SEOmoz Blog | Ranking 50 Top Blogs in the Search Space

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Ranking 50 Top Blogs in the Search Space

Posted by randfish on Tue (8/15/06) at 12:48 PM to Blogging & Social Tagging

The search & search marketing fields have, over the last 4 years, become overrun with bloggers. It would seem that many of us have been drinking our own Kool-Aid and hopping on the blog bandwagon. Lately, more and more folks have been asking for my take on this trend – what do I read? How often do I visit? Who do I respect?

In a controversial move, rather than simply creating a blogroll, I’m trying out a structured approach to ranking the search field’s blogs, assigning labels and ratings based solely on my own feelings. Obviously, these are personal judgements, so make no assumptions other than “that’s what Rand thinks…”

• I’ve tried my best to rank both the categories and the blogs inside by relative level of importance
• Only English language search blogs were considered
• Additional, non-search industry blogs are listed at the bottom
• I’ve almost surely forgotten some important ones
• The rankings are from the perspective of a search marketer (and one who’s heavily into the organic side), rather than an ad guru, someone at a search engine or simply a search technology enthusiast
• It’s hard, even for me, to read all of these each day, but I really do try
• I’ve left SEOmoz off the list – you can decide for yourself if/where you’d rank it

Source: SEOmoz Blog | Ranking 50 Top Blogs in the Search Space

tags: blogs, blog+search, search, blogosphere

101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006 : SEO Book.com

This is a good article. Read all of it. 

101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006

Aug
15

By Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall.

Link Building… Time-intensive. Frustrating. Sometimes confusing. Yet Unavoidable. Because ultimately, it’s still the trump card for higher rankings.

Many of us have been hoping that it would go away. In Brett Tabke’s 5/18 Robots.txt entry, he echoed a sentiment that many, many webmasters hold on to as a hope:

What happens to all those Wavers that think [i]Getting Links = SEO[/i] when that majority of the Google algo is devalued in various ways? Wavers built their fortunes on “links=seo”. When that goes away, the Wavers have zero to hold on to.

The pertinent questions:

1. Will link building still be very important for rankings in the medium term?
2. When will link popularity be devalued in favor of other algo elements (that are less tedious, from a webmaster’s point of view)?

Source: 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006 : SEO Book.com