Search engines have become the starting point for most online activities. As a result, if you have a website, getting traffic from search engines via search engine optimization is becoming increasingly important and increasingly competitive.

There are lots of excellent guides to get started but to truly stay on top of your SEO game, you have to keep an eye on the rapidly changing search engine market.

Following the top bloggers on SEO is one sure way to do that and we have compiled a list of the top SEO blogs. If we left any of your favorite top SEO blogs off this list, please let us know and will be sure to take a look

I will add in a few sites that I personally like following that have taught me a ton.

Pearsonified
Not really SEO oriented but if you follow closely you will learn principles that will payoff in SEO.

Link Building Blog
Just some great tips from some great guys.

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It must be one heck of an outage if you can knock out that grid. Kinda scary to think about what it takes to take the whole shebang offline. Will be interesting to watch the damage control and the bounceback. Although I’m sure its an upgrade from most shared hosting servers.

Customers of MediaTemple’s GridServer, which received widespread attention upon its debut last month, experienced significant downtime Tuesday. GridServer is among the many cluster-based grid hosting services, offering the promise of enterprise-level reliability and scalability in an affordable web hosting plan.

GridServer got a big boost when its launch was featured on TechCrunch, a leading technology blog. On Tuesday, bloggers who were among the early adopters to GridServer were airing their grievances as their sites were slowed by performance problems. MediaTemple provided regular updates on its efforts to stabilize the system, citing bugs in a third-party storage system as the cause for the outages and sluggishness. The performance problems began at 10 a.m. Pacific time and continued past 5 p.m. for some customers.

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With the recent Edgeio acquisition of Adaptive Real Estate, it appears Edgeio plans to merge the worlds of real estate listings and the blogosphere. Atleast that’s what it looks like over here.

I am pleased to announce that edgeio has made its first acquisition. About a week ago we acquired the assets of Adaptive Real Estate Services, a company built over the past several years by father and son team Robert and Peter Meyer.

ARES, as it is known, has patiently built up relationships with Brokers and Agents in 70 of the top MLS organizations (multiple listings services) in the US. It has about 1.5m homes listed for sale in the areas it covers.

Yaro Starak takes a look at The ADD Blogopshere:

Blogging has changed since I first started back in 2004. For me, 2005 were the glory days. Blogging was booming but it wasn’t super-popular like it is today. Back then you could start blogging and in a matter of weeks or a few short months establish a solid foundation of traffic and a regular readership.

It is still possible to have quick success in today’s blogosphere but it is a lot harder.

Why was it easier back then? Because blogging was younger, the blogosphere was smaller and competition wasn’t nearly as fierce. As in any marketplace, blogging is maturing and as a result people expect more from a blog and from you as a blogger.

Security Port tackles the issue of cyberstalking and have aimed it clearly in the face of bloggers.

Cyberstalking is a new phenomenon that allows anonymous online stalkers to prowl for victims. Online bloggers traditionally provide personal details about their lives. As a result, many women that blog are becoming victims. Most people are concerned about children on the Internet and set up rigorous posting guidelines for children, adolescents, and teenagers, but few adults heed the warnings and often do not consider that they too can be targeted.

Do you think we should setup annonymous tactics to avoid detection by our cyberstalkers?

Stumbled on a great blog today that really hits home some principles I hold dear to my heart whenever I start any blog post.

How To Use The Best Headlines Every Time

To break it down, your best headline will have these 3 features:

1. It will summarize your actual content; not what you wish you could say or hope you have said.
2. The summary will be accurate.
3. The summary will be concise.

Pronet Advertising Explores the Pro’s and Cons of MyBlogLog

In the past few months it seems that more and more bloggers have been placing the MyBlogLog widget on their blog so they can see who is coming to their blog. The concept of MyBlogLog(ging) is becoming popular and some have gone even as far as writing guides on how to use it. So why is MyBlogLogging catching on like a wildfire?

I myself have been tempted to use MyBlogLog this explains in more details some of the benefits of engaging in a community like this for my blog.

Fred Wilson revisits some great tips on How To Get Famous By Blogging

I always like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators and these aggregators generally only show the headline in the main view. So you have to give people a reason to click through and read the post. I don’t think I’ve achieved either fame or fortune via blogging. Wikipedia kicked out an entry on me because I wasn’t “notable” and I make about $30,000 per year in advertising on my blog which I give all to charity.

Thord’s New Publication BloggerTalks has a great interview with Mike Rundle up.

The interesting thing I noticed was the talk of the next 9rules entitled 9rules live. Mike opens up questioning over at the 9rules blog. Feel free to jump over there and over some helpful insights on how to build up the 9rules brand.

I’m excited to see how many sites 9rules brings into the fold and how it effect their growth. Following that evolving Blog Community is always fun. Even if I tend to get a bit snarky.

Keep up the good work Mike, and crew.

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Recently, I was chastised by a few friends. Mostly because they don’t understand what I’ve been doing the last year. In their view I’m a scattered brained chump who jumps around a lot. And truthfully that’s the honest god awful truth.

I’ve travelled to 10 major cities, I’ve held down multiple occupations, and I’ve lived from luxury to poverty twice backwards sometimes fully sober, sometimes fully drunk.

The Year 2006 Was About Learning.

Perseverance is probably my biggest lesson. I work online for a living developing niche sites. I’ve sold a lot of “underperformers” that later went on to become big earners. One of my sites I’ve sold recently was resold for a higher value. Showing me again I’m on the right path. Another one of my sites makes upwards of 700 dollars a month after I sold it for around 700 dollars. So that new owner is banking 100% Profit off of their initial investment every single month.
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