Major sites

http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/
- This is the site where Markus Frind asked for advice when creating POF.
Google
- Follow our guidelines
  - This is a great checklist of things to do.
SEO Hacker

Articles

2013.10(?) - Link-Assistant.com - Google's Hummingbird update explained - what should it mean for your SEO?
2017(?) - IndieHackers - How I've Lived the 4-Hour Work Week for a Decade
- I noticed that the owner of a particular lyrics website had been manually adding new pages to his site. That felt very inefficient to me, so I pitched him on letting me build a database, and he agreed.
  
  Soon enough, I discovered a massively effective approach to search engine optimization (SEO): I would hunt for announcements of upcoming song releases, add those songs to my site (without any lyrics), and by the time the song was released I would already be ranking #1 in Google.
  
  With nothing but SEO, my website became so successful that within a year we were able to sell it to LiveUniverse, an LA-based company that was run by a self-proclaimed co-founder of MySpace. I promised to stay on board for a 50% revenue deal.
2017.06.14 - Sistrix - The Story of TheSun.co.uk shows us why SEO is so important
- New website with a focus on load speed and usability
- Technical improvements to optimise crawling and indexing
- Improved information architecture and internal linking
- Content focused on capturing traffic from popular and trending stories

My thoughts
- I've noticed that forum and Atlassian wiki pages seem to get fairly-highly ranked. Maybe one strategy for SEO is to add a wiki to a website (hosted on your domain, unlike my xxxx.atlassian.net wiki), and create pages that have a ton of information on them, rather than the typical blog approach of having lots of blog posts.
Pieter Levels
- Twitter - tweets from @levelsio with "seo" in them
- I've made all the SEO mistakes in the book, duplicate content, no H1 H2s, wrong slugs, 404s, 403s, 500s (Source)
  - So that's a hint at what issues you should take care of.
- my mother's nephews goldfish's sister could do SEO blindly (Source)
  - So don't overthink it.
- I'm not smart, most of SEO is add url slugs and proper <h1> tags, even w/out that google ranks sites well
- Add og meta tags
  Use natural slugs, same in title and H1
  Use schema dot org
  Use sitemap.xml

Moz
Schema.org - Getting Started
- Used by Pieter Levels for his sites. He mentioned using it on hoodmaps in particular.
TrackYourPosition.com
- by Jesse