Ever since I started reading more technical SEO blogs such as SEO by the Sea, SEO Theory and more I’ve been on a quest to find great SEO content.
And what better place to find huge amounts of quality SEO content than academia?
Some of these are from the last few years, some are as old as ’99. Some are very technical, some are more philosophical. So without further adieu here is the list (most are in PDF format)
I thought this one was really cool because it focuses on a specific niche. A savvy business owner could probably extract a comprehensive online business plan from this dissertation.
Another niche focused dissertation. Focuses on smaller travel agencies in the European market and gives an overall strategy and approach for someone in this sector.
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They are very interesting. Don’t let the math within them dissuade you from reading more – often most papers can be understood to a large degree in spite of the math.
When I find a paper I really like, I’ll often dig through it’s citations and check out some of those, too. 🙂
Bad memories from high school math I suppose :/ No for sure, I always try to “press through” any info I don’t fully understand and either go past it or figure it out later. A good friend of mine studied math in college and we talked for a long time about PageRank and such, I’ve always found it fascinating even the parts that I haven’t learned. Even the vocab used within these papers are so advanced compared to the blogs I read or even most books! Also if you come across any more good ones let me know!
I noticed my vocabulary increased dramatically after starting to read Scientific American on a regular basis. I was interested in the material enough so that I was learning the words it was presented in.
Blogging about patents means spending every day reading some challenging material, and trying to put it into simpler words, which I take as a personal improvement opportunity. If I can do that consistently for blog posts, I can also do it for clients. It’s a little like a workout for your mind. 🙂
You’ve found and listed some very interesting academic papers – including at least one that everyone doing SEO should have read. I’m definitely going to be bookmarking this page and returning to it.
OK, titles like “Deception in Authorship Attribution” could be a pool-side mystery novel, but I’m looking forward to the plot twist, or at least to what the author might cite that makes authorship flawed.
My summer reading so far includes Ray Kurzweil’s “How to Create a Mind,” and oddly enough hidden Markov models play a role in that one – it will be interesting seeing what “Manipulation of PageRank and collective hidden Markov models” has to say about them.
Well I’ve skimmed maybe 3-4 of these and haven’t even made it through one of them yet! The reason I thought they were cool is because they are so well researched and cited and not just a blabbermouth SEO blogger like me 🙂 Its very humbling for me reading this in the fact I’ve been doing web development more than half my life and a lot of this is so foreign, particularly the mathematical concepts.
They are very interesting. Don’t let the math within them dissuade you from reading more – often most papers can be understood to a large degree in spite of the math.
When I find a paper I really like, I’ll often dig through it’s citations and check out some of those, too. 🙂
Bad memories from high school math I suppose :/ No for sure, I always try to “press through” any info I don’t fully understand and either go past it or figure it out later. A good friend of mine studied math in college and we talked for a long time about PageRank and such, I’ve always found it fascinating even the parts that I haven’t learned. Even the vocab used within these papers are so advanced compared to the blogs I read or even most books! Also if you come across any more good ones let me know!
I noticed my vocabulary increased dramatically after starting to read Scientific American on a regular basis. I was interested in the material enough so that I was learning the words it was presented in.
Blogging about patents means spending every day reading some challenging material, and trying to put it into simpler words, which I take as a personal improvement opportunity. If I can do that consistently for blog posts, I can also do it for clients. It’s a little like a workout for your mind. 🙂
That makes sense – yes the patents look even crazier! You have mathematics, law, theory, philosophy and all sorts of other stuff rolled up into one!
Hi Patrick,
You’ve found and listed some very interesting academic papers – including at least one that everyone doing SEO should have read. I’m definitely going to be bookmarking this page and returning to it.
OK, titles like “Deception in Authorship Attribution” could be a pool-side mystery novel, but I’m looking forward to the plot twist, or at least to what the author might cite that makes authorship flawed.
My summer reading so far includes Ray Kurzweil’s “How to Create a Mind,” and oddly enough hidden Markov models play a role in that one – it will be interesting seeing what “Manipulation of PageRank and collective hidden Markov models” has to say about them.
Thanks.
Bill
Well I’ve skimmed maybe 3-4 of these and haven’t even made it through one of them yet! The reason I thought they were cool is because they are so well researched and cited and not just a blabbermouth SEO blogger like me 🙂 Its very humbling for me reading this in the fact I’ve been doing web development more than half my life and a lot of this is so foreign, particularly the mathematical concepts.
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