Top 10 SEO

Chrome SEO

The Google Chrome SEO Extension. Make you daily Search Engine Optimization tasks easier in Google Chrome. And much much more…

SP SEO

This Chrome SEO plugin implements the SEO Playground Tool (Bookmarklet) by David Naylor. Making it easier to use in Chrome.

SEO Status

SEO Status is lightweight. It will check the Google Pagerank (PR) & Alexa rank for every page. Using this will increase your Alexa.

SEO Site Tools

Pulls PageRank, domain links and rank metrics, aggrigates social media reactions from Twitter, Facebook, Digg and SEO releated tags.

META SEO inspector

Useful to inspect the meta data found inside web pages, usually not visible while browsing.

iPageRank | SEO Tool

This plugin gets PageRank & calculates how much PR is transfered to external links, analyzes keywords, Alexa, TIC. More inside.

SEO SERP

A simple tool to quickly check the position of a list of sites given a keyword.
For example, on the sample image you can see Wikipedia ranking #3 and Amazon ranking 16 for the keyword “lcd”…

Copyscape Plagiarism Checker – Duplicate Content Detection Software.

How to Change the World. Guy Kawasaki’s Blog

YouTube - Whitehat linkbait. Matt Cutts shares an example of whitehat linkbait.

Keyword Research Tools:
Google: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Yahoo: Gone (old overture tool is gone)
MSN: http://adlab.msn.com/Keyword-Research.aspx
Wordtracker: http://www.wordtracker.com/
Keyword Discovery: http://www.keyworddiscovery.com
Submit Express: http://www.submitexpress.com/keytracker.php

Paid Search Keyword Tools:
Google: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
7Search: http://conversion.7search.com/scripts/advertisertools/keywordsuggestion.aspx
Miva: https://account.uk.miva.com/advertiser/Account/Popups/KeywordGenBox.asp

Keyword List Generators and Misc:
Google: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
SEOBook.com: http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-list/generator.php
RustyBrick.com: http://www.rustybrick.com/keyword-phrase-tool.php
For Local keywords: http://5minutesite.com/local_keywords.php
Google Sets: http://labs.google.com/sets
Tag Clouds and keyword definitions: http://searchradar.webaroo.com/
Related Terms: http://www.kwmap.net/
Related Terms: http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Keyword Aggregators:
SEOBook: http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – When to Track Rankings from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

Top Ten SEO Steps recommended for a successful web campaign

1. Keyword Research & Selection
2. Competition Analysis
3. Site Structure
4. Content Optimization
5. Link Building
6. Social Media
7. PPC
8. Statistics Analysis
9. Conversion Optimization
10. Keeping It Up

ThreadWatch – Community blog about search, marketing, and technology

SEO Book – Aaron Wall’s blog about SEO and related topics.

DaveN – known as one of the best spammers in the world, sometimes DaveN gives away a few of his tips on his blog. Always straight to the point.

JenSense – Jennifer Slegg’s blog about contextual advertising.

Search Engine Blog – Peter Da Vanzo’s blog about search. Short punchy humorous posts.

Search Engine Watch Blog – Danny Sullivan, Gary Price, and Chris Sherman all work on this blog.

Stuntdubl – Todd Malicoat’s blog about SEO and internet marketing.

Searchblog – John Battelle’s blog about search.

Online Marketing Blog – Lee Odden’s blog about search & online marketing.

FantomNews – Ralph Tegtmeir’s blog about search and internet marketing.

Search Engine Roundtable – Barry Schwartz’s blog about search & SEO.
Search Engine Lowdown – WebSourced’s blog about search.

SEO Moz – The SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog provides tips, tricks and advice for optimizing websites and getting better search engine rankings.

SEO Scoop – Donna Fontenot’s blog about SEO.

Traffick – Andrew Goodman’s blog about search.

Brad Fallon – Brad Fallon’s blog on search.

SearchNerd – Chris R’s new blog about search.

Search Engine Roundtable Forums the Search Engine Roundtable Forums. Open discussion on search engine optimization topics and search engine news.

Search Engine Watch Forums – Danny Sullivan’s search related forums.

SearchGuild – Chris Riding’s SEO forums.

DigitalPoint Forums – Shawn Hogan runs one of the more open / least moderated SEO forums on the market . He also offers many free SEO tools.

WebmasterWorld – Brett Tabke’s SEO forums.

SEO Chat – SEO forums owned and operated by DevShed.

Cre8asite Forums – Kim Krause’s SEO forums.

JimWorld – one of the original SEO forums. Sorta past it’s prime, but occassionally there might be a few good threads here and there.

V7N – John Scott’s forums.

HighRankings – Jill Whalen’s SEO forums. She is known as a proud whitehat SEO. My friend Debra also moderates over there.

Lil Engine – another somewhat small SEO forum.

SEO Guy forums – small to mid sized SEO forum. Morgan Carey is a swell chap.

SitePoint forums – web development forums.Daniweb – web development forums ran by my friend Dani, mostly focused on programming.

WebProWorld – fairly large forums which work in conjuntion with WebProNews.

WebWorkshop – Phil Craven’s SEO forums.

Top25Web – smallish forums about SEO and site coding.

Ozzu Forums – general webmaster forums

Resource Zone – forum associated with the Open Directory Project.

Geeks on Steroids – smallish forums about SEO and webmaster related issues.

Band of Gonzos – I believe many of the guys from BOG used to also moderate at WebProWorld. Some swell chaps there.

Anthony Parsons forums – Anthony is a well known Australian SEO.

Abakus SEO Forums – well known German SEO. also has a larger German SEO forum.

IHelpYou – Some people consider Doug Heil to be a bit of a nutter, but some of his threads are at least a bit funny. He is an evangical whitehat SEO who thinks most people are unethical spammers.

SEO Roadshow – Free once a year non-commercial bar meetings. They are free and uber cool…need an invite to go though. NFFC is cool.

Search Engine Strategies – Geared more toward the marketing and advertertising professions, these are usually ran by Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch. Host about 8 to 10 of them a year. about $1,700 for a 4 day conference (some local SES conferences are shorter and cheaper – also if you register early you save $100, and if you hunt you can usually find a coupon to save a couple dollars on the entry cost).

WebmasterWorld Conference – Geared more toward the independant webmaster, these are hosted by Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld. Occurs about 2-3 times a year. about $500 to $1,000 for a 3 day conference (price depends on when you buy, which conference you attend, etc.).

ThreadWatch Conference – Similar to SEO Roadshow, with much overlap in who attends.