I just spent the last 5 hours going through 30-35% of the entire SEOmoz's posts because we're training new interns here, and I wanted them to get a good idea of the whole concept of SEO, and I basically went through the last 600 articles published by SEOmoz and followed a few other links as well. This is my wrap up of the most insightful, "SEO-only related posts" of the last few months:
- ABC of SEO: interesting sources of info
- Google Sandbox article
- Black hat vs White hat
- SES New York resume
- Age of sites
- Advanced link building
- Link building
- Topic sensitive links
- Google vs Yahoo SERPs
- About us Page of SEOmoz
- Launching a new domain
- Well known SEO people
- The "NEW" onsite optimisation
- Best 2006 SEO blogs
- SEOmoz 2006 stats and great links
- Tough SEO questions
- Article on linking to bad neighborhoods
- Title tag showdown
- SEOmoz review of PubCon
- Self-publicity - share your site
- How to beat the sandbox
- Link searches
- Shoemoney Interview
- Google Algo Revealed
- Website stats publicly available
- 5 html elements to use
- Don't game Digg
- Best practices for URLs
- Ways to earn an .edu link
- Email = key to link building
- Top 50 blogs
- How to request tough links
- Dictionary of terms
- 21 ways to increase blog traffic
- Social Marketing article
- Article on Danny Sullivan
- Buying / selling text links ads
- French SERPs with issues
- Link check tips
- StumbleUpon article
- Search Engine relationships
- Search Engine Ranking factors
- SEOmoz Beginners guide
- Favorite blogs
- Strongest directories
- Google Webmaster Central review
- How to price a major SEO campaign
- Top 100 digg users control content
- 10 strategies to drive traffic
- Page Strength explanation
- Keyword difficulty explanation
- 5 rare link building tactics
- Interview with Bill Slawski
- Email campaigns
- Effective time spent doing SEO is
- Web 2.0 forms
Some more will follow as I keep digging through those 1800+ articles! Hope this helps save some time for newcomers! And Rand, wow, your site is an SEO's Heaven on Earth :)
Hopefully the new thumbs up system will provide a user generated "Top Posts" page somewhere.
Maybe even somewhere we can bookmark our personal favourites.
mad4 - absolutely. Over the next 3-6 weeks, we should have a very nice system of top posts baseed on the thumbing. It's one of the reasons we instituted the system :) (well, that and it's loads of fun)
A list of personal bookmarks/favourites based on which posts we thumbs up would be a nice feature.
I've often come back to the site looking for a particular post I didnt get to read in full, or a post I was looking to reference.
Of course, now that your using Yahoo search it's much easier to find past posts.
All Good Stuff.
Jarrod - That's a fantastic idea. I think a bookmarking system associated with your SEOmoz account is a terrific idea. We'll definitely put that on the list of requests for upgrades.
Rand, that would be awesome!
that's why I've been doing this monk job - I was tired or searching.
"Two thumbs up" for the thumbs / personal bookmark ide
Make it 3!
Guillaume - I ran some sql magic and fixed them all in one fell swoop.
great spacing creation guys, but in IE it is not perfectly aligned ;)
thanks
damn you're faster than ever tonite!
Guillaume Nice list thanks, I'll try to go over some of the one's I haven't read yet.
Brilliant - was wondering what reading to give our new recruits to get them up to speed on SEO - and you've saved me the trouble!
Thanks for compiling this. This list is great.
Thanks Guillaume. I think I've read just about every post here since I first discovered the site, but there are still so many older posts I want to read through. Such a daunting task now made a little easier.
Part 2 and 3 are coming... you'll have 100+ links to read from the oldest posts :)
Wow Guillaume, I'm really impressed that you took the time to go through our old posts! Great job!
I will be "digging" through them next 1200 ones in a near future... this was Part 1 of 3 ;)
talk to you soon
Great list, thanks for sharing.
Hi Guillaume,
The older "non-pretty" permalinks with the ID numbers aren't working correctly. They're giving the following error:
The requested address posts/blogdetail.php was not found on this server.
working on it - didn't thought I'd get into such trouble ;)
Thanks for your patience all -
I'm working on it, too - can't let this new site alone this weekend.
Nice work. :) I went through a lot of SEOmoz's posts for my top Internet Marketing Post of 2006 and it was exhausting! Your list is probably bigger ... and you're not even done yet!
Yeah but im changing the look as well - I hated how I posted it... But thanks