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Search Engines:

Google

Sergey Brin  (Co-founder of Google) and Jim	Larry Page  (Co-founder of Google) and Jim	Jim and Craig Silverstein  (Director of Technology at Google)
Matt Cutts (Software Engineer at Google) and Jim	Nathan Tyler (Technology PR at Google) and Jim	Matt Cutts

Yahoo

Yahoo's Tim Mayer (previously with Fast (AlltheWeb), Overture, and Inktomi)

MSN, the "other search engine"

These 3 engines (combined with AOL Search, which uses Google) make up over 90% of search engine traffic.

Bruce Clay & The Search Engine Relationship Chart

Jim and Bruce Clay

Search Engine Relationships

Internet Marketing Blogs

We often read Internet Marketing Blogs to follow the latest changes and theories in this ever changing field. To assist in finding all these resources quickly, we created a few pages where most of the top blogs and forums are updated on a daily and weekly basis. Why constantly browse from forum to forum, and blog to blog, when you can access them all right here!?

Blogs that are Internet Marketing related - This page is updated hourly, and includes all posts that have been posted within the past 24 hours. If daily news is just "too much" try our Weekly Internet Marketing News Blogs .

Some of our favorite blogs are:

SEO Roundtable

Jim Boykin and Barry Schwartz  (RustyBrick from SEO Roundtable)

SEO Book - Aaron Wall

Search Engine Journal

Lilengine

Internet Marketing Forums
In addition to Blogs, we also visit several Internet Marketing forums on a daily basis. To make our job easier, we put many feeds of top blogs all on one page: Internet Marketing Forums, all in one place.

Some of our favorite forums are:

Webmasterworld

Brett Tabke (owner of WebmasterWorld) and Jim in Boston

Todd Malicoat (stuntdubl - WebmasterWorld moderator) and Brett Tabke in San Jose

Jim and Digitalghost  (Webmasterworld Moderator) in Chicago

Jim and Martinibuster (WebmasterWorld moderator Link Development) Google Dance Party 2004	Shak (WebmasterWorld moderator PPC), James, Jim, and Paul in Scotland

v7n - John Scott

SEO Chat and SEO Town

Darrin Ward, Founder of SEO Chat and SEO Town, and Jim at the We Build Pages offices in New York (Jim was member #2 of SEO Chat)

SEO Guy Forums

Jim and Morgan Carey (SEO Guy)

HighRankings Forum - Jill Whalen

Jim with Jill Whalen San Jose	Scottie, Jill, Christine, Penny -Chicago
Jill and Scottie	Jill in Boston after a few

You can find many of these forums, and more all right here.

Websites:

Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch and Jim Boykin

Jim and Dan Thies of SEO Research Labs

SES Chicago 2004 :

Benjamin Pfeiffer (Phoenix) and Derek Chew of organic-rankings.com	Jake Baillie (BakedJake) WebMasterRadio.FM
Todd Friesen (oilman) WebMasterRadio.FM	Patrick Gavin
Mikkel deMib Svendsen http://www.sma-eu.org/ and Mike Grehan http://www.sma-uk.org/	Jim and Derek Chew at the We Build Pages booth
Greg Boser (WebGuerrilla)
Sean Stahlman, Jim and Derek in limo on the way to the Google party
Tim Mayer (Yahoo) Amy and Sean at the MSN Search party
Jim and Sean from Marketing Terms

Choosing Keywords is the first and most important step in any Internet Marketing Campaign.

We should give you a warning that trying to guess your traffic based off of any of the numbers given in the tools below is a dangerious thing to do. When we analyze the "popularity" of phrases, we Only use the numbers as a "comparision" tool. We compare the popularity of phrases against each other, but we never guess traffic based from these numbers.

WordTracker - We stop at Step 2 and compare these numbers

Google Adwords Keyword Tool - help with finding broad areas related to your keywords.

Overture Keyword Tool - we seldom use this tool, as there are serious flaws in trying to related these against how places like Google, Yahoo, and MSN display results in the "natural" listings area.

Aleksika Keyword Lookup

Once you've got your "possible keywords" list, it's wize to study your competition for those keywords. You may think you want to be #1 for something like "Cars", but if you see that the top sites have thousands and thousands of links to them, and you don't think you can achieve that for your site, then you might want to analyze other phrases to see where your time and effort, as well at patience, may help you more.

We've created a tool where you can enter in a seach phrase, as well as your website address, and see your backlinks, and your competitors. There's also a few other things that our tool shows you.

Top Ten Analysis - We Build Pages SEO Tool #5

You may also wish to view our "Page Report" - We Build Pages SEO Tool #2

And, of course, if you want to hire us for on-page or off-page optimization. We specialize in obtaining links.

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