If you are new to SEO the collection of valid SEO resources below should be very useful to you. I tried to put them in order for those really new to SEO to those that maybe have a couple of months experience. I included a video from Search Engine Land first for those “very new” to SEO and/or for those that are looking to easily explain SEO to their clients. Happy reading! Remember to keep an eye on our new 101 category.
SEOmoz
Search Engine Guide
Part 1: Everything You Need To Know About SEO
Part 2: Everything You Need To Know About Title Tags
Part 3: Everything You Need To Know About Meta Description and Keyword Tags
Part 4: Everything You Need To Know About Heading Tags and Alt Attributes
Part 5: Everything You Need To Know About Domain Names
Part 6: Everything You Need To Know About Search Engine Friendly URLs & Broken Links
Part 7: Everything You Need To Know About Site Architecture and Internal Linking
Part 8: Everything You Need To Know About Keywords
Part 9: Everything You Need To Know About Keyword Core Terms
Part 10: Everything You Need To Know About Keyword Qualifiers
Part 11: Everything You Need To Know About SEO Copywriting
Part 12: Everything You Need To Know About Page Content
Part 13: Everything You Need To Know About Links
Part 14: Everything You Need To Know About Link Anatomy
Part 15: Everything You Need To Know About Linking
Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide
SEO Book
- The Blogger’s Guide to SEO
- The Search Engine Marketing Glossary
- Web Manager’s Guide To SEO Strategy
- The Ultimate Guide to Using Bing’s Webmaster Tools
- Free Keyword Competition Research
Search Engine Land
- Chapter 1: Types Of Search Engine Ranking Factors
- Chapter 2: Content & Search Engine Ranking Factors
- Chapter 3: HTML Code & Search Engine Ranking Factors
- Chapter 4: Site Architecture & Search Engine Ranking Factors
- Chapter 5: Link Building & Ranking In Search Engines
- Chapter 6: Social Media & Ranking In Search Results
- Chapter 7: Trust, Authority & Search Rankings
- Chapter 8: Personalization & Search Engine Rankings
- Chapter 9: Violations & Search Engine Spam Penalties
- Chapter 10: Blocking & Search Engine Results
- The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors
Distilled
Yoast
WordPress SEO Tutorial – The Definitive Guide
ViperChill
WordPress SEO: The Only Guide You Need
SEJ
- How to Teach Yourself SEO
- The 20-Minute (Or Less) SEO Audit w/ INFOGRAPHIC
- Link Reclamation Best Practices – The Complete Guide
- YouTube Video Optimization from A to Z
- New Marketers Guide to Outsourcing
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I’m definetly not new to SEO but I keep meeting people who are and who are asking for good ressources to learn about SEO. Commense the link bombing. With this great post all I have to do is share one link.
Did you like det sales pitch? No, really thanks for sharing! It’s really good to have all these links gathered in one place.
Thanks, Melissa! Keep sharing.
/Michael
Thank you Michael :-) It is nice when people appreciate your work.
This is a fantastic article put together for all the people that are curious to SEO and you have made it completely easy for them to now be able to come to a place and view a plethora of resources! What a great job of putting it all together! I will definitely point people your way! Thanks for the great resources!!
Thank you, Justine!
Great compilation! I’ve read all of these posts and articles, and everyone of them is valuable for both new and experienced SEOers.
Thanks!
Thank you, Nancy. I agree with you.
Love posts like this that you can comeback to and bookmark forever. Great fresher material here.
Wow, I was in the process of rounding up a few links of my own to curate and forward to my clients, but you’ve made things a lot easier with this write-up. :)
This is really great thanks Melissa
I am compiling an Internet Marketing & SEO list of info for my readers but you have beat me to it by a mile.
I will reference your resource for my list as you have some very good helpful content here.
So thanks again, you’ve done a great job
Gary
Wonderful work … Gather all the resource under one roof
This is really great article. Thank You Michael :) It was very useful for me as I am new to SEO.
Fantastic roundup, I’ll recommend this article to everyone. SEO is absolutely crucial these days.
Thank you for posting this great post with a collection of good links. Your post has saved a lot of time of mine, and off course of others who are searching for SEO tips. Thank you again for your brilliant effort.
This is very informative and truly in depth lesson on how search engines work! Great stuff! Thank you so much!
I totally value your SEO 101 video – it’s great to have a go to place for easy to understand content that demystifies SEO – thank you