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SEOmoz | 30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 2 of 2)

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Holy treasure trove!

Last November, I authored a popular post on SEOmoz detailing 15 SEO Problems and the Tools to Solve Them. It focused on a number of free tools and SEOmoz PRO tools. Today, I'm finishing up that project with a stab at another set of thorny issues that continually confound SEOs and how some new (and old) tools can come to the rescue.

Some of these are obvious and well known; others are obscure and brand new. All of them solve problems - and that's why tools should exist in the first place. Below, you'll find 20+ tools that answer serious issues in smart, powerful ways.

Top 25 SEO Blogs – SEO Bookmarks You Need

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gold-star-no-borderLet’s do another article while I am stuck waiting to speak with a client overseas. I have always insisted that any domainer serious about development quit reading domaining blogs and spend more time reading SEO blogs so why not give you some homework.

My SEO knowledge is derived from 10 years of experience yet I would be a fool to think I know it all. Many Many people know much more than I do so in the wake of my own advice I realized that chanting this mantra is not doing any good without providing a list of some resources (where I promise you no longer have to listen to people trying to sell you a watch after a list of domains :-)

So with due credit to DailyBlogTips.com for making this list easily accessible (and reminding me about a few forgotten ones) below is a list of 25 valuable resources about SEO development. There are many theories by people who dream and many people that do. Your job is to find common elements by people who have proven projects and that’s where the real SEO knowledge will come.

If you want to dream listen to dreamers – if you want to produce listen to producers.

Enjoy … I added ViperChill.com myself.  It’s a new one for me but lots of good tips from the few emails I’ve read.

Disclaimer – if you find SEO sites boring, would prefer to read about domain sales OTHER people are making or refresh domaining.com every 10 minutes then either (a) enter rehab (b) double check if you even like the internet and (c) realize you’re not a developer

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Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (New Rules Social Media Series) (Hardcover) tagged “seo” 38 times

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Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (New Rules Social Media Series)
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (New Rules Social Media Series) (Hardcover)
By Dharmesh Shah

SEO: The Free Beginner’s Guide From SEOmoz

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What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. Firms that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more broad and general approach. Optimizing a web site for search engines can require looking at so many unique elements that many practitioners of SEO (SEOs) consider themselves to be in the broad field of website optimization (since so many of those elements intertwine).

This guide is designed to describe all areas of SEO - from discovery of the terms and phrases that will generate traffic, to making a site search engine friendly, to building the links and marketing the unique value of the site/organization's offerings.

SEOmoz | Bing vs. Google: Prominence of Ranking Elements

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Exact Match Domains

These are domains that precisely matched the keywords in the query - e.g. for the query "dog collars" only a domain that matched *.dogcollars.* would be included.

Exact Match Domains in SERPs

How Not to Move a URL: Lessons From the Google AdWords Keyword Tool Revamp – Nine By Blue

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I love the Google AdWords Keyword Tool.  I use it all the time and I demo it a lot when speaking at events. But I have no idea what the URL is. When I want to use it, I just do whatever else does whenever they want to go to any site on the web. I do a Google search for it. Specifically, I type [google adwords keyword tool] into Google and click on the first result.

Until today.

Now when I do that search, the tool is nowhere to be found

Google Webmaster Tools Adds More Data And Charts For Top Search Queries – Product Domains

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Another Google product update this week, this time Google Webmaster Tools has updated the amount of viewable data and added charts in the Top Search Queries report.

The Twitter Ad Model Revealed (What Were You Expecting, a Pony?)

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In the most basic implementation, advertisers will be able to bid on keywords to have their tweets featured in search results. But Twitter says also may eventually include the paid tweets in users’ regular tweet streams too, something that will surely be more controversial. Costolo said the company expects to decide whether to take that step before the end of the year.

BuiltWith: Learn What the Site Is Built with | Search Engine Journal

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Domain Technology Profile

Enter any domain and the first tab you’ll get access to will be the site technology information which contains:

1. Website server information: which server the site is based on.

2. Detected analytics and tracking (looks like another tool for identifying which traffic tracking software the site is using);

3. Widgets: third-party widgets found on the site (like Feedburner for example);

4. Blog publishing software (if the site is or has a blog and which software runs it);

Tips for Buying Old Sites

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If it’s a good domain name (better than the one you currently have) you could move all of your content to the newly purchased domain and redirect your old domain. This is a bit tricky: you have to do it all at once and it violates the advice I gave above for changing as little as possible and doing it slowly over time. But you don’t want the search engines to see the same content in two spots any longer than necessary. Sometimes the right answer depends on the situation.