Lists and ranking resources can be tough and controversial. A while back we ranked top blogs on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO and PPC) that publish their RSS subscriber counts via Google’s Feedburner.
With changes in the search marketing industry, one can logically wonder, “How many SEM blogs really still post about search marketing?” To help answer that question, we took a look at 10 of the top search marketing blogs by RSS subscriber counts using the Wordle “word cloud” tool:
What do you think? Interesting results.
Keep in mind of course, that these Wordle word cloud images are based on a single day snapshot of the home page, not the entire site. However, it’s still interesting to see the visualization.
![[StumbleUpon]](http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/themes/TopRank06/images/stumble-big.png)
![[Sphinn]](http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/themes/TopRank06/images/sphinn-big.png)
![[Google]](http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/themes/TopRank06/images/google-bookmark-big.png)
![[Facebook]](http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/themes/TopRank06/images/facebook-icon.gif){kind=icon}
![[Twitter]](http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/themes/TopRank06/images/twitter.png)
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That is cool.
I can promise you that we don’t talk about “Tiffany’s” every day.
Thanks Barry!
Andy, by now you know that we addressed the “snapshot” and “single page” issue at the end of the post.
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It’s like longer people can really page live! Use first site get LOL liability.
LOL Rand, I have to agree, web content SEO is important for search marketing links.
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These are awesome visualizations! I’d love to see what our blog’s would look like!
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Fascinating post.
@Rand
Your almost number one… just two hundred and fifty more users to go
very very cool…
funny about the big ones…
“Google” and “Web Content”
also could be used as a demographic of what people talk about if you did it every day of the week and compared them against themselves.