I’ve seen the question “what are your favorite SEO resources” asked on more than one occasion. Answering this SEO question is a great way to keep learning and discovering new information outlets that you can use at your SEO disposal.
I figured there’s no better time than now to list out my favorite SEO Resources for 2015! This guide is for someone who is looking for help with SEO or just something new to read in general. I’ve broken it out by categories below – so feel free to comment and list your favorite SEO resources too!
SEO News Resources
These SEO resources are your big hitters, the ones everyone knows and goes to for news when it comes to SEO. All pretty standard, but worth the weekly read to catch up on what’s happening with SEO overall.
These sites offer more than SEO too. They cover everything from paid marketing to traditional advertising information.
- Moz.com (Paid Service, free blogs)
- SearchEngineLand
- Search Engine Watch
- Search Engine Journal (SEJ)
- Search Engine Roundtable
- ClickZ
Technical SEO Resources
These links below are my go to when looking into technical advancements, troubleshooting issues on a website, Google patent information, or in-depth SEO tips! By far one of my favorite section to get lost in, these URLs below have great information on any kind of technical SEO information you are looking for.
- SEO by the Sea
- Bruce Clay – Technical SEO Tips
- Matt Cutts Blog (Less relevant, but he still posts)
- TechnicalSEO.info
Local SEO Resources
The kings of local SEO. While most of these links all cover local SEO to some degree. This links below are tops in the game.
Link Building Resources
SEO isn’t just about content; off-page SEO is incredibly vital as well. When it comes to building links and passing equity these are the absolute best at providing how-to guides and new ways to build links to your website.
Search Engine Webmaster Tools Resources
If you’re looking for specific information directly from the search engines, the links below are directly related to their crawlers and how you should be applying their recommendations for an easier crawl to your website. What’s better than the direct source?
- Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Google Search Blog
- Google Search Engine Starter Guide
- Bing Search Blog
SEO Aggregate Resources
Just a few aggregate sources of information. Typically, I go here to look for current problems that people may have; to help or to learn more. Worth reading every day to see what the masses are dealing with in the SEO industry.
Paid Services SEO Resources
These are just a few of my favorite paid services for SEO. All of these tools are used to do SEO audits and assessments, however they all have insightful information on their blogs worth checking out.
- Ahrefs (Paid Tool, but has free blog posts)
- MajesticSEO (Paid Tool, but has free blog posts)
- SEMRush (Paid Tool, but has free blog posts)
- Raven Tools (Paid Tool, but has free blog posts)
- State of Digital (Platform Tool, but has free blog posts)
SEO Agency Resources
Being that I work for an SEO agency, I tend to gravitate towards the information they release to do the size of clients we all tend to work on. All of these companies are industry leaders in their own right.
- Distilled
- Seer Interactive
- RKG | Merkle Blog
- Builtvisible
- Kissmetrics
- LunaMetrics
- David Naylor
- WordStream
- Internet Marketing Ninjas
General and Inbound Marketing Resources
Finally, to round out the list; the group of sites that are more general in nature but still offer great information worth reading.
So there you have it. My big list of my favorite 2015 SEO resources. I fear that it won’t end here though. This list will continue to grow and I’ll even update it for 2016. What are your favorite go-to SEO Resources? Feel free to comment below and I’ll add it to the list!