tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78535984857760908852024-03-08T05:51:05.180-08:00Traffic Flow SEOAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603956032076928572noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-77875208943888624422015-04-16T15:27:00.000-07:002015-04-16T15:27:23.827-07:002015 The Web Shown in Numbers!Are you curious as to what happened in 2010 on the Web, well you have come to the right place as <a href="http://www.pingdom.com/">Pingdom</a> recently released some stats from a large set of different sources and I am going to also share those here for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Email</span><br />
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* 607 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2015.<br />
* 994 billion – Average number of email messages per day.<br />
* 1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.<br />
* 480 million – New email users since the year before.<br />
* 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.<br />
* 262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).<br />
* 2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.<br />
* 25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Websites</span><br />
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* 855 million – The number of websites as of December 2015.<br />
* 81.4 million – Added websites in 2015.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Servers</span><br />
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* 39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.<br />
* 15.3% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.<br />
* 4.1% – Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.<br />
* 5.8% – Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.<br />
* 55.7% – Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Domain Names</span><br />
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* 88.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2010.<br />
* 13.2 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2010.<br />
* 8.6 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2010.<br />
* 79.2 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).<br />
* 202 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2010).<br />
* 7% – The increase in domain names since the year before.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet Users</span><br />
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* 1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).<br />
* 14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.<br />
* 825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.<br />
* 475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.<br />
* 266.2 million – Internet users in North America.<br />
* 204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.<br />
* 110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.<br />
* 63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.<br />
* 21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Social Media</span><br />
* 152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).<br />
* 25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010<br />
* 100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010<br />
* 175 million – People on Twitter as of September 2010<br />
* 7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).<br />
* 600 million – People on Facebook at the end of 2010.<br />
* 250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.<br />
* 30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.<br />
* 70% – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.<br />
* 20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Browsers</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Videos</span><br />
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* 2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.<br />
* 35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.<br />
* 186 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).<br />
* 84% – Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA).<br />
* 14% – Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).<br />
* 2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.<br />
* 20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Images</span><br />
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* 5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).<br />
* 3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.<br />
* 130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.<br />
* 3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.<br />
* 36 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Data sources and notes: Spam percentage from MessageLabs (PDF). Email user numbers and counts from Radicati Group (the number of sent emails was their prediction for 2010, so it’s very much an estimate). Website numbers from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and Webhosting.info. Internet user numbers and distribution from Internet World Stats. Facebook stats from Facebook and Business Insider. Twitter stats from Twitter (and here), TwitterCounter and TechCrunch. Web browser stats from StatCounter. YouTube video numbers from Google. Facebook video numbers from GigaOM. US online video stats from Comscore and the Pew Research Center. Flickr image numbers from Flickr.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-58216623953204115082015-02-01T07:15:00.002-08:002015-02-01T07:15:55.089-08:00SEO strategy for every website<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">
<span class="mw-headline" id="As_a_marketing_strategy">As a marketing strategy</span></h2>
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SEO is not an appropriate strategy for every website, and other Internet marketing strategies can be more effective like paid advertising through pay per click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_click" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pay per click">(PPC)</a> campaigns, depending on the site operator's goals.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-48" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[48]</a></sup> A successful Internet marketing campaign may also depend upon building high quality web pages to engage and persuade, setting up<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Web analytics">analytics</a> programs to enable site owners to measure results, and improving a site's <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_rate" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Conversion rate">conversion rate</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-49" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[49]</a></sup></div>
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SEO may generate an adequate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_on_investment" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Return on investment">return on investment</a>. However, search engines are not paid for organic search traffic, their algorithms change, and there are no guarantees of continued referrals. Due to this lack of guarantees and certainty, a business that relies heavily on search engine traffic can suffer major losses if the search engines stop sending visitors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-50" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[50]</a></sup> Search engines can change their algorithms, impacting a website's placement, possibly resulting in a serious loss of traffic. According to Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, in 2010, Google made over 500 algorithm changes – almost 1.5 per day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-51" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[51]</a></sup> It is considered wise business practice for website operators to liberate themselves from dependence on search engine traffic.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-52" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[52]</a></sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="International_markets">International markets</span></h2>
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Optimization techniques are highly tuned to the dominant search engines in the target market. The search engines' market shares vary from market to market, as does competition. In 2003, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Sullivan_(technologist)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Danny Sullivan (technologist)">Danny Sullivan</a> stated that Google represented about 75% of all searches.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-53" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[53]</a></sup> In markets outside the United States, Google's share is often larger, and Google remains the dominant search engine worldwide as of 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-54" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[54]</a></sup> As of 2006, Google had an 85–90% market share in Germany.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grehan-1_55-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-grehan-1-55" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[55]</a></sup> While there were hundreds of SEO firms in the US at that time, there were only about five in Germany.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grehan-1_55-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-grehan-1-55" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[55]</a></sup> As of June 2008, the marketshare of Google in the UK was close to 90% according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitwise" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hitwise">Hitwise</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-56" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[56]</a></sup> That market share is achieved in a number of countries.</div>
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As of 2009, there are only a few large markets where Google is not the leading search engine. In most cases, when Google is not leading in a given market, it is lagging behind a local player. The most notable example markets are China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the Czech Republic where respectively <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Baidu">Baidu</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Japan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Yahoo! Japan">Yahoo! Japan</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Naver">Naver</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Yandex">Yandex</a> and<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Seznam">Seznam</a> are market leaders.</div>
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Successful search optimization for international markets may require professional <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_translation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Language translation">translation</a> of web pages, registration of a domain name with a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_level_domain" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Top level domain">top level domain</a> in the target market, and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_hosting" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Web hosting">web hosting</a> that provides a local <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IP address">IP address</a>. Otherwise, the fundamental elements of search optimization are essentially the same, regardless of language.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grehan-1_55-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-grehan-1-55" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[55]</a></sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Legal_precedents">Legal precedents</span></h2>
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On October 17, 2002, SearchKing filed suit in the United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma, against the search engine Google. SearchKing's claim was that Google's tactics to prevent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Spamdexing">spamdexing</a> constituted a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tortious interference">tortious interference</a> with contractual relations. On May 27, 2003, the court granted Google's motion to dismiss the complaint because SearchKing "failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-57" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[57]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-58" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[58]</a></sup></div>
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In March 2006, KinderStart filed a lawsuit against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google">Google</a> over search engine rankings. Kinderstart's website was removed from Google's index prior to the lawsuit and the amount of traffic to the site dropped by 70%. On March 16, 2007 the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_California" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United States District Court for the Northern District of California">United States District Court for the Northern District of California</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> Division) dismissed KinderStart's complaint without leave to amend, and partially granted Google's motion for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Rules_of_Civil_Procedure#Chapter_III_-_Pleadings_and_Motions" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Federal Rules of Civil Procedure">Rule 11</a> sanctions against KinderStart's attorney, requiring him to pay part of Google's legal expenses.</div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="White_hat_versus_black_hat_techniques">White hat versus black hat techniques</span></h2>
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SEO techniques can be classified into two broad categories: techniques that search engines recommend as part of good design, and those techniques of which search engines do not approve. The search engines attempt to minimize the effect of the latter, among them <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Spamdexing">spamdexing</a>. Industry commentators have classified these methods, and the practitioners who employ them, as either <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="White hat (computer security)">white hat</a> SEO, or <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hat_hacking" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black hat hacking">black hat</a> SEO.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-42" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[42]</a></sup> White hats tend to produce results that last a long time, whereas black hats anticipate that their sites may eventually be banned either temporarily or permanently once the search engines discover what they are doing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-43" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[43]</a></sup></div>
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An SEO technique is considered white hat if it conforms to the search engines' guidelines and involves no deception. As the search engine guidelines<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-g-wmguide_31-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-g-wmguide-31" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[31]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ms-wmguide_32-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-ms-wmguide-32" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[32]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-44" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[44]</a></sup> are not written as a series of rules or commandments, this is an important distinction to note. White hat SEO is not just about following guidelines, but is about ensuring that the content a search engine indexes and subsequently ranks is the same content a user will see. White hat advice is generally summed up as creating content for users, not for search engines, and then making that content easily accessible to the spiders, rather than attempting to trick the algorithm from its intended purpose. White hat SEO is in many ways similar to web development that promotes accessibility,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-45" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[45]</a></sup> although the two are not identical.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Spamdexing">Black hat SEO</a> attempts to improve rankings in ways that are disapproved of by the search engines, or involve deception. One black hat technique uses text that is hidden, either as text colored similar to the background, in an invisible <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Span_and_div" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Span and div">div</a>, or positioned off screen. Another method gives a different page depending on whether the page is being requested by a human visitor or a search engine, a technique known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cloaking">cloaking</a>.</div>
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Another category sometimes used is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_hat" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Grey hat">grey hat SEO</a>. This is in between black hat and white hat approaches where the methods employed avoid the site being penalised however do not act in producing the best content for users, rather entirely focused on improving search engine rankings.</div>
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Search engines may penalize sites they discover using black hat methods, either by reducing their rankings or eliminating their listings from their databases altogether. Such penalties can be applied either automatically by the search engines' algorithms, or by a manual site review. One example was the February 2006 Google removal of both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="BMW">BMW</a>Germany and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricoh" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ricoh">Ricoh</a> Germany for use of deceptive practices.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-intwebspam_46-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-intwebspam-46" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[46]</a></sup> Both companies, however, quickly apologized, fixed the offending pages, and were restored to Google's list.</div>
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Search engines use complex mathematical algorithms to guess which websites a user seeks. In this diagram, if each bubble represents a web site, programs sometimes called<i>spiders</i> examine which sites link to which other sites, with arrows representing these links. Websites getting more inbound links, or stronger links, are presumed to be more important and what the user is searching for. In this example, since website B is the recipient of numerous inbound links, it ranks more highly in a web search. And the links "carry through", such that website C, even though it only has one inbound link, has an inbound link from a highly popular site (B) while site E does not. Note: percentages are rounded.</div>
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The leading search engines, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google">Google</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bing">Bing</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a>, use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Web crawler">crawlers</a> to find pages for their algorithmic search results. Pages that are linked from other search engine indexed pages do not need to be submitted because they are found automatically. Two major directories, the Yahoo Directory and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="DMOZ">DMOZ</a> both require manual submission and human editorial review.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-34" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[34]</a></sup> Google offers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Webmaster_Tools" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google Webmaster Tools">Google Webmaster Tools</a>, for which an XML <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemap" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sitemap">Sitemap</a> feed can be created and submitted for free to ensure that all pages are found, especially pages that are not discoverable by automatically following links.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-35" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[35]</a></sup> Yahoo! formerly operated a paid submission service that guaranteed crawling for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_click" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pay per click">cost per click</a>;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-36" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[36]</a></sup>this was discontinued in 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-37" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[37]</a></sup></div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Web search engine">Search engine</a> crawlers may look at a number of different factors when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Web crawler">crawling</a> a site. Not every page is indexed by the search engines. Distance of pages from the root directory of a site may also be a factor in whether or not pages get crawled.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cho_38-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-cho-38" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[38]</a></sup></div>
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Main article: <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_Exclusion_Standard" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Robots Exclusion Standard">Robots Exclusion Standard</a></div>
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To avoid undesirable content in the search indexes, webmasters can instruct spiders not to crawl certain files or directories through the standard <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Robots.txt">robots.txt</a> file in the root directory of the domain. Additionally, a page can be explicitly excluded from a search engine's database by using a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_tag" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Meta tag">meta tag</a> specific to robots. When a search engine visits a site, the robots.txt located in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_directory" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Root directory">root directory</a> is the first file crawled. The robots.txt file is then parsed, and will instruct the robot as to which pages are not to be crawled. As a search engine crawler may keep a cached copy of this file, it may on occasion crawl pages a webmaster does not wish crawled. Pages typically prevented from being crawled include login specific pages such as shopping carts and user-specific content such as search results from internal searches. In March 2007, Google warned webmasters that they should prevent indexing of internal search results because those pages are considered search spam.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-39" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[39]</a></sup></div>
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A variety of methods can increase the prominence of a webpage within the search results. <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_website_linking" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Methods of website linking">Cross linking</a> between pages of the same website to provide more links to most important pages may improve its visibility.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Shari_40-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-Shari-40" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[40]</a></sup> Writing content that includes frequently searched keyword phrase, so as to be relevant to a wide variety of search queries will tend to increase traffic.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Shari_40-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-Shari-40" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[40]</a></sup> Updating content so as to keep search engines crawling back frequently can give additional weight to a site. Adding relevant keywords to a web page's meta data, including the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEAD_tag" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="HEAD tag">title tag and meta description</a>, will tend to improve the relevancy of a site's search listings, thus increasing traffic. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_normalization" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="URL normalization">URL normalization</a> of web pages accessible via multiple urls, using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Canonical link element">canonical link element</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-41" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[41]</a></sup> or via <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/301_redirect" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="301 redirect">301 redirects</a> can help make sure links to different versions of the url all count towards the page's link popularity score.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-36871182568333425462015-02-01T07:12:00.000-08:002015-02-01T07:12:24.720-08:00Seo Method<h2>
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By 1997, search engine designers recognized that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmaster" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Webmaster">webmasters</a> were making efforts to rank well in their search engines, and that some webmasters were even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Spamdexing">manipulating their rankings</a> in search results by stuffing pages with excessive or irrelevant keywords. Early search engines, such as <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altavista" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Altavista">Altavista</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoseek" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Infoseek">Infoseek</a>, adjusted their algorithms in an effort to prevent webmasters from manipulating rankings.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-infoseeknyt_26-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-infoseeknyt-26" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[26]</a></sup></div>
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In 2005, an annual conference, AIRWeb, Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web was created to bring together practitioners and researchers concerned with search engine optimisation and related topics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-airweb_27-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-airweb-27" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[27]</a></sup></div>
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Companies that employ overly aggressive techniques can get their client websites banned from the search results. In 2005, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a> reported on a company,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Power" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Traffic Power">Traffic Power</a>, which allegedly used high-risk techniques and failed to disclose those risks to its clients.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-28" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[28]</a></sup> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Magazine" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wired Magazine">Wired</a> magazine reported that the same company sued blogger and SEO Aaron Wall for writing about the ban.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wired09082005_29-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-wired09082005-29" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[29]</a></sup> Google's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Cutts">Matt Cutts</a> later confirmed that Google did in fact ban Traffic Power and some of its clients.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-30" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[30]</a></sup></div>
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Some search engines have also reached out to the SEO industry, and are frequent sponsors and guests at SEO conferences, chats, and seminars. Major search engines provide information and guidelines to help with site optimization.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-g-wmguide_31-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-g-wmguide-31" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[31]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ms-wmguide_32-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-ms-wmguide-32" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[32]</a></sup> Google has a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sitemaps">Sitemaps</a> program to help webmasters learn if Google is having any problems indexing their website and also provides data on Google traffic to the website.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-googlesitemaps_33-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-googlesitemaps-33" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[33]</a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Webmaster_Center" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bing Webmaster Center">Bing Webmaster Tools</a> provides a way for webmasters to submit a sitemap and web feeds, allows users to determine the crawl rate, and track the web pages index status.</div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmaster" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Webmaster">Webmasters</a> and content providers began optimizing sites for search engines in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World Wide Web">Web</a>. Initially, all webmasters needed to do was to submit the address of a page, or <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</a>, to the various engines which would send a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Web crawler">spider</a>" to "crawl" that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(search_engine)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Index (search engine)">indexed</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup> The process involves a search engine spider downloading a page and storing it on the search engine's own server, where a second program, known as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_indexing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Search engine indexing">indexer</a>, extracts various information about the page, such as the words it contains and where these are located, as well as any weight for specific words, and all links the page contains, which are then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date.</div>
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Site owners started to recognize the value of having their sites highly ranked and visible in search engine results, creating an opportunity for both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="White hat (computer security)">white hat</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hat_hacking" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black hat hacking">black hat</a> SEO practitioners. According to industry analyst <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Sullivan_(technologist)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Danny Sullivan (technologist)">Danny Sullivan</a>, the phrase "search engine optimization" probably came into use in 1997.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> On May 2, 2007,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> Jason Gambert attempted to trademark the term SEO by convincing the Trademark Office in Arizona<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> that SEO is a "process" involving manipulation of keywords, and not a "marketing service." The reviewing attorney basically bought his incoherent argument that while "SEO" can't be trademarked when it refers to a generic process of manipulated keywords, it can be a service mark for providing "marketing services...in the field of computers."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup></div>
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Early versions of search <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Algorithm">algorithms</a> relied on webmaster-provided information such as the keyword <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_tag" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Meta tag">meta tag</a>, or index files in engines like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliweb" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Aliweb">ALIWEB</a>. Meta tags provide a guide to each page's content. Using meta data to index pages was found to be less than reliable, however, because the webmaster's choice of keywords in the meta tag could potentially be an inaccurate representation of the site's actual content. Inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent data in meta tags could and did cause pages to rank for irrelevant searches.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disputed_statement" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wikipedia:Disputed statement"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (October 2012)">dubious</span></a> <span class="metadata">– <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Search_engine_optimization#Dubious" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Talk:Search engine optimization">discuss</a></span></i>]</sup> Web content providers also manipulated a number of attributes within the HTML source of a page in an attempt to rank well in search engines.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup></div>
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By relying so much on factors such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_density" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Keyword density">keyword density</a> which were exclusively within a webmaster's control, early search engines suffered from abuse and ranking manipulation. To provide better results to their users, search engines had to adapt to ensure their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_results_page" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Search engine results page">results pages</a> showed the most relevant search results, rather than unrelated pages stuffed with numerous keywords by unscrupulous webmasters. Since the success and popularity of a search engine is determined by its ability to produce the most relevant results to any given search, poor quality or irrelevant search results could lead users to find other search sources. Search engines responded by developing more complex ranking algorithms, taking into account additional factors that were more difficult for webmasters to manipulate. Graduate students at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Larry Page">Larry Page</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sergey Brin">Sergey Brin</a>, developed "Backrub," a search engine that relied on a mathematical algorithm to rate the prominence of web pages. The number calculated by the algorithm, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="PageRank">PageRank</a>, is a function of the quantity and strength of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbound_link" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Inbound link">inbound links</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lgscalehyptxt_9-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-lgscalehyptxt-9" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup> PageRank estimates the likelihood that a given page will be reached by a web user who randomly surfs the web, and follows links from one page to another. In effect, this means that some links are stronger than others, as a higher PageRank page is more likely to be reached by the random surfer.</div>
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Page and Brin founded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google">Google</a> in 1998.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup> Google attracted a loyal following among the growing number of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Internet">Internet</a> users, who liked its simple design.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc-1_11-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-bbc-1-11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup> Off-page factors (such as PageRank and hyperlink analysis) were considered as well as on-page factors (such as keyword frequency, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_tags" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Meta tags">meta tags</a>, headings, links and site structure) to enable Google to avoid the kind of manipulation seen in search engines that only considered on-page factors for their rankings. Although PageRank was more difficult to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_the_system" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gaming the system">game</a>, webmasters had already developed link building tools and schemes to influence the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi_(company)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Inktomi (company)">Inktomi</a> search engine, and these methods proved similarly applicable to gaming PageRank. Many sites focused on exchanging, buying, and selling links, often on a massive scale. Some of these schemes, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Link farm">link farms</a>, involved the creation of thousands of sites for the sole purpose of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Spamdexing">link spamming</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-12" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup></div>
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By 2004, search engines had incorporated a wide range of undisclosed factors in their ranking algorithms to reduce the impact of link manipulation. In June 2007, <i>The New York Times'</i> Saul Hansell stated Google ranks sites using more than 200 different signals.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nyt0607_13-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-nyt0607-13" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup> The leading search engines, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google">Google</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bing">Bing</a>, and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Yahoo">Yahoo</a>, do not disclose the algorithms they use to rank pages. Some SEO practitioners have studied different approaches to search engine optimization, and have shared their personal opinions<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-14" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup> Patents related to search engines can provide information to better understand search engines.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-15" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a></sup></div>
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In 2005, Google began personalizing search results for each user. Depending on their history of previous searches, Google crafted results for logged in users.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-16" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a></sup> In 2008, Bruce Clay said that "ranking is dead" because of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_search" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Personalized search">personalized search</a>. He opined that it would become meaningless to discuss how a website ranked, because its rank would potentially be different for each user and each search.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-17" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[17]</a></sup></div>
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In 2007, Google announced a campaign against paid links that transfer PageRank.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-18" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[18]</a></sup> On June 15, 2009, Google disclosed that they had taken measures to mitigate the effects of PageRank sculpting by use of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Nofollow">nofollow</a> attribute on links. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Cutts">Matt Cutts</a>, a well-known software engineer at Google, announced that Google Bot would no longer treat nofollowed links in the same way, in order to prevent SEO service providers from using nofollow for PageRank sculpting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-19" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[19]</a></sup> As a result of this change the usage of nofollow leads to evaporation of pagerank. In order to avoid the above, SEO engineers developed alternative techniques that replace nofollowed tags with obfuscated <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Javascript">Javascript</a> and thus permit PageRank sculpting. Additionally several solutions have been suggested that include the usage of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iframe" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Iframe">iframes</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_animation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Flash animation">Flash</a> and Javascript.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-20" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[20]</a></sup></div>
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In December 2009, Google announced it would be using the web search history of all its users in order to populate search results.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-21" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[21]</a></sup></div>
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On June 8, 2010 a new web indexing system called <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Caffeine" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google Caffeine">Google Caffeine</a> was announced. Designed to allow users to find news results, forum posts and other content much sooner after publishing than before, Google caffeine was a change to the way Google updated its index in order to make things show up quicker on Google than before. According to Carrie Grimes, the software engineer who announced Caffeine for Google, "Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index..."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-22" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[22]</a></sup></div>
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<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Instant" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google Instant">Google Instant</a>, real-time-search, was introduced in late 2010 in an attempt to make search results more timely and relevant. Historically site administrators have spent months or even years optimizing a website to increase search rankings. With the growth in popularity of social media sites and blogs the leading engines made changes to their algorithms to allow fresh content to rank quickly within the search results.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-23" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[23]</a></sup></div>
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In February 2011, Google announced the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google Panda">Panda</a> update, which penalizes websites containing content duplicated from other websites and sources. Historically websites have copied content from one another and benefited in search engine rankings by engaging in this practice, however Google implemented a new system which punishes sites whose content is not unique.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-24" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[24]</a></sup></div>
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In April 2012, Google launched the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Penguin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google Penguin">Google Penguin</a> update the goal of which was to penalize websites that used manipulative techniques to improve their rankings on the search engine.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-25" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[25]</a></sup></div>
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In September 2013, Google released the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hummingbird" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Google Hummingbird">Google Hummingbird</a> update, an algorithm change designed to improve Google's natural language processing and semantic understanding of web pages.</div>
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<b>Search engine optimization</b> (<b>SEO</b>) is the process of affecting the visibility of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Website">website</a> or a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Web page">web page</a> in a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Search engine">search engine</a>'s "natural" or un-paid ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_search" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Organic search">organic</a>") <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_results_page" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Search engine results page">search results</a>. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_search" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Image search">image search</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_search_(Internet)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Local search (Internet)">local search</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_search" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Video search">video search</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_databases_and_search_engines" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Academic databases and search engines">academic search</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-aseo_1-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#cite_note-aseo-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup> news search and industry-specific <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_search" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vertical search">vertical search</a>engines.</div>
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As an <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_marketing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Internet marketing">Internet marketing</a> strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="HTML">HTML</a> and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Web crawler">indexing activities</a> of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlinks" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Backlinks">backlinks</a>, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The plural of the abbreviation SEO can also refer to "search engine optimizers", those who provide SEO services.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-65899445339776050472015-02-01T07:05:00.002-08:002015-02-01T07:05:53.425-08:00What is Search Engine Results Page (SERP)?<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Short for </span><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">s</strong>earch <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">e</strong>ngine <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">r</strong>esults <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">p</strong>age</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">, the Web page that a </span><a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/search_engine.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">search engine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> returns with the results of its search. The major search engines typically display three kinds of listings on their SERPs. Listings that have been indexed by the search engine's </span><a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/spider.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">spider</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">, listings that have been indexed into the search engine's directory by a human, and listings that are paid to be listed by the search engine.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-72425219089247518952015-02-01T07:05:00.000-08:002015-02-01T07:05:07.074-08:00What is SEO Services? <h1 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 34px; margin: 15px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">
SEO services (SEO Service Provider)</h1>
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An SEO service provider utilizes the practice of <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/seo.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">search engine optimization</a> to increase the amount of visitors to a <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/web_site.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Web site</a> by obtaining high-ranking placements in the search results page of<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/search_engine.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">search engines</a> (<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SERP.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SERP</a>). Typically, a business will hire a service provider to improve its organic Google search result listings.</div>
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SEO services help to ensure that a site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that the site will be found and ranked highly by the search engine. SEO service providers offer a wide range of packages and options for search engine optimization, ranging from one-time fees for smaller sites to monthly subscriptions for ongoing SEO efforts and support.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-19353010621577874532015-02-01T07:04:00.000-08:002015-02-01T07:04:04.779-08:00What is Black Hat SEO?<h1 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 34px; margin: 15px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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In search engine optimization (<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SEO.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SEO</a>) terminology, black hat SEO refers to the use of aggressive SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey search engines guidelines.</div>
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Some examples of black hat SEO techniques include <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/K/keyword_stuffing.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">keyword stuffing</a>, invisible text, <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/doorway.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">doorway</a> pages, adding unrelated keywords to the page content or page swapping (changing the webpage entirely after it has been ranked by search engines).</div>
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Black hat SEO is more frequently used by those who are looking for a quick financial return on their <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/web_site.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Web site</a>, rather than a long-term investment on their Web site. Black hat SEO can possibly result in your Web site being banned from a <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/search_engine.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">search engine</a>, however since the focus is usually on quick high return business models, most experts who use Black Hat SEO tactics consider being banned from search engines a somewhat irrelevant risk</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-38321431930065750832015-02-01T07:02:00.001-08:002015-02-01T07:02:55.667-08:00white hat SEO (search engine optimization)<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
In search engine optimization (<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SEO.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SEO</a>) terminology, white hat SEO refers to the usage of optimization strategies, techniques and tactics that focus on a human audience opposed to search engines and completely follows <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/search_engine.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">search engine</a> rules and policies.</div>
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For example, a <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/web_site.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">website</a> that is optimized for search engines, yet focuses on relevancy and organic ranking is considered to be optimized using White Hat SEO practices. Some examples of White Hat SEO techniques include using <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/K/keyword.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">keywords</a> and keyword analysis, <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/backlink.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">backlinking</a>, <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/link_building.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">link building</a> to improve <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/link_popularity.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">link popularity</a>, and writing content for human readers.</div>
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White Hat SEO is more frequently used by those who intend to make a long-term investment on their website. Also called <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethical SEO</em>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-41379004702545861902015-02-01T07:01:00.002-08:002015-02-01T07:01:58.618-08:00What is Organic SEO?<h1 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 34px; margin: 15px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Organic SEO</h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Organic SEO (</span><a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SEO.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">search engine optimization</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">) is the phrase used to describe processes to obtain a natural placement on organic search engine results pages (</span><a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SERP.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SERPs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">).</span></div>
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Some examples of techniques used for organic SEO include using<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/keyword.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">keywords</a> and keyword analysis, <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/backlink.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">backlinking</a>, <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/link_building.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">link building</a> to improve <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/link_popularity.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">link popularity</a>, and writing content relevant for human readers.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-35538625798086948612015-02-01T07:00:00.002-08:002015-02-01T07:00:46.169-08:00Marketing Blogs: TopRank’s BIGLIST of Internet Marketing Blogs<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
<strong>Welcome to the BIGLIST of Marketing blogs!</strong></div>
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Below is a collection of SEO, Content, Social Media and Online Marketing related blogs assembled by the staff at <a href="http://www.toprankmarketing.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="TopRank search engine optimization">TopRank Online Marketing</a>. This excellent list includes blogs that cover a range of internet marketing topics ranging from SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC (pay per click) to blog marketing, marketing with social media, content marketing and online public relations.</div>
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If you’re listed, you can add a <a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/badges/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;">Big List badge</a> to your site.</div>
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Check out the @BIGLIST of SEO Blogs! http://tprk.us/seoblogs</div>
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You can’t. We’re not adding any new blogs at this time. When we were adding new blogs, we’d find most reading blogrolls of other BIGLIST inductees or SEM social news sites. Rarely do we add a blog based on a direct request. Two fundamental requirements: Blogs must cover search marketing and must post 4-5 times per month at a bare minimum. Other considerations include, blog design, usability, writing style and quality.</div>
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No one has ever asked how to get off this list, in fact, many have gone out of their way to get ON the list. However, we do drop anywhere from 70-100 blogs off the list every quarter due to a variety of reasons ranging from infrequent blog postings, off topic postings, site not longer working or on occasion, sites that get bought and turned into splogs.</div>
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Our goal is to provide a useful and accurate list of actively SEO. Managing such a large list over time means we may not catch every change. Common changes include moving from a third party hosting service to a domain name or sub-domain address, writer changes and topics covered. If you have changes that need to be made in your BIGLIST entry, then contact TopRank using the <a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/contact/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;">web form</a>.</div>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">About: Web Search</a> – Wendy Boswell covers the search engines for About.com.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.joedolson.com/articles/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Accessible Web Design</a> – Minnesota based Joe Dolson on accessibiliy.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.adamsherk.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Adam Sherk Blog</a> – Adam Sherk works as a Search/PR Strategist for Define Search Strategies, part of The New York Times Company and writes about the publishing industry, enterprise SEO and social media.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.aimclearblog.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AimClear Search Marketing Blog</a> – Another Minnesota based blogger makes the list with Marty Weintraub blogging about paid search marketing and organic SEO with the purpose of demystifying common topics that come up in his interactions with clients.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Apple Pie & Custard Blog</a>– Originally added to BIGLIST 2 years ago, this blog is written mostly by Kelvin Newman, John McElborough and someone named “Jennie” from Site Visibility about SEM, social media and PPC topics.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.ask-kalena.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ask Kalena </a>– Kalena Jordan offers search engine tips and advice.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.audettemedia.com/blog" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Audette Media Blog</a> – Adam Audette has a new blog for his internet marketing consulting business and while it’s a new blog, we’re adding it to the BIGLIST because if it evolves into anything like what Adam does on LED Digest, it’s sure to be a hit. Check out the link building primer.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.beanstalk-inc.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Beanstalk SEO Blog</a> – Dave Davies blogs about news in the search engine and online marketing industry.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.beingpeterkim.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Being Peter Kim</a> – Previously with Forrester Research, Peter Kim now works with an Austin based strategic consulting practice that is developing an enterprise class Social Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) suite. He continues to blog about social computing, social media marketing and insights of high value to internet marketers and business leaders.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.beyondthepaid.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Beyond the Paid</a> – Melissa Mackey who is a Search Marketing Director for MagazineLine and recent winner of a free pass to Search Marketing Expo blogs about search engine marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.billhartzer.com/#categories" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bill Hartzer</a> – Bill has redone his site and blogs about a wide variety of topics ranging from the search marketing industry to linking to monetizing web site content.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://biznology.com/category/monthly_newsletter/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Biznology </a>- Former IBM Distinguished Engineer Mike Moran’s blog on search and digital marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Blizzard Internet Marketing</a> – Group blog and newsletter from the team at Blizzard Internet Marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BlogStorm</a> – Popular UK blogger Patrick Altoft offers an abundance of tips on internet marketing and SEO.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bruce Clay Blog</a> – Virginia Nussey performs her blog magic covering the search marketing industry.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.bryaneisenberg.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bryan & Jeffrey Eisenberg</a> – Best selling author of multiple books, Bryan Eisenberg begged me for months to add his new blog to the BIGLIST. I challenged Bryan to write another best selling book, start a new company, become a keynote speaker at several popular industry conferences and lose at least 30 pounds. (Hey, we set the bar high for the BIGLIST). Of course, I’m kidding about the challenge (and the begging). Bryan has accomplished all of those things and much more while writing an excellent blog on conversion optimization and internet marketing strategy with his brother Jeffrey, who is also a best selling author, keynote speaker and online marketing strategist for major brands.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://builtvisible.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">builtvisible blog</a> – Formerly SEOGadget, this is Richard Baxter’s renamed blog about topics mostly related to SEO.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.canuckseo.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CanuckSEO</a> – Long time internet marketing veteran Jim Rudnick writes with passion and flair about “Canadian SEO for Google Success!” as well as small business, local SEM and plenty of flavorful opinion posts on a variety of search marketing industry topics. Go for the tips, stay for the story telling and enthusiasm.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.capturetheconversation.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Capture the Conversation</a> – Internet Marketing Methodologies from Room 214, Inc co-founders James Clark & Jason Cormier.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://rainblog.clickrain.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ClickRain Blog</a> – Based in Sioux Falls, Paul Ten Haken blogs about his agency, online marketing tips/how to’s and personal observations. There isn’t a slant towards SEO tactics dujour or limited to agency chest beating, you get a mix of everything which is good for an agency blog.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://clickz.com/experts" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ClickZ Marketing News</a> – The newly designed ClickZ web site continues to offer first class coverage of the search and interactive marketing industry as well as insight from leading industry experts.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.compete.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Compete Blog</a> – Online trends and insightful findings from the team at Compete.com.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.comscore.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">comScore Networks</a> – Feed for comScore press releases.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.contentmarketinginstitute.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Content Marketing Institute</a> – The mac daddy resource for content marketing plus all that goes with it from social media to SEO and beyond – Joe Pulizzi, Michele Linn and team help make the content marketing world go ’round.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.conversationmarketing.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Conversation Marketing</a> – Long time internet marketer Ian Lurie pulls together search, design, development and more with this compliment blog to the free online book, Conversation Marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Copyblogger</a> – Brian Clark’s most excellent blog on copywriting and marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://cornwallseo.com/search/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cornwall SEO blog</a> – Lyndon Antcliff’s SEO & social media blog.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.cruc.es/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cruces</a> – Michael Myers, COO of FreshCurrent, blogs smart about social media and marketing online.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Daily Blog Tips</a> – As it’s name implies, this blog with a huge number of subscribers is about blogging but also has a robust category for SEO and internet marketing related topics.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/blog/index.php" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">David Naylor</a> – DaveN, a favorite UK based search marketer who isn’t afraid of wearing a black hat from time to time.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/blogs/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DigiTales Blog</a> – Microsoft’s UK man in the know, Mel Carson blogs for BrandRepublic on all things related to digital marketing. Unfortunately, Brand Republic has decided you must login to see the full posts.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Distilled Blog</a>-Will Critchlow and the team at Distilled, a London based SEO/PPC agency write this blog on search and online reputation management issues along with geo location, mobile and web design topics.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dream Systems Media Blog</a> – Mat Siltala, David Mink and Andrew Melchior “blog” in the true sense of the word, about their experiences as an internet marketing agency as well as a range of web marketing topics and tips ranging from SEO to social media marketing.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.groovecommerce.com/ecommerce-blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">eCommerce Blog</a> – Ethan from Baltimore based Groove eCommerce posts on this newer blog about industry and company news followed by topics ranging from SEO to analytics.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.emarketingperformance.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">E-Marketing Performance</a> – Stoney deGeyter and the team from Pole Position Marketing offer up search marketing information to render your competition powerless.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.epiphanysolutions.co.uk/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Epiphany Digital Marketing Blog</a> – This UK agency offers a mix of internet marketing posts from agency staffers on search, social and industry topics. Many of the posts go into detail about insights, testing and general observations from solving digital marketing problems.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fathom SEO Blog</a> – SEO news, trends & analysis from Mike Murray and the team at Fathom SEO.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.takeflyte.com/blog" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Flyte Blog</a> – Rich Brooks writes about web marketing for small business.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/marketing/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing</a> – Excellent group blog from Forrester on various aspects of interactive marketing from B2B social media to search marketing to research and industry news.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.freshegg.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fresh Egg Blog</a> – This cleverly designed agency blog is written by a team of contributors primarily about SEO, Social Media and Web Design.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.getelastic.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog</a> – The team at Vancouver BC based Elastic Path, an ecommerce platform, blog all angles of conducting tansactional business online ranging from general marketing to usability to social media. There’s are also a series of podcasts from last summer worth checking out.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Code Blog</a> – Google API’s and more.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Operating System</a> – Ionut Alex Chitu offers uUnofficial news and tips about Google.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Webmaster Central blog</a> – Posts from the Google Webmaster Central team.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://greatfinds.icrossing.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Great Finds</a> – iCrossing company blog about marketing online.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.hallaminternet.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hallam Internet Marketing Blog</a>This blog out of Knottingham is a mix of posts about industry news & observations, training programs offered by Susan Hallam and aggregated Tweets. Making all of one’s tweets for the day into a blog post is automatic and therefore easy for the blogger to create an entry, but the real question is whether it offers useful info to blog readers? In this case I think sometimes yes and sometimes no.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hitwise Intelligence</a> – The HitWise team posts tasty insights about search trends.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.hubspot.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hubspot Marketing Blog</a> – <span class="entry-title entry-content">The team at HubSpot writes about internet marketing and online lead generation for small business.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/category/blog" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ignite Social Media</a> – Ignite is a social media consultancy with the company web site running as a blog. Topics logically emphasize social media with some optimization flavorings. More information on the post authors and a fix to the 404 on the job openings page would be nice.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.industrialsearchenginemarketing.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Industrial Search Engine Marketing Blog</a> – Minnesota based Ecreativeworks blogs about search engine marketing from a B2B, industrial and manufacturing perspective.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://adsense.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Inside AdSense</a> – Official blog for Google AdSense.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://adwords.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Inside AdWords</a> – Official blog for Google AdWords.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.marketersstudio.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Inside the Marketers Studio</a> – David Berkowitz’s blog on internet marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.chrisg.org/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Internet Marketing Blog</a> – Chris Garrett of Performancing fame.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.websearchguide.ca/netblog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Internet News</a> – A general internet marketing and search news blog by Gwen Harris.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.jmorganmarketing.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jacob Morgan</a> – A nice mix of social, viral, SEO and marketing strategy from the founder of the SF Search Marketing Salon.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://jeffbullas.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jeff Bullas’s Blog</a> – Jeff works as a sales and marketing manager at Infinity Technologies and his self-titled blog flavors towards social media – offering examples, case studies, lists of tips posts and insights from setting aside his traditional marketing roots and current focus on building trust and relationships with customers through social media, permission and inbound marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://battellemedia.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John Battelle’s Searchblog</a> – Famous co-founder of Wired magazine posts about the search engine industry. I just wish he’d write about search marketing once in a while.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.kelseygroup.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kelsey Group Blog</a> – For all things related to local search marketing and online yellow pages, this blog is an excellent resource on industry news and observations from the team at Kelsey Group.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.komarketingassociates.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">KoMarketing Associates SEM Blog</a> – A group/company blog covering SEO, PPC, events, industry news/trends, tips and a lot of personal insight. These folks are clearly involved in, and have an opinion on, what goes on in the industry.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.mannixmarketing.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mannix Marketing Blog</a> – This agency blog focuses mostly on SEO, web design & Internet marketing as well as agency news and involvement with industry events.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.marketingexperimentsblog.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marketing Experiments Blog</a> – Real-time data, insights, answers, and advice from Flint McGlaughlin’s team at MEC</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://marketingland.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marketing Land</a> – A true nod to social media, Danny Sullivan’s search marketing community resource on topics and discussions related to search and online marketing. This Digg style site based on the Pligg platform, allows readers to register and create profiles, submit, comment and vote on stories.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marketing Pilgrim </a>- Andy Beal’s super stupendous blog on search engine industry news. <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="margin: 2px; padding: 2px;" /></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.mpdailyfix.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marketing Profs Daily Fix</a> – With managing editor, Ann Handley, this group blog posts on all things marketing with participants ranging from Eric Ward to Stephan Spencer to BL Ochman.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://sherpablog.marketingsherpa.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;">Marketingsherpa Blog</a> – The famous Marketing Sherpa site publishes this well written & cross referenced blog on a range of internet marketing topics from email to search engine optimization by reporters Natalie Myers, Sean Donahue and Adam T. Sutton.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.marketingvox.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">MarketingVOX</a> – Previously Marketing Wonk, this post I-Search publication founded by Tig Tillinghast.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Matt Cutts</a> – Google’s famous engineer and search spam fighter dispels wisdom, insight and squashes SEO myths.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.mediavisioninteractive.com/blog/index.php" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">MediaVision Blog</a> – This is an agency blog with numerous contributors writing about online marketing and search engine industry news, observations and malarkey.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Microsoft Advertising Community Blogs</a> – This is Microsoft”s official support blog for AdCenter advertisers.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.marketo.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Modern B2B Marketing</a> – Staff from Marketo blogs about a range of BtoB marketing marketing topics.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.morevisibility.com/semblog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">MoreVisibility SEM Blog</a> – The team at MoreVisibility cover industry news & events, online advertising, CPC, analytics and updates on the Search Engines.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.multilingual-search.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Multilingual Search</a> – Andy Atkins Kruger and friends around the world blog about search engines and search marketing news happening outside North America.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://kaushik.net/avinash/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Occam’s Razor</a> – Avinash Kaushik offers quantitative and qualitative insights into online marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Official Google Webmaster Central Blog</a> – Official blog from Google’s Webmasters.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;">Online Marketing Blog</a> – Lee Odden and TopRank team members blog about search marketing, social media as well as interviews, reader polls, SEO blog reviews, marketing tips, guest posts from industry leaders and SEM conference coverage.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://marketing.originalsignal.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Original Signal – Transmitting Marketing</a> – A little bit of everything from Peter van der Noord, Patrick Huisinga, Tako Steinz and Gert Goet.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://seo.originalsignal.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Original Signal Transmitting SEO</a> – 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.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.purevisibility.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Own Page One SEV Blog</a> – Ann Arbor, Michigan based search marketing agency Pure Visibility runs the gamut of search marketing topics on this company blog ranging from PPC to local to SEO and even has a category just for Twitter.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Phil Bradley’s Blog</a> – Internet searching, web design & search engine developments for librarians.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.proactivereport.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Proactive Report</a> – Sally Falkow blogs about online PR and social media</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.problogger.net/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ProBlogger Blog Tips</a> – Darren Rowse helps bloggers add income to their blogs.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.pushon.co.uk/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PushONline Marketing</a> – Great blog from the UK doing the full social media thing: images, videos, MySpace and some nods to Twitter. Not without a dose of good humor, check out the videos, “Number One on the Google”, or even better, “Bitch Got Wide Feed”. Brilliant.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.stonetemple.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ramblings About SEO</a> – I was very suprised to see that Eric Enge’s blog, which covers a wide range of topics related to search engine optimization, was not on our list yet, but that’s fixed now.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Raven SEO Tools Blog</a> – Jon Henshaw and Lee Smith-Bryan of Nashville based Sitening blog mostly about SEO tactics along with the ususal fare of search industry topics and commentary.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read/WriteWeb</a> – Next generation web technology from Richard MacManus.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.receptional.com/blog" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Receptional</a> – The team at UK internet marketing agency Receptional blog the gamut of web marketing topics including affiliate and search marketing, usability, analytics and social media.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://reelseo.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Reel Video SEO and SEM</a> – Need to know about optimizing video for search? This is the place to find tips, tactics and information on all things related to optimizing and marketing video online written by Mark Robertson.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ResourceShelf</a> – Gary Price & Shirl Kennedy’s observations on news in the information & web industry.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.revenews.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ReveNews</a> – Publisher Jim Kukral and friends blog about the affiliate marketing industry covering topics from ecommerce to analytics to blogging.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">RKG Blog</a> – Alan Rimm-Kaufman of the Rimm-Kaufman Group blogs about various online marketing news items and tips along with his own commentary.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.thesearchagents.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Agents</a>-The November winner for the best looking Search Marketing blog. Not only does it offer a clever theme, but content and usability to boot. There are more contributors listed than most SEM agencies have in their employ. Content is balanced between SEO and SEM followed by everybody’s friend, Social Media. The Search Agents is the official corporate blog of The Search Agency, an integrated online marketing firm headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://feeds.searchengineland.com/searchcap" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SearchCap: Daily Search Engine News Recap</a> – Search is completely covered by Danny Sullivan, Barry Schwartz, Chris Sherman and Bill Slawski.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.searchengineguide.com/index.html" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Engine Guide Blog</a> – Group blog about search engine optimization.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Engine Journal</a> – Excellent search engine news site by Loren Baker and friends.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Engine Land</a> – Danny Sullivan group blog about search engines and the search marketing industry.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.free-seo-news.com/index.php" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Engine Optimization Facts</a> – Weekly SEO news from Axandra.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Engine People Blog</a> – Based near Toronto Ontario, the SEP team blog about a wide range of search marketing topics with an emphasis on SEO, social media and opinion.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Engine Roundtable</a> – Barry Schwartz aka RustyBrick and friends cover the search engine forums.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Engine Watch blog</a> – Group blog let by Kevin Newcomb posting news from Search Engine Watch and around the web on search engines and marketing online.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.topix.net/business/search-engines" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Search Engines – Topix.net</a> – Search engine news from all over the net in one place.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://semphonic.blogs.com/semangel/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SemAngel</a> – Gary Angel, President and CTO of Semphonic, writes about all aspects of web analytics for search marketing. This is a great example of a thought leader and subject matter expert blog.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.seobythesea.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SEO by the SEA</a> – William Slawski provides Internet marketing & search engine optimization research & services.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://seo.com/blog" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SEO.com Blog</a> – The team at SEO.com blog definitvely about search engine optimization from some pretty creative angles from “If your SEO skills were a song, what would it be?” to movie references like “Transformers of SEO” and Wall-e. There are also plenty of tips and how to’s.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.seocopywriting.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SEO Copywriting</a> – Let’s celebrate the launch of SEO and wordsmith guru Heather Lloyd-Martin’s snappy new blog about the magic of writing for users and search engines.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SEO Scoop</a> – Donna Fontenot, aka DazzlinDonna, discusses everything seo.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SEO Theory</a> – Michael Martinez focuses on search engine optimization theory.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SEOmoz</a> – News, tips & highlights from the search marketing industry.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Seth’s Blog</a> – Seth Godin’s blog about marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.shoemoney.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Shoemoney</a> – Jeremy Shoemaker’s very popular blog about making money online.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://blog.shop.org/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Shop.org Blog</a> – Group Blog from Shop.org</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SitePoint’s Search Engine Marketing Blog</a> – company blog for SitePoint.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://soshable.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sochable</a> – Another new blog on social media. This one is from James Rucker covering the gamut of Digg, MySpace, YouTube, Reddit, Facebook and more.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.socialmediaclub.org/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Social Media Club</a> – Official blog for Social Media Club written primarily by Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells for the social media community and those seeking to learn more about social media. Promotes sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and media literacy.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://socialmedia.biz/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Social Media Podcast and Blog</a> – JD Lasica blogs about new media, social networks and computing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.stateofdigital.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">State of Digital</a> – What’s going on in the search and social media marketing space? This new blog from Dutch internet marketer, Bas van den Beld of Search Cowboys fame, and friends promises to be a source for what’s happening in the world of search and social. It also compliments a weekly radio show on WebmasterRadio.fm of the same name.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://news.stepforth.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Stepforth SEO News Blog</a> – Since 2003 the Stepforth blog has covered a range of search marketing industry news and sets a great standard for SEM blog writing. Kudos to Ross Dunn for a great job.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.oneupweb.com/blog" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Straightupsearch</a> – OneUpWeb’s company blog for anyone in advertising, marketing and pr.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><img alt="Seperator" height="20" src="http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/uploads/slines/T.png" style="margin: 2px; padding: 2px;" width="549" /></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://searchblog.tamar.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tamar Search Blog</a> – This isn’t the superwoman blogger <a href="http://www.techipedia.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tamar</a> you’re probably thinking of, it’s the Tamar Search Conversion Agency based in London and Capetown with blog topics ranging from search and social media marketing to usability and conversion analytics.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">TechCrunch</a> – Michael Arrington’s popular web 2.0 blog.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Techmeme</a> – Gabe Rivera’s software agent that covers all the news in technology in one location.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.acquisio.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Acquisio Blog</a> – Naoise Osborne writes this “Canadian Flavoured Marketing Soup” blog mostly on PPC but a little Foo makes it interesting.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://thefuturebuzz.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Future Buzz</a> – Adam Singer of TopRank Online Marketing blogs about blogging, social media and internet marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.hmtweb.com/marketing-blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Internet Marketing Driver</a> – Glenn Gabe covers the gamut of internet marketing topics in this blog and makes up for infrequent posting by going deep on a lot of posts with detialed how to’s and insights into tools, SEO and media.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.wpromote.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Search Insider</a> – Not to be confused with MediaPost’s “Search Insider”, this blog from Wpromote’s Mike Mothner provides insight into pay per click and the business of search marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.scottmonty.com/index.html" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Social Media Marketing Blog</a> – Scott Monty’s perspectives on B2B & social media.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://thinktraffic.net/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Think Traffic</a> – This blog by internet entreprenuer Corbett Barr makes some serious promises: “…teach you the techniques, tools and knowledge you need to build real, sustainable web traffic without a big budget.” Sounds pretty good to me. Corbett relates his experiences with past projects and growing an audience for Think Traffic to the benefit of readers. This very new blog offers practical tips and is well designed enough to get our top listing for this week’s review.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.traffick.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Traffick</a> – Andrew Goodman writes one of the oldest blogs on search marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><img alt="Seperator" height="20" src="http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/uploads/slines/U.png" style="margin: 2px; padding: 2px;" width="549" /></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.blumenthals.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search</a> – The title of this blog by Mike Blumenthal says it all.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.unofficialseoblog.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Unofficial SEO Blog</a> – Navneet Kaushal posts news about the SEO industry.</li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vertical Leap Blog</a> – This UK agency blog covers practical search marketing tips, insights specific to UK search engines and industry news. Comments are turned off, which is a disappointment.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.verticalmeasures.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vertical Measures Blog</a> – This Phoenix, AZ agency blog focuses on SEO, link building, agency events and industry observations, Posts are written mostly by Social Media Architect, Kaila Strong.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.vizioninteractive.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">VIZION Blog</a> – Search Engine Watch columnist Mark Jackson and his team at VIZION blog about a wide range of SEO topics, worth subscribing to for sure.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Volusion’s eCommerce Blog</a> – Articles and resources to boost your online business.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><img alt="Seperator" height="20" src="http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/uploads/slines/W.png" style="margin: 2px; padding: 2px;" width="549" /></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Web Analytics World</a> – Manoj Jasra from Enquiro shares his wisdom and observations about analytics and search marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.webinknow.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Web Ink Now</a> – David Meerman Scott helps innovative marketers use digital information effectively.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WebmasterWorld</a> – News and discussions for the Web professional.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.webmetricsguru.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Web Metrics Guru</a> – Marshall Sponder of IBM writes about web analytics and the search marketing industry.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Website Magazine Blog</a> – A group blog from the publishers of Website Magazine which covers the search engine industry as well as general topics related to online marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Web Strategy by Jeremiah</a> – Jeremiah Owyang provides web tools to help connect with customers.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.webuildpages.com/blog/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We Build Pages Blog</a> – As the search marketing industry has evolved, so has We Build Pages with a new blog that includes posts from WBP staff, CEO Jim Boykin and the excellent writing style of Lisa Barone.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.whatsnextblog.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">What’s Next</a> – BL Ochman’s blog about marketing online and life in NYC.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><img alt="Seperator" height="20" src="http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/uploads/slines/Y.png" style="margin: 2px; padding: 2px;" width="549" /></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://yahoosearch.tumblr.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Yahoo! Search blog</a> – Official blog about the Yahoo search engine.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><a href="http://www.ysmblog.com/" style="color: #2966b3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Yahoo! Search Marketing blog</a> – Official blog for Yahoo Search Marketing.</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><img alt="Seperator" src="http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-content/uploads/slines/Z.png" style="margin: 2px; padding: 2px;" title="Seperator" /></li>
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There is no way to get on this list by “submitting” or requesting. I must notice your blog, read it and like it. It’s totally subjective and not an attempt to be a comprehensive resource, but one the we’ve found to be useful at TopRank.</div>
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SEO is short for <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">s</em></strong><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">earch <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">e</strong>ngine <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">o</strong>ptimization or <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">s</strong>earch <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">e</strong>ngine<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">o</strong>ptimizer.</em></div>
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Search engine optimization is a methodology of strategies, techniques and tactics used to increase the amount of visitors to a<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/web_site.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">website</a> by obtaining a high-ranking placement in the search results page of a <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/search_engine.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">search engine</a> (<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SERP.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SERP</a>) -- including Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines.</div>
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SEO helps to ensure that a site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that the site will be found by the search engine.</div>
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It is common practice for <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/Internet.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet</a> users to not click through pages and pages of search results, so where a site ranks in a search is essential for directing more <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/traffic.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">traffic</a> toward the site. The higher a website naturally ranks in<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/organic_seo.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">organic </a>results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user.</div>
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SEO is typically a set of "<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/White_Hat_SEO.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">white hat</a>" best practices that webmasters and Web content producers follow to help them achieve a better ranking in search engine results. Search Engine Land's <a href="http://searchengineland.com/guide/seo" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #cc3300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guide To SEO</a> explains the ranking factors in more depth, in a tutorial providing tips and advice on implementing them.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-60053037162632376082015-02-01T06:57:00.000-08:002015-02-01T06:57:17.774-08:00Top 40 SEO Blogs to Read in 2014<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">
These are the top 40 <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">SEO blogs</span> you should read in 2014. I spent over 10 hours researching, reading, and interviewing people in the SEO industry to narrow down the best SEO blogs. I was actually a little surprised to see that quality SEO blogs are very rare. Much of what I came across was pure crap that contained overly optimized articles that were written for the quantity of content, rather than the quality.</div>
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The top 40 SEO blogs aren’t solely based on my personal opinion. In fact, part of the reason I wrote this post was to find more and better resources. Here are some of the criteria I used when deciding whether or not to include the blog in this top 40 list.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14px;">Popularity (# of subscribers and overall brand recognition)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"># of Twitter followers</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Google Rank (for popular terms like “best SEO blog”, “top SEO blog”, “SEO blog”)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Time since last post</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Quality of posts (case studies, visuals, how to’s)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Average # of article shares (Twitter, FB, Google+)</li>
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The Top 40 SEO Blogs to Read in 2014</h2>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />1. The Moz Blog</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://moz.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://moz.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/moz" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@moz</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">2. Search Engine Land</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://searchengineland.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://searchengineland.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/sengineland" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@sengineland</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">3. QuickSprout</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.quicksprout.com/blog/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.quicksprout.com/blog/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/neilpatel" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@neilpatel</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">4. YouMoz</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://moz.com/ugc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://moz.com/ugc</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/moz" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@moz</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">5. Matt Cutts</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/mattcutts" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@mattcutts</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">6. SEOBOOK</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.seobook.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.seobook.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/seobook" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@seobook</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">7. Rand Fishkin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://moz.com/rand/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://moz.com/rand/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/randfish" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@randfish</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">8. Search Engine Watch</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://searchenginewatch.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/sewatch" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@sewatch</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">9. Search Engine Journal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.searchenginejournal.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/sejournal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@sejournal</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">10. Bruce Clay</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.bruceclay.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.bruceclay.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceClayInc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@BruceClayInc</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">11. SEO by the Sea</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.seobythesea.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.seobythesea.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/bill_slawski" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@bill_slawski</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">12. Search Engine Roundtable</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.seroundtable.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/seroundtable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@seroundtable</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">13. Digital Relevance</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://relevance.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://relevance.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/drelevance" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@drelevance</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">14. Daily SEO Blog</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.dailyseoblog.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.dailyseoblog.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ManiKarthik" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@ManiKarthik</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><span class="gmw_" style="box-sizing: border-box;">15. <span class="gm_ gm_01e724de-5194-9a93-d518-946e45d62674 gm-spell" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Copyblogger</span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.copyblogger.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/copyblogger" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@copyblogger</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">16. David Naylor</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/davenaylor" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@davenaylor</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">17. Daily SEO Tip</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://dailyseotip.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://dailyseotip.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/DailySEO" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@DailySEO</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">18. UpCity</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://upcity.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://upcity.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/upcityinc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@upcityinc</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">19. SEO Theory</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.seo-theory.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.seo-theory.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/seo_theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@seo_theory</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">20. ClickZ</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.clickz.com/category/search/seo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.clickz.com/category/search/seo</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/clickz" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@clickz</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">21. Marketing Pilgrim</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/category/search-marketing" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/category/search-marketing</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarketingPilgrm" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@MarketingPilgrm</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">22. Search Engine Guide</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.searchengineguide.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.searchengineguide.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/sewatch" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@sewatch</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">23. REELSEO</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.reelseo.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.reelseo.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/reelseo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@reelseo</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">24. Higher Visibility</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.highervisibility.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.highervisibility.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/highervis" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@highervis</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">25. Yoast</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://yoast.com/cat/seo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://yoast.com/cat/seo</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/yoast" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@yoast</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">26. John Battelle’s Search Blog</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://battellemedia.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://battellemedia.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/johnbattelle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@johnbattelle</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">27. BacklinkO</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://backlinko.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://backlinko.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Backlinko" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@Backlinko</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">28. OptimizePrime</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://optimizepri.me/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://optimizepri.me</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/OptimizePrime" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@OptimizePrime</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">29. SEOno</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://seono.co.uk/category/seo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://seono.co.uk/category/seo</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/steviephil" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@steviephil</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">30. WordStream</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.wordstream.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.wordstream.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/wordsteam" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@wordsteam</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">31. Zazzle Media</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.zazzlemedia.co.uk/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.zazzlemedia.co.uk/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/zazzlemedia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@zazzlemedia</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><span class="gmw_" style="box-sizing: border-box;">32. <span class="gm_ gm_5e14f3f7-663c-e5d2-e3b4-67cbb6326be5 gm-spell" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Koozai</span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.koozai.com/blog/category/search-marketing" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.koozai.com/blog/category/search-marketing</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/koozai" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@koozai</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">33. SEO Nick</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.seonick.net/seo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.seonick.net/seo</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/nick_eubanks" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@nick_eubanks</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">34. Kaiser the Sage</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://kaiserthesage.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://kaiserthesage.com</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kaiserthesage" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@kaiserthesage</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">35. DejanSEO</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://dejanseo.com.au/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://dejanseo.com.au/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/dejanseo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@dejanseo</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">36. Small Business Online Coach</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/smbusinesscoach" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@smbusinesscoach</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><span class="gmw_" style="box-sizing: border-box;">37. <span class="gm_ gm_96b4ad0d-fc9c-0ec8-1596-47507d4440b7 gm-spell" style="box-sizing: border-box;">iAcquire</span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.iacquire.com/blog/category/seo-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.iacquire.com/blog/category/seo-2</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/iacquire" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@iacquire</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">38. David Leonhardt’s SEO and Social Media Marketing</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.seo-writer.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/amabaie" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@amabaie</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><span class="gmw_" style="box-sizing: border-box;">39. <span class="gm_ gm_ceec624c-2bcc-48a6-cc1d-7ae2b2540e89 gm-spell" style="box-sizing: border-box;">siegemedia</span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://www.siegemedia.com/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.siegemedia.com/blog</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/siegemedia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@siegemedia</a></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">40. SEO Gadget</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blog: <a href="http://seogadget.com/category/seo/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://seogadget.com/category/seo/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/seogadget" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #58b84f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@seogadget</a></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Did I miss any? Tell me below<span class="gm_ gm_1a21ca26-e3b4-f9e6-d306-3f9bdd8b38b0 gm-spell gm_tiny" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span> and I will add them here!</em></div>
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There have been a number of blog ranking tables created in the past few months but they all use the hugely inaccurate and outdated Google PageRank as a method of measuring success.</div>
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This table simply uses <a href="http://www.alexa.com/site/help/traffic_learn_more" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">Alexa Rank</a> and <a href="http://technorati.com/help/faq.html#ranking" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">Technorati Rank</a> to calculate the popularity of each site. These are the two most accurate methods of determining the traffic and number of links to each blog and, while sometimes slightly inaccurate, are very good at measuring the relative popularity of blogs from the same industry.</div>
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The rankings will be updated every day and if you find a search engine marketing blog thats missing from this list please <a href="http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/contact.php" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">email me</a>.</div>
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Finally a big thanks to the <a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/search-marketing-blogs/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">Big List of SEO Blogs</a> which made up a large proportion of this list.</div>
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<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="10%"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="50%">Blog</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="10%"><img alt="Technorati" src="http://www.technorati.com/favicon.ico" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="10%"><img alt="Alexa" src="http://www.alexa.com/favicon.ico" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="10%"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Score</strong></td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seobook.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seobook.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">101</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1454</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1555</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seomoz.org/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seomoz.org</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">313</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1289</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1602</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://problogger.net/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">problogger.net</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">17</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2232</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2249</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">4</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://johnchow.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">johnchow.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">46</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2377</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2423</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">searchengineland.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">60</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2497</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2557</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">6</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://shoemoney.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">shoemoney.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">74</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2564</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2638</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">7</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blog.searchenginewatch.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">927</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2449</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3376</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">8</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://mattcutts.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">mattcutts.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">85</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3386</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3471</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">9</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seroundtable.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seroundtable.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">438</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3943</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">4381</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">10</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blog.compete.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blog.compete.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3063</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1607</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">4670</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">11</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://sitepoint.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">sitepoint.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5455</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">530</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5985</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">12</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://performancing.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">performancing.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">71</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">6807</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">6878</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">13</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://doshdosh.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">doshdosh.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">38</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">6894</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">6932</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">14</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://copyblogger.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">copyblogger.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">41</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">7372</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">7413</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">15</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://searchenginejournal.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">searchenginejournal.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">591</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">8303</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">8894</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">16</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://marketingpilgrim.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">marketingpilgrim.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">393</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">9542</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">9935</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">17</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://dailyblogtips.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">dailyblogtips.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">375</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">13413</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">13788</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">lorelle.wordpress.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">397</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">14584</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">14981</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">19</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seoblackhat.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seoblackhat.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">4675</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">10374</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">15049</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">20</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">googlesystem.blogspot.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">104</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">14984</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">15088</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">21</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blog.v7n.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blog.v7n.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">12586</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3049</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">15635</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">22</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://marketingvox.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">marketingvox.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1014</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">15706</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">16720</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">23</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://weblogs.hitwise.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">weblogs.hitwise.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2378</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">14568</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">16946</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">24</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://e-consultancy.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">e-consultancy.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">4928</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">12242</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">17170</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">25</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wolf-howl.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">wolf-howl.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1282</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">16091</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">17373</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">26</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://toprankblog.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">toprankblog.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">166</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">17529</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">17695</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">27</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blog.clickz.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blog.clickz.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">12541</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5277</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">17818</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">28</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://andybeard.eu/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">andybeard.eu</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1014</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">17102</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18116</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">29</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://entrepreneurs-journey.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">entrepreneurs-journey.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2704</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">15742</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18446</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">30</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://quickonlinetips.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">quickonlinetips.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1972</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">16569</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18541</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">31</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://bluehatseo.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">bluehatseo.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">4905</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">13986</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18891</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">32</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://pronetadvertising.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">pronetadvertising.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">100</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">19011</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">19111</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">33</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://bruceclay.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">bruceclay.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5096</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">16186</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">21282</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">34</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://davidnaylor.co.uk/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">davidnaylor.co.uk</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3867</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18619</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">22486</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">35</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blogstorm.co.uk/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blogstorm.co.uk</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">4905</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18833</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">23738</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">36</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://googlewatch.eweek.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">googlewatch.eweek.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18374</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">6197</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">24571</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">37</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://battellemedia.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">battellemedia.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">497</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">24163</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">24660</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">38</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blogs.forrester.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3535</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">21682</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">25217</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">39</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://highrankings.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">highrankings.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">19197</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">7508</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">26705</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">40</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://45n5.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">45n5.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5704</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">22025</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">27729</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">41</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blog.cre8asite.net/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blog.cre8asite.net</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">19896</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">9776</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">29672</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">42</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://ysearchblog.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">ysearchblog.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1532</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">28617</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">30149</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">43</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://5staraffiliateprograms.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">5staraffiliateprograms.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18057</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">12684</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">30741</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">44</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://jimboykin.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">jimboykin.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5502</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">25600</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">31102</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">45</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://grokdotcom.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">grokdotcom.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3153</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">28088</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">31241</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">46</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://stuntdubl.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">stuntdubl.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1795</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">30905</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">32700</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">47</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://micropersuasion.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">micropersuasion.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">113</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">33454</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">33567</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">48</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://cashquests.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">cashquests.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">6703</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">27872</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">34575</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">49</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seofaststart.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seofaststart.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">14911</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">21727</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">36638</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">50</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://web-strategist.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">web-strategist.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">929</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">35802</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">36731</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">51</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://vandelaydesign.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">vandelaydesign.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5195</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">33803</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">38998</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">52</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://yoast.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">yoast.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">7534</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">31602</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">39136</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">53</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://bloggingtips.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">bloggingtips.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5300</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">33876</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">39176</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">54</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://natewhitehill.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">natewhitehill.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">1026</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">38961</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">39987</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">55</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://revenews.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">revenews.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">8037</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">32979</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">41016</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">56</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://netbusinessblog.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">netbusinessblog.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5776</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">38273</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">44049</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">57</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://tropicalseo.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">tropicalseo.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5441</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">39645</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">45086</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">58</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://google.blognewschannel.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">google.blognewschannel.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5110</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">40668</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">45778</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">59</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://selfmademinds.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">selfmademinds.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">8494</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">39589</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">48083</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">60</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://kaushik.net/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">kaushik.net</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2174</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">47537</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">49711</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">61</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seorefugee.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seorefugee.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">26017</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">26523</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">52540</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">62</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://cornwallseo.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">cornwallseo.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">7559</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">45682</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">53241</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">63</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seobythesea.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seobythesea.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3117</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">52023</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">55140</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">64</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://pandia.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">pandia.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">12834</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">42921</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">55755</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">65</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://earnersblog.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">earnersblog.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">15276</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">41479</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">56755</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">66</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seo-scoop.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seo-scoop.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">10140</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">47489</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">57629</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">67</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://hittail.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">hittail.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">51481</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">7710</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">59191</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">68</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seopedia.org/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seopedia.org</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">10109</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">52565</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">62674</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">69</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://whoisandrewwee.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">whoisandrewwee.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">10947</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">52264</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">63211</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">70</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://muhammadsaleem.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">muhammadsaleem.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">14052</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">49181</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">63233</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">71</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blog.sponsoredreviews.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blog.sponsoredreviews.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">60135</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">3676</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">63811</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">72</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://mpdailyfix.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">mpdailyfix.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">2287</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">63476</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">65763</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">73</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://johnon.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">johnon.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">15851</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">50973</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">66824</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">74</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://smallbusinesssem.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">smallbusinesssem.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">10243</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">57379</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">67622</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">75</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://vanessafoxnude.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">vanessafoxnude.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">7056</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">64504</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">71560</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">76</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://10e20.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">10e20.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">9766</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">61818</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">71584</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">77</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://stonetemple.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">stonetemple.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">32015</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">43778</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">75793</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">78</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://soloseo.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">soloseo.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">28996</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">48469</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">77465</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">79</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://blog.sitepronews.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">blog.sitepronews.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">57035</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">21475</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">78510</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">80</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://roirevolution.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">roirevolution.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">29747</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">49440</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">79187</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">81</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://fantomaster.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">fantomaster.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">41735</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">37552</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">79287</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">82</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://webmetricsguru.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">webmetricsguru.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">5597</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">73771</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">79368</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">83</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://redflymarketing.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">redflymarketing.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">25545</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">54673</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">80218</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">84</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://here.org.uk/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">here.org.uk</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">30553</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">51697</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">82250</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">85</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://seoegghead.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">seoegghead.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">18721</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">67425</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">86146</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">86</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://cartoonbarry.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">cartoonbarry.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">8802</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">78222</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">87024</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">87</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://pubcon.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">pubcon.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">56239</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">31115</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">87354</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">88</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://techipedia.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6db6e5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s linear;">techipedia.com</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">14803</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">73821</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box;">88624</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-31889025951772088372014-12-16T16:08:00.004-08:002014-12-16T16:08:53.887-08:00Can I do SEO for myself?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The world of SEO is complex, but most people can easily understand the basics. Even a small amount of knowledge can make a big difference. Free SEO education is widely available on the web, including in guides like this. Combine this with a little practice and you are well on your way to becoming a guru.</div>
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Depending on your time commitment, your willingness to learn, and the complexity of your website(s), you may decide you need an expert to handle things for you. Firms that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a broader and more general approach.</div>
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In any case, it's good to have a firm grasp of the core concepts</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603956032076928572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-16594538624756094672014-12-16T16:08:00.002-08:002014-12-16T16:08:24.620-08:00Why can't the search engines figure out my site without SEO?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Search engines are smart, but they still need help. The major engines are always working to improve their technology to crawl the web more deeply and return better results to users. However, there is a limit to how search engines can operate. Whereas the right SEO can net you thousands of visitors and increased attention, the wrong moves can hide or bury your site deep in the search results where visibility is minimal.</div>
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In addition to making content available to search engines, SEO also helps boost rankings so that content will be placed where searchers will more readily find it. The Internet is becoming increasingly competitive, and those companies who perform SEO will have a decided advantage in visitors and customers</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603956032076928572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-67891329138570570212014-12-16T16:07:00.002-08:002014-12-16T16:07:41.954-08:00Why does my website need SEO?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The majority of web traffic is driven by the major commercial search engines, <span style="color: #2ca6d6;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Google</span></span>, <span style="color: #2ca6d6;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bing</span></span>, and Yahoo!. Although social media and other types of traffic can generate visits to your website, search engines are the primary method of navigation for most Internet users. This is true whether your site provides content, services, products, information, or just about anything else.</div>
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Search engines are unique in that they provide targeted traffic—people looking for what you offer.Search engines are the roadways that make this happen. If search engines cannot find your site, or add your content to their databases, you miss out on incredible opportunities to drive traffic to your site.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Search queries</strong>—the words that users type into the search box—carry extraordinary value. Experience has shown that search engine traffic can make (or break) an organization's success. Targeted traffic to a website can provide publicity, revenue, and exposure like no other channel of marketing. Investing in SEO can have an exceptional rate of return compared to other types of marketing and promotion.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603956032076928572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-56375847841596756942011-02-04T10:16:00.001-08:002011-02-04T10:16:50.392-08:00Using TrafficSwarm to Increase Your Blog's Traffic<a href="http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?491535"> <img src="http://www.trafficswarm.com/images/b12060.gif" border="0" height="60" width="120" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?491535">TrafficSwarm</a> is in the same vein as BlogMad and BlogExplosion. Its completely free to join and can help you as you start to build traffic to your blog. Just for signing up you'll get some free credits that you can redeem to get people to visit your blog. Then you can also earn additional credits by surfing other TrafficSwarm users' blogs. A great way to get ideas from other people's blogs, leave comments (with a backlink to your blog) and get some traffic to your site in return.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?491535">TrafficSwarm</a> also lets you sign up for a free subscription to <i>Revenue</i> magazine, just for joining TrafficSwarm. <i>Revenue</i> is a magazine devoted to the latest trends in online and affiliate marketing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603956032076928572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-32748047586322539622011-02-04T10:15:00.000-08:002011-02-04T10:16:13.347-08:00Using Feedburner for Syndication<a href="http://www.feedburner.com/">Feedburner</a> is a great way to syndicate your content and get more people to read what you write. Feedburner offers a bunch of different services to help you build awareness of your content, keep stats on who is reading and even will help you with ways to monetize your blog. <br /><br />A few highlights of <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/">Feedburner</a>: <ol><li>The Feedburner PingShot automatically notifies a bunch of web directories when you post new content.</li><li>Feedburner lets you easily setup email subscription lists.</li><li>Gives you serveral different chicklets to put on your site to make it easier for people to sign up for your feed.</li><li>Allows you to automatically add links to social bookmarking sites (e.g. Digg, del.icio.us, Slashdot, Furl, Spurl, etc.) on each blog post and also in your FeedBurner feed. By using these links you can have your readers promote your blog for you. This is a very powerful tool for you to use as you grow your blog.</li></ol><br /><br />All in all, Feedburner is an awesome and free tool. Definitely worth checking out.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603956032076928572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-64221509404436311692011-02-04T10:12:00.000-08:002011-02-04T10:15:38.245-08:00Moving From BlogSpot to My Own DomainI realize that at this point this blog is pretty small time but I'm hopeful that it can grow to be something significant and helpful for people. For the past few weeks I've been tossing the idea of moving to my own domain around (my apologies for the recent lack of content while I tossed the idea around). After some thought I've decided that its time to move to my own domain. At this point I'm not certain what the domain will be but I should know in the next week or two. In the interim I plan on continuing to post here a little more and then once I've secured the domain and web hosting (anyone have a favorite?) I'll copy the content from here to the new site.<br /><br />In light of my decision I wanted to take a minute to address why I'm moving and hopefully encourage others to do the same. My first and primary reason for the move is to allow this site to develop its own personality. It seemed to me that continuing to host on blogspot labels the site as being somewhat amateurish and doesn't leave much room to become any sort of authoritative source on increasing traffic to a blog. I'm also moving because I want to have the flexibility that having your own web space provides. <br /><br />It seems that the longer I would have waited to move the hard the move would have been so I decided that the time was now. My own domain will cost about $8 and then a year of hosting can be just a few bucks a month, easily worth it I think. <br /><br />If you're currently writing on blogspot, typepad, wordpress or some other blog hosting service make sure that you consider your goals for you blog and determine if having your own web space will further reaching those goals. If it will then its probably time to make a move.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603956032076928572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-54940150058635508232011-01-30T14:35:00.000-08:002011-01-30T14:41:37.465-08:00Content is King! TContent is King! The Value of Good Content to Your Online Presence<span class="files"> </span> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://www.powerpointninja.com/images/2009/10/content_king.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 208px;" src="http://www.powerpointninja.com/images/2009/10/content_king.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">For a little change of pace, your host and blog moderator Chris Westmeyer has given me this opportunity to share with you some information on the future of online content, and a discussion of some important points to understanding its future significance. Hope you enjoy!</span><br /><br />When talking about content, the first premise to consider is that for most companies, competing online via “new technology” has become more and more difficult. The truth is, regardless of company size, there can only be a select few winners in the contest to be the best “technology-driven” business online.<br /><br />True, the technological lead sometimes changes hands, like it did away from AOL and MySpace to the current leaders in their respective fields. But those occurrences are becoming rare. Companies such as Google have gained so much mass, brand equity and momentum that it may be years before they are supplanted in any meaningful way. They won’t be handing off their lead in many categories anytime soon.<br /><br />No, the way to compete today is by becoming a purveyor of content. Drive traffic to your website, platform or service by creating and sharing valuable information to your target audiences. Fill a niche market. Find a group or segment with unmet needs, and fulfill them.<br /><br />And this is exactly what AOL and MySpace have done. AOL bought the blog network Weblogs, home to many popular blogs, such as Engadget and Joystiq; and they now employ over 3,000 freelance writers and more than 150 full-time journalists. And the AOL portal is still popular, and drives traffic to their many in-house publications.<br /><br />MySpace decided to become a home for music and celebrity content. The platform is no longer about networking with friends, passing that baton to Facebook some time ago.<br /><br />So, MySpace is now focused on a wide variety of entertainment channels, and features a huge supply of new music and music videos. Their plans to offer Facebook Connect functionality clearly show how re-focused their business plan has become. They couldn’t beat Facebook in social networking technology, so they shifted to becoming a content provider.<br /><br />So becoming a “destination” is the key to competing online, for almost every small and mid-sized business, and even for most large corporations. It should also be noted that we’re obviously talking about a continual and ongoing process for creating content, not a singular campaign or event.<br /><br />And when analyzing the examples above, it’s easy to understand why content must also be “fresh.” Ask yourself the question: Would you read the exact same newspaper two or more days in a row? Probably not. You need to view your web content in the same manner.<br /><br />Without ongoing content being added to your website, readers have no incentive to return. And though your website may be highly-ranked today, without fresh content being added the search engines will (eventually) simply move on to sites with newer information.<br /><br />Ideally, this means you’ll have new content every time the search engine crawler (for SEO newbies, an automated program used to review websites) visits. You need to show the engines that your site is being actively monitored and managed, obviously a good thing in their eyes. This ensures the crawler always has fresh content to index, and new links to explore. It won’t ever see your site as “stale”, and decide to drop it in the rankings.<br /><br />So, think about your web content as accomplishing two equally important goals:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. The first is to provide clear, compelling information about your brand, products and services, to influence the buying behavior of visitors.<br /><br />2. The second goal is to attract (and keep) the attention of the search engines, to build your potential audience and prospective business going forward.<br /></span><br />Knowing exactly what keywords to focus on within your content is a conversation for another day, but SEO pros can analyze your business and let you know which words are the ones you should include in your content. But, once these keywords have been established, where can you find source material that can assist you in writing your web copy?<br /><br />There are a number of effective strategies that you can use to generate your content. First, look around your desk or office, and you’ll probably see some marketing materials or sales tools that you have used to educate and solicit new business. This is an excellent place to start. If you send an email newsletter, or print and distribute a traditional version, that information should be shared on your website as well. Writing and distributing press releases online is another good strategy.<br /><br />After you have found source materials, how do you share your content? Creating standard web pages is obviously one possibility. Starting your own blog and either writing it yourself, or hiring a freelance writer to assist you, is another winning strategy. A well-written blog can establish you as an expert within your business category; a “trusted advisor” that readers will consult with before making purchasing decisions. And having your own blog provides you with an open forum to share new developments and news items, sales, discounts and special promotions with your readership.<br /><br />A blog also allows you to receive comments from your readership, which creates a more collaborative and interactive environment. This type of feedback is vital to understanding the changing wants and needs of your customer base, and responding appropriately.<br /><br />Of course, we cannot ignore the massive amounts of new content generated on social media, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. These networks also allow for a back and forth conversation with your most loyal customers and biggest brand champions, as well as your prospects. Your content communicates directly with your network, providing the opportunity for feedback, and also the opportunity for current customers to spread the message about your business with their other connections.<br /><br />Hopefully this post helps to explain the vital importance of your web content now, and going forward. In future posts, we will explore some winning tactics that you can use to successfully create and share what you have created.<br /><br />Jim<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prlog.org/10536937-hta.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150.5px; height: 197.5px;" src="http://www.prlog.org/10536937-hta.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Jim Haynes is the owner of Hat Trick Associates (HTA), a firm specializing in the creation of online content. HTA designs, writes and distributes completely custom email newsletters, writes professional blogs for companies, and also sets up and manages social networking accounts for businesses. His team can assist you with any writing or online content needs, and can be visited online at: <a href="http://hattrickassociates.com/">www.hattrickassociates.com</a>. </p></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603956032076928572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853598485776090885.post-2092058721050296072011-01-30T14:34:00.000-08:002015-04-12T18:21:48.395-07:002010 - The Web Shown in Numbers!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Are you curious as to what happened in 2010 on the Web, well you have come to the right place as <a href="http://www.pingdom.com/">Pingdom</a> recently released some stats from a large set of different sources and I am going to also share those here for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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Original post - <a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/">Internet 2010 in Numbers</a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Email</span><br />
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* 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.<br />
* 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.<br />
* 1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.<br />
* 480 million – New email users since the year before.<br />
* 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.<br />
* 262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).<br />
* 2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.<br />
* 25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Websites</span><br />
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* 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.<br />
* 21.4 million – Added websites in 2010.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Servers</span><br />
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* 39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.<br />
* 15.3% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.<br />
* 4.1% – Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.<br />
* 5.8% – Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.<br />
* 55.7% – Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Domain Names</span><br />
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* 88.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2010.<br />
* 13.2 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2010.<br />
* 8.6 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2010.<br />
* 79.2 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).<br />
* 202 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2010).<br />
* 7% – The increase in domain names since the year before.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet Users</span><br />
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* 1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).<br />
* 14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.<br />
* 825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.<br />
* 475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.<br />
* 266.2 million – Internet users in North America.<br />
* 204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.<br />
* 110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.<br />
* 63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.<br />
* 21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Social Media</span><br />
* 152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).<br />
* 25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010<br />
* 100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010<br />
* 175 million – People on Twitter as of September 2010<br />
* 7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).<br />
* 600 million – People on Facebook at the end of 2010.<br />
* 250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.<br />
* 30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.<br />
* 70% – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.<br />
* 20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Browsers</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Videos</span><br />
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* 2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.<br />
* 35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.<br />
* 186 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).<br />
* 84% – Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA).<br />
* 14% – Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).<br />
* 2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.<br />
* 20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Images</span><br />
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* 5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).<br />
* 3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.<br />
* 130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.<br />
* 3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.<br />
* 36 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Data sources and notes: Spam percentage from MessageLabs (PDF). Email user numbers and counts from Radicati Group (the number of sent emails was their prediction for 2010, so it’s very much an estimate). Website numbers from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and Webhosting.info. Internet user numbers and distribution from Internet World Stats. Facebook stats from Facebook and Business Insider. Twitter stats from Twitter (and here), TwitterCounter and TechCrunch. Web browser stats from StatCounter. YouTube video numbers from Google. Facebook video numbers from GigaOM. US online video stats from Comscore and the Pew Research Center. Flickr image numbers from Flickr.</span></div>
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