Here’s my effort to share original resources that haven’t received wide attention/link love on other blogs. Hence I haven’t shared Aaron Wall’s tools (how useful would one more mention be?), Xenu Link Sleuth or SEOmoz’s tools (though I had to put them in the Friends section). Here is search marketing’s BIGGEST, BADDEST, RESOURCE BONANZA BAR NONE! (If you enjoy it, subscribe – there’s lots more where this came from 
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The SEO Business
What makes Web sites credible?
Five Simple Ways to Make Your Proposal More Competitive
Canada Business – Starting a Consulting Business – Interesting item for my fellow SEO consultants here
Top 10 Business Mistakes Search Marketing Firms Make
The Secret Motivations that Drive Your Customers
The Freelancer’s Guide to Setting Perfect Deadlines
Small Business B2B Marketing: How to Monetize Your Expertise
Blogging
How to use WordPress to Run a Magazine Or News Website
Creating An Authority RSS Count + Secret RSS Booster Tip
99 Headline Techniques Revealed
How to Make Every Word You Write Unputdownable
Contact Form WordPress Plugins
46 Things To Do Before Launching a Blog Network
Get your internal linking straight: Blog Navigation WordPress Plugins: Related, Recent, Most Popular Posts and More
34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog
Category Base Removal Plugin Finally! Remove /category/ from your WP permalinks.
Keywords
Buy Branded Keywords? A Case Study on Traffic, Conversion and RPV
Keyword Inspiration – Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com shares his secrets
Keyword Scrubbing Get the gunk out of your list!
Content
FullBooks.com – Thousands of Full-Text Free Books – Did anyone say free inspiration? Or for the shadier folks…
In a similar vein, try Creative Commons Search
8 Great Places to Find Interview Subjects
Marketing Trends: 21+ Websites for Finding What’s Hot
Link Building and Buying
30 Link Buying Tips – Brian Chappell shares the secret sauce and yours truly chips in with some extras in the comments.
New link tool to find your competitors most linked pages
Michael Gray Interview: Advanced Link Strategies
How to Get More Bookmarks and Better Links – He knows that of which he speaks. This is being written using my bookmarks!
Link Attraction Factors Keyword Tool Holy sheeeeet that’s impressive and original, Dan!
102 Ways To Make Your Site A Back-Link Superstar
Video and Social Media
The Definitive List of French-Canadian Social Media – Kinda sad that I found out about what’s going on here from a Toronto firm lol. Great post anyways!
How To Do YouTube Video View Optimization Part 1
User Contributed-Making Money With A Video Blog
Guide to Video Marketing on YouTube
50+ Resources for Utilizing StumbleUpon Effectively
Sphinn, Mixx and other social sites’ credibility – Voting for vapor.
Social Network Ad Spending and Return on Investment
How to fuck up click tracking with the JavaScript onclick trigger
Controlling Your Referer, and Hiding Your Traffic Sources : Slightly Shady SEO
Www.domain.com v straight domain.com? Enforce www. Preference
Interview of Eli from Blue Hat SEO.com
Earl Grey – The co-creater of Syndk8 BlackHat Seo Forums
11 Tips for Appearing at Google Definitions
Portrait of an INTP Apparently this is me. Some parallels, but to be taken with a grain of salt. Interesting for the sake of making personas; possibly useful as a template.
EEE Spectrum: The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law
50 Questions to Evaluate the Quality of Your Website
Online Reputation Management: What You Need to Know
Advancing Advanced Search – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Advanced free tell-a-friend script with popup code
Create your Google Sitemap Online – XML Sitemaps
Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
PPC
SpeedPPC – Pay Per Click Marketing at Warp Speed
Paid Search Campaign Tools and Analytics
Free eBook from Google: AdWords Textbook
Clix Marketing’s Favorite PPC Blogs David Szetela knows his PPC, so this list of his is high praise for those that are on it.
70 Quick Tests to Get More Conversions Out of AdWords – My friend James Zol knows his conversion rate optimization he does!
* Coming soon: What I learned from SMX’s PPC sessions.
Security
ha.ckers.org Web Application Security Lab
The Unsuspecting Recruit: Why every SEO MUST learn Internet security
reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books Blogs are good too 
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Domains
Top 3 (Free!) Domain Name Generator Decent stuff, have used ‘em myself to an extent. I find the following more useful though:
Bulk Domain Appraisal and Keyword Research Tool by EstiBot.com
Making It In The Domain Industry -2007 Edition but still current
Namepros – I love this community for its generosity in teaching me.
Landing Pages and Affiliate Stuff
Should I Launch My Website With an Affiliate Program?
Landing Page Design for Pay Per Click PPC – Useful Links to Research
Landing Page Optimization Video: Keep Readers Moving Down the Sales Funnel
Camouflage Your Links First place I heard about the technique.
How to: Build an Affiliate Site You Can Sell for $1M — Tropical SEO
Google AdWords Landing Pages – how to build a page that won’t get banned, with examples
Membership
WordPress Membership Plugin at WPBOARD.Com
WordPress Plug-In to sell subscriptions
Member Benefits | FAST Membership Sites
How to Change the World: The Art of Creating a Community
How To Build A Community Of Brand Enthusiasts
Friends
Rand, Rebecca, Jane, Scott, Jeff, Sarah et co. – SEOmoz (I owe them so much! Hard to put in words how much I appreciate these guys and their site!)
Ann Smarty – SEO Smarty and Social Ninja
Bill Hilton – Copywriting
Susan Gunelius – Branding
Sebastian X – SEO techie
Peter Meyers – Usability Expert
Critchlows n a Riley – Distilled Reputation Management Pros
Linda Bustos – Ecommerce Maven
Hamlet Batista – SEO Expert
Sean Maguire – Search Matters
Vinny Goldsmith – Real Estate SEO Pro
Avinash Kaushik – Analytics Guru
XMCP – Slightly blackhat SEO and general nice guy
Michelle Blanc – Montreal Marketing Guru
Sylvain Carle – Frog in the Valley (started when he was in Silicon Valley)
Claude Malaison – Quebec’s Danny Sullivan; organizes Webcom
Nicolas Cossette, Guillaume Bouchard – Montreal Social Media and NVI SEO
Muriel Ide, Guillaume Brunet et co. – Association de Marketing de Montreal
Jean-Fran̤ois Renaud РAdviso SEO
Jim Hedger – SEO Author and Veteran
SugarRae – Veteran Affiliate & SEO
Todd Malicoat – Superstar SEO Consultant
Li Evans – SEO Guru
Marty Weintraub – SEO Pros and Facebook case studies
Andrew Shotland – Local SEO Expert
Gyutae Park – Money Makin’ Blogger
Chris Winfield – SEO & Press Darling
Jeff Quipp – Bright Search Engine People (& Press Darlings)
Tamar Weinberg – Power Socialite
Barry Welford – SEO formerly in the snow, now in the rain
Christine O’Kelly – Self Made Chick Copywriting
Lindsey Walsh – PPC Management Expert
Per Koch – SEO Vet
Damian Finlay – Epiar Keyword Champs
Lisa Williams – Florida SEM and SMX Buddy
Jordan Kasteler – “Young Gun of SEO” W000T.
John Carcutt – Applied SEO
Amy Konefal, Sandra Niehaus – PPC and landing page buddies from SMX. Plus Sandy co-wrote Web Design 4 ROI with Lance Loveday, their CEO at Closed Loop Marketing
Harrison Gevirtz – Young Gun Super Affiliate & PPC Expert
Chris Silver Smith – SEO Strategist
Andy Beal – SEO Business Coaching and SMX Connection
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