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:: Thursday, March 25, 2004 ::

My Favorite SEO Blogs and Stuff

When you work from home, as I do, it can feel lonely sometimes. I'm well acquainted with "cabin fever", my refridgerator and the exciting highlight of each day, a 2 minute daily walk to the mailbox. I do, however, have many friends who run around the 'Net as I do finding juicy news and stories to tell. Some of them have such interesting blogs that if I don't visit at least once a day, I will have missed out on something important or funny.

Who are Kim's Favorite Bloggers?

Kalena Jordan of Search Engine News has just had a baby and is back to cranking out her SE blog. You can count on Kal to look into a story a bit deeper than most. She will comment here and there and is known to test new products and share her findings with blog readers.

Andy Beal of Search Engine Lowdown has an inside track to both the news and newsmakers themselves. If you think the new MSN search engine is due out in July, think again. Andy has the story.

Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable runs a blog that monitors the leading search engine related forums. Guest writers help him stay on top of hot threads, which in turn has the added value of helping readers keep their finger on the overall pulse of the whole Search Engine body. This blog is often updated throughout the day, also keeping up with a new trend in blogging to keep entries not only daily but constantly refreshed.

Alan Webb's Abakus SEO Blog has the uncanny ability to find stuff that's real news, sometimes before everybody else has found it. And if things get boring, Alan digs to find things of interest.

Peter DaVanzo is just funny with his Search Engine Blog. Peter sees the ridiculous and marvy aspects of SE news. I always look forward to how he says so much, in so little words. Peter also trails off-topic in delightful ways, such as "Bush Lies" Yields 2550 Results On Google: Only 2550? Clearly not indexing the invisible web, then."

Andrew Goodman digs deep with his Traffick. You just can't go a day without wanting to see if they have things like Overture's Site Match is a Bit Too Revealing.
     "Therefore, we at Traffick call upon Yahoo to mask the URLs of pay-for-inclusion sites immediately to avoid abusive click charges from competitors and anyone else wanting to cause mischief."

Andy Bourland and friends run MarketingWonk , which has changed their name to Marketing Vox News and the new layout of their redesigned site is way better to understand in a few seconds (thank you!). This site is a daily romp into the world of SEO and marketing. They offer an RSS feed, and run email lists that cover many related subjects. They've been around a long time, in various forms and are still cranking out the good stuff.


Other Favorites That Have Grown on Me:

DonnaM writes on Information architecture, user-centred design, usability and other things, and isn't afraid to say what she feels.

Bragadocchio, which is tended to by Cre8asiteForums Administrator, Bill Slawski. Spend some time looking at the world from his view. He's smart, insightful and you feel like you've just been given a nice healing body massage.

We found this one because he loves "Grumpus" from Cre8asiteForums, and it garnered him a bookmark and "lookout for" from me. See Search Visibility Report by Merrick Lozano.

Too funny and always right on is Jeremy Zawody's Blog on "Linux, Perl, MySQL, Open Source, and whatever other random stuff catches my interest...". He manages to keep me interested and I'm not a programmer.

All I know for sure is that Sharon came zooming into Cre8asiteForums with her smile, blond hair and Corvette, asking how to start a blog. The rest is history. Sharondippity. She recently wrote,
     "I'm rarely gushy, geez, over anything that isn't edible or kissable..tee hee so when I say I really like a site for its information, set up, and helpful members, it is a rare thing. I have found Cre8asite.com to be the most friendly and smart and non-cliquish-est site I've ever known. Here's kudos to them. I hereby recommend them to anyone ever needing help in web design or programming or site ranking. Excellent. Kudos to them."

Which brings me to the new blog launched by Cre8asiteForums (sneaky aren't I?) called Peabody's Cre8tive Flow featuring web design, development, site promotion and industry news as found by Mr. Peabody and several friends brought in to assist him.

There's a bit of mystery at Cre8asiteForums as to who Mr. Peabody is. We first met him while creating the first sketches for the Cre8asiteForums logo, which during the first incarnations, spoofed Google's logo. Mr. Peabody, I believe, is what's left from a rather good time the artists had with the letter "O".

These are just my favorites. There are many more blogs I drop in on and new potential "favorites" lurk at every turn. Thanks to everyone who makes my day such a pleasant daily read and especially to those who make me laugh out loud. It wakes up the dog.

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 3/25/2004 02:34:31 PM

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