In the realm of e-commerce, one of the top marketing tools a company has is a Google ranking. The difference between a page 1 or page 2 search engine ranking can be the difference of tens of thousands of dollars of revenue for a company.
Because of this, companies are allocating more budget space than ever toward search engine optimization SEO, the strategy and process of improving the volume of traffic to a website by improving the search rankings of various search engines like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask and MSN.
via SEO: Essential to Survival – Entrepreneur.com- msnbc.com.
We have done a number of rankings and analyses on various sites relevant to anyone starting a website or blog, such as top online newspapers, top ezine sites, and top press release distribution sites. It is a lot of tedious work. We were planning on doing the same for blogs, but someone already has a nice listing right here. We might come back later to audit the list and provide our comments, but for now, this is pretty decent. If you think anything is missing or you have a comment about the methodology or list, please let us know by commenting.
From eBizMBA:
There are many blog popularity-ranking services on the web, but unfortunately, they all rely on only one piece of data for their rankings. Either link popularity, RSS feeds or some sort of traffic-ranking service. We at eBizMBA have decided that in order to get a more accurate picture we needed to combine data from multiple sources. So here, we offer the 30 Most Popular Blogs ranked by a combination of Inbound Links from Yahoo Site Explore (entire site not including internal pages), Alexa Rank, and Compete and Quantcast U.S. Unique Monthly visitor data. Blogs that are only a part of a non-Blog site are not included (i.e. Google Blogs).
via Top 30 Blogs | eBizMBA.