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).
Nice post, thanks for helpful list…
Great list. I am regular reader of matt and Searchengineland. Thanks for share.
Daniel, thanks a lot for putting together the list! I’m working on an blog post that picks “20 best SEO blogs analyzed”. Should be out this Wednesday. Thanks for great content, I’m definitely linking back!
SEO is helpful for optimizing the website as well as increasing the page Thank you for the SEO link, i was looking for good seo links.ranking and comparison of yahoo seo, google and other seo.
Thank you for the SEO link, i was looking for good seo links.
Hi Daniel,
I admire the author of this post. There are more than thousands of SEO companies out on the web and you can’t compete with them if your not equipped with proper knowledge.
Great List. Definitely I will learn more about SEO reading some content from these blogs.
Some huge SEO blogs you have listed there. And what’s up with Matt Cutts? His SEO tips are clouded in this mysterious, over-hyped perception that because he is 1 degree away from the Google founders, he somehow has answers (1st page, 1st position). Meh!
SEO is helpful for optimizing the website as well as increasing the page ranking and comparison of yahoo seo, google and other seo..it is not possible…I really appreciate the graph showing how they rank in google, alexa, etc.This is a excellent resource! Thanks!
Nice ,thanks for sharing a great list.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 informative part of their content related to SEO and I will definitely take a look in these sites.
I really believe that SEO is one of the great tool for a website.
Thanks for the great list! I have been searching for something like this for quite some time. From the ones listed, I found Search Engine Journal to be the best. There are a lot of high quality articles that can really be put to a good use. Another great blog I’m visiting on daily basis is SEO Moz. Definitely worth checking out.
Great info , thanks. In the vast ocean of SEO advice it is always nice to find pages with actually useful stuff. It seems that it comes down to sheer amount of hours spent that brings results – this helps to focus!
Thank you so much for such a great list of SEO blogs. I really appreciate the graph showing how they rank in google, alexa, etc. Also was first to rank on my keyword. Impressive! Thanks again!
Daniel,
Daniel,
The field of SEO consists of such a large breadth of knowledge and techniques that one needs to engage a high volume of resources to ascertain with a fairly high level of confidence how to even begin applying the best practices to one’s site.
Hi Daniel Scocco,
“Wouldnt it have been easier to just do a google (msn, yahoo) search on seo or seo blog? Wouldnt that tell you who the best seo is? ”
Love the research, great stuff! We will be there shortly!
Where is the position this Blog?? nice sharing .
Nice List!
SEO is such a vast field and you must begin to take the initiative and learn it yourself in order to master it and really benefit from all that it has to offer. This is a great list and these blogs are a great start to anyone that is interested in learning SEO.
I can’t believe Masters of SEO didn’t make the cut. Oh well, great list anyways. I am sure that these resources will continue to be useful to the public as SEO becomes more and more of a real need in todays business market.
I do agree that SEO is a vast field and you got to teach yourself new techniques always and be keen about what’s on the market. And also what are popular things; for that you must gain lots of lots experience all the time to catch up with market. About your blog I must say its really informative and I have learn a lot from here. Thanks for that.
Great information. Thanks for posting it. I will be checking out each one of these sites to learn more about SEO. I’ve been learning SEO methods for only a year and a half as of this comment, but I still have much more to learn.
Great list, hope to make it on there myself one day!
Thanks for putting this list together. I could stay careless about what each blog’s rankings are but I can list my top favorites:
Did I forget to mention I found this blog through Google Search Engine searching for: seo blog
Really nice blogs, I will clearly have a look at them now
Thanks for sharing this.
This list is a must see list for SEO starters and SEO pro’s.
it is my first time visiting here, its a great site with a great articles, thanks for share.
I am still not sure how Alexa helps with ratings now that google isn’t using page rank anymore – does google simply look up Alexa’s ranking now?
Great List. SEO is very important and this is great! Thank you.
Good Job ! and Matt Cutts is Google for the record !
I like visiting Matt Cutts site.
What about you? I think you are good at SEO
Interesting post, thank’s is to share knowledge