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.

• Keyword Grouping: Why You Need It & How to Do It Right by @SERanking
• Facebook Adds Ability to Create and Share 3D Photos by @MattGSouthern
• Google’s John Mueller Predicts Much More JavaScript in SEO in the Coming Years by @MattGSouthern
• Facebook Messenger is Reportedly Testing an Unsend Feature by @MattGSouthern
• Google Improves Attribution for YouTube’s ‘TrueView for Action’ Ads by @MattGSouthern
• The Great Google/SEO Communications Conundrum by @tonynwright
• 3 Emerging Technologies in Marketing: What You Must Consider by @kevlindsay
• 7 Essential SEO Browser Extensions & Plugins by @beanstalkim

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.

• Ahrefs’ SEO Metrics: What They Mean and How to Use Them
• 9 EASY Link Building Strategies (That ANYONE Can Use)
• 13 Best Link Building Tools (for Building AMAZING Links)
• 9 Best Marketing Groups on Facebook (to Level Up Your Skills)
• How Many New Backlinks Do Top-ranking Pages Get Over Time [New Data by Ahrefs]
• Google PageRank is NOT Dead: Why It Still Matters in 2018
• Just How Much is Your Website REALLY Worth? A Simple Valuation Guide
• How to Submit Your Website to Search Engines (Hint: You Don’t Always Need To)

Backlinko (backlinko.com)

Brian Dean's backlinko helps users learn advanced SEO.

• Backlinks: The Definitive Guide (2018)
• The Ultimate SEO Audit [Works GREAT in 2018]
• 17 [Advanced] SEO Tips For 2018
• How to Learn SEO In 2018 (In Record Time)
• Voice Search: The Definitive Guide
• 27 Ways to Increase Website Traffic in 2018

Online Metrics (online-metrics.com)

Helps teach marketers advanced digital analytics strategies

• 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
• Best Strategies for Dealing with Bot Traffic in Google Analytics
• The Complete Guide to Leverage Custom Metrics in Google Analytics
• 20 Segmentation Strategies to Improve Your Google Analytics Insights and ROI
• How the Page Value Metric Can Greatly Improve Your ROI
• How to Leverage Real-Time Reporting for Your Business

Moz (moz.com)

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

• 5 Ways We Improved User Experience and Organic Reach on the New Moz Help Hub
• How to Create a Local Marketing Results Dashboard in Google Data Studio - Whiteboard Friday
• Why We're Doubling Down on the Future of SEO - Moz + STAT
• Moz Acquires STAT Search Analytics: We're Better Together!
• The SEO Cyborg: How to Resonate with Users & Make Sense to Search Bots
• Rewriting the Beginner's Guide to SEO, Chapter 5: Technical Optimization
• Faceted Navigation Intro - Whiteboard Friday
• A Slice of MozCon Magic: The 2018 Video Bundle is HERE!

SEO by the Sea (www.seobythesea.com)

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

• How Google might Identify 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
• Schema, Structured Data, and Scattered Databases such as the World Wide Web
• Google to Offer Combined Content (Paid and Organic) Search Results
• PageRank Updated

Search Engine Watch (searchenginewatch.com)

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

• The end of Google+ after a data breach and how it affects us
• Is hiding paid backlinks from Google actually possible?
• Google data breach + Berners-Lee’s Solid — is the power shifting?
• A cheat sheet to Google algorithm updates from 2011 to 2018
• On-site SEO for international brands, do’s and don’ts
• Dragonfly: What we know about Google’s possible plans to re-enter China’s search market
• How to drive clicks through effective meta descriptions
• 4 specific strategies for finding LSI keywords that’ll boost your SEO

Reddit SEO (www.reddit.com)

A perfect place to discuss SEO questions and concerns.

• If you don't rank for single keywords in your niche is that true you are algorithm penalized?
• I'm getting ready to hire a Junior SEO person to help me with day-to-day tasks (agency work). What are some good basic-level questions to ask candidates?
• Single H1 tag per page, is it bad to use the navbar to accomplish this?
• Is this a problem? R.e trust & citation flow
• Does it recommended to avoid quote, apostrrophe and all in metadata in website for SEO ?
• removing an entire product category from ecomm
• We are the number one site for Top IT Blogs on Google right now
• Toxic Government Domains in SEMrush?

Searchmetrics Blog (blog.searchmetrics.com)

Authors discuss the latest news in the SEO industry.

• Content Audits: A path to discover your potential and reach your goals
• When Search meets Social: Google And WeChat behind China’s Great Firewall
• Unwrapping the Secrets of SEO: Google Mobile-First Rollout Creates Opportunity to Profit or Perish
• Spotting Low-Hanging Fruits with an SEO Dashboard
• 7 Ways to Build Your Brand with Blockchain Marketing
• How to Generate Persona-Based Content for Organic Search
• Unwrapping the Secrets of SEO: The Ultimate Guide to Website Speed – Part 3
• 3 Hacks to Boost your Content Marketing

Local SEO guide (www.localseoguide.com)

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

• SEO Smoke Tests for Dynamic Rendering
• Structured Data Can = MehSEO
• How Long Does It Take SEO Traffic To Recover From Blocking Googlebot?
• Server Side Rendering For Dummies (& Non-Technical SEO Decision-Makers)
• Paid Search Targeting Brand Keywords = SEO Death

ClickZ (www.clickz.com)

Offers insights and resources related to SEO and digital marketing.

• Weekly martech review: IBM’s Food Trust blockchain, LinkedIn acquires Glint, Talldesk valued >$1B
• Up your open rate with kinetic email
• Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018: What marketers should know
• Brands are moving to in-house programmatic: Is it the right choice?
• 3 ways advertisers can combat ad fraud in mobile marketing
• How can augmented reality enhance the experience for sports fans?
• SAP announces commerce platform Upscale into US market today
• Are we finally reaching a tipping point of who controls the web?

Search Engine Land (searchengineland.com)

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

• Why Google Cache lies to you and what to do about it (if anything)
• SearchCap: Google Discover ads, YouTube engagement metric & PPC tools
• YouTube now counts ‘engagement’ for YouTube for action ads at 10 seconds, not 30
• Last call! Secure your seat at SMX East now
• Do you still need a PPC tool with the new Google Ads?
• Native ad test in Google Discover feeds gets a new look
• SearchCap: DuckDuckGo growth, Voice search and Salesforce tools
• Loose match types, bid-caching, and getting what you pay for in digital marketing

Yoast (yoast.com)

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

• Analytics: 5 tips to measure your Black Friday success
• Remkus’ Roundup: New conferences, Gutenberg news and more!
• Caroline’s Corner: No inspiration to blog? Work on your blog’s foundation
• 5 tips for writing readable blog posts
• Yoast SEO 8.4: Helping you optimize taxonomies
• Annelieke’s Analytics: Sequence segments in Google Analytics
• Remkus’ Roundup: Are you ready for WordPress 5.0?
• What is an XML sitemap and why should you have one?

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: October 15, 2018
• Google: Huge Opportunity In Knowing JavaScript For Technical SEO
• Google Again Tests Favicons In Search Results Snippets
• Google: If It Is Not Documented, It Can Change Over Time
• New Google My Business Clear Option For Attributes
• Google People Also Search In Local Search Results
• Google Ice Cream Brain Freeze Machine
• Daily Search Forum Recap: October 12, 2018

SEO Book Blog (www.seobook.com)

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

• Left is Right & Up is Down
• Grist for the Machine
• Virtual Real Estate
• Rank Checker Update
• DMOZ Shut Down
• New gTLDs are Like Used Cars
• Disappearing Clicks
• Google & Facebook Squeezing Out Partners