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:

The Top SEO Blogs:

Blog: SEO­moz
URL: http://www.seomoz.org/blog.php
Descrip­tion: News, tips and high­lights from the search mar­ket­ing industry.

Blog: William Slawski
URL: http://www.seobythesea.com/
Descrip­tion: Offers great search engine opti­miza­tion advice and tips.

Blog: SEO chat
URL: http://www.seochat.com/
Descrip­tion: Great blog with well researched posts. Part of a larger site with an excel­lent forum and free SEO tools.

Blog: Aaron Wall’s SEO Book
URL: http://www.seobook.com/
Descrip­tion: Lead­ing SEO blog by Aaron Wall cov­er­ing the search space. It offers mar­ket­ing tips, search analy­sis, and what­ever ran­dom rants come to mind.

Blog: Matt Cutts
URL: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/googleseo/
Descrip­tion: Matt Cutts works for Google and is respon­si­ble for search engine qual­ity (i.e. get­ting rid of spam) and for help­ing web mas­ters with good SEO prac­tices. This one is a must for any­one that wants to mas­ter good, solid, SEO practices.

Blog: Searchenginewatch.com Blog
URL: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/
Descrip­tion: Blog founded by Danny Sul­li­van, inter­net con­sul­tant and jour­nal­ist. It offers many search engines resources and SEO related news.
Free newsletter.

Blog: Jill Whalen
URL: http://www.highrankings.com/
Descrip­tion: While they do not main­tain a blog, they have an excel­lent newslet­ter and lots of great seo arti­cles.
Blog: Nadir Garouche
URL: http://www.seoprinciple.com/
Descrip­tion: A blog cov­er­ing Search Engine Opti­miza­tion
tech­niques, news, com­men­tary and much more.

Note­wor­thy

Blog: Stunt­dubl
URL: http://www.stuntdubl.com/
Descrip­tion: Todd is a cer­ti­fied AdWords Pro­fes­sional and SEO
con­sul­tant. He main­tains a very solid blog where he shares his
lat­est thoughts and insights on SEO. Well worth reading.

Launch­ing soon:

Blog: Search Engine Land
URL: http://searchengineland.com/
Descrip­tion: Every­one is wait­ing for this blog to launch. It will cover the lat­est news on search engine mar­ket­ing and promises to be the sin­gle most resource­ful tool on search engine marketing.

Free SEO Tools

Blog: SEO com­pany
URL: http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html
Descrip­tion: In this blog you will find 156 SEO tools that will help you to opti­mize your web­site and move your search engine posi­tion higher.
Blog: The webconfs.com SEO toolset
URL: http://www.webconfs.com/
Descrip­tion: You will find SEO Tools, Arti­cles and Forums. Try also to do the quiz on SEO practices.

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About the Author

Prior to MindValley Media, Mike was the Head of New Ventures Strategy at eBay where he conceived of the strategies that led to the investment in Craigslist, the launch of Kijiji.com and the acquisition of Skype. Mike has an MBA from Stanford and previously worked for the Boston Consulting Group. He is also a certified Google AdWords Professional.

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