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BIGLIST Social SEO Blogs Update 031110

Lee Odden — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:02:25 +0000

Welcome to the post-Winter/pre-Spring version of the BIGLIST review of SEO blogs. Snow is starting to melt and you can actually walk around outside (in Minnesota) without your eyelashes freezing together. We have a nice group for you to review so fire up your RSS reader and subscribe.

LyndiT blog gets our attention for great design and user experience in this BIGLIST update. Lyndi Thompson is a Social Media and Online Marketing Specialist and like me, is addicted to peanut M&Ms. Besides writing about a mix of social media, SEO, web design and online marketing topics, you might be interested to know Lyndi lives on a mini farm, owns several animals including a donkey and supports some great causes in the Northwest.

Frank Thinking About Internet Marketing – Frank Reed blogs on several sites including Marketing Pilgrim and Biznology. Here, he shares is talented writing skills to tell stories about SMB internet marketing topics. This isn’t a how to blog, it’s a broader topic and things to think about blog as the name implies about Search, Mobile, Social and Local.

State of Search – What’s going on in the search and social media marketing space? This new blog from Dutch internet marketer, Bas van den Beld of Search Cowboys fame, and friends promises to be a source for what’s happening in the world of search and social. It also compliments a weekly radio show on WebmasterRadio.fm of the same name.

ezlocal blog – If you’re in search of great advice on local search marketing, this might be your lucky day. You can expect detailed how to posts including those about Google Maps and Local Business Center and local marketing topics. ezlocal itself is a local business search resource and directory.

Digital Marketing Zen – David Wells is a digital marketing strategist for an agency in Charlotte, SC and publishes a blog that documents his observations via posts, podcasts and a curated collection of videos on topics that include everything from Augmented Reality to SEO and Social Media to Web Analytics.

Single Grain Blog – This agency blog is written by Sujan Patel and Ross Hudgens on SEO, PPC, Design, Link Building and some social media.

Website Workshop – Buzzhound Learning Lab is a St. Louis, MO based agency with a newer blog that has started writing posts again about SEO and topics that support the SEO training courses offered. Hopefully they continue.

Aussie Internet Marketing Blog – Sean Rasmussen writes “down under” about practical tips on a variety of online marketing topics including SEO, blogging, social media and general web 2.0.

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BIGLIST Update: SEM Blog Reviews Snarky Edition 020410

Lee Odden — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:13:04 +0000

Welcome to the newest BIGLIST review of Search Marketing Blogs. We have a little bit of everything today ranging from Chinese focused PPC to the World’s Greatest SEO to a steaming pile of SEO Bull$#*t. Enjoy!

If you think your blog deserves to be included, then write a compelling and maybe humorous comment below. We’ll almost certainly ignore it but you never know.

The SEO blog design recognition for this week’s BIGLIST update goes to a newer blog from an experienced search marketer: SEO Mofo. I like the clean, yet colorful (and irreverent) design of this blog by Darren Slatten, self proclaimed “world’s greatest SEO”. Darren has a sense of humor, SEO and blog smarts and according to his bio, no social life. That should mean some entertaining and useful blog posts – at least from what I’ve seen so far.

Gordon Choi’s PPC Blog – If you need to know about Google AdWords, Baidu or any Chinese internet marketing and PPC topics, this is the blog to read (in English). Gordon’s been blogging since 2006 and has covered a variety of SEO and SEM topics and has assembled his own list of SEM Blogs.

Efficient Frontier Insights -For a large agency that has been providing SEM services since 2002 to have a blog less than a year old in 2010 might seem off, but as the name implies, you’ll find plenty of insights and best practices on search marketing here with posts written by a mix of agency staff.

ClickRain Blog – Based in Sioux Falls, Paul Ten Haken blogs about his agency, online marketing tips/how to’s and personal observations. There isn’t a slant towards SEO tactics dujour or limited to agency chest beating, you get a mix of everything which is good for an agency blog.

Sixth Man Marketing Blog – Working out of Spokane, Ed Reese blogs on a variety of search marketing topics, industry/events and about his own consulting experiences. But his focus is mostly on local search.

SEO Bull$#*t – Catches your attention doesn’t it? If you’re not really into SEO, sarcastic humor or expletives, then this blog isn’t for you. Expect an ongoing rant about SEO topics from SEO smarties like theGypsy and Sebastian as well as a promise to “tread the fine line between personal expression and just being a %&#$ !@*&#%”.

Certainly it should go without saying that blogs that are recognized on the BIGLIST should share the good news. This is the social web after all, so get your BIGLIST badge here and shine it up.

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BIGLIST Update: Search Marketing Blogs 012810

Lee Odden — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:06 +0000

Welcome to a new BIGLIST review of SEO blogs. While it’s by no means a requirement for blogs to post daily or even every week to provide useful content to readers, it does take at least 1 post every 2 weeks to be included in the BIGLIST. We’re seeing a shift with many blogs to posting less frequently and yet most of those bloggers are active on Twitter or Facebook. Is there a connection? Are Twitter and Facebook reducing the frequency of blogging overall in the Search and Social Media Marketing industry?

Take a look at the new crop of blogs in this BIGLIST update and you can be the judge.

The blog that gets our design recognition is Directory Journal – This nicely designed, Internet marketing, social media and SEO blog is part of a network of blogs attached to directories. The posts cover a range of SEO topics but posts are unsigned but I suspect they are written by the site owner, Hasan Saleem.

SEO & Content Marketing Revue – Do I even need to introduce Heather Lloyd-Martin? Maybe not Heather, but certainly this new blogging gig she’s landed with Target Marketing Magazine where’s just started writing about, what else, content and SEO.

Urban Wall – As Traffic and Lead Delivery Optimization Manager at Petersons.com, Justin Freid posts his personal insights and tips on SEO, PPC and Social Media on this very new blog. It appears Justin blogs in “collaboration” with Korean Clothing, CD Rates and Bank Rates.

SEO in The Desert – Richard V. Burckhardt, aka The Web Optimist works as VP of Search for FramesDirect.com and blogs out of Palm Springs, CA mostly about search engine optimization. He also accepts guest blog posts about SEO.

Webster Jorgensen – A self proclaimed Drupal junkie, Webster works as Online Marketing Manager at Ryan Transportation in Kansas City. He’s addressed the posting frequently issue by not publishing dates on his blog posts and writes with a decidedly SEO- focused opinion on internet marketing topics.

Keyword Driven – This is Acronym Media’s agency blog (55th floor of the Empire State Building) which has a variety of posts on SEO topics, tools and observations from a mix of staff. Although, with just 2 posts in December and only 1 in January, blogging isn’t a high priority at the moment.

Honorable Mentions: These blogs offer some good content, but are not posting often enough to make it into the BIGLIST.

Websimple – Jeremy Bencken is one of those entreprenurial SEOs who built up a few sites, sold them to a larger company, then started another venture (BuzzStream) and still does some consulting out of Austin, TX. Jeremy has very interesting things to say and even though his blog is VERY new, I mention it here thinking maybe he’ll post more often.

Ecommerce Blog from MightyMerchant – Michael Strears from HEROweb/MightyMerchant was on a roll blogging advice, insights, and articles focused on Ecommerce for small business owners and then in December, stop. Hopefully he hasn’t been eaten by Twitter .

No decent SEO blog would be complete without a smart looking BIGLIST badge. For blogs included in a BIGLIST update, we just happen to have a few extra badges just for you.

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BIGLIST Update: Local Search Marketing Blogs 010710

Lee Odden — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:41:34 +0000

Welcome to the first BIGLIST review of SEM and SEO blogs for 2010! What a year it will be. We reviewed hundreds of marketing blogs in 2009 and well over a thousand since we started the original list. Today’s BIGLIST update focuses on a few local search marketing blogs we’ve recently discovered.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and we know online marketers already like the BIGLIST of online marketing blogs reviews.

Expand2Web Blog – The design winner for this BIGLIST Update Local SEM Blog Edition goes to Expand3Web by Don Campbell. This blog offers a rich mix of WordPress and Local search marketing advice as well as how to screencasts & videos as well as a podcast.

And now on to the other Local Search Marketing additions to TopRank’s BIGLIST this week:

GEO Local SEO - Steve Hatcher aka Stever recently branched out from his main blog to this new local SEO focused blog that offers specific, firsthand and actionable tips for local search marketing. The first posts focus on Google Local & Maps and promises to cover “just about anything pertaining to local web marketing”.

Optimized! – Mary Bowling is an experienced online marketer who writes for a Local Search Marketing column for ClickZ. She’s also blogged her observations and insights about a range of SEO topics and of course, local SEM since December 2007.

Mihmorandum – David Mihm is a well known local search marketer and designer out of Portland that blogs about his involvement in the search marketing industry and offers opinions and observations of what small businesses should know about local SEO. This blog is well worth adding to your RSS reader.

Local Search Simplified – Shagun Vatsa is a consultant in Toronto and with her blog, she focuses on adding value to tried and tested online marketing strategies and offering quality advice on how small businesses can leverage local search, Google maps, SEO and SEM.

Local Search Optimization – Netherlands based Martijn Beijk blogs about local search optimization, Universal search, mobile, Google’s Local Business Center and location-based services. He also reviews tools, which is handy and a definitive guide to KML and sitemaps for SEO.

Search Marketing Insights – Dev Basu is another Toronto based search marketer and he promises “no BS marketing strategies for small and big biz alike”. He writes about local search, small business marketing, online yellow pages and social media. He also writes about industry involvement such as speaking at conferences like Search Engine Strategies.

For reference, here are a few Local Search Marketing Blogs already included in TopRank’s BIGLIST:

Small Business SEM by Matt McGee
Screenwerk – Greg Sterling
Local SEO Guide by Andrew Shotland
Kelsey Group Blog
Understanding Google Maps & Local Search by Mike Blumenthal
Local MN Blog by Paul Jahn

If you’ve been included in the BIGLIST of SEM Blogs, then be sure to add some BIGLIST Badge flair to your blog.

What Local search engine marketing or online marketing blogs would you add to BIGLIST?

BIGLIST Development Note: We’ve been working to develop a more effective and interesting way to organize and manage the BIGLIST of marketing blogs, which will offer categorization, sorting and ranking as well as many other pieces of information about each blog. The all new BIGLIST will launch in February 2010.

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BIGLIST Search Marketing Blogs 113009

Lee Odden — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00:21 +0000

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and we know online marketers already like the BIGLIST of online marketing blogs reviews. This new update that is decidedly focused on search engine optimization should start your week off right.

While we have a good looking group this week, the Search Agents was the winner for the best looking Search Marketing blog. Not only does it offer a clever theme, but content and usability to boot. There are more contributors listed than most SEM agencies have in their employ. Content is balanced between SEO and SEM followed by everybody’s friend, Social Media. The Search Agents is the official corporate blog of The Search Agency, an integrated online marketing firm headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Let’s get to it with the last BIGLIST class of November 2009:

Actionable Insights – Covario isn’t just a leading San Diego company in the interactive marketing analytics space, it’s full of Covarians. What do those Covarians do when they’re not using their clever software to automate and analyze SEO and PPC? Why, they’re writing about industry news and updates, indepth analyses, strategic and tactical advice on a blog good enough to make it on the BIGLIST.

SEO Contrarian – What are the chances of another SEO having been a Combat Engineer in the Army? Except my stint was long, long ago. Ari Ozick has his opinions and even a Manifesto, which makes for interesting blogging, especially when mixed with skill and first hand experience. Don’t let the SEO Scum category scare you, just read.

Shark SEO – Dave Peiris works for iCrossing in London and besides playing with search engines all the live long day, he likes coffee, jaffa cakes, napping and designing clever linkbait. The good kind. The blog has a very cool design but reading what’s on a good SEO’s mind is even better. And no sharks to be seen.

Best SEO Blog - With an awfully literal name, (oh wait, we do that too) this blog by Michael Martinez, Nicholas Ramirez and Gene Tapang from Visible Technologies puts out “the latest in search engine marketing tactics, the tried and true techniques.” With posts back to 2007 there’s plenty of SEO insight to gain, which is a good thing in a world currently dominated by social media content.

SimpleFuzz – Jeremy Martin admits to his vices: webaholicism. Which of course, is a good thing when you blog, since that openness means the opportunity to exchange ideas. Say, on the topics of seo, social media, ppc, blogging or web design. This blog is a great resource for small businesses in Utah, where it’s written and beyond.

Holistic Search Marketing – Like TopRank’s BIGLIST, Peter Young (Head of SEO at Mediavest in Manchester) has his own list called TSMR (Top Search Marketing Resources) that you may want to get on. I can’t tell you how here, you’ll just have to visit his blog and find out. While you’re there, check out all the fine SEO and Google focused blog posts too.

Made the BIGLIST did you? Well then don’t forget to wear this impressive badge.

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TopRank BIGLIST of 100+ Search Marketing Resources

Lee Odden — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:00:31 +0000

TopRank BIGLIST of Search Marketing Resources

How do new marketers learn SEO and Pay Per Click? How do professionals stay current with search marketing tactics considering the sheer volume of social media distraction? Last month we ran a poll of Online Marketing Blog readers to discover preferences for learning and staying up to date with current search engine marketing strategies and tactics. Below are the top categories selected by readers. However, we’ve taken it a step further and listed over 100 different resources for marketers to start, maintain or advance their level of SEO, PPC and any other type of search based marketing. Enjoy!

Search Engine Marketing Blogs

TopRank’s BIGLIST of over 400 Search Marketing Blogs (updated weekly/monthly since Jan 2007)
invesp Ranked List of Top SEO Blogs
Daily Blog Tips Top 25 SEO Blogs
HuoMah Big Ass List of SEO Blogs
FutureBuzz Essential List of Marketing & SEO Blogs
SEOmoz Ranking 50 Top Blogs in the Search Space (2006)
SEOBook SEO Blogs and Search Engine Blogs (2006)
Fantomas SEO / SEM Blogs (2005)

SEO/SEM Blog Aggregators:

Testing Tactics on Your Own Web Sites

A/B Testing resources: (Google Website Optimizer, 7 Free Resources)
Multivariate Testing service: (Omniture)
Heatmap & User Testing tools: (CrazyEgg, Clickdensity, Clicktale, userfly and Eyetools)
Web Analytics tools: (Google, WebTrends, Omniture SiteCatalyst, Unica NetInsight, Lyris HQ, Clicky, Yahoo, BLVD Status)
Ranking Software: (Advanced Web Rankings, WebPosition, Web CEO)

Search Engine Marketing Forums

Paid Subscription SEM Communities

Search Engine Marketing Webinars

Search Marketing White Papers, Research, Special Reports

SEO & SEM Email Newsletters

Online Groups for Search Marketers (Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning)

Facebook: SEO
Facebook: PPC
LinkedIn: SEO
LinkedIn: PPC
Ning: SEO
Ning: PPC

The Big SEM Conferences

SEM Consultant/Agency Advice

TopRank Online Marketing – That’s right, we put our own agency - The reality is, your current SEO/SEM agency or consultant should offer some kind of ongoing education and/or training on top of ongoing consulting services. If not, call us!

Print Magazines

Offline Networking Groups or Meetups

Books on SEM

SEO Warrior – John I. Jerkovic
Art of SEO – Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, Jessie C. Stricchiola
Search Engine Marketing Inc, 2nd Edition – Mike Moran & Bill Hunt
Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day – Jennifer Grappone & Gradiva Couzin
The Truth about Search Engine Optimization – Rebecca Lieb
Search Engine Visibility, 2nd Edition – Shari Thurow
SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible – Jerri L. Ledford
SEO Made Simple - Michael H. Fleischner
Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint for Effective Internet Marketing – Kristopher B. Jones
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition – Steve Krug
Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond – Aarron Walter
The Findability Formula: Easy, Non-Technical Approach to SEM -
Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords – Perry Marshall & Bryan Todd
Winning Results with Google AdWords, 2nd Edition – Andrew Goodman
Google Advertising Tools – Harold Davis
Landing Page Optimization – Tim Ash
Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets – Andrew King
Inbound Marketing - Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah
Best Selling “SEO” books on Amazon
No, SEOBook is no longer available
Coming 2010: Search Engine Optimization Secrets – Danny Dover
Coming 2010: Marketing in the Age of Google – Vanessa Fox

Niche or Regional SEO/SEM Conferences and Workshops

Search Marketing Industry Web Sites

SEM Workshops, Training & Certifications

Search Marketers on Twitter

30 Must Follow SEO Twitter Users
200+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter
Follow the Top 40 SEO Experts on Twitter in One Click
UK Based SEOs on Twitter
SEO Tips
@LeeOdden Twitter List of Search Marketers
@Danny Sullivan Twitter List of Search Marketers

SEO & PPC Focused Podcasts

SEO Rockstars – Daron Babin
Office Hours – Vanessa Fox
Webcology – Jim Hedger & Dave Davies
PPC Rockstars – David Szetela
SEM Synergy – Bruce Clay

What did we miss? Please share in the comments.

I took a quick poll on Twitter for some of the resources and want to thank those that made suggestions: @chrisgarrett, @scottclark, @danperry, @katemorris, @jonnytee, @Phil_EH, @steveplunkett, @chiropractic, @pratt, @kennyhyder, @kalena, @goglobalwebs, @scottdeto, @thashow.

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kalena

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scottdeto

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Big Ben Edition: BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 090909

Lee Odden — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:11:55 +0000

What a remarkable date today! 09/09/09. Welcome to the UK Edition of TopRank’s BIGLIST of Search Marketing Blog reviews. Since I’m in London this week, (photo above was taken with my trusty 3GS iPhone) I decided to focus mostly on SEO/PPC and Social Media Marketing Bloggers here in the UK. It’s a nice mix of search, social, web dev/design and analytics, so fire up your RSS reader and subscribe!

Our Featured SEO Blog this week is from Malcolm Coles. This is a personal blog by Malcolm Coles of Digital Sparkle that offers observations about internet marketing categorized mostly as good and bad reviews. He also focuses very specifically on newspaper web sites. If you want to know anything about UK based newspapers and their place within search engines this is the place to be.

Blogs are featured on TopRank’s BIGLIST that have a great combination of both design, user experience and content. Now on to the rest of the fine UK based SEO blogs for this week:

Distilled Blog – Will Critchlow and the team at Distilled, a London based SEO/PPC agency write this blog on search and online reputation management issues along with geo location, mobile and web design topics.

Self Made Minds – Al Carlton and Scott Jones as well as contributions from Jason Rickard about their experiences making money on the web. There really is no substitute for the insights gained from “eat what you kill” internet marketing (vs working for an agency that gets paid either way) and this blog offers many of those insights.

I – Com Blog – Searched, designed and developed. That about sums up this Manchester based internet marketing agency blog that covers design, development, copywriting and search marketing.

Vertical Leap Blog – This UK agency blog covers practical search marketing tips, insights specific to UK search engines and industry news. Comments are turned off, which is a disappointment.

Hallam Internet Marketing Blog – This blog out of Knottingham is a mix of posts about industry news & observations, training programs offered by Susan Hallam and aggregated Tweets. Making all of one’s tweets for the day into a blog post is automatic and therefore easy for the blogger to create an entry, but the real question is whether it offers useful info to blog readers? In this case I think sometimes yes and sometimes no.

SEO Blog Reinclusion:

Apple Pie & Custard Blog – Originally added to BIGLIST 2 years ago, this blog is written mostly by Kelvin Newman, John McElborough and someone named “Jennie” from Site Visibility about SEM, social media and PPC topics.

Receptional – Added on November 2007, we’re happy to see this UK based blog re-added to BIGLIST. Dixon Jones and the team at UK internet marketing agency Receptional blog the gamut of web marketing topics including affiliate and search marketing, usability, analytics and social media.

Be sure to visit these blogs and recommend them to your friends. Heck, add them to your Blogroll. We did!

The well above average Blogs reviewed for TopRank’s BIGLIST owe it to their diligent readers and fans to display the impressive and well earned BIGLIST Badge.

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BIGLIST Search Marketing Blog Reviews 083109

Lee Odden — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:42:16 +0000

This week I’ll try something a little different with our BIGLIST of online marketing blogs reviews and share a screen shot of the week’s best looking SEO blog to be added.

That honor goes to Mikkel deMib Svendsen who’s been blogging for a very long time, except it’s been mostly in Danish.

Recently, Mikkel decided to launch a SEM blog in English, which is great news if you know Mikkel. At my first SES conference I recall seeing this guy in a bright red suit taking lots of photos and not sure who he was. Then after seeing him speak on a few panels quickly realized the deep search marketing knowledge he was offering. Now you can get that insight online. This blog is a mix of both text and video SEO content, plus Mikkel has a new book on SEO you should check out.

And now for our SEM/SEO Blog reviews.

Link Building Best Practices – Eric Ward, aka Link Moses aka old school OLB (original link builder) has re-launched a link building Q/A and tips blog that offers new and updated posts covering one of the most important aspects of boosting web site traffic directly and indirectly: links! Of course, the blog already ranks #2 on Google for “link building best practices”.

seo zombie – Justin Briggs is the recent winner of Marketing Pilgrims SEM Scholarship with tons of fabulous SEO prizes including a press release announcing his accomplishment from TopRank. Justin makes sense out of SEO by providing tips and observations on SEO basics ranging from keywords to blogs to SEO Lessons.

Everett Sizemore – Aka @balibones is the SEO at Gaiam and recently launched this blog dedicated to SEO. Gotta love the tag line because it’s keyword rich AND creative: “SEO Consultant – Organic Farmer of Keywords and Tomatoes”.

Be sure to visit these blogs and recommend them to your friends. Heck, add them to your Blogroll. We did!

Blogs included in the BIGLIST have every reason to express their SEO bloggedy awesomeness with an impressive badge.

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26 Top Search Marketing Blogs By RSS Subscribers

Lee Odden — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:03:07 +0000

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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BIGLIST Marketing Blog Reviews Summer Edition 073109

Lee Odden — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:53:56 +0000

Here in Minnesota it’s been a roller coaster summer with hot smacking up against cold in the blink of an eye. The irony of that observation is that our BIGLIST of online marketing blogs has been cold for about 4 months, but just like a Minnesota summer, we’re going to smack that BIGLIST with some hot. Hot SEO/SEM/Social blogs that is. Enjoy:

B2B Online Marketing Blog – The folks at Business.com have put together a fine resource for B2B businesses and marketers with a problem/solution format that includes case studies, conference coverage and insights on search, social media and a few Business.com product posts from time to time.

Adam Sherk Blog – Adam Sherk works as a Search/PR Strategist for Define Search Strategies, part of The New York Times Company and writes about the publishing industry, enterprise SEO and social media.

The Acquisio Blog – Naoise Osborne writes this “Canadian Flavoured Marketing Soup” blog mostly on PPC but a little Foo makes it interesting.

vervesearch blog – Lisa Myers and Sam Murray write this new, yet classically written UK based blog (personal insights, practical tips, conferences, etc) about search marketing and their experiences as internet marketing consultants.

Upright Communications Blog – As the name implies, this is an agency blog written mostly by Eric Frye and Allison Kulage with image a video rich posts on search and social media marketing topics.

Three Minds on Digital Marketing – Two heads are better than one and in this case, three is better yet. The folks at Organic blog about digital marketing topics and according to the tag cloud, “exceptional experiences” are the emphasis along with design, social web, user experience and marketing strategy.

SEO.com Blog – The team at SEO.com blog definitvely about search engine optimization from some pretty creative angles from “If your SEO skills were a song, what would it be?” to movie references like “Transformers of SEO” and Wall-e. There are also plenty of tips and how to’s.

Fresh Edge Media – Rebecca Kelley, Jason Arango and Josh Patrice contribute to this snarky new blog about Advertising, Branding, Business and Fresh Edge News. Who says “snarky” anyway? Ah, the same people that say “douchey”. I’m just wondering if that’s pronounced “doo shee” or the snobbish, “doo shay”.

Remember, blogs included in the BIGLIST should express their bloggy hotness with a hot badge.

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BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 040909

Lee Odden — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:22:40 +0000

The week is nearly done and Spring is nearly here. Unless of course, you live in the “Never Summer Land” of Minnesota, where we’re apparently destined to enjoy a balmy 35-50 degrees indefinitely.

Take a break from your daily dose of social media overstimulation and work focused multi-tasking to check out a new batch of the TopRank BIGLIST search marketing blogs. This week’s update includes a mix of new and familar names:

SEO Wizardry - Pete Hollier is an information science type of guy that writes informative and often illustrated posts about various aspects of search engine optimization and some on PPC.

Future Searches – UK based and multi-lingual, Pelin B. Demir writes all about search marketing from SEO to link building to social media.

Vanessa Fox Blog – Ex Googler and now an Entrepreneur in residence at Ignition Partners as well as being very active in the SEM industry, Vanessa writes about the online marketing industry, her travel adventures and other projects like the O’Reilly Found conference that she co-chairs. There’s also abundant reference material and analysis.

Kate Morris - Also known as “Longhorn Kate”, is a MBA student and Director of Client Strategies at New Edge Media in Austin, TX. Kate writes observations personal and professional about SEM.

Jane Copland Series Three, Episode One – Ex SEOmozzer and now with Ayima Search Marketing, Jane writes (so far) this new blog about her adventures as a SEO Consultant in the UK and world traveler.

SEO Diva - Kay Frenzer publishes this flowery blog mostly about SEO basics, content, keywords, Google, Wordpress as well as other online marketing topics.

Level 343 Articles – Most of the posts on this SEO and content centric blog are written by Gabriella Sannino who offers her opinions on a mix of topics ranging from industry trends to social media.

Remember, blogs included in the BIGLIST deserve a shiny new badge.

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BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 030909

Lee Odden — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:33:15 +0000

We’ve been reviewing the TopRank BIGLIST of search marketing blogs for over 2 years, starting in January 2007. In that time we’ve reviewed nearly 1,000 blogs covering internet marketing and search marketing related topics.

Blog features we like include: Design, On-topic to SEO, Social Media and Internet Marketing, an About page (for the blog specifically), Categories and Frequency (at least once per week). The only way to get added to the BIGLIST is for us to notice your blog linking to us or being mentioned on another blog that we follow. Direct requests are not accepted. Please enjoy this week’s new additions, runner up and reinclusion to the BIGLIST.

Daily SEO Tip - Search Marketing blog guru Loren Baker and SEO smartie, Ann Smarty have partnered to deliver practical, usefuland often creative SEO tips that are good for new pracitioners as well as experienced online marketers.

Marketingsherpa Blog - The famous Marketing Sherpa site publishes this well written & cross referenced blog on a range of internet marketing topics from email to search engine optimization by reporters Natalie Myers, Sean Donahue and Adam T. Sutton.

Best Rank Blog - Mike Shannon, Zac Heisey, Guillermo Bravo & Ryan Frank post to this agency blog focusing on quality of posts over quantity, which is a good practice I think. Topics cover the gamut of tips, news, events and agency news.

Social Media Rockstar - With a background in SEO and Sociology, Brett Borders aka “Brett from Tibet” is a kindred spirit that also blogs with interesting articles, interviews and tips with a strong social media flavor.

SEOAly - Alysson Fergison writes this small business SEO blog that doubles as a web site for her consulting business with posts about on and off page SEO, social media, Wordpress, a few rants and something called “Scam Watch”.

North South Media Blog - This Scotland based agency blog offers tips, news, interviews and an interesting “Top SEO Companies” feature each month that ranks regional, national and international SEO agencies by keyword rankings.

IMBroadcast Blog - David Snyder and friends at Traffic Blends publish this blog that supports the Internet Marketing Video community with a few tips about online video mixed and most posts about IM Spring Break.

Runner Up:
(There are some blogs that posess several of the qualities we look for, but are lacking such as post frequency or design issues that warrants a mention, but not actual inclusion in the BIGLIST of SEO blogs)

Canadian SEO Blog - Alberta based Melanie Nathan publishes a brand new and very well designed blog that offers the promise of posts on link building, interviews and miscellaneous. We’re hoping she can tap into her vast link building knowledge and post more often so the blog can get included in the BIGLIST at a future date.

Reinclusion:
(One of the reasons blogs get removed from BIGLIST of SEO blogs is lack of posting activity. If the blog owner restarts posting and contacts us, we may re-add them)

JenSense - If you need to know about Google AdSense and affiliate marketing, then this is the blog to read. Welcome back Jennifer Slegg!

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BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 021009

Lee Odden — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:05:34 +0000

In this update of the TopRank BIGLIST of search marketing blogs we have a mix of new and old, funny and serious. We hope you find these blogs as informative and interesting as we do. Enjoy:

Mediatrust Blog – Peter Bordes, Trip Foster, Scott Parent and Christopher Smith combine to write this agency blog about everything from performance marketing to industry news to company news. The best part of the blog is the video series, “Relevantly Speaking”, which is nicely produced and informative.

Outspoken Media Blog – New blog for a new consortium of SEOs (Rhea Drysdale, Rae Hoffmann, Lisa Barone) that have no problem saying or writing what’s on their minds. Still new, most posts are announcements or live blogging from SMX West but hopes should be high for a range of internet marketing topics .

SEOMFG – What a great name for this blog about SEO humor, tips and advice from Drew (mostly), George and Frank who are mythically located in a shack in Montana – but probably not. Content is search marketing centric and aims to educate the SEO community about what they’ve learned from experimentation, knowledge and experience.

The Internet Marketing Driver - Glenn Gabe covers the gamut of internet marketing topics in this blog and makes up for infrequent posting by going deep on a lot of posts with detialed how to’s and insights into tools, SEO and media.

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BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 0020209

Lee Odden — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:38:45 +0000

Today’s BIGLIST update of search marketing blogs includes a smattering of agency blogs from the US and the UK as well as appearances from Poland and Singapore. Step right up and get your daily dose of SEO, social media and PPC with this collection of new entrants.

The Whoa Factor - Brad Shorr and Jeanne Dininni write this insightful company blog (Whoast) about search engine marketing topics, especially SEO.

Latitude Group - This UK based search marketing agency blog posts the gamut of internet marketing topics including Affiliate, Email, PPC, SEO, Social Media and Analytics. Company news and case studies can be found as well.

Sazbean Blog - Sarah and Aaron Worsham post about a wide range of internet marketing topics including strategy, marketing, design, and technology in this well written blog that also includes a nice “Morning Edition” collection of links post.

Social Media Top Tips - With their roots in search engine optimization, this corporate blog for London based Weboptimiser, emphasizes the use of social media within search marketing and general online marketing.

MaxRoy Blog - Need to know about search marketing in Central and Eastern Europe? This very new company blog from Poland offers a best effort at English to explain the importance of search marketing.

Antidote – Smart Internet marketing advice from Singapore with Antidote.

PPCPROZ Blog - Pay per click tutorials, tools and opinions from Dan and Elan Perach.

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BIGLIST of SEO Blogs Update 011909

Lee Odden — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:17:24 +0000

Agencies and Eurpoean blogs make up most of our reviews of this week’s BIGLIST of search marketing blogs with several less than 6 months old. Blogs are a great way for agencies to demonstrate expertise as well as personality to help potential clients get a handle for who they might be working with. TopRank can attest to this after 5 years of writing our own agency blog.

Saad Kamal – This is a very nicely designed SEO blog that covers industry news and tools with commentary/opinion, hot picks, and tips with a focus on search marketing for bloggers and small business. Saad lives in Malaysia but works for a SEO agency based in Toronto.

Search Cowboys - Bas van den Beld has assembled an impressive crew of internet marketing experts to write for this online newspaper style blog with regular columns, tools, book reviews, video and events info emphasizing the search and internet marketing industry in Europe.

Klik Marketing Blog – New agency founder Eric Fransen has started a new blog about Internet marketing topics for small businesses.

Holistic Search Blog - UK based Peter Young blogs mostly about internet marketing topics with an emphasis on tips, commentary and insights related to SEO, PPC and online marketing.

Dream Systems Media Blog - Mat Siltala, David Mink and Andrew Melchior “blog” in the true sense of the word, about their experiences as an internet marketing agency as well as a range of web marketing topics and tips ranging from SEO to social media marketing.

Mannix Marketing Blog - This agency blog focuses mostly on SEO, web design & Internet marketing as well as agency news and involvement with industry events.

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BIGLIST Search Marketing Blogs Update 010709

Lee Odden — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:10:35 +0000

It’s a new year and a new update to TopRank’s BIGLIST of search marketing blogs. The BIGLIST, like many of our readers undoubtedly, suffered a bit of bloat over the holidays, so we’ve resolved to trim things up a bit and recently removed over 50 blogs for inactivity or changing focus from search and social media marketing. That mini purge made the BIGLIST hungry so here’s an update of new additions focusing on all manner of internet marketing topics. Fire up your RSS reader and enjoy.

Always be Testing - Andy Edmonds, the Chief Scientist at StomperNet blogs about ecommerce analytics with useful how tos and several interesting tools like the Transaction Funnel Explorer or the Analytics UI Section Link Tagger. What would be even better is if Andy posted more frequently.

Monica Wright – A long time internet marketer in Portland, Maine Monica blogs about Internet Marketing, SEO, Social Media and other topics that come to mind like Karate, kids and Zima.

Dan Zarrella – Dan is a self described, “Social Media and Viral Marketing Scientst”, and a web developer who blogs about the social media, viral marketing and SEO focused research he does and tools he’s created like the Link Attraction Factors tools and the recent Tweetbacks blog plugin.

We Build Pages Blog – As the search marketing industry has evolved, so has We Build Pages with a new blog that includes posts from WBP staff, CEO Jim Boykin and the excellent writing style of Lisa Barone.

Search Light Digital - Pete Wailes and Teifion Jordan blog a mix of SEO topics about twice weekly ranging from coding tips to content creation to multivariate testing.

SEO Writer - David Leonhardt of the Happy Guy Marketing blogs tips for better SEO , social media, marketing and of course, a bit about Google.

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BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 101708

Lee Odden — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:03:27 +0000

Welcome to the BIGLIST SEO Blog review update – Las Vegas Airport Edition. McCaron airport is like every other airport I spend time in except there’s free internet access. And that’s the reason I can bring this BIGLIST update to you today.

The following are blogs we’ve noticed over the past week or so, visited and decided they were worthy to be included in the BIGLIST of SEO, SEM and Social Media blogs. Unfortunately my plane is boarding so the reviews will need to be added later tonight. Enjoy!

Internet Marketing Blog Prospect MX – Agency blog for Prospect MX.

Volusion’s eCommerce Blog – Articles and resources to boost your online business.

Buzz Marketing for Technology – Paul Dunay offers innovative Ideas to accelerate demand generation marketing.

The Altimiter – Charlene Li’s social and emerging technologies blog for her new consulting practice, the Altimeter Group.

things of sorts – SEO, PHP, HTML, AJAX, JS, and life

marketinghackz – Plenty of search, social and internet marketing hackz.

Please show these fine blogs some love and visit them, subscribe to them and share the best with your networks.

Blogs that get included in the BIGLIST can celebrate their bloggy awesomeness by placing a BIGLIST BADGE on their site. (link back optional)

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BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 100208

Lee Odden — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:28 +0000

Admit it. You’ve missed the BIGLIST. Well, we have a nice bundle of SEO and paid search blog reviews for you to snuggle up to. Fire up your feed reader and grab a hot cup of joe.

SearchEngineWorld – One of several sister sites to WebmasterWorld, this long time search marketing site has been reinvented and active in the past few months featuring news posts by Lane R. Ellis as well as conference coverage and video posts with Brett Tabke and Vanessa Zamora.

PPC Blog – Giovanna Wall publishes this self titled sister site to Aaron Wall’s SEO Book site covering all things pay per click including each major ad platform, affiliate, contextual and local search. There’s also a nice collection of PPC focused tools.

Marketer Insight – This is an agency blog from the team at WebSiteBiz covering “current thinking and strategies related to improving online marketing” with search, social media and analytics focused posts from Eric Dudley, Kyle Bumgardner and Tom Dressler.

Cesar Serna – If you’re yearning for more on the technical/coding side of SEO, then Cesar’s blog can deliver with posts on tools including the Soxialize Twitter marketing tool. There’s also a “Black Board” Friday series of posts worth checking out. Cesar used to work with Greg Boser at Webguerrilla and is now focused SEO/SEM windows application and Wordpress plugin development.

Remember, our hypothetical research says blogs with a BIGLIST BADGE are 78% more likely to impress the opposite sex. (link back optional)

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BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 090508

Lee Odden — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:10:32 +0000

Today we have a very nice collection of BIGLIST search and social marketing blogs from all over the world ranging from independent consultants to small agencies to executives at large agencies. Enjoy!

beu blog - As well as being very active in the SEM industry, Brian Ussery is an Atlanta based SEO known for his expertise with Flash and SEO, writes a wide range of topics but mostly focuses on search engine optimization and Google related topics.

Being Peter Kim – Previously with Forrester Research, Peter Kim now works with an Austin based strategic consulting practice that is developing an enterprise class Social Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) suite. He continues to blog about social computing, social media marketing and insights of high value to internet marketers and business leaders.

Rob Garner – Big agency search marketer Rob Garner from iCrossing blogs about his industry involvement including conferences and the contributions he makes at MediaPost’s Search Insider. He’s also one of the few blogs with the guts to publish an agnostic SEM/SEO blogroll.

TigerTwoTiger – Nancy Williams of the London based Tiger Two agency writes this comprehensive blog about all topics related to online reputation management.

Web Chameleon – Belinda Jackson of Australia based Web Chameleon agency blogs about a mix of online marketing topics ranging from web site marketing to blogging to email marketing.

OnlineMarketerBlog – The catchy tagline caught my eye on this blog, “If Copyblogger and JaffeJuice had a bad-ass baby” and serves as a living resume of topics, insights and thoughtful experiences for David Francis. The ads are a bit much though.

Economics of Selling Online – Catherine Carey is a professor of Economics teaching “Economics of E-commerce” and the “Economics of Advertising” in addition to posting this blog with researched and cited posts on topics related to online marketing and commerce.

Remember, our hypothetical research says blogs with a BIGLIST BADGE are 78% more likely to impress the opposite sex. (link back optional)

Interested in a free ticket to the Digital Publishing & Advertising Conference (DPACII) in New York Oct 27-28? Leave a creative comment below about the BIGLIST and we’ll pick the best 2 from last week’s BIGLIST Update and today. Winners announced next Friday.

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BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 090108 & Free DPAC II Tickets

Lee Odden — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:01:08 +0000

It’s a new month and a bloggy bloggy world I tell you. So many blogs and so little time, and yet you’re drawn to the BIGLIST each week, aren’t you? Who made it? Who didn’t?

Admit your BIGLIST addiction and we’ll send two lucky souls free access codes to the DPAC II Conference (The Next Wave of Digital Content & Advertising) in New York Oct 27 & 28.

Now on to the good stuff of this week’s SEO Blog Reviews:

NVI Blog – You’ve got to love both the tag line, “professional, technical and a little bit twisted” and the RSS Icon (guy sitting on a toilet) of this Montreal based web design agency blog that also covers search and social marketing.

blogwell – Aussie couple Mad (Martyn Davis) and Lid (Lidija Davis) blog (in plain English) from Silicon Valley on how how small businesses can use blogging as a marketing tool including tips on SEO, social media and of course, blogging.

The Leading Edge – PR and social media guru Sally Falkow has her own blog on this list already, but also shares her insights on trends in PR technology for popular PR industry publication Bulldog Reporter. Sally’s advice includes online PR, social media and search marketing.

Caged Ether – On the whole, Daryl Pereira blogs about corporate blogging and search marketing topics with a recent flurry of session posts from Wordcamp and SES San Jose. Nifty page layout changing option too. I didn’t like the side bar on the right so I moved it to the left. Cool.

Stephen Espinosa – This is Stephen. He’s addicted to local search. He lives in Socal and is a huge Chicago White Sox fan. Stephen hates the Cubs. He blogs mostly about his addiction (local search) as well as Google and conferences. Enjoy!

Martin Bowling – Here we have the blog of Martin Bowling. Martin’s not actually bowling at a bowling alley of course, that’s his name. You’ll find posts about online reputation management, brand awareness, search engine optimization and SEO. Wait, aren’t those last two the same thing? Ah, very clever Martin!

It’s all good in the SEO blogging hood, but not unless you get that sexy BADGE . (link back optional)

Oh, and don’t forget to sing (or write) your gratuitous praises of the BIGLIST in the comments or better yet, from your own blog and we may pick you for the free ticket to DPAC II in New York.

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