Twitter is getting more and more popular. It’s a great tool for learning SEO and tracking SEO industry news.

Twitter can be fantastic place for getting link building ideas and new search engine marketing tips. Many underground conversations go on within Twitter that never make it to the blogosphere and SEO blogs. Twitter conversations can be extremely useful for ranking high on search engine.

Here is my list of top 1o SEO gurus you should follow on Twitter.

@SEJournal -  Search Engine Journal - established in 2003 by Loren Baker, is a publication of Search & Social Media, LLC, which specializes in a community approach to the reporting of search engine news & the sharing of Search Engine Marketing knowledge & tactics.

@annsmarty - Ann is the Associate Editor of Search Engine Journal, a seasoned SEO blogger and manages guest bloggers on Search Engine Journal. Ann’s posts usually revolve around lists of SEO resources, SEO tool reviews and other technical SEO issues.

@sengineland - Search Engine Land, famous resource for SEO news and information about search engine marketing, optimization and how search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live.com and Ask.com work for searchers.

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Press releases are great for getting quality backlinks and additional traffic to your site. It’s very similar to article submission - by submitting your press releases you can get targeted visitors, backlinks and increase search rankings of your site.

If you haven’t tried press releases yet - I highly recommend you to do that. Press release submission is extremely effective for SEO and link building.

Most of press release directories have good Google PR and Alexa Rank. These directories place direct links to your site without rel=”nofollow” attribute, so your site gets link juice and Google PR.

One of the best advantages of press releases is that your release could be published on many resources with direct links to your site. For that reason press release submission is great link building tool.

Here is my fresh list of 28 best press release submission sites with Google PR 4-7 for press release submission. Directories are ordered by Google PageRank.

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