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Top SEO Blogs That Every Web Professional Should Know About
Top SEO Blogs are hard to find – there are of course thousands of blogs looking at SEO, web design and all manner of online marketing; but the top SEO blogs are really the cream of the crop – they give valuable and, more importantly, timely information regarding all manner of search marketing.
I do a alot of reading and I came across a fantastic list of the top SEO blogs over at TopRank (BigList). It’s a comprehensive list sorted into alphabetical order, some well known ones and some not so; I particularly like the brilliantly named I’m Not A Doctor – Stephen Peron has a fantastic prose and I love the way he picks his articles!
Check out the list of top SEO blogs and please add any more that you feel qualify to the comments section.
Happy blogging!
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Mark is a director at The Design Loft; a marketing studio delivering design, web solutions, SEO, PPC, print, photography and digital marketing directly to SMEs and as white label products to marketing agencies and design houses, all from a base near Sheffield, England. He has consulted and worked on projects for the NHS, UK Ministry of Defence, Barclays PLC, JCB and many more as an experienced web designer, online marketer, IT trainer and casual geek. On top of that he has an affinity for his iPhone and his Mac and loves designing and building pretty websites. He is also a huge advocate of the .NET CMS mojoPortal and is one of the UK's leading mojoPortal skin / mojoPortal theme designers. He has a dog called Pete and is the frontman and bassist for Green Ball Flyers. He also dislikes coconut. Alot.
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