Top SEO blogs: The Ultimate Rank

TopRank published a list of the top SEO blogs by RSS membership back in April of this year. And while RSS membership is a great indicator of how powerful a blog is, there are few other factors to measure the power and reach of a blog. So, for the purposes of this post, we will list the top SEO blogs based on several criteria:

1. By RSS membership

2. By number of incoming links

3. By the number of pages posted on the blog

4. By the ratio links to pages: since incoming links target specific pages on a blog, we will analyze which of the SEO blogs was able to attract the most links per post.

5. Unique monthly visitors: how many visitors did the blog receive during the last month. The data provided here is captured based on unique visitor numbers from Compete.

6. By Pages per visit: how many pages does a visitor navigate through prior to exiting the site. The data provided here is captured based on last month page per visit numbers from Compete

7. Ratio of visitors to pages: my assumption is that sites with more pages or with pages that rank for more keywords will receive more visitors. This ratio will indicate how many visitors different site pages are able to attract.

8. By Google page rank

9. The ultimate rank: This will provide a weighted average based on how well a site ranks for five of the above factors. These factors are

• RSS
• Incoming links
• Pages
• Monthly visitors
• Pages per visit
• Google PR

For the purposes of this blog, I only considered 25 different blogs. If you think I missed a blog or you would like to add one to the list, please leave it in the comments.

Top SEO Blogs By RSS membership

SEOmoz

Search Engine Land

Search Engine Watch

Search Engine Roundtable

Search Engine Journal

Online Marketing Blog

Search Engine Guide

Marketing Pilgrim

Pronet Advertising

Graywolf’s SEO Blog

Get Elastic

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BlogStorm

Web Analytics World

SEO Scoop

SEO Pedia

techipedia

Top SEO blogs by number of incoming links:

For the purposes of incoming links, we used Yahoo site explorer to report the number of incoming links to a blog. Couple of things to note here:

• We used the blog URL address,
• We excluded links from the domain it self

On the surface the number of incoming links seems like a good way to measure the power of a blog. Yet it has some major problems since some of the blogs might be able to attract links by guest posting, being an editor on another large blog, or by getting included in a blog roll of another blog. For the purposes of our ultimate rank, we gave the number of incoming links a less value in the final calculation.