Can anybody tell me how to keeping up with the latest SEO Trends. What is the next step from Google and Matt Cutt's Sword doing with link spammers??????
You can get updated with the latest seo trends by visiting forums like DP. Also, you can try to visit the DP members' site.
There are many websites where you can get the updates like for SMO - Mashable (dot) com for SEO - SEOSmarty (dot) com for SEM - ez-onlinemoney (dot) com/blog/ and there are such many. I also use to keep my self updated everytime. At dooduddy (at) gmail (dot) com you can get more information regarding this.
keep in touch with google and its search by enter query latest seo news, seo update, google update etc.
It's been a daily routine to me that everytime I go to work, I normally browse seo blogs first before doing my tasks. It is important to get updated with latest seo news. SEO Forums and SEO blogs are my best resource of valuable information.
The best way to achieve high rankings today is by getting a significant amount of inbound links from quality pages related to your site's topic, with your keywords in the anchor text. Link exchanges and reciprocal linking are slowly becoming a thing of the past as this technique has been abused, and search engines have increased their capabilities to detect it. There is strong evidence that search engines give more weight to one-way links (like links from directories or links to your page from the body of articles). The recent support of the 'no-follow' tag in blog comments by the major search engines has closed yet another loophole: webmasters that used to plant links in blog comment fields (practice known as blog comment spam) now find that those links are not followed or counted by the search engines.
I suggest you to read these articles. Im using these and getting enough updates.. # SEOMoz # Search Engine Land # Search Engine Journal # SE Roundtable