What are the most trusted SEO sites?

[uofmiamiguy]

Other then SEOmoz what sites can you trust for SEO?

Is there some type of formula I can use to find out if any site is trustworthy?

[danatanseo]

Hi Haviv,

I think you are asking this question in the right place. I am sure there will be different responses than mine that are equally as good but here are my favorites (and totally trusted) favorites:

http://www.raventools.com

http://www.majesticseo.com

http://www.distilled.net/u/

http://www.ahrefs.com

http://www.semrush.com

http://www.screamingfrog.com

http://www.seobook.com  (especially for the Firefox Rank Tracker Add On)

I am not an affiliate of any of these sites and these are not affiliate links. I just use all of these on a regular basis.

Hope that helps!

Dana

[GuestBlogPoster.com]

Dana pretty much nailed it. You're already in the right place though (SEOmoz). To add to this list I'd include:

• http://www.searchenginejournal.com/
• http://searchenginewatch.com/
• http://searchengineland.com/
• I'm actually a writer for the SEO.com blog which you might enjoy as well: http://www.seo.com/author/kphelps/

Not really any "formula", just exposure, experience and time with this industry.

Going to have to disagree with the Rank Tracker Add on that Dana is talking about though. If you are running less than 10 keywords, you'll be fine but anything more than that and Google will block your IP and your results will be messed up.

Does this help?

Kevin Phelps
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwphelps

[RyanKent]

Dana and Kevin's responses are great and deserve a thumbs up. I would add a few key site which have not been mentioned. I would place these primary information sites above any secondary sources:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/default.aspx

http://mattcutts.com/blog/

Before looking to other sources, my advice is go to the official source of information.

If you decide you need more analysis, SEOmoz is (obviously) my preferred suggestion. I would suggest the above sources combined with SEOmoz is enough to keep a person busy for a year.

When you do view other sources, including SEOmoz, keep in mind there are great posters on bad sites, and bad posters on good sites. The difference is, the good sites will (eventually) correct any bad information. I prefer SEOmoz because they do an exceptional job of correcting misinformation. Even so, it may take a week for the error to be caught. With such a large, active community it is a huge amount of work to review every post made on the site.

[GuestBlogPoster.com]

+1

Getting news and/or advice right from the horses mouth is excellent. Just don't let one persons opinion on SEO guide you. You need to research because most of SEO is theory and if you get a "bad poster on a great site" like Ryan mentioned, you might waste a lot of time!

I'm sure there are still places out there touting article spinning and blog networks, but don't be fooled!

Kevin Phelps
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwphelps

[Andropenis_Australia]

+1

What a great list.

^^ What they said, good luck !