Best Blogs of 2007 You're Not Reading | Quiet Blogs That Make Big Noise

Here at Search Marketing Gurus we have no fancy badges, nor polling going on, and no contests.  But what we do have is a huge boat load of admiration and respect for professionals in this industry and its fringes and the work they do.  I wanted to take some time out today to recognize some really great colleagues in this industry who have great blogs that just seem to be missed time & time again for recognition of the hard work and contributions they give.

There's a lot of great writing and information being shared out there, beyond the blogs that are constantly referred to, and linked to.  These folks are doing great things, sharing great insights and I'd like to give them a round of applause for their efforts and contributions, and I'd like to share the links to their blogs with all of you.

I can't take credit for every one listed here, I asked a few of my colleagues and some of the crew from SMG to pitch in with their "hidden treasures", but all of them are now in my reader, the few that I didn't have.

Search/Social Industry News

• Search Engine Guide
• Mashable
• PaidContent
• SEO Scoop

"All Around" Search Marketing Blogs

• SearchRank by David Wallace
• SEM Clubhouse by KeyRelevance
  
• Search Engine Tigers
• BPWrap
• Evil Green Monkey
• Merjis Internet Marketing Blog

  SEO & Usability

• Cre8pc by Kim Krause Berg
• BluehatSEO by Eli
• HuoMah.com by David Harry The Fire Horse
• Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design
• Ramblings About SEO by Eric Enge

PPC

• SEM Geek by Greg Meyers
• ComparisonEngines by Brian Smith
• SEMoe by Matt LeVeque
   

Web Analytics

• Digital Alex by Alex Cohen
• Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik
• Web Analytics World by Manoj Jasra

Social Media

• Social Desire by Shana Albert
• Andy Beard
• Muhammad Saleem
• The Social Networking Weblog
• AimClear

PR & the Web / Reputation Management

• The Buzz Bin by Geoff Livingston
• Communication Overtones by Kami Huyse
• Cre8Buzz by Antman
• Communicators Anonymous by Lauren Vargas
• Every Dot Connects by Connie Reece
   

General Blogging

• Business BlogWire by Easton Ellsworth
• Blog Business Summit by Teresa Valdez Klein, Steve Broback and Jason Preston (hope I got them all!)
• Blog Business Word by Wayne Hurlbert
• Blogumentary by Chuck Olsen
• Daily Blog Tips by Daniel Scocco & Team

Corporate Blogging

• Marriott on the Move by Bill Marriott
• O'Reilly Radar from O'Reilly Publishing
• Alan Meckler of Jupiter Media
• Johnathan Schwartz of Sun MicroSystems
• Photo Matt by Matt Mullenweg of WordPress

Marketing

• Church of the Customer Blog by Ben McConnel and Jacki Huba
• Ad Freak
• Diva Marketing by Toby Bloomberg
• Logic+Emotion by David Armano
• LipSticking by Yvonne DiVita

Niche Blogging

• Sports Marketing 2.0 by Pat Coyle
  
• Cabinet of Wonders
• Geeking with Greg by Greg Linden
• LexBlog Blog : Lawyer Blogs
• Laughing Squid
• Evolvor Music Marketing & Promotion by Eric Hebert

Honorary Crabby Pamphlets Category

• Sebastain's Pamphlets

We'll be updating out blogroll this weekend to include these blogs in our listing as well as revamping it a bit, so stop back next week and check it out.  And who knows maybe one of these day's we'll come up with a funky badge to hand out. :)

Comments

[Shana Albert (TheNanny612)]

Thank you so much, Li for including me on your "Best Blogs of 2007 your not reading" list. I'm honored to be on the list with the other amazing bloggers.

Thank you so much.

Shana Albert

[Geoff Livingston]

Wow! Heck of an honor to be considered on this list. Thank you so much for the hat tip.

[Li Evans]

Shana your blog is great your view on social media is a great perspective and people should know about your blog! :)

Hope this helps a few more people turn on to your wise insights!

[Li Evans]

Geoff...
There's a heck of a lot of people in this industry that should be reading your blog and aren't. You're truly one of the visionaries that straddles PR and Online Marketing with expertise that's next to none. :)

[Sebastian]

Not only you've no fancy badges, the lack of a "Crabby Pamphlets" category is a shame, and you didn't link "SearchRank by David Wallace"! ;)

Seriously, you've compiled a nice list of great minds. Thanks. :)

[Li Evans]

Sebastian -
Fixed on both accounts! ;)

Thanks for pointing out David's link missing - Typepad can be screwy sometimes, i had it linked originally! *shakes fists at typepad gods*

Crabby Pamphlets now make the list complete :)

[Marty]

Thanks so much for the mention Li...really appreciated. :)

[Kim Krause Berg]

When you put your heart, soul and money into your profession, and make personal sacrifices for it, it's hard when awards sites don't acknowledge it or even know you're there.

Being included on this list means a lot to me, Li. Thank you so much.

[Li Evans]

Marty & Kim -
Both of you put so much time, energy and tender loving care into your blogs. It's about time someone gave you a round of applauds! :)

Kim... why no one nominated your blog is a mystery. I myself am guilty, I didn't nominate a soul, just too busy. So I wanted to do this personally - you do a darn good job!

[Sebastian]

Heh. Thank you Li, that's awesome ego food! :)

[Dave]

Well it is nice to see Seb finally got his category. He was simply insufferable during the Colombo Awards...

Always a pleasure being on the list with these fine folks... and a few I didn’t know, were added to the reader (not that I needed more lol)

Thanks for the goodiness all-round :0)

Dave - the FireHorse

[Lauren Vargas]

Thank you. I am flattered. There are so many great voices and ideas...I can't get enough.

I agree, Geoff and Kami are brilliant. I am so lucky to have such great teachers and inspiration.

[Christine Churchill]

Great wrap up Li! Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Definitely worth a bookmark. :-)

- Christine

[Alex]

I'll never figure out where you get the time to read and write so much, Li.

Thanks for the shout and exposing me to new, great content :-)

-Alex

[Pat Coyle]

Thanks for including me under Niche Blogs. It's been so long since anyone commented on my blog I wasn't sure anyone was noticing. It's nice to get some love!

[Glen Allsopp]

Great list, probably a few I should add to my feed reader

[Easton Ellsworth]

Thank you so much for the honor to be included on the list above. I'll check out all the other honorees. You guys rock!

[Joe Dolson]

Hi, Li! Thanks for adding me to your list! Always nice to get noticed. ;)

[Kami Huyse]

Wow, thanks so much for including me in this list. There are many on the list that I don't know. So, I look forward to getting around to see some of them. As for a badge, I would wear it with pride. ;-)

Small nitpick, my last name is spelled Huyse, though even my four-year-old son can't get it right, he think our last name is Puyse (lol).

[Jackie Huba]

Thanks for including us on your list!

[Toby]

What a great news year gift! Thanks for including Diva Marketing among this group of talented bloggers.

[eric hebert]

Thanks so much for the shout-out guys! I can't believe I'm only the same list as so many other blogs that I read?!

[Connie Reece]

Wow! I am very pleased to find Every Dot Connects on this list with some of my favorite blogs. Thanks for including us, Li.

[Antman]

Dang, the antman is all warm and fuzzy inside. We blog because it's fun, we have a passion for cre8Buzz and helpin' get people exposure for their good information. Awards and recognition always catch us off guard. So from me, the Antman and all of us at cre8Buzz . . . THANKS!!!! Ya the bomb. Mad props from all of us. Peace Li!

BTW: Why ain't you on the buzz yet? Did ya see we came in second in Mashables' Open Web Awards for best Niche Misc Social Network? We got an SEO community just waitin' for someone like you to get started! :)

[Yvonne DiVita]

Wow, what a compliment! THIS is an outstanding blog - I know many of the blogs cited here and the list is full of power, folks. In the end, we're all in this together. Power to the people who blog! Cheers to everyone!