Top 25 SEO Blogs

Top 25 SEO Blogs

Top 25 SEO Blogs 19 SEOpedia did not have a link on Daily blog tips site, we added the site link for your reference.
This is a part page from : -http://www.dailyblogtips.com/top-25-seo-blogs/  by Daniel Scocco : -

I love rankings, what can I say. After I published the “Top 25 Blogs About Blogging” list I thought that someone would replicate it for the SEO sphere. But no one did, so here we go again.

This list was made using pretty much the same algorithm (only small modifications were made, mainly due to the fact that SEO blogs are more popular). Once again the list should be useful because it is based on objective factors. There are many “Top SEO Blogs” lists around the web, but most of them are based on the preferences of the author.

The Top 25 SEO Blogs list, instead, ranks the blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. Each factor has a score from 0 to 10, and the maximum score for each blog is 40. Details about the algorithm can be found below the table.

#1 Search Engine Land
 7 10 9 10 36
#2 SEOBook 6 10 10 10 36
#3 SEO Moz 5 10 10 10 35
#4 Matt Cutts 7 10 8 10 35
#5 Search Engine Watch 7 10 10 7 34
#6 Search Engine Roundtable 7 10 8 8 33
#7 Search Engine Journal 7 8 9 8 32
#8 Online Marketing Blog 6 7 7 10 30
#9 Pronet Advertising 7 7 5 10 29
#10 Marketing Pilgrim 7 8 6 8 29
#11 SEO Chat 6 10 4 6 26
#12 Search Engine Guide 7 8 4 6 25
#13 SEO Blackhat 6 8 6 5 25
#14 Stuntdubl 6 6 6 6 24
#15 Graywolf’s SEO 6 7 4 7 24
#16 SEO by the SEA 6 4 5 5 20
#17 Link Building Blog 5 5 5 4 19
#18 Jim Boykin 5 6 4 4 19
#19 SEOpedia 6 5 4 4 19
#20 DaveN 6 5 4 4 19
#21 Bruce Clay 5 7 3 3 18
#22 Blue Hat SEO 4 6 3 4 17
#23 Tropical SEO 5 5 3 4 17
#24 SEO Refugee 5 6 1 3 15
#25 Small Business SEM 5 4 3 3 15

Top 25 SEO Blogs :

Blogs considered: the list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of SEO-related content. Topics might range from SEO news coverage to general SEO discussion and link building.

Google Pagerank (0 to 10): the actual Pagerank was used on the algorithm.

Alexa Rank (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 100k and up, 80k-100k, 60k-80k, 40k-60k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Bloglines Subscribers (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-300) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank (i.e., 1-125, 125-250, 500-750,750-1000) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

 

 

 

 

Important 1stPro Tips/ to Slug or not to Slug

Important 1stPro Tips to Slug or not to Slug

Important 1stPro Tips to Slug or not to Slug

It’s good to pay attention to the post slug feature inside WordPress, a post recently submitted  to : -

Brian over Copyblogger. The post was titled “Six Common Punctuation Errors that Bedevil Bloggers.” The URL, however, was http://www.copyblogger.com/punctuation-mistakes/

You can see the potential of this little Slug feature. So simple, yet so useful.
If you publish a post on WordPress without specifying the post Slug, W/Press will create a URL that is equal to the post title (provided you are already using an optimal URL structure).

Most of the times, however, that URL will not be search engine optimized.

Important 1stPro Tips to Slug or not to Slug
You probably want to write your headlines and post titles with humans in mind. After all, you need to make them catchy and motivate the reader to check the rest of the content. The same is not true for URLs. While a clean URL structure that contains a description of the page might benefit human users, usually they are more relevant to search engines.
That is where the WordPress post Slug feature comes into play. On the little box that appears on the right of your text editor you can manually set the URL structure for that post. As you can see from the example I mentioned, Brian knew that many of the words used in the title of the post would not be used by users searching for similar information. He decided, therefore, to use just the keywords “punctuation” and “mistakes” in the URL.
When crafting your post Slug try to focus on the keywords that are used on popular search queries, and remember that the fewer keywords you use, the higher their relative value.
Some people were already aware of this trick, but we think it was worth sharing this Slug again.

 

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Important 1stPro Tips to Slug or not to Slug

 

Important 1stPro Tips to Slug or not to Slug

 

 

Important 1stPro tips Categories or Tags

Important 1stPro tips Categories or Tags

Categories and Tags what’s the difference

 

Categories versus Tags – What’s the Difference and Which One do you use?

 

Categories and Tags are for your visitors, not just search engines.

Think of your visitors’ needs first.

Categories and Tags are about navigation and sorting, grouping your content to help visitors find related information.

Categories and Tags are not fashion statements. Don’t be colorful or imaginative with either.

 

Important 1stPro tips Categories or Tags:-

Categories are your site’s table of contents.

Categories help identify what your blog is about.

Categories represent your body of work on the subject.

Categories are not for you, they are for your reader.

Categories help reader know if they are in the right place.

Categories must encompass collected groups of information.

Categories must be specific enough to help visitors understand the content within, while not being too general or vague.

A category that dominates a blog may need to be spun off to a separate blog. o Categories with only one post tells the reader you don’t know much about that topic.

Important 1stPro tips Categories or Tags:-

Tags are your site’s index words.

Tags are micro-data or meta-data, more specifically micro-categorization for your site’s content.

Tags were indexed by Technorati and others as “keywords” and today are just part of the collection of content they index. They are not indexed nor score “extra points” by other indexing services.

Search engines do not recognize or reward the rel=”tag” which identifies a tag.

If you can’t write five blog post titles/ideas on a topic, then you don’t have a category.

If enough posts have the same tag, and it represents your blog purpose and goals, it’s a category.

PLEASE NOTE :  All categories and tags will link to content on your site, through built-in features or WordPress Plugins. Not sure if they link to your content, test it.

Don’t get stressed

Don’t get stressed :

 

 

Stress is the feeling of being under too much mental or emotional pressure.

Pressure turns into stress when you feel unable to cope. People have different ways of reacting to stress, so a situation that feels stressful to one person may be motivating to another.

Many of life’s demands can cause stress, especially work, relationships and money problems, when you feel stressed, it can affect everything you do.

More about : what causes stress.

Stress can affect how you think, how you behave and how your body works. Sleeping problems, sweating, loss of appetite and difficulty concentrating are common signs of stress.

Managing stress

Stress is not itself an illness but will cause serious illness if not tackled. Recognise the : symptoms of stress early.

This will help you with ways of coping and save you from unhealthy coping methods, such as drinking or smoking.

Spotting the early signs of stress also help prevent potentially causing serious complications, such as high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. More on health : complications of stress.

There is little you can do to prevent stress but are many things you can do to manage stress more effectively, learning how to relax, taking regular exercise and adopting good time management techniques :  Learn how to manage stress effectively.

When to see your GP

If you’ve tried all the self-help techniques and they are not working, do make an appointment to see your GP, It’s not girly to say “I Feel Stressed”  They may suggest other coping techniques or recommend some form of counselling. If your stress is causing serious health problems, such as high blood pressure, you may need medication and further tests.

Mental health issues, including stress, anxiety and depression, are the reason for one in five visits to a GP, so go and see your GP.

More about treating stress.

Important 1stPro tips Authorising sites

Important 1stPro tip Authorising sites

Important 1stPro tips Authorising sites Google makes the impossible seem simple and the simple impossible.

On your Google AdSense page, Under :- Home, Under :- Account settings, Under :- Access and Authorisation,

Under :- Sites authorised to show ads,  Under this :- {?}

You may not find this link  :-

http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=65062

Authorizing sites to display your ads

1stPro tips:

AUTHORIS YOUR SITES OR YOU WILL NOT GET ANY PAY.

Authorizing your sites

  1. Sign in to your account.
  2. Visit the Home tab, then Account settings in the left hand panel.
  3. In the “Access & authorization” section, next to “Sites authorized to show ads,” click edit.
  4. Check the box marked Only allow certain sites to display ads for my account.
  5. Enter the URL of the sites that you want to authorize, then click Save

Your changes should take effect within 48 hours.

 

Please note our systems might attribute a few impressions to sites that you do not control and that do not directly have your ad code on them. Check possible reasons for this.

If you don’t add a site to the authorized sites list, and you place your ad code on it, ads will continue to appear on the site but you won’t earn from them. So please enable this feature with caution to avoid missing out on valid revenue.

What happens to sites I don’t authorize?

Important 1stPro tips Authorising sites If a URL displaying your AdSense ad code is not on your list of authorized sites, ads will still show on that URL, and impressions and clicks will be recorded. However, advertisers will not be charged, and you will not receive any earnings for that site.

 

Site authorization is an optional feature that allows you to identify only specific sites that are permitted to use your Google ad code. If you’re particularly concerned about malicious use of your ad code by others, you may wish to use this feature as a precaution.

1stPro tips :
AUTHORIS YOUR SITES OR YOU WILL NOT GET ANY PAY.