08/09 Top SEM SEO Blogs By RSS Subscribers

26 Top Search Marketing Blogs By RSS Subscribers

By Lee Odden BIGLIST SEM Blogs, Blogging, Search Industry News, SEO

Remember the Grinch? “Noise, noise, noise!” Many marketers feel the same way about the plethora of search marketing blogs. We’ve been managing a list of over 500 search marketing blogs (BIGLIST) for the past 3+ years and know a little something about the category. SEO blog reviews are helpful, but some people want a qualifyer when deciding what’s noise and what’s worth checking out. That’s why we’ve assembled a top SEM blogs list ranked by RSS Subscribers. The first list is here.

Below is an updated list of 26 top Search Marketing Blogs with Google Webmaster Central dominating followed by upward movement by SEOMoz and Search Engine Land. Online Marketing Blog, Marketing Pilgrim and Graywolf’s Blog have seen big increases as well. We’ve also added several blogs that made the 2,000 subscribers cutoff. Enjoy:

Google Webmaster Central

Search Engine Roundtable (normal feed)

Search Engine Roundtable (full feed)

Search Engine Journal

Online Marketing Blog

There are plenty of really good SEO blogs not included because they don’t publish their RSS feed numbers. These include: SEOBook, Stuntdubl, SEO by the Sea, Bruce Clay, DaveN, SEO 2.0 Blog, 97th Floor, 10e20, Johnon, Biznology, ClickZ Blog, Multilingual Search, Bing Webmaster Blog, jane and robot, Mediadonis, Search Engine People, Daily SEO Tip, Traffick, Yahoo Search Marketing Blog, Cre8pc, Yoast, and others.

Are there other SEO or SEM blogs that have at least 2,000 RSS subscribers AND that are using/publishing Feedburner subscribers we should add?

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http://www.michael-martinez.com/ Michael Martinez

Lee,

The ProNet link doesn’t work.
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Copied and pasted the link again and seems to work now.
Ian

What about DoshDosh.com? He has 31,649 subscribers….
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  DoshDosh.com is a great blog but it’s not specifically about SEO or PPC.
http://www.seroundtable.com Barry Schwartz

I really have 27,884 subscribers, I have a full feed and short feed (plus others, but those are the two main ones).

Details at http://www.seroundtable.com/subscribe.html#feed

Figured I mention it again.
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Thanks Barry, the list has been updated!
  - http://www.seroundtable.com Barry Schwartz
    
    Sweet, I get two links now… Thanks Lee.
http://www.mestreseo.com.br Fábio Ricotta

Hi Lee,

I’m from MestreSEO, a brazillian company. We have 2.5k subscribers. Can you include us?
http://www.pabloalmeida.com.br Pablo Almeida

Hey, Lee…where’s Mestre SEO (http://www.mestreseo.com.br)? It’s the best blog from Brazil!
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Pablo and Fábio, it looks like a great blog but I can’t read it. For now, this list is limited to blogs that publish in English. Thank you for the heads up.
  - http://www.mestreseo.com.br Fábio Ricotta
    
    Ok Lee… maybe in a near future we launch an english version.
    
    Thanks for reply.
http://www.jonbishop.com Jon Bishop

Nice list. Found a couple new sites to subscribe to, goal accomplished.

I think it’s important to note tho that the feedburner stats may be skewed because of the changes they made where they include FrienFeed subscribers in the total subscriber count. I know that for me at least it makes it look like I have 10 times the number of subscribers I actually have.

However, it’s still a great list. thanks for sharing.
http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden

Shoemoney has complained on Facebook that he’s not on this list. Should he be? Are there others that should be? Which sites do not belong? Am very interested in comments/feedback.
- http://www.seroundtable.com Barry Schwartz
  
  via http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/01/16/why-i-do-not-like-95-of-seo-experts/
  
  “I claim all the time I am not a SEO and I have never sold SEO services. I always get labeled as a SEO though for some reason. I actually despise being labeled a SEO.”
  
  So I assume his blog is not about something he despises?
  - http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
    
    That is interesting. Why would someone want to be on a list for a topic they do not like? Lists are funny things and produce a variety of reactions.
    - http://andybeard.eu Andy Beard
      
      Positioning? – he now provides SEO tools and included SEO (and PPC) in his email training.
      
      Isn’t everything “wheels within wheels” anyway?
http://www.clixmarketing.com/blog David Szetela

Thanks, Lee – extra tequila for you!
Mikey

Just curious if there is an opml for these top sites? It would make it easier to import. thanks.
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Great idea. Working on that and will update the post.
http://searchengineland.com Danny Sullivan

RSS is so 2006. rank by Twitter followers

seriously nice to see list updated
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Or Friend Feed connections.
  
  Twitter counts is a great idea. Maybe we could start with Brian Chappell’s list on Marketing Pilgrim “Top 200 Internet Marketers on Twitter“.
http://www.gezzmo-searchengine.com/ karl

Goodlist. Found a couple new sites to subscribe to, goal accomplished.Thanks.
http://portal.eqentia.com William Mougayar (Eqentia)

RSS/OPML is a great start. This list was about GR subscribers, not Twitter followers (although, it would be good to have that list as well- if someone is working on it pls share!)
However, you can embed a Tweet count with a javascript from Tweetmeme, as an example, and it will show-up in the RSS.

Danny- Are you saying that # of Twitter followers is more important than # of subscribers in Google Readers? That’s a very interesting question. Eventually, it might be, but I’m not sure that the comparison is 1-to-1: is 1 Google subscriber equivalent to 1 Twitter follower?
- http://searchengineland.com Danny Sullivan
  
  No, I was just joking. I mean, some publications do have dedicated Twitter feeds like ours at Search Engine Land:
  
  http://twitter.com/sengineland
  
  But I think RSS numbers are more consistent across blogs and fine.
  - http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
    
    I know, but I do think Twitter numbers are worth using. We’ve been displaying my Twitter follower count but also finally started a dedicated Twitter feed just for TopRank http://twitter.com/toprank I think it will be interesting to see if more of these kinds of accounts are used in a productive way by sites/companies. The qualifier there is “productive” of course.
  - http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
    
    Andrew Goodman agrees: “RSS: A Stalled Standard, But “Not Dead Yet“?
http://holisticsearch.co.uk Pete Young

What I’m not on there

Seems to be that you have utilised feedburner subscriptions as the basis for above, which I would suggest is likely to cover the vast majority of SEO blogs, but not necessarily all.

All the same great list, and somehow a few I managed to miss
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Thanks Pete, I agree. RSS subscribers alone are not a complete basis for ranking blogs. This is just an update of a ranking we’ve been doing for the past 2 years or so. If you publish your feedcount, let me know.
http://thesocialconsumer.com Ron Duquette

Awesome! Thanks for this!

Ron
@RonDuquette
http://blog.dimok.ru/ dimok

in Russian my SEO blog is number one with 4900 subscribers.

several years ago I loved you idea of ranking blogs according to feedburner subscibers and run special site: http://blograte.ru/category/id/1/ (these are top SEO blogs in Russia)
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Thank dimok – I wish I could read them. Maybe our friends at http://multilingual-search.com could construct a global list of the top SEO blogs by language.
http://www.marketingprofessor.com Travis Campbell

Great job Lee, keep it rolling. Might be time to offer a list of non-English SEO/SEM blogs eh?
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  I think so.
http://seoprofy.net SeoProfy

thanks for the list,

yeah the dimok made blograte, very good servise for search blogs
abilitydesigns

Nice list Lee.

Surprising that Aaron Wall is not to be seen there ? Am i missing something?

-AD
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Aaron does not publish his Feedcount.
http://andybeard.eu Andy Beard

Joost/Yoast is absolutely killing it with RSS growth with plugin RSS subscriptions.

I am hovering just over 7K though also not displaying currently
- http://www.toprankmarketing.com Lee Odden
  
  Thanks Andy.