Which 5 sites do you visit every day to help you improve traffic to your site? Here’s mine:

Of course, Sphinn – A Digg clone for seo gurus and geeks alike. It’s becoming a regular for me in the way SEL wasn’t (that much). So much so I’m not really including it in this list. Sure some people are knocking it but I for one love it. It’s becoming a real place for seo’s to meet and catch up on interesting seo related stuff, even more useful than search engine land (am I allowed to say that?).

Although it leaves me a bit confused why Digg didn’t take advantage of all the search marketers coming to their site. Why didn’t they just put up a “Digg SEO” section of the site and let us play in there instead of saying go away? If you have thousands of people coming through your shop door every day asking for socks and you don’t sell them, how many days would you let go by before you started stocking socks? Oh well, they’ve surely missed the boat now Sphinn is birthed.

OK – so that’s Sphinn. Digg for SEO (well, online marketing’s more accurate). But there are a couple of really good sites out there I always drop by, or I have just started visiting more. The skinny is – if you want to build seo friendly websites and learn how to market your website online, you could be reading these 5:

  1. SEOmoz – Once I got past their tools, I’m finding there is actually more value in their blog(s). Excellent well written posts and a real success in terms of building up a community on your blog (from what I can see). Make sure you drop by on a Friday.
  2. WebmasterWorld – The Google bit is where I hang out and I go there every single day. Top advice from friendly mods (in my experience) – hats off especially to Tedster.
  3. Aaron Wall – I finally gave in and spent the only money I have ever spent online with regards to seo training / education by purchasing the SEO Book. Now I finally know what everybody else knows about seo :) (I’m actually going to review this seo book). So far, it’s so-so, but I do enjoy Aarons clear and easy to understand style on his blog at least (to be fair I have a long way to go to finish the book).
  4. Jim Boykin – The Scarlet Pimpernel of SEO updates his blog as much as I update mine – ie not enough. A vastly underused blog but still one of my favourites in terms of getting you to think about link building – now and in the future. He has some nice tools it’s fair to say too.
  5. Andy Beard – I oft pop round to Andy Beard’s blog to get usually a very informative education on most things “community”, wordpress and affiliate marketing. Excellent posts but I wish Andy would have a think about reducing the amount of ads and thingmybobs on his site which slows down load-time for even my reasonably powered Ibook. This is in fact the solitary reason I am not on his blog more (if he wants me!). Or perhaps I should just get out and buy my new Mac Book!

OK – so that’s just a couple of the places at least I’m frequenting a lot. Guaranteed, you get good solid advice on all these sites.

Bonus

Here’s a spanner in the works. I’m having a real hard time understanding Michael Martinez on his blog, which basically flies in the face of all the more traditional seo blogs out there. But that’s not to say I am not enjoying it. It’s refreshing. Frankly his approach, which I may not agree with (yet!) is a very interesting point of view and worth chewing over instead of just ridiculing and signing up to the “we know how Google works” methodology. I am back and forth there at the moment trying to pick through his arguements.

All in all excellent stuff… but which sites do you visit every day?

Shaun

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