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.

It takes something really special to drag me away from Wordpress development these days but Pligg, the open source content management system for social media/web 2.0 websites is my new passion. It’s got incredible functionality out of the box, is perfect for social media sites and has an active community developing mods. more…

I’ve been conducting some social media optimisation (SMO) research for a client recently and came across a couple of great resources that certainly opened my eyes to the possibilities with social media.

17 Rules for social media optimisation

Great set if rules for SMO. I’m sure there are more than 17 but this will keep you going for a while.

www.marketingpilgrim.com

This guy knows what he’s talking about and has a great free download about online reputation management, a must read of you want to know how social media can affect your business.

Site Pro News

These guys continue to supply great articles on every aspect of web design and this article is no exception.