10 Best SEO Blogs to Follow
Search engine optimization or SEO is one of the important aspects of blogging that we should inevitably deal with. No matter how brilliant the content of your site if it is not optimized for search engines, you will definitely have a hard time attracting traffic to your site and ranking better in search engine results. You cannot just sit there and hope that people will find your blog. You have to optimize the contents of your site because search engines such as Google and Bing! are after all, still the largest source of traffic by far for any site. In my case, I usually get more than half of my traffic from search engines. (I am not an SEO expert so I could not say if it is already a good batting average?)
To optimize your site, you can either hire an SEO expert but most of them come with a price. On the other hand, if you decide to do search engine optimization yourself, be prepared to face a phenomenally steep learning curve. SEO is not just about adding meta tags to html code. Also search engines like Google is constantly changing the rules and algorithm for their search engine. Also, some techniques once permitted are now labeled as spam, and could forever block normally achievable high rankings within the search engines.
Thus, it is best to keep ourselves informed on these things by learning SEO from the search engine masters. Below are what I consider as the best SEO blogs to follow if you intend to improve your search optimization skills. They may not be the best for everyone (of course not everyone will agree with me) but these are the ones that helped me a lot in at least understanding how SEO works. I am sure each of us has his or her own favorite SEO blog. Let us know of your best SEO blogs by posting the link in the comments box below:
In no particular order, here are our best SEO blogs to follow:
01: SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
SEOmoz Blog provides the web's best community, tools and educational resources for people and companies engaged in Internet marketing and search engine optimization. The information you can find here are geared so that the inexperienced user can learn the basics of search engine optimization.
02: Search Engine land
A news and information blog site covering search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry by by more than 50 SEO experts. If you want to keep up with search marketing news on a daily basis, then you must check out this site.
03: Google Webmaster Central Blog
Checkout Google Webmaster Central Blog for official advice, tips and news directly from the people at Google who build tools to support site owners looking to increase their traffic. This SEO blog serves as a one-stop shop for webmaster resources that will help you with your crawling and indexing questions, introduce you to offerings that can enhance and increase traffic to your site, and connect you with your visitors.
04: Matt Cutts
Keep abreast with the internal thinkings of Google about what is acceptable and unacceptable SEO. Google's search spam fighting czar Matt Cutts actually maintains an interesting blog about gadgets, google, and SEO.
05 - Search Engine Journal
Search Engine Journal specializes in a community approach to the reporting of search engine news & the sharing of Search Engine Marketing knowledge and tactics. What I find useful from this blog are its regular "top lists" and top SEO add-ons for Firefox, top Google AdWords reports, etc.
06 - SEO Black Hat
Black Hat search engine optimization is customarily defined as the practice of using unethical techniques to make your search rankings go up. The SEO Black Hat Blog offers articles on Blackhat SEO, Linkbait & Link Spamming. Learn the tactics and use it to your advantage from this SEO blog.
07 – SEO Book
SEO Book offers marketing tips, search analysis, online business tips, and general commentary on the evolution of the web. This SEO blog is able to capture key points and observations on both SEO tactics and issues in short and interesting posts.
8 - SEO Chat
SEO Chat is a good place to go for SEO advice. The forums provide its member a venue to discuss and look for tested solutions to SEO issues. It also offers offers a huge list of tools that you can use to improve your SEO endeavors. One of the best tools I have found on the website is the Keyword Difficulty Checker.
09 - Search Engine Roundtable
This SEO blog will keep you stay informed about conversations on the hottest SEO discussion boards (e.g. Cre8asite, WebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint, etc.) without having to read them, this blog is your first stop.
10 – NinebyBlue Blog
This SEO blog provides fantastic advice about technical issues related to SEO as well looking at search analytics. The best thing about this site is that, it's being maintained by the person behind Google Webmaster Central, Vanessa Fox.
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