Answer-focused SEO - internet marketing strategy

by ian

75% of all those online will use a search engine to find you. But they're not looking for keywords. They're looking for answers.

Answer-focused SEO will help your entire internet marketing strategy. That's more important than the happy feeling you get from a #1 position.

Read More at : People Search for Answers, not Keywords

25 Websites for every SEO

1. www.seomoz.org/blog - Great blog, great seo tools
2. www.searchengineland.com – Up-to-date search news
3. www.sphinn.com – social bookmarking for internet marketing
4. www.mixx.com – a friendly alternative to Digg
5. www.stumbleupon.com – One of the best social bookmarking sites
6. http://forums.digitalpoint.com - Webmasters forum
7. www.sitepoint.com – Another great webmasters forum
8. www.technorati.com - Promote your blog
9. www.mybloglog.com – A must have for blog communities
10. www.twitter.com – A great way to communicate with your audience
11. www.linkdiagnosis.com - A great link analysis tool
12. www.google.com/trends - See how trends in Google look
13. http://answers.yahoo.com - Great for providing traffic
14. www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php - Learn about sitemaps
15. www.ventio.se/seo-tools/google-position - Still in beta but good SE tool
16. www.wordtracker.com - Great keyword performance tool
17. www.seologic.com/webmaster-tools - Another source of good seo tools
18. www.backlinkwatch.com – Backlink analysis breakdown
19. www.avivadirectory.com/strongest-directories - Quality directories
20. www.internetmarketingninjas.com – Expert seo advise
21. www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia - A wiki alternative
22. www.miniajax.com – Some great free Ajax scripts
23. www.sxc.hu/index.phtml - Free royalty free images
24. www.cssbeauty.com – CSS community
25. www.seounique.com/blog - Well I had to put my site in here!

Source : 25 Websites every seo should know

SEO for B2B markets : Geo-Specific Search

Search Engine Land says

Make a list of the geographical regions for which you want to get found. Think of the most likely geographical modifiers (terms) prospects in your markets will enter when searching for what you offer.


Once you’ve settled on the most likely search terms for each region you serve, you’ll want to set up separate URLs for each geographical market. Be sure to include the respective geo-specific search terms in each URL, each URL’s title tag and meta description, and in the anchor text of links pointing to these pages.

Next, logically incorporate these market URLs into user-friendly, intuitive navigation on your site, perhaps into a “markets” or “locations” section visible from your home page.

Source / Read more to know about B2B SEO at B2B SEO: Capturing Geo-Specific Search

Google reads Flash Text

With the recent admission by Matt Cutts to Stephan Spencer that Google is using Adobe Systems' Search Engine SDK technology, a new set of optimization opportunities opened up.

That fairly definite confirmation of how Google reads text within Flash files makes it possible to create Flash .swf files with some level of search engine optimization.

"It used to be the case that we had our own, home-brew code to pull the text out of Flash, but I think that we have moved to the Search Engine SDK tool that Adobe Macromedia offers," Cutts said. "So my hunch is that most of the search engines will standardize on using that Search Engine SDK tool to pull out the text."

Source / Read more at Google reads Flash text, so optimize it | Searchlight