Roundup: Essential Online Marketing and SEO Blogs

April 25th, 2007

Search engine representatives

• Matt Cutts - Head of Google’s webspam team and lover of cats
• Google Webmaster Central blog - Updates on Webmaster tools provided by Google, and general news about Google and search
• Yahoo Search Blog - News from the other side of the fence

Industry news

• Google Blogoscoped - Every piece of news on Google that’s worth reading!

SEO Bloggers

• SEOmoz - Rand and his crew post about all sorts, but never fail to entertain or to stimulate discussion.
• SEO Book - Aaron Wall shares insights and advice
• Marketing Pilgrim - Andy Beal’s excellent resource with views and search news
• Jim Boykin - CEO of webuildpages, and link ninja
• GreyWolf - Offers the occasional gold nugget of information or opinion. Worth subscribing to.
• Andy Beard - Niche marketing ‘opinion and attitude’
• Dave Naylor - UK seo and supposed occasional grey hat - shares some great tips and insights

Grey and Blackhat blogs
(Because it’s important to keep up to date with what shady tactics are being used, and sometimes these guys share extremely valuable white-hat tricks and tips)

• SEO Blackhat - News and opinion from the dark side of SEO
• Blue Hat SEO - Eli is one of the most candid bloggers out there, often sharing detailed guides on how to make money and achieve results. Shame it’s often not using ethical methods!

Design, accessibility and usability, and other blogs

• Seth Godin - Author of books about permission marketing and general buisness observations, you’ll never read a post on this blog which isn’t thought provoking and makes you question the way many companies run their business. Highly recommended.
• Signal vs. Noise - The way all company blogs should be. Insights into business descisions, interesting opinions and interviews (chats), and some great advice on usability.
• A List Apart - Explore the design and meaning of the web. Standards and accessibility gods
• ProBlogger - Tips on blog writing, promoting your blog and monetisation. Worthy reading whether writing your own blog for profit, or creating a corporate blog for a client.