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Can someone recommend good books to read on online marketing in general and SEO specifically please. Are there good blogs out there that I should focus on?

you are best to follow matt cutt - he does have a blog and he works for google.

Matt Cutt is as dry as raisin thats been left in the desert. Marketing..is all about finding a market..that spends money...and throwing your self in front of that money.

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Gary

Gary who ? ( said with sarcasm )

MarketingProfs has pretty good articles.

Clickz Expert Column is pretty good read too, IMO - my fav section is ROI Marketing as that's most relevant to my profession...which leads me to my fav,

A long time reader/follower of grokdotcom - quality information.

A long time habit carried over from college years - I still read Harvard Business Review hahahaha.

Google Webmaster Central Blog is pretty good place for all levels of SEO IMO. Trollin' through Sphinn = ezmode access to good and bad articles hehehe. Despite what some people say about SEOMOZ, I think SEOMOZ offers good information. So yeah /shrug

Personally, I think Matt Cutts is pretty peppy and fun. Leaving the whole Google/SEO blog aside, rest of his blog is pretty fun IMO.

ComScore press release section has decent free statistics. C'mon...stats make you sound much smarter!!!!!

Too much good information - only 24hrs a day T_T