoQuake, YSlow, Firebug

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
• Google AdWords’s Keyword Tool – free, you can get keyword ideas & search popularity numbers here
• 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.
• TouchGraph Google Browser a cool way to visualize your website neighborhood
• Socializer – links to social bookmarking sites