Favorite Usability and SEO Sites

The following web sites are my favorites from the user centered design and search engine marketing industries. Blog Feed Subscriptions are accessed via a simple click on the Feedster button (or text link) under the Feed Bin on the blog home page.

Usability, Design & Blogging

  • Facing Up:Interacting
    by Marcel Kornblum
  • ChrisG.com
    Chris Garrett and the business of blogging and new media
  • Demystifying Usability
    by Frank Spillers
  • Usable World
    by James Breeze
  • Joe Lamantia
    Information Architecture & Environments, User Experience, Social & Cultural Systems
  • Improve The Web
    by Yuri Filimonov
  • Lorelle VanFossen
  • Blizzard Internet Mkt
    Staff written
  • Marketing to Women Online
    by Future Now Inc.’s, Holly Buchanan.
  • Out of my Gord
    Usability and SEO/M topics, by Gord Hotchkiss
  • Joe Dolson: Accessible Web Design
    Strongly recommended for Accessibility issues
  • Planet HCI
    A great one-place-gets-all site to get Human Computer Interaction site feeds
  • Usability in the News
    My favorite compilation of all usability related posts and articles.
  • Web Site Accessibility
    Matt Bailey puts it all in terms the rest of us can understand.
  • UIE Brain Sparks
    by Jared Spool and UIE staff
  • Your Total Site
    Best practices for web design stuff
  • Designer Jones
    Diane Vigil’s witty, intelligent, other blog
  • Developed Traffic
    also by Diane Vigil; esteemed web designer
  • Functioning Form
    “…where art and technology emerge as experience”
  • Creating Passionate Users
    by several contributors
  • Web Design From Scratch - by Ben Hunt
  • WebWord (Usability blog)
    By John S. Rhodes
  • Cre8tive Flow
    Cre8asiteForums’ blog; Edited by Elizabeth Abelreach
  • Molly E. Holzschlag
    web development
  • The Daily Report
    by Jeffrey Zeldman
  • WebCredible
  • Confusability
    by Chris McEvoy
  • Peterme
    by Peter Merholz
  • DonnaM:
    by Donna Maurer
  • Usability Reviews for Websites. Click here to learn more.

    SEO/M

  • SearchEngineLand
    Danny Sullivan and friends regroup and charge forth.
  • SEOEggHead
    by Jaimie Sirovich
  • SEM SEO Certification
    by David Temple
  • Search Marketing Gurus
    by Liana Evans
  • Think Prospect
    by Sophie Wegat
  • SEO Scoop
    by Donna Fontenot (aka “DazzlinDonna”)
  • Top RankBlog
    SEO/M industry coverage by Lee Odden
  • On SEO Pond
    by Darren Moloney; covers Internet marketing and optimization
  • Fresh Egg
    Team of writers including Ammon Johns
  • Bruce Clay’s Blog
    Staff written; I’m a huge fan of Lisa Barone’s Friday Round-ups
  • Digital Telepathy Internet Marketing Strategy & News
    Resources for internet marketing strategy, Web 2.0, digital marketing, search engine news and social networking
  • Search Engine Watch Blog
    by Danny Sullivan & Chris Sherman , and team writers
  • The Link Spiel
    by Alliance Link’s, Debra Mastaler
  • V7N
    by John Scott and Peter DaVanzo
  • SeoPrinciple.com
    by Nadir Garouche
  • SEOBook
    by Aaron Wall; author and esteemed Master SEO/M
  • Gray Wolf’s SEO Blog
    by Michael Gray
  • Search Marketing Standard
    by the print pub of the same name
  • Mike Grehan
    Author, marketing professional
  • Jim Boykin’s Blog
  • SEOMoz blog
    The Rolling Stone of search marketing.
  • Search Engine Roundtable
    by Barry Schwartz (RustyBrick), Benjamin Pfeiffer, Chris Boggs and Staff writers; Award Winning Blog
  • Search Engine Guide (News, blog, newsletter)
    by Robert Clough and Jennifer Laycock; long-time, respected, industry presence
  • Link Building Blog
    By Andy Hagans and Patrick Gavin; Sleep would just slow them down.
  • Stuntdubl
    by Todd Malicoat; features Mr. Ploppy’s Tools
  • Marketing Pilgrim
    by Andy Beal
  • Internet Marketing Blog
    by John Scott; Handsome bad-boy who will always tell it like is.
  • SEO by the Sea
    by Bill Slawski; search engine patents genius. I found him first.
  • Ask Kalena
    by Kalena Jordan; runs a search engine marketing college that includes (smartly) related, complimentary disciplines
  • Search Engine Journal
    by Loren Baker and Guest Authors
  • InSearchofStuff
  • Fun insight from Scottie Claiborne and Michael Motherwell - HUMOR
  • Gray Hat News
    By Chris Ridings and Gurtie - HUMOR
  • Inspiration/Publications

  • CorporateWebsite.com - constant source for recent industry related articles
  • iEntry Bloggers List
  • Flavius
    An interesting kind of directory of everything useful for web design.
  • What If Jakob Nielsen Had A Blog?
    Chris McEvoy takes on the Guru himself.
  • Simply Google
    Chris McEvoy takes on Google
  • WebProGuide
    A new SEO online publication featuring news and articles.
  • Lip Sticking
    Brilliance. Attitude.
  • Strategic Marketing’s Newsletter
    by Barry Welford
  • Digital Web
    Digital Web Magazine
  • Small Business Brief
    Edited by Linda Riley, sponsored by SearchEngineGuide
  • Successful Sites
    By Scottie Claiborne
  • High Rankings Advisor
    By Jill Whalen
  • GrokDotCom
    FutureNow and staff; timely articles
  • UsabilityNews
    By the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL)
  • Sitepoint
    Newsletter and website packed with articles
  • Information Design newsletter
    By Peter J. Bogaards
  • Small Business Ideas Forum
    by Robert Clough, of Search Engine Guide
  • UPA Voice - Usability Professionals publication
  • Organizations/Research

  • UX Matters - user experience
  • Search Engine College- online courses
  • ILoveJackDaniels Cheat Sheets
    Where Dave Childs saves our butts.
  • Imediaconnection
  • SEMPO
    By the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization
  • SEOList
    A search engine optimization and search engine marketing pros directory, with searchable database
  • Clickz
    Simply loaded.
  • SEO Consultants
    Large directory of peer reviewed sites and companies
  • Passing Notes - For Research
  • MarketingWonk
    Constantly updated, RSS feed available
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