This week, we're asking for your picks for Best Articles or Resources for Blog PR. We're looking for article summaries or web site reviews, about 500 words maximum, that tell us exactly what was so helpful about the article or resource. Resources must be available for FREE online and should focus on strategic public relations blogging.

Students from my Internet PR class will be adding reviews of articles they find. They've also been reviewing articles and resources that people on IAOCblog.com point them to. So if you have a site or article you would like reviewed, post it here and see if one of my students takes the bait.

STEVE O'KEEFE
Vice President, IAOC

In our continuing series on Top Internet PR Resources, this next week we are looking for your recommendations for Top Online Article Syndication Resources. Once again, we're looking for FREE tools or articles people can use to help them with Online Article Syndication.

Online article syndication is a very powerful tool for raising awareness, improving inbound links, improving search engine rank, and establishing yourself as a leader in your filed. Some "signature articles" have appeared on hundreds of web sites. I'll go so far as to say that one good signature piece -- say, on "permissions marketing" or "long tail" or "the millionaire next door" -- can propel a person to the top of their field and generate hundreds or thousands of responses every year.

So this week we are looking for your suggestions. Please provide reviews of 500 words or less. Or point us to a link and my Tulane students will be reviewing some of the resources you point us to.

Thanks for Your Help,
STEVE O'KEEFE
Vice President, IAOC

Call for Search Engine Optimization Resources

This week, we are looking for your recommendations on the top Search Engine Optimization articles or resources. Please place your suggestions in this thread and students from my Tulane University class in Internet Public Relations will post reviews here. Or post your own review.

Morty Schiller and I have been swapping SEO suggestions. Hopefully, he'll share some of his top picks. Also, my IT department -- Jesse Vohs a.k.a. The MacMaster -- has been doing SEO work for my company and found some good resources for analyzing your web site's SEO-friendliness. If he doesn't post, I'll extract his tips from previous e-mails and post them here.

Here are a couple of my top picks:

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Search Engine Watch

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

An amazing resource for information about web site registration strategies and search engine optimization. A good list of links to do-it-yourself registration pages. Students will find many articles here worthy of review.

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Words In A Row

http://www.wordsinarow.com/wheretogo.html

An excellent site for do-it-yourself registration, with a comprehensive list of top directories and search engines, links to their submit pages, and tips on using each one.

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STEVE O'KEEFE

Author, Complete Guide to Internet Publicity

Professor of Internet Public Relations, Tulane University

Vice President, IAOC