SEO

Search Engine Journal (www.searchenginejournal.com)

Combining industry news, tips, tricks, Search Engine Journal should be one of your first stops for the latest.

• Official AMP Plugin for WordPress Now Supports AMP Stories by @MattGSouthern
• Google My Business Suggests Positive Reviews to Share as Posts by @MattGSouthern
• How to Take Search Console to the Next Level with Google Data Studio by @sam_marsden
• Why Content ‘Tactics’ Fail You & How to Become Relevant by @jamarketer
• Maintaining Work-Life Balance Is Essential to Self-Care by @LEHoneycutt
• Free Google AI Image Analysis Tool by @martinibuster
• Facebook is Testing Upvotes and Downvotes for Comments by @MattGSouthern
• 20 Awesome Sources of Free Data by @JulieJoyce

Ahrefs Blog (ahrefs.com)

Ahrefs are famous for their SEO tools, but their blog shouldn't be overlooked. They offer more than news and reviews: they offer insightful case studies and industry developments.

• 301 Redirects for SEO: Everything You Need to Know
• How to Find and Map Keywords to the Buyer’s Journey
• 11 Actionable SEO Techniques For More Organic Traffic in 2019
• A Simple SEO Strategy for 2019 (The ‘Middleman’ Method)
• Ranking #1 on Google Is Overrated (Ahrefs’ Study of 100k Keywords)
• Nofollow vs. Follow Links: Everything You Need to Know
• How to Write a Blog Post in 9 Steps (That People Actually Want to Read)
• How to Find Who Links to Your Website (and What to Do Next)

Backlinko (backlinko.com)

Brian Dean's backlinko helps users learn advanced SEO.

• We Analyzed 12 Million Outreach Emails. Here’s What We Learned
• Copywriting: The Definitive Guide
• We Analyzed 912 Million Blog Posts. Here’s What We Learned About Content Marketing
• How to Rank on Page 1 of Google FAST (In-Depth Case Study)
• How to Build AWESOME Backlinks in 2019 (9 Proven Strategies)
• Introducing: The SEO Marketing Hub, A Free Library of SEO Resources
• Ecommerce SEO: The Definitive Guide [2019]
• The 8-Step Content Strategy For 2019 [Template Included]

Online Metrics (online-metrics.com)

Helps teach marketers advanced digital analytics strategies

• 11 Ways to Leverage Naming Conventions in Google Analytics and Tag Manager
• Event Tracking and 10 Fundamental Questions to Answer First
• How Google Analytics Channels Can Make or Break Your Data Analysis
• Ultimate Collection of Powerful Google Analytics Segments (100+ Examples)
• Step-by-Step Guide on the Default Channel Grouping Dimension
• Pro Guide to the Shopping Behavior Analysis Report in Google Analytics
• Top 16 Google Tag Manager Extensions Worth Trying Out
• Ultimate Guide to Using a Google Analytics Test View

Moz (moz.com)

With loads of advice and tips, and even how-to guides, Moz is an excellent (and oft-updated) source.

• The One-Hour Guide to SEO: Link Building - Whiteboard Friday
• 4 Unconventional Ways to Become a Better SEO
• How Do I Improve My Domain Authority (DA)?
• 12 Steps to Lightning Page Speed
• The One-Hour Guide to SEO: Technical SEO - Whiteboard Friday
• How to Convince Your Boss to Send You to MozCon 2019
• How Bad Was Google's Deindexing Bug?
• Links as a Google Ranking Factor: A 2019 Study

SEO by the Sea (www.seobythesea.com)

Looks at some of the more technical aspects of SEO and SEO news.

• Context Clusters in Search Query Suggestions
• Universal Search Updated at Google
• How Google’s Knowledge Graph Updates Itself by Answering Questions
• How Google Identifies Primary Versions of Duplicate Pages
• Quality Scores for Queries: Structured Data, Synthetic Queries and Augmentation Queries
• Learning to Rank
• Five Years of Google Ranking Signals
• Google Patent on Structured Data Focuses upon JSON-LD

Search Engine Watch (searchenginewatch.com)

Brings together news about all things search and social media marketing related.

• Using Python to recover SEO site traffic (Part three)
• Study: How ready are businesses for voice search?
• Three fundamental factors in the production of link-building content
• Top 19 Instagram marketing tools to use for success
• How to optimize paid search ads for phone calls
• How to conduct a branded search audit
• How to write SEO-friendly alt text for your images
• Survey: Less than 10% of marketers to focus on Digital PR in 2019

Reddit SEO (www.reddit.com)

A perfect place to discuss SEO questions and concerns.

• Seo for a godaddy site?
• How important is total accuracy/consistency for local citations?
• Schema Raiting is fake ? What does think Google about it?
• seo backling spam - steemit.com
• What's the quickest, easiest way to get review snippets on a WordPress site?
• Anyone out there using SERanking?
• Where can i get white hat linkbuilding done at an affordable price?
• Regarding frequency of article posts

Searchmetrics Blog (blog.searchmetrics.com)

Authors discuss the latest news in the SEO industry.

• Google’s work in progress with health care rankings
• How the travel industry is playing the Google rankings game
• SEO, Content and Linguistics: A Case Study
• Fintech revolution: How Google rankings are transforming banking and finance
• Built for speed: Google’s ranking factors for media and publishing sites
• What are Google’s unique ranking factors for the eCommerce industry?
• The importance of discussing SEO during earnings calls
• How is Google evaluating web content for rankings?

Local SEO guide (www.localseoguide.com)

Focuses its news and tips on local SEO and small-businesses.

• How To Force Q&A On a GMB Page That Doesn’t Have It
• 10 Local SEO Predictions for 2019: Job Security For Local SEOs
• It’s Not Too Late To Localize Your Black Friday SEO Strategy
• Apple Maps May Not Be As Far Behind Google Maps As You Think…
• SEO Smoke Tests for Dynamic Rendering

ClickZ (www.clickz.com)

Offers insights and resources related to SEO and digital marketing.

• What HubSpot does best, according to a HubSpot expert
• Uberflip CEO Yoav Schwartz on empowering better content experiences
• Martech funding roundup: CleverTap, BUMP, Dote, and Klaviyo
• What’s Saks Fifth Avenue’s top tech investment? Its salespeople
• Salesforce announces new Einstein features for devs to build custom AI and ML
• What AI has in store for marketers in 2019: Impact across 3 specific industries
• Video: Intro to customer data platforms and when to use them
• Martech news roundup: Salesforce + Google Cloud, Vimeo buys Magisto, IAB Tech Lab new products

Search Engine Land (searchengineland.com)

Offers loads of information about all the search engines, and of course loads of info on SEO, including guides.

• Searching for facts, directions, local businesses are top digital assistant use cases, says survey
• Is link building dead? Depends on who you talk to
• 3 steps to signing more clients
• New customer acquisition vs. retention: 7 best practices for search
• Google Posts can now highlight customer testimonials in some countries
• Why featured snippets could be less of a win going forward
• Here’s how digital word of mouth and search have converged
• AMP WordPress plugin now supports Stories

Yoast (yoast.com)

A top-source in SEO and digital marketing, offering both industry news and some basic guides.

• How to use headings on your site
• Why storytelling is good for SEO
• A story about Schema, structured data and robots
• Schema.org is hard; we’re making it easy
• Yoast SEO 11.0: Structured data awesomeness
• Tips to enhance your experience with the Block Editor
• Rank with that cornerstone content!
• Tagging posts properly for users and SEO

Search Engine Roundtable (www.seroundtable.com)

If updates on all the search engines aren't enough, then the daily roundups of search forums should bring you to this blog.

• Daily Search Forum Recap: April 19, 2019
• Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Bugs, Navigation Removal, AMP Updates, OMG I Donâ��t Know & More
• Google: We Don't Hand Rank Web Pages, It Would Be Impossible
• Google Search Console URL Parameters Tool May Change
• Google Might Change How NoIndex In Robots.txt Works
• Google Posts Supports Highlighting Customer Testimonials & Reviews
• Submit Questions Around JavaScript SEO For Google
• Google AMP Kimonos At AMP Conf

SEO Book Blog (www.seobook.com)

One of the leading SEO websites, offering news and analysis.

• The Fractured Web
• Keyword Not Provided, But it Just Clicks
• How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
• Google Florida 2.0 Algorithm Update: Early Observations
• A Darker Shade of Gray
• Left is Right & Up is Down
• Grist for the Machine
• Virtual Real Estate