SEO By The Sea is a star fish of the water ways, offering a different angle on the whole SEO blog advice theme. The site is often tagged by a number of the majors with for example, readers recently being encouraged to post 5 reasons why they started a blog, and then “tag” other sites to add to the post. Perhaps difficult to explain, a look at the post on “5 reasons why you started a blog” will bring it home to you - simple, viral and very, very effective.
The more traditional elements of the site include some useful categories such as Culture, Design, Events, Gadgets, Internet Law, Media Search, Usability and Web Spam to highlight but a few. While many sites go for the short sharp shock treatment, www.seobythesea.com contains a number of fairly long posts. Even though the traditional SEO blog audience seem to prefer short posts, it is very easy to become enthralled in Bill Slawski’s posts - due in the main to the quality and relevance of the information.
The site contains all of the latest news and views form the major search engines, and has a very useful blogroll which seems to include all of the SEO blog leaders. The sections are perfectly formatted, the most relevant subject matter is easily available and overall the site is sharp and crisp - perfect for simple, quick navigation.
Bill Slawski runs the blog, and having been in the industry since 1996 he is perfectly placed to offer a quality SEO service. His blog is a perfect bait for would be customers, and while you are aware that there are professional services available, there is no sign of the hard sell. A useful angle on what can be a very predictable industry.
