Top SEO Blogs List to Follow in 2013

Every employee who started their journey in online marketing would like to follow SEO updates regularly. Here in this article, I would like to give a list of blogs where you can get extensive SEO knowledge and to know what going on in SEO industry.

If you are into SEO field then you must up to date with SEO trends in the market to sustain in the long run and for a bright career. SEO usually changes day to day, so you cannot work on old methods to compete with the market. You should run with the competitors and need to use latest techniques to cross them at some point.

Have a look at following Top SEO Blogs to improve your knowledge to next level:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog

Rand Fishkin is the CEO for SEOmoz. SEOmoz is a well-known blog for SEOs across the globe. Also they have very good SEO tools in place which will help SEOs to track and analyse their campaigns successfully. Fresher can start their career with SEOmoz Beginner Guide. Experienced online marketing professionals can look their blog. Even they can participate at youmoz to show their expertise. Of-course only good articles will be approved over here.

http://searchenginewatch.com/

Danny Sullivan started this website in 1997. This website used to provide a lot of tips from 90’s onwards. Mattcutts (Google Search Quality Head) and Time Mayer (Yahoo) recommended “Search Engine Watch” as good source for SEO. Danny sold this website in 2006 to jupitermedia.

http://searchengineland.com/

Search Engine Land led by Danny Sullivan. He is in the search industry from the past 11 years. This site mainly covers “search engine news, marketing conferences & trends”. Danny started this website in 2006 after he left the “Search Engine Watch”. Danny will conduct SMX (Search Engine Marketing Expo) conferences every year.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/

This is an official blog started by Google to give website owners a clear idea that how Google works. This blog is an extension of Google webmaster tools. It covers about crawl errors, indexation issues, penalties. Every website owner can know more about their site through the webmaster tools account.

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp

It’s a popular SEO channel which is maintained by Google. This channel will educate online marketers about the white hat methods. Mattcutts will answer the questions asked by SEO’s across the globe through these videos. If you are new to SEO then you should watch all the videos for better knowledge.

http://www.seobook.com/blog

Aaron wall is the founder of seobook.com. This website offers Online training, premium seo tools and SEO services too. Rank  Checker is a familiar addon which most of the SEOs use for keyword rankings. This website also offers many more free seo tools and addons. You can check the same here: http://tools.seobook.com/

http://www.seobythesea.com/

Bill Slawski is running the seobythesea blog. He was an internet consultant from 1996. He usually covers in depth information in SEO. He started this blog in June 2005.

http://justinbriggs.org/

Justin briggs personal blog is justinbriggs.org. He was worked with good companies like distilled, seomoz etc earlier. He usually covers advanced level articles based on his personal experience.

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/

Seer Interactive is an online marketing company which started in 2002. This is a well-known online marketing company with bunch of experts which is located in united states.

http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/

This is also another online marketing firm which is owned by A.J. Kohn, who has around 20 years experience in the marketing industry.

 http://seogadget.com/blog/

This is also another blog which is maintained by a firm in UK. Richard was the head of this blog which is founded in 2009. The blog has become as an agency in 2010. Earlier it was seogadget.co.uk, recently it has been changed to seogadget.com.

  

http://kikolani.com/

Kristi Hines is a very good writer. She do freelance writing for popular blogs. Her articles contains indepth knowledge in SEO. You can find her articles on problogger, searchenginewatch, kissmetrics, crazyegg, iacquire etc blogs.

   

http://www.seroundtable.com/

Seroundtable is one the popular site where you can find the latest seo findings. Most of the online marketing experts share their concerns, observations, changes, case studies over here.

http://www.seowizz.net/

Tim Grice is the founder of SEOWIZZ. He was involved in online marketing since 2004. This guy is basically from UK.

http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/blog

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/

http://www.seroundtable.com/

http://marketingland.com/

http://www.searchcowboys.com/

http://dailyseotip.com/

http://www.localseoguide.com/

http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/

http://outspokenmedia.com/blog/

http://www.quicksprout.com/

http://www.blueglass.com/blog/

http://www.wolf-howl.com/

http://kaiserthesage.com/

http://www.johnfdoherty.com/

http://www.evolvingseo.com/blog/

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