The top 10 blogs for small to mid-sized businesses

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Blog search engine Technorati recently revised its blog ranking algorithms and created categories for the rankings.

The list of the top 10 blogs for small business provides an excellent resource for attendees of our SME Technology Summit in Sydney on 1 December, where there will be deep insights into all of the topics covered by these blogs.

Many of these blogs are for businesses of all sizes, but all of them provide valuable insights for small to mid-sized businesses. Check them out!

1. Online Marketing Blog

https://www.toprankblog.com

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Covers digital marketing topics, focusing on social media, online PR and search engine marketing. A broad team of writers brings diverse perspectives to bear.

2. Affiliate X Files

https://www.affiliatexfiles.com

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Specializes in affiliate marketing issues, with a wide range of in-depth articles.

3. Social Media Today

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC

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Brings together selected blog posts from 60 leading thinkers on social media and Web 2.0.

4. Brian Solis – PR 2.0

https://www.briansolis.com

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The first single person blog (with occasional guest posts) is by Brian Solis, leading thinker on the future of marketing and PR. Brian spoke at The Insight Exchange’s Future of Influence Summit.

5. Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang

https://www.web-strategist.com/blog

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Jeremiah provides extensive research and insights on his blog, to complement his work over the years as a social media practitioner, analyst at Forrester Research, and now partner at Altimeter Group.

6. Altitude Branding

https://altitudebranding.com

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Author Amber Naslund is Director of Community for leading social media monitoring platform Radian6, blogging here about elevating brands through social media.

7. BrandSavant

https://brandsavant.com

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Tom Webster writes about how to gain insights into brands from the vast amount of data generated by social media.

8. Convince and Convert Blog

https://www.convinceandconvert.com

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Jay Baer writes about social media, including tools, tips, interviews and analysis of the emerging landscape.

9. Duct Tape Marketing

https://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog

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Duct Tape Marketing focuses explicitly on small business marketing, not just technology but across all the activities that will build customers and business.

10. VA4Growth

https://va4growth.com/blog

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A resource site for social media marketing, run by a company specializing in providing Virtual Assistants.