What sources do you use to keep on top of SEO news?
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I want to try building an RSS feed of SEO news... but not wanting to find myself drowning in materials
As such, looking for a short list of recommendations for keeping on top of SEO developments – the impetus is that I'm still discovering changes that happened 2, 3, even 5 years ago, and I want to try and catch these things as they happen.
Thinking something actually from Google may be on the list, but some of these sources are pretty on top of things!
Seroundtable.com also comes to mind.
But what do you use to keep informed?
Thanks
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Thanks everybody! Nice list
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Hi there,
We use many of the above mentioned resources, but also follow Occam's Razor: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/ by Avinash Kaushik - it's not 100% dedicated to SEO, but he does have many good tips and thoughts on the topic - well worth following, in my opinion!
Good luck with your feed!
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Hi
I would advise you to set up a feedly, do a search for some relevant topics such as SEO, PPC, digital marketing etc and link in all the sites you feel would be relevant to you. This then presents you with a single page with all their newest blog posts/ news stories.
It makes it very easy to keep up to date.
Hope this helps
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Don't forget about: State of Digital, Search Engine People, Econsultancy. They're not pure SEO news sites like a couple of others mentioned before but they tend from time to time also to cover some new aspects of SEO.
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I have a feedly account with most of the sites mentioned here piping into it. I also look at a few platform specific ones, or ecommerce specific ones like elastic commerce. But those are mainly because I deal in ecommerce.
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Hi,
First and foremost on my list is http://searchengineland.com/ . Apart from that there are many other resources like http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in, www.searchenginejournal.com , Searchenginewatch.com, http://moz.com/blog, http://mashable.com/category/seo/ and list goes.
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Adding to other responses...
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
And
http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/
These give invaluable information right from the Horse's mouth..Google
Best regards,
Devanur Rafi
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For tactics and technique there are tons of blog that update on regular basis. I would suggest you to keep a close eye on Inbound.org and you will have all the best content in the digital marketing niche for that very day.
For SEO news and what is going on here are some of the blogs that I would recommend:
Forums include, Webmaster World Forum.
Hope this helps!
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Hi there,
My best three ones:
For news: www.searchenginejournal.com
SEO tactics & news: quicksprout.com , http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/
Hope it helps.
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