29 Awesome SEO Blogs to Follow (Graded and Ranked)

Looking for a list of the best SEO blogs to read in 2018? Then look no further.

Most lists of top SEO blogs are entirely subjective.

It’s one person’s biased opinion of what’s best.

That’s why I decided to take a data-driven approach.

Here’s what I did:

Compiled a list of well-known SEO blogs;

Pulled in a bunch of metrics for each (average blog post length, Domain Rating, estimated organic traffic, and so forth);

Made a simple scoring algorithm to grade each blog.

FYI, I called this Ahrefs’ BlogScore™

SIDENOTE. Learn more about this algorithm + our methodology here. I’m under no illusion that this grading system is perfect, but I do think it beats a subjective list.

I’ll share the results in a moment. But first, a quick poll.

What’s your favorite SEO blog? [Poll]

Got a favorite SEO blog? Let us know.

Pick your 3 favorite SEO blogs from our list!

Backlinko

Ahrefs

Moz

Search Engine Watch

Hobo-web

SEMRush

Matthew Woodward

Search Engine Land

Search Engine Journal

Yoast

Cognitive SEO

GotchSEO

Builtvisible

Lion Zeal

Distilled

SEO by the Sea

SEER Interactive

Search Engine Roundtable

Kaiser the Sage

I’m From The Future

Marie Haynes

Buzzstream

Diggity Marketing

Evolving SEO

Web Marketing School

Dejan SEO

Greenlane Marketing

Robbie Richards

Merj

View Results

I’ll be incorporating these votes into the BlogScore™ algorithm whenever I next update this post.

Don’t see your favorite SEO blog above? Suggest it here.

Now let’s get to the results, shall we?

SIDENOTE. All results below are ordered by BlogScore™. Make a copy of this spreadsheet if you would like to sort the results by Ahrefs Rank (AR), Domain Rating (DR), average number of words per post, average number of RDs (for the top 10 posts), estimated organic search traffic, or average number of new blog posts per month.

1. Backlinko

backlinko

Founder: Brian Dean

Blog type: Single-author

Ahrefs Rank: 5,194

Domain Rating (DR): 84

Estimated monthly organic search traffic: 110,078

Average posts per month: 5

Average post length: 3,401 words

Heard of the Skyscraper Technique? Then you’re already familiar with Brian’s work.

Backlinko is perhaps the most famous single-author SEO blog. Brian rarely publishes new content, but when he does, you’ll certainly know about it. He doesn’t do things by halves. His approach is quality over quantity.

I think most SEO’s will happily admit that they’ve learned a lot from Brian over the years, myself included. He’s definitely one to follow closely.

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29 Awesome SEO Blogs to Follow (Graded and Ranked)

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