Part of the guide: Blog Traffic
As an online marketer, it’s your job to stay up to date with what’s going on in the industry. Things like Google algorithm updates, new marketing strategies, monetization methods, and list-building tactics. The best way to stay up to date and learn new Internet Marketing (IM) strategies is to read blogs. Every week I spend at least 2 hours reading blogs. Here is a list of my top 10:
- SEO Moz
SEO Moz, while technically a blog about SEO, covers a lot more. One of my favorite blogs, it’s hard to believe how much information they give away for free. - CopyBlogger
CopyBlogger is one of the most well-known blogs out there. It’s probably the best copywriting blog on the Internet, with hundreds of insightful posts about copywriting, blogging, and general online marketing. - Top Rank Blog
Top Rank Blog is my go-to source for all content marketing/social media-related information. Check it out. - Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Watch is definitely my favorite SEO blog for news. They’re more of an SEO news blog rather than teaching strategy. Whenever something happens in the SEO world, Search Engine Watch is one of the first to write about it. - Search Engine Journal
Search Engine Journal covers a wide range of SEO/SEM-related topics. Similar to Search Engine Watch, they cover a lot of news but also provide more practical advice. - Daily Blog Tips
Daily Blog Tips is packed with how-to, step-by-step information on blogging, SEO, social media, and other online marketing topics. If you need step-by-step information, read Daily Blog Tips. - Pro Blogger
Pro Blogger, as the name suggests, is a blog about blogging. If you run or own a blog, this is a must-read.HubSpot
HubSpot focuses on online marketing, social media, and SEO, with lots of interesting and relevant info. (works, checked as of 2024) - Source Wave
Source Wave is a cool new blog owned by a young 20-something who knows his stuff when it comes to SEO and conversion optimization. Just started reading this blog, but it has some powerful how-to/strategy posts. - Traffic Generation Café
I wanted to add a lesser-known blog to the list, and that has to be Traffic Generation Café. It has a substantial readership, and Ana behind it is always posting insightful traffic generation tips, tricks, and strategies.
In Prosperity,
David Wood
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Comments
Amara
I love this post, David! These blogs are an absolute must-read for anyone serious about Internet marketing. Keep up the great work!
Luca
I find it hard to believe that Source Wave offers such amazing SEO strategies. Do you have any proof or results from using it yourself?
Simone
Thanks for sharing this, David! I’m curious, do you personally follow all these blogs, or do you have a top favorite among them?
Riley
Great list, but I think it could benefit from more variety. I feel like there are other hidden gems in the online marketing world that aren’t mentioned here.
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Hey David, it’s been a while! Thanks for another insightful post. We should catch up sometime soon. Let me know if you’re in town!
Nina
This post reminds me of when I first started with SEO. I struggled a lot, but following some of these blogs, especially Pro Blogger, helped me build my confidence and my blog.
Jonas
If anyone is looking for another great blog, I highly recommend Neil Patel’s blog. He covers a lot of SEO and online marketing strategies that complement the ones mentioned here.
Hana
This was such a helpful post! I’ve been learning a lot about SEO and blogging, and these resources are perfect for me to continue growing. Thanks, David!
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Sorry if this is a dumb question but I clicked through a few of these before commenting because I wanted to actually read them rather than just take the list on faith, and Source Wave in particular doesn’t seem to have been updated in years now, so I honestly couldn’t tell if that link is just old or if I’m looking at the wrong site entirely, and underneath that there’s a bigger question I keep running into with lists like this one, which is how you’re even supposed to tell which blogs are still active and worth the time before you’ve already spent an entire evening reading through the archives of one that quietly stopped posting years ago.
Bonnie, reasonable thing to check before investing the time: look at the publish date of the most recent post, not the About page, and check whether the domain still resolves to the same content the post describes. A decade-plus-old recommendation list like this one has a survivorship problem almost by definition — no way to know which entries quietly folded.
Bonnie, here’s a small exercise: pick two blogs from the list, spend fifteen minutes on each, and rate them only on whether you finished an article and immediately knew what to do next. That’s a better filter than ‘still updated’ alone — plenty of active blogs are still just noise. What did you notice when you tried that with the ones you’d already clicked through?
‘Every week I spend at least 2 hours reading blogs’ — is that actually where the results came from, or just what felt productive?
Small correction: SEO Moz rebranded to Moz back in 2013, so anyone searching for the name today will land somewhere unexpected. Worth flagging on a list like this, since half the value is being able to actually find the thing being recommended.
Given how many of the ten in this list have rebranded, merged, or gone quiet since this was written, is there a current version of it anywhere?