
Photo from my trip to Tower of London
2/8/11 5pm CST: The Poll is now closed. Vote logs will be reviewed & if necessary adjustments will be made. The final rating of the top 5 blogs will be based on: A review of content, post quality & quantity, Links, PR & PostRank. A review of the top 5 and “lessons learned” will be posted on Monday 2/14. Thank you for participating.
A while back I created a list of SEO blogs and continued to review and add a handful of blogs every week for about 2 years. I use “SEO” somewhat loosely, since most search marketers are adept at a variety of online marketing tactics including social, PPC, email and content.
With a trip to London coming up soon and plenty of great online marketing advice being published by UK internet marketing bloggers, what better time than now to offer a BIGLIST update focused on UK marketing blogs?
To make it interesting, I’ve compiled an initial list of 35 internet marketing blogs for you to choose from. There are links to all at the bottom of the post. Now vote!
Pick up to 5 of your favorite UK Internet Marketing blogs:
- Vertical Leap (18%, 625 Votes)
- SEO Wizz (10%, 355 Votes)
- Econsultancy blog (8%, 281 Votes)
- SEO Chicks (6%, 209 Votes)
- Hobo SEO Tips (6%, 208 Votes)
- David Naylor (5%, 183 Votes)
- State of Search (5%, 161 Votes)
- Chris Garrett (4%, 129 Votes)
- SEOgadget (3%, 104 Votes)
- Malcolm Coles (3%, 102 Votes)
- We Are Social (3%, 96 Votes)
- Distilled (3%, 95 Votes)
- freshegg blog (3%, 92 Votes)
- Apple Pie & Custard (3%, 91 Votes)
- BlogStorm (2%, 85 Votes)
- Epiphany Solutions Blog (2%, 72 Votes)
- Latitude Blog (1%, 51 Votes)
- Holistic Search Marketing (1%, 50 Votes)
- SEOptimise Blog (1%, 50 Votes)
- iCrossing UK (1%, 47 Votes)
- Dixon Jones (1%, 41 Votes)
- Smart Insights Digital Marketing (1%, 38 Votes)
- The Wall (1%, 36 Votes)
- Tim Nash (1%, 33 Votes)
- Tamar Blog (1%, 28 Votes)
- Blending the Mix (1%, 25 Votes)
- Froggblog (1%, 25 Votes)
- FreshNetworks Blog (1%, 21 Votes)
- Digitales (0%, 17 Votes)
- Receptional Blogs (0%, 16 Votes)
- Murray Newlands (0%, 12 Votes)
- Clicky Media (0%, 12 Votes)
- SEOUnique Blog (0%, 11 Votes)
- Return On Digital Marketing Blog (0%, 10 Votes)
- Liberate Media Blog (0%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 3,027

Winners might get some kind of cool TopRank shwag or other prize (I’m still deciding) but will definitely see a well written review with links for each of 5 the winners.
I decided to use 5 simple criteria for selection with this initial list of 35:
- Eyeball review of the blog for intended audience and topics covered
- If available, subscriber counts
- PageRank of the home page
- Most recent post date
- PostRank score
Be sure to check out the 35 UK Online Marketing & SEO blogs using the links below, but not before you’ve had a chance to pick your five favorites in the poll above.
- Apple Pie & Custard
- Blending the Mix
- Blogstorm
- Chris Garrett
- Clicky Media
- David Naylor
- Digitales
- Distilled
- Dixon Jones
- Econsultancy
- Epiphany
- Fresh Egg
- Fresh Networks
- Froggblog
- Hobo
- Holistic Search
- iCrossing
- Latitude Blog
- Liberate Media
- Malcolm Coles
- Murray Newlands
- Receptional
- Return on Digital
- SEO Chicks
- SEO Wizz
- SEO Gadget
- SEOptimize
- SEOUnique Blog
- Smart Insights
- State of Search
- Tamar
- The Wall
- Tim Nash
- Vertical Leap
- We Are Social
There are others as well, and the entire group is in the queue for review to be included in our BIGLIST of SEM blogs.
Voting is open until Feb 8, end of day (-6 GMT). I’ll be announcing the top 5 winners at SES London as I moderate the SEO Through Blogs & Feeds session. There will also be a review of each winning blog posted here as well.
Thanks to: @kevgibbo, @AllisterF, @DavidTutin and @peteyoung for suggestions that contributed to this list.