Resources

Website Usability

• Website Usability Checklist - www.netmechanic.com
• US Govt. Usability Guidelines - www.usability.gov

Definitions

• SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - Wikipedia
• PageRank - Wikipedia

Optimization Articles and Resources

• Are meta tags dead? - www.searchengineguide.com
• Metatags - en.wikipedia.org
• Build it and they will come - www.abacusdesign.com.au
• Another Perspective - www.ihaveawebsite-nowwhat.co.uk
• SEO Chat - some good tools and articles

Tools

• Google Webmaster Central
• Google Analytics
• Google Keywords Tool
• Google Suggest
• Yahoo Site Explorer siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
• WordTracker (free version)
• Web Analyzer www.websiteoptimization.com
• Site-wide Link Checker (fast, online) - www.dead-links.com

Firefox Add-on Tools

• Firefox - A great browser for web developers
• SearchStatus - Useful PageRank Analysis Tool
• Link Checker - Search Engines hate broken links!
• MetaTags Sidebar - Analyze your site... and your competitors

Miscellaneous

• How Google Works - www.google.com
• How Google really works

Google Technicalities (for the brave)

• Larry Page and Serge Brin's patent for their PageRank Search algorithm
• Conditional Independence (Wikipedia)
• Eigenvector centrality (Wikipedia)
• Markov chains (Wikipedia)

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