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• David Temple on Dec 9, 2005 at 10:19 am

  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!

• Loren on Dec 9, 2005 at 9:30 pm

  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.

• Bhawna on Dec 12, 2005 at 1:09 am

  Fantastic list of SEO blogs..I wish my blog was also nominated here…but anyways i’ll learn from blogs liste here

• Bjorn Solstad on Dec 14, 2005 at 6:16 am

  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..

• Philipp Lenssen on Dec 14, 2005 at 12:08 pm

  Why does the URL say “`&DO_NOT_COPY_THIS_LINK”?

• Staci D. Kramer on Dec 14, 2005 at 12:21 pm

  Loren, it would be great to have this as an OPML file.

• Kal on Dec 14, 2005 at 7:03 pm

  Nice list Loren, but where the f–k’s mine? :-(

• Jon Wright on Dec 15, 2005 at 1:44 pm

  Great way to get some links Loren, really smart :-)

• Lyon on Dec 23, 2005 at 4:48 am

  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!

• sale on Jan 2, 2006 at 2:01 pm

  Fantastic list of SEO blogs. Now if I can just find the time to read them!

• sara on Jan 9, 2006 at 12:39 pm

  Great list.

• Gt on Feb 13, 2006 at 3:47 pm

  Does are excelent websites.

• Tim on Apr 11, 2006 at 11:08 am

  I like your site.
  Blogs with comments windows that you have to click to open keep the dialogue under wraps. Blogs like this one which string comments out in the open are much more proactive about sparking dialogue.

• tom on May 1, 2006 at 4:35 pm

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• 2006 Search Blogs Awards : Nominations Now Open on Dec 8, 2006 at 4:34 pm

  […] It’s December 2006 which means like last year, Search Engine Journal will be hosting and holding our annual Search Blogs Awards. Last year was our inaugural year and the 2005 Search Blogs Awards were a grand success, with corporate, industry and private bloggers walking away with the honor of top blog of their niche SEM grouping, as voted by their peers. […]

• 2006 Search Blogs Awards : Nominations Open on Dec 9, 2006 at 5:14 am

  […] Leave a comment there to nominate your favorite blogs, as many blogs as you want. Nominations will close on December 12 and voting will being on December 14, 2006. You might draw inspiration from the Search Blogs Awards 2005 nominations last year. Related Articles 2006 Bloggies : Sixth Annual Weblog Awards NominationsIndibloggies : Indian Desi Blog Awards 2005Packt Open Source CMS Awards 2006Voting Open for The 2006 Weblog AwardsMarketingSherpa Reader’s Choice Blog & Podcasting Awards 2006 Never miss our latest articles  subscribe feed or get email updates […]

• David on Dec 12, 2006 at 3:59 am

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• SA Blog » Migliori SEO e SEM Blog 2005 e 2006 | Search Engine Marketing e Motori di ricerca on Dec 12, 2006 at 4:22 am

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• Pecas Ndahe by Ndoro Kakung on Dec 13, 2006 at 10:39 pm

  […] Leave a comment there to nominate your favorite blogs, as many blogs as you want. Nominations will close on December 12 and voting will being on December 14, 2006. You might draw inspiration from the Search Blogs Awards 2005 nominations last year. […]

• Tropical SEO » Andy Hagans’ Ultimate Guide to Link Baiting and Social Media Marketing on Feb 5, 2007 at 11:24 pm

  […] Award Hook. No official awards in your tiny niche? Why not host them yourself? You can either have a more legitimate award with significant organization and actual prize money like the Bloggies, or you can basically nominate everyone in your niche and hope that half link back to you out of enthusiasm for the community, as with the Search Awards. Both tactics work well. The reason is simply that people like positive recognition and they LOVE rankings. Awards get linked to because they help to legitimatize other people—it helps the winners when they promote you. Ah, human nature… […]

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• Beginners Guide to SEO on Feb 8, 2007 at 12:04 pm

  Great list, I read quite a few of this list, specially the SEO one’s and some of the news blog.

• Internet & Online Marketing - PPC, SEO & E-Gain - News about Online Marketing - SEO/PPC/Online PR and more » An expert guide to SEO link baiting on Feb 20, 2007 at 9:19 am

  […] In the guide Andy covers all aspects of Linkbaiting including why, how and what to linkbait. Of particular interest was his bit on linkbait hooks as covered below “News Hook. The news hook is when you are the first to scoop a story; everyone who carries the story will then (theoretically) link to you as the original source. To get a scoop you don’t need to have insider information (though that doesn’t hurt); you can just be the first site to publicly predict something or to reach a controversial conclusion. Bonus points if your scoop is “true”—too many later-proven-to-be-false scoops will make other bloggers and writers hesitant to reference you again. Resource Hook. The resource hook occurs when you make an extremely helpful piece of content that everyone will naturally want to bookmark (like this one!). This may be my favorite hook, because as opposed to the news hook, it encourages people to link to and bookmark it for a long period of time. Content that sits there and naturally obtains trusted, relevant backlinks passively? Isn’t that the original white hat SEO wet dream? Contrary Hook. The contrary hook is when you refute a common myth in your niche. Most little areas of the blogosphere hold certain beliefs to be self-evident; all SEOs know that META tags are dead; all Web2.0 designers know that writing validated code is the right thing to do. Calling these people wrong will usually incite them into talking about you, and linking to you. Humor Hook. People love to laugh, especially at people in their industry or niche. And most niches have so little levity that almost anything will get you a chuckle and a link. You can even directly cite influential people, and if done in a gentle way, they’ll generally be flattered into linking to it. Tool Hook. A good link bait tool has one of two characteristics: 1) It is actually useful; or 2) It feeds bloggers’ egos. (Very few examples can do both.) Firefox plugins, free design templates and financial calculators are all examples of tools that have received thousands of valuable backlinks. None of them are too hard for a decent programmer to create. Award Hook. No official awards in your tiny niche? Why not host them yourself? You can either have a more legitimate award with significant organization and actual prize money like the Bloggies, or you can basically nominate everyone in your niche and hope that half link back to you out of enthusiasm for the community, as with the Search Awards. Both tactics work well. The reason is simply that people like positive recognition and they LOVE rankings. Awards get linked to because they help to legitimatize other people—it helps the winners when they promote you. Ah, human nature… Giveaway Hook. Anyone who has been to an SEO conference recently (or any other conference for that matter) is stocked for life on pens, highlighters, key rings, and loads of over freebie junk. Companies fight to give trinkets away at certain events because, when directed towards the right audience, giveaways are a great way to drive sales and get a return far better than any ordinary advertising. The Internet is no different. Text Link Ads gets a lot of love around the blogosphere because they offer a free coupon for new clients. Aaron Wall seems to give away an AdWords coupon every other week—how else can you get such branding, traffic and links with a $50 piece of paper? Research/Statistic Hook. Sometimes just compiled numbers, or any kind of scientific survey, will get a lot of link love, especially in an under-studied area. And while a scientifically-conducted study with valid methodology will often get better links, the (sad?) truth is that almost anything can pass as “research” on the Internet.” Source:Andy Hagans’ Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and Social Media Marketing […]

• How To: Linkbait Your Blog » Brandon Hopkins on Mar 8, 2007 at 1:21 pm

  […] Search Engine Journal’s 2005 Search Blogs Awards Great use of Linkbait although in the beginning it was unintentional. […]

• Linkbaiting for Dummies : spendmetoschool.com on Apr 7, 2007 at 11:10 am

  […] in your niche and hope that half link back to you out of enthusiasm for the community, as with the Search Awards. Both tactics work well. The reason is simply that people like positive recognition and they LOVE […]

• Link Building - Everything You Need to Know About Link Building on May 8, 2007 at 12:00 am

  […] 3. Aaron Wall and I then categorized those nominations into SEO, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine News, Blog Search, and other categories, including some special head to head voting; Matt Cutts vs. Jeremy Zawodny, and SE Roundtable vs. Threadwatch. […]

• SEOPittfall » Blog Archive » 2006 Search Blogs Awards - Search Engine Optimization by pittfall! on Jun 9, 2007 at 9:37 am

  […] Not in the mood for the politics of the competition, check out last years winners: 2005 Search Blogs Award Winners […]

• Поисковая оптимизация » » Link baiting - магнит для ссылок on Aug 20, 2007 at 10:08 am

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• Mike Nott » SEO, PHP, Photography & Other Stuff on Sep 7, 2007 at 9:49 am

  […] Search Engine Journal are running a Search Blog Awards. […]

• Joel Chue on Feb 3, 2008 at 8:42 pm

  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/

• SEO Advice: Getting Links on Mar 12, 2008 at 1:25 am

  […] appointed Loren Baker the judge of the best search blogs? No one at all: he just saw a creative opportunity and took […]

• mark on Mar 12, 2008 at 11:17 am

  Good list! I made some more additions to my RSS reader :D

• searchenginemarketingvox » Blog Archive » SEO Advice: Getting Links on Mar 18, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  […] appointed Loren Baker the judge of the best search blogs? No one at all: he just saw a creative opportunity and took […]

• The Internet Marketing Blog » Blog Archive » SEO Advice: Getting Links on Mar 22, 2008 at 1:14 pm

  […] appointed Loren Baker the judge of the best search blogs? No one at all: he just saw a creative opportunity and took […]

• Jayson on Mar 27, 2008 at 1:17 am

  just found this post off Matt’s blog - it looks like many of these blogs are still on top. Good lists

• SEO Advice: Getting Links | Jake Ruston's Personal Site on Mar 31, 2008 at 1:50 pm

  […] appointed Loren Baker the judge of the best search blogs? No one at all: he just saw a creative opportunity and took […]

• Trinity on Apr 5, 2008 at 9:26 am

  It’s a great list. It will help to differentiate between black hats & white hats in SEO

• Google SEO » Blog Archive » SEO Advice: Getting Links on Apr 10, 2008 at 7:23 am

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• Rick - Phoenix Real Estate on Apr 30, 2008 at 9:19 pm

  Loren, thanks for putting this Great List together for us. I can’t wait to dig into the SEO blogs.

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• robert on Jul 12, 2008 at 10:39 pm

  Good list!
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• Wallace Nuanez on Jul 22, 2008 at 11:18 pm

  Great reference guide to all the great blogs, I hit on a couple of them but need to come back and read more! There are so many! Thank You!

• Removing plantar warts on Jul 23, 2008 at 11:44 am

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