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The Top 50 SEO and SEM Bloggers Worth Following

Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by admin in SEO

Any­one who wants to run a seri­ous blog or web­site needs solid infor­ma­tion on the ever chang­ing nature of the SEO/SEM game. If you’re look­ing to make it to the top of the charts on the web, you’ve got your work cut out for you and you’ll want every tip, trick and piece of advice you can find.

That’s why we’ve put together this list of the Top 50 SEO/SEM Experts. These are the folks you want to keep an eye on, in no par­tic­u­lar order:

Matt Cutts – Most of those already involved in SEO know the name Matt Cutts. He’s a Google employee who spe­cial­izes in SEO issues, with a pas­sion for the pre­ven­tion of link spam­ming. His blog is very down to earth and filled with insight you can’t get from some­one who doesn’t work at Google.

Randy Fishkin – As a major con­trib­u­tor to SEOmoz.org, one of the net’s pre­miere SEO sites, Randy got involved in the Web game back in the early 90’s. He’s been invited to speak with the engi­neers of both Google and Microsoft, not to men­tion given pre­sen­ta­tions at Stan­ford and NPR.

Daron Babin – After start­ing his career at NBC TV and win­ning pres­ti­gious awards in the broad­cast­ing indus­try, Babin turned his atten­tion to SEO and SEM. He’s not one of the stars of the SEO world, run­ning WebmasterRadio.

Jim Boykin – A reg­u­lar con­fer­ence speaker on the top­ics of link build­ing cam­paigns and search engine mar­ket­ing tools, Boykin not only blogs about SEO/SEM, he’s built tools to help mar­keters along on their path to suc­cess. His down home style appeals to many, but his suc­cess is even more attractive.

Aaron Wall – One of the most pow­er­ful SEO blog­gers online, Wall is the man behind SEO Book, a giant and irre­place­able resource for the SEO indus­try. Being fea­tured in the Wall Street Jour­nal and a pop­u­lar speaker at Pub­Con speaks for itself.

Danny Sul­li­van – Start­ing out as a jour­nal­ist, Sul­li­van went on to cover search engines in a big way. He has a pod­cast and also writes for Search Engine Land. The scope of Sullivan’s knowl­edge makes him a big favorite for aspir­ing SEO experts.

Barry Schwartz – Another writer for Search Engine Land, Schwartz uses his blog to track the con­ver­sa­tions tak­ing place at the most pop­u­lar SEO forums online. He’s known as one of the hard­est work­ers in the SEO industry.

Bill Slawski – Com­ing from a back­ground in law, Slawski started out part-time, but his fas­ci­na­tion for the SEO world lead him towards a career in con­sult­ing. He focuses on eth­i­cal, proac­tive solu­tions to SEO issues and along with lots of research and exper­i­men­ta­tion yet deliv­ers the infor­ma­tion in a laid back way.

Todd Mal­i­coat – With nearly a decade of seri­ous SEO expe­ri­ence, Mal­i­coat brings a lot to the table in terms of traf­fic gen­er­a­tion. He’s a spe­cial­ist in how to get vis­i­tors to web­sites and a pop­u­lar speaker at Search Engine Strate­gies and Pub­con who’s been fea­tured in Inc. Mag­a­zine and the New York Post.

Andy Beal – With a spe­cial­iza­tion in online rep­u­ta­tion man­age­ment, Beal is an SEO expert who’s ser­viced com­mer­cial pow­er­houses like Motorola, Glax­o­SmithK­line and NBC. He’s also a fore­front expert on SEM, shar­ing his wis­dom through his pop­u­lar blogs Mar­ket­ing Pil­grim and SEM Vendor.

Michael Arring­ton – You’ve prob­a­bly heard of TechCrunch, the com­pany Arring­ton founded after an already suc­cess­ful career as a cor­po­rate secu­ri­ties lawyer and ser­ial entre­pre­neur. He’s shaped the SEO land­scape in a great many ways and con­tin­ues to be a major player in the SEM world.

John Bat­telle – You may know of Battelle’s book ‘The Search’, a land­mark in the SEO world. He’s a jour­nal­ist and entre­pre­neur who blogs from a very stripped down site about the high gloss world of Web 2.0 and other top­ics. His major aim is help­ing SEO mar­keters develop towards the future of the web.

Brett Tabke – With more than three decades in the com­puter indus­try, Tabke brought his expe­ri­ence to bear and accom­plishes great things in the SEO indus­try. He’s noted for for coin­ing some major basics in the Web world SEO Themes, link farms and SERP.

Rae Hoff­man – Along with viral mar­ket­ing, Rae ‘Sug­ar­rae’ Hoff­man took her end­less hours of time spent online and turned her­self into an SEO con­sul­tant. With a flashy yet effec­tive sense of design, her blog offers the SEO crowd a solid source of effec­tive advice for pulling traffic.

Matt McGee – In addi­tion to mod­er­at­ing for Sphinn and edit­ing for Search Engine Land, McGee has carved a niche for him­self in local search mar­ket­ing. Help­ing com­pa­nies like Target.com got the Wall Street Jour­nal inter­ested in what he has to say.

Rene LeMerle – Hav­ing been in the indus­try for over a decade, LeMerle focuses on global search engine mar­ket­ing. He’s also inter­ested in Web 2.0 help­ing dig­i­tal mar­keters get their mar­ket­ing efforts to pay off.

Ben­jamin Pfeif­fer – Known as Phoenix, Pfeif­fer is the owner of Rank Smart Search Mar­ket­ing renowned as an busi­ness con­sul­tant and search opti­mizer. A vet­eran in SEO, he’s over­seen teams of SEO pro’s and knows how to achieve mas­sive suc­cess with a campaign.

Car­olyn Shelby – Way back in 1994, Shelby was already build­ing web­sites pro­fes­sion­ally. Today, she focuses on SEO for sites that are old and out­dated, tak­ing them to the next level of per­for­mance with a com­plete re-launch. She’s also well known in the blog radio cir­cuit and many SEO forums.

Patrick Altoft – With the UK’s largest Inter­net mar­ket­ing blog, Altoft has a lot of cred­i­bil­ity on both sides of the pond. His Blogstorm has gained him so much clout that he’s been quoted by the likes of BBC News, Wired, TechCrunch and Mashable.

Michael Gray – Hav­ing started out in the online retail mar­ket over a decade ago, Gray knows his way around the net. He blogs about loads of excel­lent infor­ma­tion for SEO and it’s easy to see why he gets invited to so many con­fer­ences as a guest speaker.

Bruce Clay – One of the strongest voices for ethics in SEO, Clay has estab­lished a large com­pany that offers SEO train­ing among many other ser­vices. His blog hosts many excel­lent SEO and SEM writers.

David Nay­lor – Not only a dig­i­tal radio host, Nay­lor got his start doing SEO work for major cor­po­ra­tions. He’s focused on use­abil­ity in site design and get­ting Num­ber 1 rank­ings in the search engines and teach­ing oth­ers how to do that, too.

Jill Whalen – As the founder of High Rank­ings back in 1995, Whalen is a reg­u­lar speaker at SEO con­fer­ences. As a mod­er­a­tor at Sphinn who’s quoted by Inc. Mag­a­zine and the Wall Street Jour­nal, she brings a wealth of expe­ri­ence with her.

Eric Enge – With three decades worth of tech indus­try expe­ri­ence, Enge keep his focus on total search engine com­pli­ance, never cut­ting cor­ners for solid results. He’s the author of a book called The Art of SEO and a career entrepreneur.

Andrew Shot­land – After start­ing with a site that he SEO’d to three mil­lion vis­i­tors per month, Shot­land sold his start-up to City­Search. Now he’s an expert in the area of local search, an emerg­ing niche within the SEM industry.

John Andrews – Describ­ing him­self as a Com­pet­i­tive Web­mas­ter, Andrews began as an IT pro­fes­sional for a non-profit that needed to spread the word. He now shares his SEO knowl­edge that he’s gained work­ing for large com­pa­nies and pro­fes­sion­als on his blog.

Vanessa Fox – A promi­nent speaker at search indus­try events, Fox not only writes about search engine opti­miza­tion, she’s also got incred­i­ble expe­ri­ence. She helped design the Google Web­mas­ter Cen­tral and was a spokesper­son for Google.

Eric Lan­der – From his wood­land out­post, Lan­der blogs about all things SEO. He’s a spe­cial­ist in both local search and truly organic search engine opti­miza­tion. He’s also not afraid to be con­tro­ver­sial in his posts.

Bill Hartzer – Hav­ing been a pro­fes­sional writer for the tech indus­try and TV, Hartzer under­stands how search plays a role in pop­u­lar­ity. He’s also the admin­is­tra­tor for SearchEngineForums.com and a con­sul­tant for large companies.

Shi­mon San­dler – After start­ing as a mar­ket­ing man­ager for a deter­gent com­pany, San­dler decided to set out to mas­ter SEO. He’s come a long ways and is now a pop­u­lar guest on Good Karma pod­cast who brings his major cor­po­rate SEO expe­ri­ence along with him.

Jaan Kanel­lis – As an expert in both PPC and organic SEM, Kanel­lis has worked with big com­pa­nies like Google, Yahoo and MSN. He’s a mod­er­a­tor at WebProWorld.com and a real asset to the SEM indus­try as a whole.

Dev Basu – Start­ing out as a teen at Microsoft Canada, Basu brings an inter­na­tion­al­ist slant to his work. He’s expe­ri­enced work­ing for busi­nesses at all lev­els, help­ing them estab­lish and pro­mote their online presence.

Kalena Jor­dan – The founder of Search Engine Col­lege, Jor­dan has put her his­tory of SEO to work for oth­ers by teach­ing both SEO and SEM. She now does con­sult­ing with the aim of help­ing cus­tomers achieve the high­est ROI for their online sites.

Kyle Bunch – For­merly a con­trib­u­tor to AOL’s Fan­house, Bunch went on to run Blo­gebrity to cover the A-list of blog­gers. He’s helped develop the SEOi toolset for users at his com­pany SEOin­tel­li­gence and also runs a sports media conference.

Jeremy Her­manns – Hav­ing worked with over 50 For­tune 500 top search engine com­pa­nies, Her­manns comes from a back­ground of work­ing at Overture/Goto. He’s cur­rently focused on pro­vid­ing the finest SEO toolset available.

Karl Ribas – Com­ing from a back­ground as a graphic artist, Ribas works in many areas of web­site mar­ket­ing with a strong focus on SEM. He mixes a strong desire to cre­ate visu­ally appeal­ing sites with a deter­mi­na­tion to get them high in search engine rankings.

Edward Cow­ell – A UK native, Cow­ell focuses on the lat­est news in the organic SEO and pay per click mar­kets. He cre­ated Search Engine War to offer a unique UK approach to mar­ket­ing online and offers lots of global search infor­ma­tion on his blog.

Erik Daf­forn – The cre­ator of the SEO Speed­wagon blog, Daf­forn strives to pro­vide ‘beneath the hood’ cov­er­age in the world of SEO and SEM. His blog reg­u­larly delves deep into tech­ni­cal issues that help both advanced and begin­ning SEO experts alike.

Kim Krause Berg – Known as Cre8pc online, Krause Berg worked for a tech magazine’s web­site back in the 90’s. She’s used her expe­ri­ence in Qual­ity Assur­ance to carve a niche for her­self in SEO world where she focuses on the vis­i­tor side of qual­ity SEO results.

Lee Odden – One of 25 stars fea­tured in the book Online Mar­ket­ing Heroes, Odden has proven him­self to the level that U.S. News and For­tune have taken the time to write about him. He’s focused on the com­bi­na­tion of good pub­lic rela­tions and SEO.

Roger Doo­ley – As the con­sul­tant and entre­pre­neur behind Neuro Sci­ence Mar­ket­ing, Doo­ley blends his offline mar­ket­ing expe­ri­ence with an under­stand­ing of “big pic­ture” SEO issues. He strives to sharpen the skills of those in emerg­ing SEM markets.

Roger Montti – As a site audi­tor and reviewer, Montti focuses on com­men­tary about the search engine indus­try in gen­eral. He reg­u­larly helps those who need assis­tance build­ing qual­ity links to improve their SEO strategies.

David Brown – A pop­u­lar pod­cast speaker at SEO 101, Brown formed the Top SEO Con­sult­ing firm to work almost exclu­sively with large scale cor­po­rate clients. His focus is pro­vid­ing high ROI for those he offers SEO advice to.

James Har­ri­son – Com­ing from a back­ground in Pay Per Click and Inter­net mar­ket­ing, Har­ri­son free­lances his SEO work using his skills as a writer. On his blog he shares his suc­cesses as he works up the rank­ings in the SEO world.

Jeremy Mor­gan – With over a decade’s worth of expe­ri­ence devel­op­ing web­sites, Mor­gan brings his his­tory to work for him on his blog. There he offers tips for those just start­ing in the SEO game and cov­ers top­ics like using Bing and Twit­ter instead of Google only.

Roy Sen­cio – Com­ing from a back­ground in adver­tis­ing and mar­ket­ing, Sen­cio blogs about top­ics to help oth­ers in SEO and SEM. His pri­mary focus is on get­ting solid con­ver­sions in the pay per click mar­ket­ing environment.

Steve Wiide­man – As a vet­eran spe­cial­ist in both organic SEO and pay per click cam­paigns, Wiide­man pro­vides sev­eral blogs to offer tips and trips to aspir­ing SEO and SEM marketers.

Michael Guy – As the CEO of 1SEOExperts, Guy focuses on help­ing web­mas­ters fine tune their sites and raise their pro­files in the search engines.

Brad Fal­lon – As a spe­cial­ist expert in SEO, Fallon’s blog offers many tac­tics and tips to help those who want great search engine ranks and the traf­fic that comes with it.

Nima Asrar Haghighi – Com­ing from a back­ground of pro­fes­sional SEO and SEM, Haghighi pro­vides excel­lent info on his blog for SEM tips and tricks that improve your search engine rankings.

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