The "Who Do You Follow?" Thread

[JamesR]

Thought I would start up a resource thread where we could share resources, people or sites we follow that are essential to our business.

Here's mine in no particular order.  Almost all have newsletters or RSS feeds so you don't have to check in constantly:

Link Building

Wiep - http://wiep.net/
Ontolo - http://ontolo.com/blog
Debra Mastaler - http://www.linkspiel.com/  &  http://searchengineland.com/author/debra-mastaler/
Aaron Wall - http://community.seobook.com/forum.php

Internet Business, Strategy, etc

SEO Book - http://community.seobook.com/forum.php
SugarRae - http://www.sugarrae.com/

A bit light here, would like to expand more if any of you have suggestions


SEO

SearchCap Newsletter from SEL - http://searchengineland.com/
SEO Book - http://community.seobook.com/forum.php
AriOzick - AriOzick - http://www.ariozick.com/ (not updated regularly, some good older articles)
SEO By the Sea - http://www.seobythesea.com/

What would you add to this list?

[littleman]

James, if you put together a newsletter synopsizing the SEO/IM news you would have me as a subscriber.

[JamesR]

James, if you put together a newsletter synopsizing the SEO/IM news you would have me as a subscriber.

Too much work for too little ROI - unless you would like to pay a healthy monthly fee

[Gurtie]

I chop and change what I read as I get bored with the cliques. Then you realise you just ditched one gaggle of writers for another.

Receptional do a reasonable daily review http://paper.li/Dixon_Jones which is worth a glance.  It doesn;t cover everything though.

[grnidone]

Then you realise you just ditched one gaggle of writers for another.

Interesting.  I didn't know that a "group of writers" was the same as a "group of geese"...

[Brad]

Somehow I've gotten out of the blog reading habit since I moved from Bloglines to NetNewsWire client.  Need to get back into it.  I guess I have consistently read Aaron Wall, Greywolf, John Andrews, over the years and Bob Massa and Michael Martinez who write in on again off again spurts (mostly off).



 

[Drastic]

Am I alone in that I don't really follow anyone/thing in particular?

When I need to do something, I'll research on it if necessary, but don't have (take?) time for more.

Maybe I just still have the forum mentality.

[jimbanks]

I'm with you Drastic.

I drift in and out of obsessive research into things, I find that in the past when I "followed" people eventually I would declare email or RSS bankruptcy and unsubscribe.

[bill]

I had a monstrous OPML list of SEO people from the late 90s/early 2000s that include all of the above. Unfortunately there was simply too much to follow in there and instead of paring down the list I just began to ignore a lot of it. I still have my RSS reader, but I find I can get a lot of the same off Twitter, FB, Quora, and forums as well. I use RSS still for more focused and in-depth news based on a lot of keyword filters I setup in my reader. I use the SNS stuff for more general news gathering.

[keano]

Wiep - http://wiep.net/

Thanks for that one. He's one that's escaped me. Looks like a good read...

[Rupert]

Sorry I cannot add, like Drastic, I don't take the time unless I have to.

spend too much time here now