Search Engine Resources

These resources and links will help you learn more about search engine marketing, show you boards for chatting with other SEOs, provide you with many useful tools that you'll need and offers a ton of sites that are packed with the latest news and useful articles.

Latest News & Articles

Search Engine Watch.com - Premier search engine news site edited by Danny Sullivan.
Search Engine Guide.com - Great source with tons of search engine related articles, news and reviews.
Search Engine Blog.com - Regularly updated site giving you only what you absolutely need.
Search Newz.com - News and a wide range of search engine related articles.
Traffick - News, articles, directory and newsletter.
Spider Food - Articles and a forum.

Forums

GoogleCommunity.com - Just that...all about Google.
IMR Forums - Community of webmasters, SEO's and general netheads.
Cre8asite Forums - General webmaster forum but with most posts relating to SEM in one way or another.
Resource Zone - Operated by The Open Directory Project. You can find where your ODP submission has disappeared to!
High Rankings - Great forum for SEOs and those seeking to learn more.
SEO Chat - More search engine banter.
SitePoint.com - Buy sell websites and domains.
WarriorForum.com - Popular forum for website geeks and gals.
Webmaster World - The premier venue for search engine related discussion.

Search Engine Lists

All Search Engines - Big list of search sites.
SearchEngines.net - Another big list
ISEDB - Search sites listings complete with informative detail.
Search Engine Links - Lists search engines from all over the globe.
AllSearchEngines.co.uk - Search site containing search sites.

Search Engine Tools & Resources

Word Tracker - Keyword research tool.
Google Keyword Suggestion Tool - Google keyword suggestion tool from the AdWords program.
Google Search Grid - A handy tool that allows you to type in 5 different words and then work out which two-word combination produces the most/least results.
Google Suggest - New tool which shows you search results for keywords.
Marketleap - Link popularity tool.
Search Engine Relationship Chart - Bruce Clay's search engine relationship chart tells you how the different search engine databases feed into the major search sites.
Google Alert - Keep an eye on Google's results automatically.
Google Dance Check - Google has more than one database, you can check them all here.
Spider Hunter - Focuses on search engine spiders, cloaking and other high end web site techniques.
Self Promotion.com - If you want more people to visit your website, you must know how to create search-engine-friendly webpages, and then submit your URL to all the major search engines. That's what this site is all about.