That is an excellent question. There are hundreds upon hundreds of SEO blogs and informational websites out there now. In fact, most everything has been said by someone else (and repeated a hundred times by newbies). So with all the clutter out there, how do you know which sites most people are reading?
I love this website - Compete.com. This site runs free traffic analysis on most websites. As long as the website has been around for six months or more and gets more than a couple thousand visitors per month, you’ll probably find data on it here. Without joining for free, you can check and compare three domains at a time. After you join for free, you can check and compare five domains for free simultaneously.
With this information, you can keep throwing out popular SEO domains and see which are really popular, and which are full of hot air. Just so you know, if you search for MysterySEO, we would appear to be hot air because we’re new and have done no advertising. I know that seems to contradict the logic of actually having and updating a blog, but you’ll see the reasoning more clearly in the months to come.
So, let’s take a quick look at some of the more popular SEO blogs and sites. We’ll just look at monthly visitors for now. We’ll compare the month of October 2007 to give you a snapshot view of site popularity.
SearchEngineLand.com - approx. 445,441 visits
SearchEngineWatch.com – approx. 424,735 visits
SEOMoz.org – approx. 383,716 visits
SEOBook.com – approx. 375,425 visits
ClickZ.com – approx. 273,147 visits
Sphinn.com – approx. 262,443 visits
MattCutts.com – approx. 253,636 visits
SearchEngineJournal.com – approx. 249,712 visits
MarketingPilgrim.com – approx. 188,105 visits
There are, of course, other resourceful websites that did not make the cut for this post. Please note that many of the more well-known SEO blogs currently receive somewhere between 30k and 65k visitors per month. This does not mean that they are not valuable resources. They just didn’t fit into today’s metric.
Feel free to comment and contribute other SEO resources that you believe fall under this “most popular” category. I’ll look each one up and respond.
