Search Engine Journal’s 2005 Search Blogs Awards
The Search Engine Journal’s 2005 Best of Search Blogs Awards nominations are in and its time to start voting (well, really rating) your favorite search engine blogs.
Some of these blogs you may read regularly, some you maybe have never heard of. If you are unfamiliar with some of the blogs, please visit them (we’ve listed all URL’s) and add their feeds to your reader if you like what you see.
Categories include Best SEO Blogs, Best Search Engine News Blogs, Best Blog Search Engine Blogs, and a couple of surprises which the search engine community should enjoy, including “Which Search Employee’s Blog Most Likely to Flame You For Spamming?”
Here are the nominated blogs.
Best Search Engine News Blogs:
Pandia (pandia.com)
MarketingPilgrim (marketingpilgrim.com)
SearchEngineBlog.com
Search Engine Lowdown (searchenginelowdown.com)
Search Views (searchviews.com)
John Battelle Search Blog (battellemedia.com)
Search Engine Watch Blog (blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Threadwatch (threadwatch.org)
Google Blogoscoped (blog.outer-court.com)
Search Engine Roundtable (seroundtable.com)
Research Buzz (researchbuzz.com)
Top Rank Blog (toprank.blogspot.com)
Best SEO Blogs:
StuntDubl (www.stuntdubl.com)
FishSEO (www.fishSEO.com)
SEOMoz (www.seomoz.org)
SEO SpeedWagon (seoblog.intrapromote.com)
TextLinkBlog (www.textlinkbrokers.com/blogs)
SEO Black Hat (seoblackhat.com)
SEO by the SEA (www.seobythesea.com)
Jim Boykin’s Blog (www.jimboykin.com)
Link Building Blog (www.linkbuildingblog.com)
Stepforth SEO Blog (news.stepforth.com)
Matt Cutts Blog (www.mattcutts.com/blog/)
Greg Boser’s WebGuerrilla (webguerrilla.com)
SEO Book (www.seobook.com)
Best Search Engine Owned Blogs:
Yahoo Search Blog (ysearchblog.com)
Ask Jeeves Blog (blog.ask.com)
MSN Search Weblog (blogs.msdns.com/msnsearch)
Google Blog – All of Them (googleblog.blogspot.com)
Best Search Engine Marketing and Contextual Advertising Blogs :
AdRants (www.adrants.com)
Did-It Frog Blog (www.did-it.com/blog)
Got Ads? (gotads.blogspot.com)
JenSense (www.jensense.com)
Google AdWords & AdSense Blogs
Marketing Vox (www.marketingvox.com)
ProBlogger (www.problogger.net)
Traffick.com
And the Best Blog Search Engine Blogs :
Topix.net Blog (blog.topix.net/)
IceRocket Blog (blog.icerocket.com/)
Daypop Weblog (danchan.com/weblog/daypop)
Feedster Blog (corp.feedster.com/blog/)
BlogDigger Development Blog (blogdigger.com/blog)
blogpulse Newswire (blog.blogpulse.com)
Blog Search Engine (blogsearchengine.com)
Technorati Weblog (www.technorati.com/weblog/)
Update : January 7th, 2006. Happy New Year! The Search Engine Journal Search Blogs Awards have received great notice across the Searchosphere and results are in. Here is a list of each winner from this year:
* Best SEO Blog of 2005
* Best Blog Run by a Blog Search Engine or News Search Service
* Best Search Engine Community Blog of 2005
* Best Search Engine Marketing & Contextual Advertising Blog
* Best Search Engine Owned Blog
* Best Search Engine News Blog of 2005
* Jeremy Zawodny vs Matt Cutts : Who’s More Likely to Flame You For Spamming
Thanks for this excellent list of seo blogs. I’ve added those I didn’t have to my feed reader. Now if I can just find the time to read them!
Thank you for the comment David, you also have a great blog at Multiligual-Search, but it’s so niche I couldn’t fit it into a general category. Which is actually a good thing and will benefit you all in the long run.
Fantastic list of SEO blogs..I wish my blog was also nominated here…but anyways i’ll learn from blogs liste here
How come I can’t just vote for 1 blog? I’m just reading 1 or 2 of the blogs mentioned, and know nothing about the rest..
Why does the URL say “`&DO_NOT_COPY_THIS_LINK”?
Loren, it would be great to have this as an OPML file.
Nice list Loren, but where the f–k’s mine? :-(
Great way to get some links Loren, really smart :-)
That’s a really excellent list of links to a high quality websites in so many interessing subjects for webdesigners and seo beginners like me.
Thank you so much for all this good intel and inteligent and usefull Pool.
Merry Christmas to All!
Fantastic list of SEO blogs. Now if I can just find the time to read them!
Great list.
Does are excelent websites.
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Great list, I read quite a few of this list, specially the SEO one’s and some of the news blog.
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Love the list of SEO blogs. Thanks a lot! You have any tips to help my 2 blogs get nominated?
They are:
http://www.mindpowerspecialreport.com/
http://www.myselfhypnosis.net/
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just found this post off Matt’s blog – it looks like many of these blogs are still on top. Good lists
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Loren, thanks for putting this Great List together for us. I can’t wait to dig into the SEO blogs.
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