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As an SEO consultant, I am always looking for more information, tips, news and other ways to help with search engine optimization. I find that the best way to learn about SEO and the search engine business is through SEO blogs and search engine journals. Most of my current knowledge on SEO and improving search engine rank was garnered from these sites. Below is a list of my favorite SEO blogs and journals listed in no particular order.
Blue Hat SEO Advanced SEO Tactics
You’ll learn very quickly that this is NOT your average SEO blog.
At the moment, BlueHatSEO.com is the only website on the Internet that is completely dedicated to the art of Advanced SEO. Blue Hat SEO is essentially the study of advanced Internet marketing and search engine optimization techniques. Blue Hat SEO covers the advanced knowledge of both Black Hat and White Hat SEO. Everything on BlueHatSEO.com will assume that the audience knows and understands the basics of SEO and Internet marketing. If it helps, think of BlueHatSEO as the creative aspect of SEO.
Blue Hatters use their knowledge of the search engines and other marketing practices to twist and manipulate them in a creative and original way to best benefit their sites.
Read more: http://www.bluehatseo.com/
I’m Kalena Jordan – the search industry’s first agony aunt, here to answer your tricky questions about search engines.
Read more: http://www.ask-kalena.com
Blogstorm is the UK’s largest blog discussing internet marketing and search engine optimisation news & strategies.
Read more: Blogstorm SEO Blog
SEO Blog | Houston – Search Engine Marketing Group
We take a human approach to online marketing. While it is important to be able to get qualified traffic to your website by various means, it is even more important to understand that your website visitors are people, not just “click-throughs”. It is crucial to understand the psychology and mindset of web users to understand what motivates these people to make buying decisions. Search rankings, click-throughs, and analytics do not buy…people do.
Read more: http://sem-group.net
RedFly Marketing is a full service search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimisation (SEO), and online advertising company based in Dublin, Ireland.
Read more: http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/
Search Engine Journal, established in 2003, is a 6 year old 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.
Read more: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/
Welcome to Search Engine Land! Search Engine Land is a news and information site covering search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry
Read more: http://searchengineland.com
Search Engine Optimization Journal
With thousands of loyal readers the Search Engine Optimization Journal has become one of the top blogs and resources related search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing.
This blog is written daily by the Search Engine Optimization Expert, Nick Stamoulis. Nick Stamoulis has over 12 years of optimization and online marketing experience and is currently the President of full service Search Engine Marketing Company, Brick Marketing.
The purpose behind the Search Engine Roundtable is to report on the most interesting threads taking place at the SEM (Search Engine Marketing) forums. By enlisting some of the most recognized names at those forums, the Roundtable is able to not only report on these outstanding threads but also provide a synopsis that provides greater detail into those threads.
In addition, all authors have the leeway to step beyond forum coverage and either take a thread topic and expand on it or bring up a concept that was not found at a thread. We occasionally have some guest authors post on specialized topics in the search engine marketing field. Very rarely will you find posts here that are not related to SEM.
The mission of this site is to provide a single source for the reader to visit to locate the most interesting threads covered at the SEM forums. This will help you save valuable time clicking through the forum threads to find the true gems. In addition, most people are only active in one or two forums – this will allow for comparative advantage to take place between the major forums.
Read more: http://www.seroundtable.com/
Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.
Read more: http://searchenginewatch.com/
DailySEOblog is my window to the online community. You can find practical, jargon free SEO tips here that you can take back home and implement on your site. Most of the articles featured here are outcome of my experiences with the SEO learning process. Through DailySEOblog, I”d like to take the practical SEO knowledge to common bloggers and webmasters, who have a keen sense to listen and learn.
Read more: http://www.dailyseoblog.com/
SEO Scoop is a community oriented search engine optimization blog, enabling a group of SEOs to share search engine optimization experience and theories with other interested SEOs.
This site will be a collection of SEO-related material. We’ll share our thoughts on the best tools to use, throw out some ideas and theories, and post updates on current happenings in the search engine world.
Some of the posts will be geared towards SEO for Newbies – helping newbies understand the basics of search engine optimization. Everyone has to start somewhere, right? Some of the articles will be geared more towards the experienced SEO. Essentially, the posts will reflect whatever topic we feel like sharing at that moment, so the posts will cover a wide range of levels.
Read more: http://www.seo-scoop.com/
The mission of SEO.com is to give businesses of all sizes the opportunity to harness the power of search engines as a marketing medium. When properly utilized, search engine optimization gives small businesses an opportunity to compete at the same level as larger corporations. It also provides large corporations with the opportunity to increase brand awareness and further solidify their dominance in their industry. Regardless of the size of your company, you can rely on the SEO services provided by our search engine optimization firm to get your company in front of prospective customers at the precise moment when they are looking for your products or services.
Read more: http://www.seo.com/blog
SEOmoz provides companies around the world with consulting, Internet marketing and search engine optimization services. Although our home offices in Seattle, WA serve as our base of operations, we’re frequently found globetrotting across the US, Canada & Europe. Our goal is to provide a high level of service and education to businesses, individuals, non-profits and government organizations so they can best leverage the unique reach of the Internet to increase visibility and achieve success.
Read more: http://www.seomoz.org/blog
FMS SEO is a leading search engine optimisation provider across the UK and Worldwide. Karl and Kelly Foxley founded FMS SEO to meet the needs of businesses seeking to be effective online.
FMS SEO specialise in search engine optimisation, link building, local search optimisation, coaching, affiliate marketing, email marketing and social media marketing.
FMS SEO is based in Derby, Derbyshire, in the UK and have strong ties to the local community.
Karl and Kelly regular share practical SEO and Internet Marketing information on the FMS SEO blog.
Read more: http://www.fmsseo.com/
And the best new SEO blog to hit the internet… 😉
Novice Web Design and SEO Consultant. I am the director of Sales and Web Design for EnterNet Now!, a small web design and web hosting company based out of Lewisville, TX.
I blog about Blogging, any SEO related, WordPress, new media designs, graphic design, web design, and anything and everything that interests me.
You can find me on Twitter and if you want to know more about me, you can check me out on Posterous.
Read more: http://www.evolutionarydesigns.net/blog
What are your must-read SEO blogs?
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Great list — even though I don't need more "must read" blogs! Still, I chose two of them to add to my feed. Good stuff!
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That is a great list. thanks for sharing
According to the study, the most important tool for small businesses to succeed in 2010 is search engine marketing, while email marketing, public relations and social media cited as crucial for success.23.8% of all small businesses reported that search engine marketing was the tool most needed for their business to succeed in 2010.
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Hey John,
Nice collection of resources you put together here. I'm new to the SEO game so this is right on time.
Thanks!
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Thanks for stopping by and commenting. It really does help. I have been consentrating on this site and working the SEO/SEM side alot more than my other blog. I my traffic has doubled in less than 3 weeks ( I started this blog first week Dec.)
I recommend reading up on SEO and implement as much as you can on your own. As for your site, also I think you might benefit from your own host and domain name. It has so many different features, themes, and you can add more plugs. There are ton of SEO plugins for Word Pres self hosted!
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Thanks you very much for adding me to this list. I can see I am in great company. I am honored. 🙂
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Thanks for stopping by and commenting. You have a great blog and have learned a lot from it.
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excellent list! I followed quite a few of them already, but had to check several. these are great blogs for search engine optimization. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Yea a lot of these sites are already know and they update so much its hard to keep up. I try and visit the sites at least once a week.
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I'm glad people feel we are sharing stuff of value. I came across this post today through a Google alert I have set up to track FMS SEO mentioned on the net; just got the email. 🙂
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Thanx for stopping by and commenting. I try and stop by every time I get the chance. I have your RSS feed saved to Google Reader, so whenever I get the chance I stop by and read your posts.
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Great list of blogs, thanks for sharing.
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Great post thanks for sharing I’ve been into SEO and gathering helpful information for this and after reading your post it has become a little easier.
Nice list… one day I will make that list… first I am going to conquer South Africa and then I will conquer the world (evil laugh) …