Top 25 SEO Blogs
I love rankings, what can I say. After I published the “Top 25 Blogs About Blogging” list I thought that someone would replicate it for the SEO sphere. But no one did, so here we go again.
This list was made using pretty much the same algorithm (only small modifications were made, mainly due to the fact that SEO blogs are more popular). Once again the list should be useful because it is based on objective factors. There are many “Top SEO Blogs” lists around the web, but most of them are based on the preferences of the author.
The Top 25 SEO Blogs list, instead, ranks the blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. Each factor has a score from 0 to 10, and the maximum score for each blog is 40. Details about the algorithm can be found below the table.
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| #1 | Search Engine Land |
7 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 36 |
| #2 | SEOBook | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| #3 | SEO Moz | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 35 |
| #4 | Matt Cutts | 7 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 35 |
| #5 | Search Engine Watch | 7 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 34 |
| #6 | Search Engine Roundtable | 7 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 33 |
| #7 | Search Engine Journal | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 32 |
| #8 | Online Marketing Blog | 6 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 30 |
| #9 | Pronet Advertising | 7 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 29 |
| #10 | Marketing Pilgrim | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 29 |
| #11 | SEO Chat | 6 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 26 |
| #12 | Search Engine Guide | 7 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 25 |
| #13 | SEO Blackhat | 6 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 25 |
| #14 | Stuntdubl | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 24 |
| #15 | Graywolf’s SEO | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 24 |
| #16 | SEO by the SEA | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
| #17 | Link Building Blog | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
| #18 | Jim Boykin | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
| #19 | SEOpedia | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
| #20 | DaveN | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
| #21 | Bruce Clay | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| #22 | Blue Hat SEO | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| #23 | Tropical SEO | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| #24 | SEO Refugee | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
| #25 | Small Business SEM | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
Blogs considered: the list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of SEO-related content. Topics might range from SEO news coverage to general SEO discussion and link building.
Google Pagerank (0 to 10): the actual Pagerank was used on the algorithm.
Alexa Rank (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 100k and up, 80k-100k, 60k-80k, 40k-60k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).
Bloglines Subscribers (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-300) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).
Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank (i.e., 1-125, 125-250, 500-750,750-1000) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).
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Daniel Scocco on July 23, 2007
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Great work Daniel. I thought Pronet Advertising was much about Social Networking as I found most articles on that. All interesting blogs and must read blogs.
Yeah lately Pronet is focusing more on social media, but they have a lot of SEO content on the archives.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to just do a google (msn, yahoo) search on ’seo’ or ’seo blog’? Wouldn’t that tell you who the best seo is?
Yeah in fact I thought about including the SERPs as a ranking factor :). Perhaps I will add it on the next update.
Thanks for this list. I have been looking for a really good SEO blog for a while. A lot of blogs cover SEO but are not dedicated to it. Going to check these out!
Very nice list
Thanks for including Marketing Pilgrim on the list! We’re one of the youngest sites on the list - less than 2 years old - but glad to be in such great company.
I’m married to the Marketing Pilgrim. We have fascinating conversations about blogging over dinner and wine.
Is it healthy for our marriage for me to have blog envy over my husband’s blog? 
Andy and Sheila, thanks for stopping by. You did an outstanding job with the blog, it is no surprise you making it to the Top 10.
I would use MUCH more filters to decide top25. SERPs, RSS subscribers, traffic!
For me this is not the actual Top25
Alex, it is quite difficult actually to use what you mentioned.
SERPs may vary depending on what region we consider (Google US, Google UK?).
RSS subscribers? There is no way to access that number for the blogs, unless they make it public (and most don’t).
Traffic? Again, how can you know what kind of traffic someone is getting? You would need to ask them directly, and then again how would you make sure they are telling the truth?
I am open for suggestions to improve the rankings, just let me know some feasible ways :).
I also agree with you Daniel, and I want you to know I don’t want to be rude or anything like that.
To improve those numbers I think everyone should be mailed and asked. Maybe an interview with all the candidates? That would be really nice!
Alex, no worries, I always appreciate different points of views.
I might try to do something like that in the future, but usually these guys are very busy and I doubt they would have the time.
Aaron Wall charges $500 for 1 hour of phone consulting… that speaks by itself :).
I barely have enough time to keep up with these comments.
Oh yeah, but I guess he can answer some questions via e-mail easily
He Daniel, thanks for including Online Marketing Blog! Along with Andy, we’re not exactly all about SEO, but that’s certainly a big part of our content.
It would be interesting to factor in RSS subscribers for those with Feedburner Feedcounts turned on.
Here’s a list of SEM blogs by RSS subscribersthat might be useful.
Nice Lee, thanks for sharing that. I will check how many of the 25 display feed count and consider using it as a factor.
23 .COMs! 1 .ORG! 1 .UK!
The remaining portion of the world does not have SEOS?
Regards.
As Alex reminded me in my own blog, and as Lee said about his own, SEOPedia is not “just” about SEO too.
So thank you for the honour to be in this top..
Yeah I am aware. It is very difficult to cut a clear line on what is an SEO blog and what is not, so I just considered blogs that have a “great” part of their content related to SEO (that is very flexible, I know :)).
I think there’s no A list blog that deals strictly with SEO anymore.
All of the most known blogs dealt just with SEO at the beggining then varied the stories to make it more interesting for their audience.
Moreover, SEOPedia is just my personal blog , not an industry website like SEJ or SeoMoz.
Right. Perhaps you should change the title though if you want to avoid confusion hehe.
Currently it is: Internet Marketing and SEO Blog.
Old lines, old habbits.
It’s 15% about SEO, since SEO is mostly about anything in the technical field.
Plus, I’m like in the 3rd page for “SEO”
Very nice list indeed!
But I didn’t find John’s blog there! He might not have that much buzz…
Yeah I considered him, got 14 points or so.
Very nice list indeed!
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Great list of sites and a good reminder to update RSS subscriptions. Thanks!
Hey Daniel,
I love this posts. I will also be happy to see other “top blogs” like “how to” blogs or business blogs
I wonder if pjmommy will ever make the list. I guess we’ll have to expand on our blogging content!
Interesting list. You have forums on there, etc. LOL.
I guess I’ll take your word these are the best SEO blogs around.
Darren, what forums are you referring to?
Hope to see DoshDosh entering the list in near future.
I don’t really mind and I don’t think my blog is an actual SEO blog but I think I scored around 17 points with jimwestergren.com
Great list! Obviously there are a lot more than 25 SEO blogs, so perhaps I should create “top 100 list”?
I think Darren is referring to “SEO Chat”, as many people consider them to be forums rather than a blog.
What’s really interesting, though, is that not all of those SEO blogs on the list have nofollow implemented on their comments.
Right
Bill, if you think it is suitable go ahead and create the Top 100 SEO blogs.
I think there are not as many though, at least not valuable ones.
Great list, hope to make it on there myself one day!
Niceone, it’s very interesting scale of popularity….
Great list, nice to see old Matt Cutts not topping the charts - there’s a couple of great blogs I have never come across before.
no wonder all the sites are in English.
keep an eye guys on Asia and Europe and be more specific.
1- most seo experts consider alexa is out of the game.
it is better to use rss subscribers than this tool.
2- it is a top seo blog in English not worldwide, I think that there are many others language.
IMHO, this is a bad list (I am not saying those blog is bad, but the way of judging those blog isn’t right.)
PR, alexa, technorati and blogline can be easily manipulated if you have enough cash.
Very nice list. Love reading and analyzing it. Though based on my subjective view, I would have chosen a different order. But your’s is objective, so perfectly fine.
hey
it’s very nice list !
But I didn’t find manish pandey blog there!
Liked that list, though I’m biased in favor of SE Roundtable and SEOmoz.
i also recommended my seo blog at http://www.seomust.com
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In order not to alienate your commentor it is good to have some banter and openess…
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Nice compilation. Plenty of reading for the cold winter nights. Anything to break the bordom that comes from comparing HDTVs is most welcome.
Thanks for posting this amazing tips on SEO. Thats really gr8. I loved the tips. Here http://www.seohimanshu.blogspot.com/ also i got some more interesting features regarding SEO.
very informative post.. my favorite site out there is SEO MOZ
Treat, I hope Daniel does not mind, but if you like SEOmoz.org you should check out this post.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whi.....n-part-iii
Wonderful post. I am making it my new years resolution to learn as much about SEO as I can. Thanks for directing me to the right place.
Nice compilation. Plenty of reading for the cold winter nights. Anything to break the bordom that comes from comparing HDTVs is most welcome.
But you are not in the list.
Treat, I hope Daniel does not mind, but if you like SEOmoz.org you should check out this post.
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great list
i think you should also add a few more sites like problogger and seomoz
Nice link bait concept.One more thing you can also add in your criteria list that is traffic part - because more traffic more popular blog it is.What i think if i can if i choose this topics i will also recommend rank wise pointing system with particular keyphrase “SEO Blog” - What you think - Am i wrong!
Great list.
but where is your blog.
Your blog is the best.
Those blogs that you have listed are the best ones. I consider them the authorities in blogging coz they provide great informations.
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It’s about SeoQuake : A tools that can be use in Firefox and IE to check page rank. It do automatically when we surf a site.
Nice list of top blogs and information. Looking to improve my webmasters blog, so these links will help me to see what the top bloggers are doing.
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wow! thats a nice blog list presentation.
What are your criteria to rank these blog sites?
Great list there, will have a lot of reading to do. It may be of interest that Danny Sullivan which runs Search Engine Land (#1) was originally a contributor at Search Engine Watch (#5).
A lot of people complain about this algorithmic methodology, but I honestly find that it does a pretty good job of accurately identifying the best SEO blogs (or whatever type of blogs you apply the algorithm too).
It may be of interest that Danny Sullivan which runs Search Engine Land (#1) was originally a contributor at Search Engine Watch (#5).
good luck.
nice job.
seo open tool is good.
how is that seo ?
good luck !
Very nice list
Thanks for the list of SEO blogs. Very useful. This is exactly what I was looking for. SEO info changes so rapidly that it is hard to keep up with that. I will pick 3 of them to visit regularly.
Great list there, will have a lot of reading to do. It may be of interest that Danny Sullivan which runs Search Engine Land (#1) was originally a contributor at Search Engine Watch (#5).
Nice progekt
Very nice list. Thanks for this mate
I seem to be seeing Matt Cutts’s name everywhere currently.
Will.
I honestly find that it does a pretty good job of accurately identifying the best SEO blogs
Are these blogs allowing to add the site links in the signature without no follow tags or not?
Thanks
Thanks for the list!, You’ve got a great blog going here..very informative..
Thanks Again!
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very informative post.. my favorite site out there is SEO MOZ
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It is a nice job in listing all the SEO blogs and putting at one place. Knowing the latest trends in SEO is the biggest advantage of the framed blog list. List has answers to all questions in the SEO field. All the SEO experts and marketyers will get benefitted. NIce job. Thanks and God bless!
Thanks for the list this is very useful… now i don’t have to go hunting for information
This is great exposure to us. Fantastic tips. Thanks admin.
Great list although all those listed out here are already well renowned in Search Industry. I am waiting for my turn, when I can reach to such landmark.
It’s always gr8 to land on your website. Keep it up!
This list of 25 blogs is very close to be in my blog
top list, thanks, I will make use of it.
Yes this is really great tips. Thank you!
This is really great weapon for SEO….Keep up the good work
Thanks for the list!, You’ve got a great blog going here..very informative..
Thanks Again!
Great SEO Blog list…thanks
This SEO Blogs are really great I learned a lot from them and hope to be included in the list someday.
Good Guys.
Keep it up.
Vinodh
This list couldn’t be compelete without mentioning Dave Naylor , DaveN has one of the best Blogs on SEO. The posts are very informative and interesting. Readers should check that out too.
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Thank you for these
some great great blogs to read here.
thanks…
good list guy…..
To improve those numbers I think everyone should be mailed and asked. Maybe an interview with all the candidates? That would be really nice!
Here is another one, “exclusive seo” http://topseoblogs.blogspot.com/
Thanks for this list ..it will helpful for new comers in SEO and those who wants to update themself in internet marketing.
keep writing..
Thanks,
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I knows some site from this list, but i don’t know many of them, thank you very much. My Bookmarks grow with 25 new sites.
Thank you,,
we are we are also a SEO service provider company .we find that your this list will help us in site’s implementation.It will help as in searching our new customer .
Nice list thanks for sharing. There are great resources as well for local SEO. Like our own for China
It was really nice to find the ready made list thanks alot i’ve never really found any useful blogs using search engines so thanks again.
You’ve got a great blog going here..very informative, a complete list and handy tool .
Great list
Hey
the list is awesome…
#17 Link Building Blog
can any tell me how to register there …
there is no option to register
Regards
Sri
One day, I’ll be in the list too. I am trying hard to earn name in SEO.
Surely the top seo blogs should be rated purely on the SERPs?! What use is PR to an seo writer…?
Blogging a simple word …but many people are interested to do that they have passion about blogging which makes them to stay on the top …
Thanks for the wonderful list …
This is right place to get information about seo tool and tips and tricks
Nice listing
I am confused how you count alexa in points view ??
Good Listing created by You..
Thanks for your list.. I never thought that Search Engine Land and SEO Book tied in this list… Nice…
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Great list, i am sure one day my site will be there in the list …
{In dreams}
Thanks
Nice list. Thanks for publicing!
thanks for listing top seo blogs… I will visit the top blog and learning from their success….
Thanks for this awesome list of blogs. This helped me a lot.
Thanks for this list!
Thanks for the list.
Awesome list… hoping to make this exact list next year
nice job. Great SEO Blog list…thanks
Hey,
Thanks for the list
Dan , thanks for the information..
thanks for the list pal
To improve those numbers I think everyone should be mailed and asked. Maybe an interview with all the candidates? That would be really nice!
This is good list for me . As I’m new to SEO. I think I’ll learn a lot from here
Blog list and the page ranking consolidation looks good
Nice list, this will really help a new blogger like me.
Great list and very useful to my seo efforts.
Thanks for the nice list…..:)
Looks like #9 is unsafe and #17 is a dead link… Otherwise a great list! Thanks for sharing
thanks for this subject.
Hey!!! why isnt my blog in the top 25!!!!!
wouldnt it be great to get a backlink from all of them
It’s a great list but theres a lot of good blogs out there. I’d like to recommend Niche SEO’s blog, which has some great tips and is updated daily.
Thanx a lot for the list.Time for an update?
finally got the list of seo blogs.
thanks a lots
Nice list.. Thanks for sharing..
Hey, great list.
I shall be bookmarking this page and going through some of those blogs later!
Working on a SEO project, sometimes need a little boost in PR juice.
Allen
how can i get more traffic on my blog…i am totaly new on wordpress.com…plzz give some tips to me…….
Thanks for the list of blogs.
Please give me some social bookmarking sites.
Thanks.
nice list! thanks for sharing….
thanks a lots
finally got the list of seo blogs.
I can see from posts going back 18 months or so, this list has been very helpful to a lot of people. Thanks for the info. I am glad I found your site.
Added to my favs
Thank you for the info.
Willie Plasencia
Hi
Thanks so much for such a comprehensive resource. I have learnt a lot just by visiting a couple of the blogs listed already.
A great post with more information of blogs
A great post with info about blogs
Thanks for this information. I had not really thought about some of the items you covered. Your assistance is much appreciated.
Thats a great list! Nice to see this post
Great List . Would appreciate if you could add more to it.
Cheers. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much for the list. I didnt knew there were so many nice blogs on SEO around. Your work is very appreciated. I have even subscribed to a few already.
Thanks again.
You must be kidding!
Matt Cutts is #4??
It seems clearly that he hates SEO… and everything is wrong in SEO to him!
For me, SEO Moz is the number one!
Thanks.
This information is Great
i love to read Matt cutts blog. its very informative & updated blog.thanks for being nice sharing.
Thanks, Great list of sites and really amazing list.Thank for great information…..
The stats are pretty close to to what you would think using google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority, I also like to read Tamar Weinberg blog at http://www.techipedia.com/ and Nick Stamoulis http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/ .
Nice list and am a reader of Search Engine Watch
Thanx A Lot!!!
Its a very nice Collection & will be very useful for SEO’s..
I was in search of such a kind of list..
& now my search completed..
Once again thanx for sharing..
Great list! Thank you for putting it together. I now have plenty of reading to do, but judging by the great content on the first 10 that I have looked at, it will be well worth my while.
What’s your next “25″ going to be about?
That’s great!
This is what I’m searching!
Thanks!
This is useful blogs - thanks very informative blogs..
Great compilation of blogs. Excellent work!
Thanks for the mention and all the work that went into putting this list together.
Thanks for providing the top seo blogs.It is very very useful for all.
great list
thanks for sharing
i was searching about this since last 30 minutes on google
really helpful post .. thanks for sharing.
This list is Great, thanks for sharing
The Informations which have been given is very important for all
Thank you
Thank you! I still novichek in the promotion of the site … do not even know where to begin. So much information, and all must understand.
Thanks again.
I’ll go read it.
Really Very good list. i have check this list its really good collection. Great Job.
Thank You,
Nice list after 2yrs any new soon?
Greet Job!
was looking for all seo blogs list thanks
What a cool list… Matt Cutts blog rocks!
hi,
u provide me a great list, these blogs provide me great knowledge about SEO field
I think List of blog might be helpful and motivated me a lot; I would like to say thanks for sharing this list and wish your success.
I think http://daggle.com/ the new personal blog by Danny Sullivan must also be included in the list as that also covers some facts about SEO.
Yeah the blogs list is very helpful, the blog list actually helped a lot its a useful resource.
Great Blog list. Keep it up.
Very good list. How often does this list get updated?
Nice list, you could improve it by adding my blog though
All people in the internet want their site in top list and they SEO of their sites through SEO providers . But some are frauds who are making the business flop
All book are useful to read…
Really, how is it that such a small change can make such a big different?
thanks for this very interesting listing.
Very nicle list, love the bluehat one!
Thanks
Good blog list with comprehensive analysis, thanks –Bhargav Bavarva
Great list. I just posted this on my website too (with reference to you of course)
Keep up the great work
fancy that …this is exactly what I was looking for. I”m a sponge when it comes to soaking up info, and always looking for new ideas.
thanks a mill.
Hi,
Nice and Great List of SEO.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process or techniques of promoting new or existing websites and web directory’s for exposure to search engine crawlers for the placement of search engine’s database and search engine results pages.
wery nice list, Thanks
Great list. Keep up the good work
Thanks for the recommendations. I needed that for my site
Very good trips for my to use my site as well
What would make that post a tiny bit more efficient, would be making each link open a new tab, using “target=_blank”. Otherwise, great info.
Hi
All webmaster or SEO are love rankings you wrue ranks the blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. Each factor has a score from 0 to 10, and the maximum score for each blog is 40. This are all very well googd information to use my site or blog
Interesting post, thank’s is to share knowledge
I like visiting Matt Cutts site.
What about you? I think you are good at SEO