Top 25 SEO Blogs

by Daniel in 238 Comments — Updated Reading Time: 2 minutes

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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238 thoughts on “Top 25 SEO Blogs”

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. Whats really interesting, though, is that not all of those SEO blogs on the list have nofollow implemented on their comments.

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  5. 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

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  6. Hey Daniel,
    I love this posts. I will also be happy to see other “top blogs” like “how to” blogs or business blogs

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  7. 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 :)).

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  8. Nice Lee, thanks for sharing that. I will check how many of the 25 display feed count and consider using it as a factor.

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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.

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  11. 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?

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  12. 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.

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  13. 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!

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  14. 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?

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  15. 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.

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