Every news source you read should be questioned.

News is often provided with manipulative goals. One of the greatest advantages I have over most other SEO news site or SEO websites is my own lack of affiliation or property.

Since I do not need to make a ton of money to support myself, I usually recommend people do not buy most things. If you know what you are doing it does not cost much to do a good job at SEO. The learning process can be somewhat expensive, but after you gain the knowledge it does not go away.

The real reason for this post is that I am now the Inktomi moderator over at SearchGuild. When I provide future information about SEO I will probably be biased saying that SearchGuild is the best SEO forums.

Last year (long before I was a moderator at SearchGuild) I reviewed some of the SEO forums, and stated that SearchGuild was one of my favorites.

These are some of the things I stated I liked about SearchGuild last year in my article.

Chris and crew frequently come up with their own compelling theories on the whats and whys of search engine news
it is independent of large firms and corporate America
lots of technical know how (for example Chris made a bot to surf DMOZ listed sites to make a data resource)
has an extremely friendly feel about it
not much misinformation floating around
One thing I did not include on that list is that there is no hard sale at SearchGuild. People try to answer your questions without sounding overly witty or super self promotional.

I view SearchGuild as the open source equivalent to SEO and am glad to be affiliated with it. What do you think?

Published: January 24, 2004 by Aaron Wall in aaron matthew wall

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