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There are thousands of SEO blogs out there. Most of them stick in the past though and only repeat slightly changed yesterday news. In SEO 2.0 the world of search engine optimization has substantially changed. Only a few blogs reflect this major shift.
Indeed, I am convinced that you need only 5 blogs to inform yourself properly in SEO 2.0 matters. In showing what sources are dealing with SEO 2.0 I will prepare my own definition of the 2.0 in SEO.
1. SEOmoz: Rand Fishkin and staff, as close as you can be to SEO 2.0
2. SEO Book: Aaron Wall, author of what should be called the SEO 2.0 book
3. Pronet Advertising: Multiple authors on the edge
4. Problogger: Darren Rowse, the blogging professional, the professional “pro” blogger
5. Copyblogger: If content is king, he is the king’s best knight
Those 5 are perfectly sufficient. On the other hand: You just can’t ignore those five SEO or SEO related blogs if you want to drive traffic to your site or blog. Skip all the other thousands of publications. Information overdose won’t make you any smarter. It will just confuse you. Concentrate on those 5 sources.
Of course in the near future you will need 6: The SEO 2.0 blog is going to be one of the most important sources of SEO 2.0 expertise.
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Ah, you do know that Copyblogger and Problogger aren’t SEO blogs, right?
What about www.SearchEngineLand.com and blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog ?
Ah Lee… you know as well as anyone that the hardest part of SEO is getting links, and the primary way to do that is with compelling content. This is different than SEO 1.0 and the days of WebPosition Gold gurus and the like, so why isn’t Copyblogger part of SEO 2.0?
The bigger question to ask, as you’ve asked before on your own blog, is what will become of SEO? Isn’t technical SEO just a small part of an overall marketing plan? In that case, I’m glad Copyblogger is not an “SEO blog,” because that means it’s built on something that will last.
OK Lee, but they are SEO 2.0 blogs! Take into account that by showing what SEO 2.0 is, based on people who practice it already, I define it step by step. I will even extend the definition of SEO inasmuch as blogs like Fadtastic will also fit in. SEO 1.0 is too narrow minded as you yourself correctly wrote.
www.SearchEngineLand.com and blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog are great powerful dinosaurs. They just adapt to the new sitaution without leading the new wave.
Maybe I change my mind in the course of events as Sphinn is of course SEO 2.0
Brian, you were too quick for me, but I see you have an excellent understanding of what I want to show with this list.
I would definitely list www.sphinn.com as a top 3 SEO web2.0 site: The only social media site that welcomes linkbaiters!
Well, Sphinn definitely is great but it’s not a blog and you still have too much info overflow to sift through… Very time consuming…
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Most people aren’t used to the term “SEM 2.0″ so they would figure you meant to say they are “WEB 2.0″ blogs - until they read your blog more thoroughly.
Also, I agree with Lee - you cant leave out the blog run by the person who pretty much coined the term SEO - Danny Sullivan - Search Engine Land.
Yeah, I found the list on my own!
I don’t know how succesfull you are in business, but your art of blogging is cool ;)
regards, Marc
Brians and Lees discussion was pretty interesting. i can;t think of one good reason to disagree with Brian.
I can’t disagree with that list at all. Every one of those puts out awesome stuff.
I’d not include ProBlogger and copyblogger as SEO websites.
But rather I would include:
http://marketingeasy.net
http://www.searchengineland.com/
and
a general subscription at Digital Points forum.
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