Continuing our top 5 series we are focusing on search engine optimisation (SEO) websites this month. All the websites below have a slightly different focus within the SEO community and offer valuable information, strategies and examples to help you become a better SEO.

SEOMoz

Rand Fishkin is something of a SEO hero of mine, if only for his charismatic performances on the now legendary ‘Whiteboard Fridays’. SEOmoz has a lot to offer SEOs of all levels and its premium membership offer a variety of useful keyword, rankings and linking tools. The recent Linkscape tool despite its recent controversy is particularly useful.

SEO Book

SEO Book.com is a leading SEO blog by Aaron Wall covering the search marketing arena. It offers marketing tips, search analysis and his SEO book is probably the best out there. Like SEOmoz Aaron also features a premium members subscription that has had some great feedback.

SEO Blackhat

Some insightful information about ‘Blackhat’ SEO, linkbait & link spamming. Some of these tactics are highly dangerous and I wouldn’t recommend using them on any serious projects however it is important to be aware of what the latest black hat techniques are.

SEO Roundtable

A vibrant search marketing community that features forums dedicated to Google, Yahoo and MSN optimisation as well as all the latest search marketing news and developments.

Search Engine War

Great blog from the team at Guava which offers some insightful comments on SEO and PPC best practise, optimisation techniques and social media strategies.

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It looks like Google’s latest algorithm tweak is making the news. This interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald again features Darren Rowse and Yaro Starak. Both advise “…that website operators need to become less reliant on Google for both traffic and revenue.” more…

Well I don’t know what’s going on at Google at the moment but once again they are creating a major stir with their latest PageRank shakeup. There are a lot of theories as to why Google is re-ranking many blogs and websites and most centre around Google taking issue with the selling of text links and excessive interlinking within blog networks. I can understand the issue with the selling of text links as this essentially goes against Google’s preference for natural linking methods and goodness knows what this means for companies such as Text Link Ads. Could their days be numbered? more…

Man, it seems that every blog in existence these days has a Blogrush widget on it. Saying It’s really taken off is an understatement to say the least (Blogrush served 40,000,000 headlines in its first 5 days). more…

There are many thousands of internet marketing guru’s out there all proclaiming they have the next best online marketing system that will have hordes of hungry visitors flooding to your website. Now to be honest whilst there are excellent courses available, there are many that are either totally useless or in some cases downright scams. WebDesignGoldmine.com is all about providing you with as much good quality information for building successful websites as we can and all for free. Now we may promote a particular course now and then but only if we feel that its really worth the investment and in virtually all cases this will be something we have tried and tested. more…

If like me you cringe at most of the Google adsense templates for Wordpress then you’ll really like this theme from the guys at DoshDosh.com. It’s a well thought out and cleverly designed theme that works with Wordpress 2.0 and also supports widgets. more…