Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Blogs

Search engines have become the starting point for most online activities. As a result, if you have a website, getting traffic from search engines via search engine optimization is becoming increasingly important and increasingly competitive.

There are lots of excellent guides to get started but to truly stay on top of your SEO game, you have to keep an eye on the rapidly changing search engine market.

Following the top bloggers on SEO is one sure way to do that and we have compiled a list of the top SEO blogs. If we left any of your favorite top SEO blogs off this list, please let us know and will be sure to take a look:

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Whose Your Favorite SEO's Celebrity Look-a-Like

Matt McGee has put together a cute little piece of link bait over at the He takes more than a dozen well known faces from the search marketing world (yes, my mug is among them) and offers up a picture of both the as suggested by There are some pretty impressive matches among his list, though I had a little issue with mine.

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Search Engine Cheat Sheets

Have you really, really gotten the most you can out of your friendly neighborhood search engine lately? What I mean is - have you dug under the surface of these search engines and really taken them out for a test drive? Here's something to help you out - check out the the and the All of these are in printable format so you can tape them up to the side of your monitor for easy access.

Related: And speaking of search engines, there are a LOT of search engines out there. In fact, I've profiled and was continually amazed at the variety of search engines available. If you're stumped as to which one is the best for your information needs,

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What Are the Top 10 Search Engines

Can You Name the Top 10 Search Engines?

Every search engine marketing professional knows Google is the top search engine. But only a few can name all 10 top search engines without looking at recent market research.

Why?

There are a couple of reasons.

For one, the list of top 10 search engines changes over time. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Web Search, Lycos Network Search/Directories, and My Way Search have dropped off the radar screen in the past year. At the same time, Information.com, InfoSpace Web Search, and even the beta version of Microsoft Search have taken their place.

For another, even the search engines that have stayed in the top 10 have moved around in the rankings. While Google was #1 in both December 2003 and December 2004, MSN Search slid from #2 to #3, while Yahoo Search climbed from #3 to #2. While AOL Search and Ask Jeeves remained #4 and #5 respectively, Overture slid from #6 to #7, while Netscape Search climbed from #9 to #8.

According to Nielsen//NetRatings, here were the top 10 search destinations (US, home and work) in December 2003:

Brand or Channel	Unique Audience (000)	Active Reach (%)
Google	53,058	37.41
MSN Search	53,058	37.41
Yahoo! Search	41,250	29.08
AOL Search	21,953	15.48
Ask Jeeves	11,481	8.10
Overture	7,163	5.05
Web Search	6,225	4.39
Lycos Network Search/Directories	5,884	4.15
Netscape Search	5,563	3.92
My Way Search	5,137	3.62

According to Nielsen//NetRatings, here are the top 10 search destinations (US, home and work) 12 months later in December 2004:

Brand or Channel	Unique Audience (000)	Active Reach (%)
Google	67,123	44.85
Yahoo! Search	47,917	32.02
MSN Search	37,684	25.18
AOL Search	25,447	17.00
Ask Jeeves	11,674	7.80
Information.com	11,513	7.69
Overture	5,726	3.83
Netscape Search	4,587	3.06
InfoSpace Web Search	4,280	2.86
Microsoft Search	4,273	2.86

While the charts above represent the "conventional" list of the top 10 search engines, there is also an "unconventional" view worth considering.

Tucked away in another category are Yahoo News and Google News. Each of these news search engines has a larger unique audience than some of the top 10 search engines. But Nielsen//NetRatings has put them in the Current Events & Global News category along with CNN.com, MSNBC.com, NYTimes.com, and Knight Ridder Digital.

In December 2003, Yahoo News had a unique audience of 18,134,000, making it the #3 Current Events & Global News destination, behind CNN.com (#1) and MSNBC.com (#2). By December 2004, however, Yahoo News had a unique audience of 21,337,000, making it the #1 Current Events & Global News destination, ahead of CNN.com (#2) and MSNBC.com (#3). Meanwhile, Google News had grown from a unique audience of 3,277,000 in December 2003 to a unique audience of 6,431,000 in December 2004.

If Yahoo News and Google News were classified as search destinations, a list of the top 10 search engines in December 2004 would have looked like this:

Brand or Channel	Unique Audience (000)	Active Reach (%)
Google	67,123	44.85
Yahoo! Search	47,917	32.02
MSN Search	37,684	25.18
AOL Search	25,447	17.00
Yahoo News	21,337	14.26
Ask Jeeves	11,674	7.80
Information.com	11,513	7.69
Google News	6,431	4.30
Overture	5,726	3.83
Netscape Search	4,587	3.06

This isn't just an academic exercise. This is data that search engine marketing professionals can act on. An optimized press release can improve search engine ranking, increase web traffic, and generate sales leads as well as publicity.

If this opportunity wasn't obvious before now, maybe you were looking at the wrong list of the top 10 search engines.

Greg Jarboe is the co-founder and CEO of which provides search engine optimization and public relations services to Southwest Airlines, Verizon SuperPages.com, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), and a growing list of other organizations.

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