Search Engine Placement/Optimization
 

Anyone know anything about or know of any good resources on search engine placement/optimization? I did a google search, but for obvious reasons, the first billion hits were all commercial search engine optimization companies.

its a real balance. I'd suggest using Submit Wolf, which submits you to search engines and can offer help with meta tags.. Don't expect TOO much though, most high placements in search engines are paid for

I used to frequent this board, back before pay per hit was all the rage. <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com" target="_blank">webmasterworld.com</a>

There were a few more I liked, but this one was/is? pretty good.

Search engine placement and Optimization is one of the many job duties I perform on a daily basis.

If you want to get started in the field, check out a site called, Sitepro, they have some EXCELLENT information to get you started.

http://www.sitepronews.com

I actually do that as a component of my current job. Good luck finding decent resources.

The search engine world is in flux now, and nothing written more than 2 months ago is very accurate.

Yahoo broke away from Google and is using their own algorithms. Altavista and alltheweb.com were both bought by Yahoo and are slated to be consumed (R.I.P. Teoma.com too). Google is using a new link-based algorithm and just launched a new local search engine feature. MSN dropped Looksmart (Looksmart has all but dropped Zeal.com). The ODP is losing impact on Google (very long time between Google/ODP updates).

MSN will have an entirely new engine come late summer/early fall that's rumored to put Google to shame. According to some early news, its using some new way to calculate pagerank/relevancy for SERP hierarchy.

Yahoo is going to drop their directory soon.

I get newsletters from webpronews.com, entireweb.com, wordtracker.com, searchguild.com, seotie.com, zeal.com...
Those are just the one's I found quickly...