Useful SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) links
There are hundreds of websites out there that will help you in your fight to get better organic search engine results.
I have selected a few of my favourite informational sites and tools that should be used to better understand and assist in this battle.
SEO Websites
SEO Book
This site offers many tutorials and a good selection of tools
http://www.seobook.com
Search Engine Showdown
The users’ guide to web searching
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com
SEOmoz
This site offers plenty of useful information
http://www.seomoz.org/
SEO Chat
Interesting forum about SEO
http://forums.seochat.com/
Search Engine Watch
This site offers some excellent ideas
http://searchenginewatch.com
Worth looking at
Metamend
Some good articles
http://www.metamend.com/
Search Engine Journal
Great article on way you can get banned by a search engine
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/9-ways-to-get-banned-by-search-engines/4152/
Tools
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2
Google Trends Lab
http://google.co.uk/trends
Google Adwords Traffic Estimator
https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox?resultcacheid=1181747643154&mode=revise
Search for sites that have copied your content
Copyscape
http://www.copyscape.com/
Keyword Tracker
you want to research keywords to find a keyword that relates to your subject matter that people actually search for, so that if you find yourself in the top ten rankings on Google for said keyword, you will actually get traffic from it. An awesome tool to help you figure this out is Wordtracker GTrends which is here:
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends/
If you have come across some good site, please feel free to add them to the comment section, and I will include them on the list.