28 Blogs To Understand SEO

S.E.O. – Search Engine Optimization. That’s what it stands for in case you didn’t know and it’s this almost buzzword you keep encountering online that represents an art that digital marketers are known to religiously practice every day since it first appeared.

All jokes aside, search engine optimization consists in making the content you write online easy to find by the search engines (And that’s what Google is, in case you didn’t know). And just why would you want to do that? Well, the more SEO-optimized your webpage content is, the highest it ranks on Google’s search results, meaning more people get to see it, and you definitively want your site to be seen.

There’s a lot of crazy advice and mysticism on SEO out there that bears no relation with reality and makes it seem like it’s close to some digital witchcraft, far from truth. Still, when you learn about SEO, do yourself a favor and learn it from the best, learn it by reading these blogs.

#1 The Recipes For Seo Success

This blog has a variety of tips and tricks for every level of SEO. From beginner to advanced, I ALWAYS learn something from these blogs to apply to my own strategy.

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#2 Moz Blog

As one of the key players in the SEO software industry, Moz also remains one of the best resources that people can use to get SEO tips and tricks. It’s easily digestible, to the point and sometimes even in a video format, not just text.

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#3 Ormi Media Seo Blog

The SEO and digital marketing blog at Ormi Media is created with business owners in mind, so you will learn more about SEO and various digital marketing strategies without feeling overwhelmed by overly technical articles and industry jargon.

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#4 Dashthis Blog

DashThis’ blog is a great source of information for anyone looking for various SEO tips and tricks. There are multiple blog posts explaining what KPIs you should track, how to use Google Analytics and other tools for your SEO needs, some tips for SEO agencies, SEO tutorials to check out, and more. It’s a great resource for marketers of any level.

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#5 Julian

Julian Shapiro is a former VP of Marketing at Webflow and a prolific growth marketer. Using Julian’s growth marketing blog, our organization has been able to navigate the complicated waters of SEO, content marketing, and related initiatives.

In his blog, Julian unfolds the topic of growth marketing through conversational language. He employs the latest research on the subject and combines it with his personal experience. Investing an hour or two into reading his blog will fully inform the reader about the fundamentals of expanding one’s fledgling business with a limited budget.

Tossing unnecessarily complicated technical analyses out the window, Julian teaches growth marketing in a manner that fosters brainstorming and provides a full description of maximizing a company’s marketing initiatives.

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#6 National Positions Blog

This digital marketing blog covers a variety of topics from social media to video to Google updates and more, but SEO is still one of their favorite and most popular topics. Written by experts with SMB owners in mind, The National Positions Blog is updated regularly with must-know tips, trends, facts, and news.

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#7 Search Engine Journal

SEJ is an established platform that stays updated on major digital marketing news. Over the years I have seen this platform evolve into a wealth of information within the marketing industry. This is a great website to keep up with the multiple movements that comes with effective marketing.

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#8 Backlinko Blog

Brian Dean of Backlinko writes the most detailed and helpful SEO guides and tutorials that I have seen. His SEO tips are original and actionable. His writing style is also amazing. It’s worth studying Brian’s writing style, especially his use of transitions, as its part of the reason he’s been so successful.

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#9 Brandon Gaille’S Blogging Millionaire Podcast

One of the reasons I love this podcast is it’s not an interview – it’s just Brandon talking about strategies for increasing your organic search traffic. I love the fact that every episode has at least one actionable tip. Most times when I finish listening to his podcast, I immediately go and put into action a powerful SEO hack that he’s just revealed. Really well worth listening to!

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#10 Marie Haynes Consulting

It is a weekly broadcast that highlights important events in world of SEO and content marketing. Marie uses layman terms to explain what has happened, why it is important, and how you, your business, or clients might be able to benefit. It’s a must listen, as far as I’m concerned. Well worth the 15 to 45 minutes a week it takes to listen to it.

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#11 Seo By The Sea

SEO by the Sea’s tag line is ‘Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines’. This wonderful blog resource dives into Google’s patents and whitepapers that can directly relate to future developments of Google’s ranking algorithms.

With insights on new patent discoveries filed by Google, SEO by the Sea does a great job explaining a business approach behind how these technologies may impact the future of search.

This blog resource is a great way to research ways Google likely wants to evolve search with new technologies and can help you stay in front of the curve.

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#12 Stupid Simple Seo

Mike Pearson of Stupid Simple SEO breaks down SEO in the simplest way, so anyone can understand it. He enabled me to finally get a grasp on SEO and take control.

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#13 The Mighty Investor

This SEO blog is very different from what is out there. Unique methods and techniques that go beyond Google’s guidelines. All techniques discussed are tried and results shown.

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#14 Yoast Seo

If you have been a long time user of WordPress, then you have surely seen and probably used the Yoast SEO plugin. It revolutionized SEO on WordPress and catapulted Yoast SEO Blogs written by Joost de Valk to the top of SEO fame. Today Yoast is no longer just a one-man show and their blogs set the industry standard for their content and creativity.

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#15 Robbie Richards

Unlike other SEO blogs, Robbie Richards’ blog is more focused on practical knowledge and strategies that comes from his personal experience. He usually shares case studies or expert roundup with real examples and actionable knowledge.

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#16 Tanzek Media

This blog focuses on SEO, not just for websites, but for social media accounts as well. Subjects are explained in an easy to understand way, and there are always links to relevant products/resources to help you along your SEO journey.

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#17 Ahrefs Blog

Ahrefs is one of, if not the best, SEO tool on the market and they are also the second fastest crawler to Google, meaning they literally have the most data behind Google when it comes to search engine optimization.

They use their data sets to provide unique insights in attempt to answer cutting edge SEO questions where having large data sets is important because of the scale and variablity in the industry. Their topics are extremely rich and unlike anything else out there.

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#18 Kevin Indig- A Student Of Technical Marketing

This is a lesser-known, but extremely valuable SEO nugget of a website.

It’s run by Kevin Indig, an expert who’s was in charge of growth and SEO for huge companies like Vimeo, Atlassian, and The German Accelerator.

I like his blog because I learned there things I couldn’t elsewhere. For example, to base my keyword research around questions people have (because every keyword is a question).

The other thing I absorbed is his advice on internal linking, the advanced version of the technique, which helped me rank for my most valuable keywords with the least amount of backlinks possible.

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#19 Neil Patel’S Marketing School

I can’t get enough of Neil Patel and Eric Siu’s Marketing School. These guys are smart, articulate, and entertaining marketing gurus who share their golden tips and ideas day after day. Patel is basically the godfather of SEO and digital marketing, so listening to his advice is a no-brainer.

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#20 Page 1 Solutions Blog

The Page 1 Solutions blog is a great resource for SEO because of the diversity of perspectives and because of the multifaceted treatment of the subject of SEO. Many different team members write regularly about best practices and updates in search marketing, and the topics range widely from the impact of reviews on local search listings to the visibility-boosting effects of social media activity. Blog content doesn’t narrowly construe SEO as what what you do with narrowly focused keywords on individual web pages.

Instead, posts explore many different aspects of SEO and the comprehensive impact of pooled strategies, such as on-site optimization in tandem with embedding and optimizing external video to support business marketing on multiple domains and to different consumer audiences.

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#21 Search Engine Roundtable

Managed by Barry Schwartz who offers the latest updates about the industry trends. For almost all the SEO community his blog must be the source of information when something big is happening like Google algo updates, announcements etc.

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#22 Gsqi Blog

This blog has tons of valuable suggestion around the algorithm updates like Panda, Penguine and Core algorithm updates. Glenn did the awesome job in tracing and updating the SEO community on how you should be looking and fixing the site for improving the overall quality.

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#23 Elephate Blog

If you are into Technical SEO then you should not miss this blog. You will get some really good insights on Javascript SEO, Crawling and other technical SEO related concerns.

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#24 Deepcrawl Blog

If you are a fan of Google Webmasters Office Hour Hangouts and wanted to know what webmasters are asking the questions to John Muller then you should follow DeepCrawl blog. They do cover series of hangout sessions and webinars by interviewing SEO experts.

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#25 Google Webmaster Central Blog

Well, no one in the SEO community misses the opportunity to get the latest announcement from Google. This blog is dedicated to the webmasters and SEO on optimizing websites and also providing best practices to make your site awesome.

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#26 Diggity Marketing

What stands out the most about Diggity Marketing’s blogs is the thorough case studies. Recently, I came across one where they helped a client lift an Algorithm penalty and found that, even though our site has never suffered from one, there are things one might miss that could lead to such an event. We actually implemented some of the advice to ensure we are never penalized by Google! It was truly valuable and great to see the solution in action with tangible results.

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#27 Neil Patel

It’s probably no surprise to see the King of SEO and marketing on this list of the best SEO blogs. But it’s not just the actual content of the blogs that I look for to find tips on increasing traffic and ranking on page 1 of Google. It’s the actual practices that are implemented on the blog.

While each post usually has some real-life strategy applied by Neil Patel himself, watching out for other marketing and SEO strategies implemented on the blog has been helpful as well when it comes to CTAs and conversion optimization.

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#28 Merj

This blog is completely dedicated to technical SEO. It posts monthly “roundups” on the month’s technical SEO trends and news. Even better are the action plans they mention at the end whereby one can immediately put the changes into practice.

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