All SEO links and sites below have been “vetted” – only legit stuff is listed here.. there is a lot of bullshit out there to look at, but SEOmoz is one of the SEO authorities. In fact they have a “PRO” version of their membership starting at $79 / month. That is a lot, but I’m thinking about signing up. I just need to make the time to commit to the work..

Best practices:
GREAT blog post for keyword optimization
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization

WordPress SEO! The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog
http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

Google’s take on Links:
Link schemes
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356

Open Site Explorer – link checking program

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Title Tags: http://www.seomoz.org/knowledge/title-tag#seo-best-practice

Meta Description tags (do not influence search ranking, but good to aid in click thrus): http://www.seomoz.org/knowledge/meta-description

Google Webmaster guidelines:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en#1

“Moz” Trust for your domain – component of domain linking:

http://www.seomoz.org/knowledge/moztrust#what-is-a

Moz Bar – SEO plugin for FireFox (pretty cool)

http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar/

Xenu Link Slueth – link checking program – will find any technical issues with your site:  http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Images:
Check out this article about SEO and images: http://www.seoworkers.com/seo-articles-tutorials/alt-attribute.html

Site Report (free, can run once a day)

Trifecta Report (page strength): http://www.seomoz.org/trifecta/report/289702

EJHost.com scored a 9%, but was hit hard by the blog area (I’ve since listed my site with Google Blog Search) , also PageRank, and first four search term rankings in Google.

Will post other sites as I run them:

BaiadaPhotography (domain search 10%) – baiadaphotography_trifecta_rank_04122010

Search Engine optimization information

PageRank information

PageRank, explained
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

PageRank
n this article we will explain what PageRank Sculpting is and what changed in Google’s Algorithm.
http://www.webseoanalytics.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting-techniques-nofollow-issue/

Improving PageRank – How to improve your PageRank

1. Links from high relevant PageRank sites is #1 way to improve PAgeRank

2. Write articles from PR3 – PR6 article directories

http://www.thmg.com/free/article-directory-index/pr6-pr7-directories/

such as About.com:

http://marketing.about.com/od/marketingtipsandadvice/l/blartsubmission.htm

Site Speed

As of April 9th 2010, Site speed is now a rank factor for Google.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224202502

Use this Firefox program (in conjunction with FireBug) to help speed up your site: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

How to improve your Trifecta score (as per SEOmoz)

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Resources for Creating a Better Website

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