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Online Resources

• Search engine optimization entry at Wikipedia is a good starting reference.

  As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a web site primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

• Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, version 1.1, November 2008.

  Words from the Google search engine team -- pay attention to what Google says. Remember, Google is in the search business and they want to help you make your content better so they can offer better relevant choices to searchers.

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  WhoLinksToMe -- the site beta version (July 2009) offers analysis of URLs and search keywords and keyword phrases. Results cover multiple search engines. Multiple search related metrics are presented. This site is worth a closer look.

• Google Webmaster Central Blog

  An excellent source of current information on SEO topics.

• Google AdWords Keyword Tool:

  Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas.

• Google Search-based Keyword Tool:

  The Search-based Keyword Tool provides keyword ideas: Based on actual Google search queries...

  Pay attention to the Global Monthly Search Volume on your search phrases. Spend time with this tool to better understand how your web site content can best fit what is being searched. At some levels, the keyword aspect of SEO upgrades becomes an ongoing interative activity.

• W3C validators: Every optimized web page needs to pass HTML/XHTML and CSS validtors.

   

• Keyword Density Analyzer

  A free keyword density analyzer.

• Text to Speech (TTS)

  Run your content through this excellent TTS tool and listen. If it sounds good then it probably is good. If not then there probably a spelling error, missing word, or grammer mistake. Read along while you listen the TTS playback and you'll probably spot any errors immediate.

• Spell check your web page content.

  Spelling checking content is an excellent step to complete in parallel with TTS checks.

• Use an Online Dictionary to check word usage.

• E-Books Available at the Vancouver Public Library

  • CSS Mastery, and

  • Seach Engine Optimization bible

• Distributed Spam Harvester Tracking Network: Project Honey Pot

  Now a group of white hats is riding across the prairie to take a bite out of spam.

  Join Project Honey Pot and fight spam.

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