Learn SEO from the best Web marketers in the world

When I started learning about SEO years back I really didn’t know where to search my information and whom to learn from or believe. In fact, I lost a lot of time learning from some people that actually didn’t know anything about SEO on forums and websites. SEO is in constant evolution, learning the basics isn’t the hard part. You can learn the basics by browsing the web and spending hours reading here and there and experimenting what you learn over your personal websites or through experiences other had. It is very hard to discern what is good from bad and SEO is always a subject of controversy. Cracking the Google algorithm is not a easy task and fighting the competition can be as hard. SEO books are a excellent source of knowledge but there are some very bad E-book that you buy to realize you learned nothing and that in fact, you are leagues ahead of the person that wrote that. Repeating this process is  motivation over time to get you started to write your own E-book. At least it was for me.

“Do you need to pay for SEO Ebooks and course to learn? The answer is No“

There are millions of people using SEO out there, but only a handful of them that can be considered professional and that they really know what they are doing and why. The people that do not about about the Why and do not try to understand the Why are just amateurs that will never go far.

Do you need to pay for professional SEO advice and to learn? The answer is No for 99% of the internet Marketers. Reaching a very high level might require spending but I doubt you are in that 1%.

What I am getting to is that most of the really valuable SEO gold information is being blogged on the web and that if you know who to get it from you will be able to progress much faster. SEO is huge, you will keep learning about it for ever and you might as well try to learn the right stuff from the right people. I will show you where, and from whom to get your information. And WHY from them.

Matt Cutts

Matt works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He is well known in the SEO community for enforcing the Google Webmaster Guidelines and cracking down on link spam. Cutts also advises the public on how to get better website visibility in Google as well as webmaster issues in general, and is generally an outspoken and public face of Google.

Cutts started his career in search when working on his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matt got his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Kentucky and Master’s degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His field of study was computer graphics and movement tracking, then moved into the field of information retrieval, and search engines after taking two required outside classes from the university’s Information and Library Science department. He co-oped at United States Department of Defense. He did not complete the Ph.D. before moving to Google, but did acquire a master’s degree.

His personal blog is currently updated with the most recent changes concerning Google and you can expect to learn and demystify many subject thanks to his expertise.

Website : http://www.mattcutts.com/ Twitter: Twitter Profile

Blog : http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/googleseo/

Google Webmaster Central

I strongly suggest you read all his SEO posts concerning Google he is the tops reference on the web for SEO concerning Google.You can also go subscribe to the youtube videos of Google Webmaster Central Channel  http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Google being the most important search engine makes it worth that time investment. If you can get backlinks and Optimization that will get indexed by Google, it will also get accepted by the other less restrictive search engines including Yahoo. And you will get traffic.

Rand Fishkin (SEO Moz)

In 2004, he co-founded SEOmoz, the search marketing industry’s leading SEO software provider, serving  more than 6,500 paying customers.
Over the last few years, it has grown to 25+ employees, $5.5+ million in revenue (2010) and a community of over 250,000 active search marketers. His role as CEO involves recruiting and managing the executive team, leading the product/strategic vision and evangelizing SEO and SEOmoz PRO around the world.

You can fallow the quality SEO bloggin of him and his team at SEO moz Blog.

Blog: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/18 Twitter: Twitter Profile

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. He is also the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable. Barry is also the News Editor at Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Land. Barry has hosted Search Marketing Expo in Israel and is a speaker at many search marketing conferences, including Search Engine Strategies and WebmasterWorld’s PubCon. Barry is always at the forefront of the latest news and trends in search. He was also the former News Editor at Search Engine Watch and is a moderator at several search marketing forums. Barry has and currently sits on the advisory boards for Google, Yahoo! Search, Microsoft’s Bing, and several other Internet companies.

Barry is often quoted and interviewed in publications such as Forbes, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, USA Today BuinessWeek, News.com, Publish and many more. He has appeared on primetime TV, specifically NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams to talk about Google Instant. He has over a decade of hands on experience in web strategy, marketing and business optimization.

Learn all you can from his blog:

Blog: http://www.cartoonbarry.com/seo_tips/

Twitter: Twitter Profile

Aaron Wall

Aaron Wall, an aggressive and creative viral marketer who thinks of the Web in terms of how ideas spread, is a leading figure in Search Engine Marketing and SEO. Aaron literally wrote the book on search engine optimization: SEO Book. SEO Book is quite possibly the most authoritative work on SEO strategies and practices currently available.

Aaron also blogs from SEOBook.com, where he reviews search engine strategies, offers some great SEO tools, comments on industry trends, and interviews leaders in the field of search marketing.

Additionally, Aaron is a co-owner of Threadwatch.org, the SEO community’s “water cooler” and free-wheeling discussion board, where just about anything search-related can and does get discussed by search marketing insiders.

He doesn’t write very often but when he does you want to learn what he has to say.

Blog: http://www.seobook.com/blog

Twitter: Twitter Profile

Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty is the media director of bluglass.com and she also runs her own SEO company at SEOsmarty.com. She is really a good reference for her great blogging. She may have a smaller background then most other successful SEO marketers but her blog is a constant source of valuable information about SEO and other very specific subject related more or less to SEO

She has very good articles on many different SEO subject and she is a reference in the SEO field.

Blog: Link Building

twitter : Twitter Profile

Lee Odden

Lee Odden is CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, a pioneering internet marketing agency that helps companies improve customer relationships and increase online sales through integrated search, social media and content marketing services. Odden’s 12 years of client consulting experience includes Fortune 50 companies HP & McKesson and trusted marketing industry brands like PRWeb, Marketo and StrongMail.

Blog: http://www.toprankblog.com/category/seo/seo-tips/

Twitter: Twitter Profile

Micheal Gray

Michael Gray became involved in web development and website management in 1998. He was Webmaster for a major specialty retailer, helping create their website presence and growing their online sales from less than $10,000 a month to over $25 million in annual web sales. Michael has been involved with affiliate marketing campaigns for several years and does consulting work on a variety of topics such as SEO, Social Media and Blog Management.

Blog :http://www.wolf-howl.com/

Twitter :Twitter Profile

David Naylor

David Naylor, more commonly known as DaveN, started working in the SEO industry over 14 years ago with three major corporations releasing their database driven data, creating internal link structures and improving usability.

David is the owner of Bronco Internet, a highly successful web design and development company which specialises in ecommerce solutions and bespoke state of the art programming, which provides clients not just with SEO services but a complete website design, programming and hosting solution.

Blog : http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/blog

Twitter: Twitter Profile

Neil Patel

Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. Through his entrepreneurial career Neil has helped large corporations such as Amazon, AOL, GM, HP and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.

Website: http://www.quicksprout.com/

Twitter: Twitter Profile

Jennifer Laycock

Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, the Social Media Faculty Chair for MarketMotive and offers small business social media strategy & consulting. Jennifer enjoys the challenge of finding unique and creative ways to connect with consumers without spending a fortune in marketing dollars. Though she now prefers to work with small businesses, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children.

Her blog is also a gold mine of information for SEO and you NEED to read as much as you can.

Blog: http://www.searchengineguide.com/jennifer-laycock/

Twitter: Twitter Profile

Matt Mcgee

Matt has been helping businesses of all sizes succeed online since the late 1990s, with a specialty in SEO, local search marketing, and blogging/social media. He has consulted for companies as big as Target.com and as small as a mom and pop selling handcrafted wooden pens from their garage. He has been surrounded by small businesses his whole life.

Website: http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/

Twitter: Twitter Profile

Patrick Altoft

Patrick is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds based full service digital agency specialising in search engine optimisation and social media marketing as well as building and designing websites and applications.

A full time SEO consultant since 2002 Patrick has developed the natural search strategies of some of the worlds largest brands. A regular speaker at conferences and occasional writer at E-Consultancy Patrick has been quoted in publications such as the BBC News, The Times, Guardian, TechCrunch, Mashable, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, Ars Technica, ZD Net, CNet News.com, Information Week, The Inquirer, Web Pro News, CNBC, and Wired.

Website : http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/

Andy Beal

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/andybeal.marketingpilgrim

Dev Basu

http://devbasu.com/

Conclusion:

There are some other very successful web marketers but many of them do not blog, or offer blogs of high quality. Just reading all the previous blogs will keep you occupied for days and no matter who you are and what your level is you will learn many things. These blogs are the highest quality updates you can find on the web coming from specialized individuals that fallow the evolution SEO in every way. They are the best teachers you will ever have for free. If you know where to get the information you can realize that the “secret stuff” really isn’t secret at all and that these individuals are ready to give it to you for free in blog formats.

If you are able to exploit the information that has just been shared with you. In the next weeks, your SEO level with explode. You will start to think differently, have different approaches, understand why you do things, realize all you have been doing wrong and also get closer to the knowledge level of people getting millions with SEO. Giving you more chance to achieve what you are aiming for.

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