Search Engine optimization… a term that strikes fear, frustration and confusion in the hearts of many internet marketers.

Including me!

But I think it is important to understand this area if you have a blog or website it is necessary to do some SEO work.

I’m no expert on SEO or getting a website to rank highly in the search engines for competitive keywords.

I have some idea that it has something to do with back-links from other sites and that the higher the authority of the site that links to yours is (i.e. high page rank), the better this is for your SEO. Posting on a regular basis is also good for SEO, as is the way you use keywords in your post and how you use tags. Submitting sites to directories is also a way of boosting your sites authority with search engines and thus increasing your rankings. Especially if you are listed in directories like dmoz who review submissions manually.

Well that is a brief outline of what I think I know. But I have found a very useful resource which I am going to use to increase my knowledge of SEO.

A website called foublogger.com has put together a list of “51 Ebooks that Every Blogger Should Read” (yikes, talk about information overload)

However, one section deals with SEO  which I have reproduced below:

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10. SEO for WordPress Blogs – by Carrie Hill

This book is from blizzardinternet.com. This ebook give some basic seo settings fro your wordpress blog. It deals about permalink settings, page, category, post titles and optional excerpt settings. No index archives and seo promotional techniques like submitting blog directories.

Get book here

11. Google SEO Basics Guide – by Shaun Anderson

This hobo ebook covers google seo basics, writing original content, page rank details, importance of site structure, link building strategies, ways to increase page rank of the blog, sitemap, blackhat seo, whitehat seo, google penalty, keyword research, competitors research, duplicate content, 301 redirects. Also it explains robots.txt, meta tag, h1 tag, permalink settings.this is a complete guide for seo basics.

Download ebook here

12. Beginner’s Guide to SEO – by Rand Fishkin

Beginner’s Guide to SEO by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org this ebook covers seo basics, search engine operation, keyword research, what are all the critical components should be optimized like URL, Meta tag, duplicate tags and etc. Importance of site design on seo also explains some of the brand building tactics.

Get ebook here

13. Introduction to Link building – by Shaun Anderson

This hobo book regarding link building strategies for google seo, it explains about how to get quality back links, how to link valuable blog post reciprocal links links from unrelated sites. Finding Broken links, dofollow links, bad neighborhoods for google penality and anchor text in link building.

Get ebook here

14. Google AdWords Secrets – Yahoo! Search Marketing and AdWords PPC – by Aaron Matthew Wall

This ebook is from seobook.com. This is a free excerpt of the SEO Book covering the pay per click search engine market.

The entire SEO Book covers many other search engine marketing strategies such as: Keyword research, choosing a domain name, placing keywords in your page, copy Website submission, Link building, effectively using SEO tools, Tracking your progress.

Download ebook here

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Reading a few of those should keep you busy for a while, but definitely head over to fourblogger and check out the rest of the books recommended:  51 Ebooks that Every Blogger Should Read

*Note: Tomorrow (sunday 20th June) the people over at the 30 Day Blog challenge are starting a new “mini” challenge: 7 posts in 7 days This is a good option for people who may have missed the 30 day blog chalenge or felt that blogging daily for 30 days was a bit too challenging. So come back tomorrow if that may interest you and I will tell you all about it.

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