Online Marketing Blog

Keeping up with the BIGLIST while traveling is usually not an issue. When the hotel I’m in offers nothing better than voodoo psycho internet Miami-style, that’s another matter. But, better late than never. Starting with 15 blogs in this week’s queue, only the 5 below made the cut.

The original blog post that announced the BIGLIST has been nominated for the “SEMMYS“.  Judges have now made that post a finalist in the “Blogs” category. Please be sure to vote for “Must Read Search Marketing Blogs” by Jan 30th.

So many blogs and so little time! This week’s BIGLIST update brings you a mix of blogs covering analytics, social media, entrepreneurship, emerging media and a nice SEO aggregator.

• Leveraging Ideas - Sam Huleatt, a Brooklyn-based Internet entrepreneur & strategy guru writes about the social media space, strategies and entreprenuership.
• Analytics Talk - Justin Cutroni of EpikOne writes about the array of Google products, including analytics, he works with.
• Original Signal Transmitting SEO - Aggregation of the 15 most popular SEO blogs and web sites ranging from Search Engine Watch to Search Engine Land and TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog.

With a bit of housecleaning, the big list of search marketing blogs has been trimmed down! Nearly 100 blogs were removed from the list this week. Removals were based on blogs that have not updated in the past month. This week’s additions include:

• AdGeek - Direct response copywriter Jeff Horsager offers a nice mix of marketing, optimization, email marketing and social media with an eye towards metrics and analytics. “If it can be measured, it can be improved.”
• Semfire - Based in Queensland Australia, Christine Parfitt writes mostly about paid search with some natural optimization as well.

Last week’s search engine marketing blogs update suffered a little skipperoo as it was the last day of SES New York and a travel day. I’ve decide to spend more time writing about each blog so readers get more of an idea about what to expect. Let me know if that’s a good idea or not.

Some interesting entries this week though and definitely worth checking out - maybe worth adding to your blogroll!

Diligent as we are, here is another weekly update of the big list of search engine marketing blogs.

• Earner’s Blog - Stuart McKeown, a SEO from Melbourne, blogs about everything from AdSense to affiliate marketing.
• Search Marketing Blog - SEM in a box provider Adapt technologies blogs on PPC.
• 10,000 Marshmallows - Newer blog from ViaMetric about a wide range of marketing topics from corporate blogging to search marketing.
• Search Engine Marketing Musings of an Old School SEO - Anthony ?, a self proclaimed old school SEO blogs about, you guessed it, SEO!

I assure you it’s worth the wait for this week’s list of blogs added to the big list of search engine marketing blogs. Here is the updated OPML file and the text file for you CSE junkies out here.

The overall list is now around 380 blogs, but we’ll be trimming that down in the next week or two as we audit the list for those that are not posting regularly.

• Market Position - A group blog about search marketing from WebTrends, owners of Web Position Gold.
• The PPC Book - Jeff Hudson, who works as a client side search marketer, blogs about Pay Per Click marketing.

This week’s list of search engine marketing blogs is a lot slimmer due to a lot less time spent blogging and reading blogs this week. Google decided to give our SEO agency web site a BIG bump in rankings and the ensuing barrage of inquiries has kept us rather busy.

• Shop.org Blog - Group Blog from Shop.org
• Finding the Sweet Spot - Scott Clark, a web marketer from Kentucky blogs about a variet of personal and professional interests including SEO.
• B2B SEO Blog - Galen De Young blogs about search marketing from a business to business SEO perspective.

Here we are again with this week’s additions to the big list of search engine marketing blogs. Of course the OPML file and plain text file have been updated as well.  Enjoy!

• RSS Ray - Offers articles on internet marketing and also hosts an online radio show.
• TMA E-Marketing blog - Minnesota search marketing firm blogs about all aspects of marketing online.
• In Search of Stuff - Humorous look at the search marketing industry by Scottie Claiborne and Michael Motherwell.
• Alibi Productions Blog - Drew Stauffer’s blog about marketing online.

Thanks to Amie for helping with this list of blogs we’ve been collecting and reviewing this week (and some from last week). This latest round of blogs have also been added to the big list of search engine marketing blogs.

• Rothman Marketing Blog - Israel Rothman writes about internet advertising.
• SEM Clubhouse - Christine Churchill, Jim Gilbert, Mike Churchill & Jeff Martin from KeyRelevance’s blog about search.
• WebConnoisseur - Dustin Woodard‚Äôs thoughts on search, web analytics and the web in general.
• Charlotte Internet Marketing - Keith Schilling’s Big Brush Media Blog.

Randy Morin ran his KBCafe Blog Awards again for 2006. In the SEO Blog category, Barry kicked ass again (while on vacation no less) as predicted. Thank you to everyone who voted for Online Marketing Blog, which was the underdog in every way. Of course, there should have been about 100 or more other blogs in this category besides ours.

Surprisingly, Matt Cutts lagged way behind in the SEO category, but he did win best Google blog over the corporate Google blog. Jeremy Zawodny also beat out the Yahoo Search blog. Hmmm, do you think there might be a message there?

Google Watch - Steve Bryant from eWeek

Online Marketing Research - Oleg Ishenko

Original Signal - Marketing - A collection of feeds from leading marketing blogs (including ours, yeah!)

Big Marketing for Small Business - Rajan Sodhi

I’d also like to share a few blogs from the TopRank team:

Blogger Design - TopRank’s own SEO Designer, Thomas McMahon aka TwisterMC

Creative Marketing - SEO/PR Account/Project Manager Jolina Pettice

Media Relations - SEO/PR Account/Project Manager Karen Sams

Marketing.FM has announced a new network of marketing and advertising blogs syndicated under one RSS feed called the Marketing and Advertising Blog Network. The initial group of blogs has over 50,000 subscribers and cover marketing, media, advertising agencies, PR, branding, television, radio, internet, new media, interactive advertising, and influential discussion. Online Marketing Blog is happy to be included with this project.

Current blog network members include:

Adrants
Advertising for Peanuts
Duct Tape Marketing
Entrepreneur’s Journey
Logic+Emotion
Marketing Headhunter.com
Marketing Pilgrim
Marketing.fm
MarketingVOX — The Voice of Online Marketing
Micro Persuasion
Online Marketing Blog
ProHipHop - Hip Hop Marketing
Small Business Branding
WonderBranding: Marketing to Women