As we head into the next decade, the Internet marketing and affiliate marketing industries continue to grow exponentially. The last 10 years has seen both mature from a ‘wild west’ frontier of a few hundred of us groping in the dark to see how it could be more useful into a billion-dollar-plus-a-year industry with hundreds of thousands or even millions of people now looking to the Internet to make some or all of their income.

A quick search at Google, Yahoo! or Bing will show you some of the millions of pages, sites and blogs dedicated to Internet marketing and affiliate marketing, thousands of programs & other tools covering all aspects of both have popped up, and related membership sites abound…

All of which is great news for our industry, which is still really in it’s infancy. But it DOES make for a lot of learning to get up to speed and/or to stay current. Over the next three weeks to the start of 2010 I’ll be attempting to help clear that clutter a bit for you, bringing you some suggested resources to get you on, and keep you on, the right path with your online marketing.

Will they be the best resources and all-inclusive lists? No – no one can possibly evaluate every site in the biz, nor even the top few thousand. And exclusion from these lists doesn’t mean anything either – the choices are totally arbitrary, chosen by me personally from those I’ve found to be helpful or created for myself. And yes, where appropriate I’ll use my affiliate link to resources – I’m a marketer, remember? LOL But I do promise that no link will be included because of that – each will be given based on it’s merit as I see it.

So to get started today, here are 20 Internet marketing blogs and/or affiliate marketing blogs I suggest you keep an eye on in 2010. I’ve divided them into 3 categories (explained below) and ranked them by their current Google PageRank within each group. (I’ve included 2 of my blogs, hopefully based on merit, not personal bias.)

Group One:

Group Two:

Group Three:

How These Blogs Are Categorized

It is important to realize that the above groupings, and the order within each group, are NOT indicative of the importance of each blog to your Internet marketing or affiliate marketing success. No such ordering could be possible, as no one can predict what these Internet marketing bloggers will cover in 2010, and different information is of importance to each of us.

Instead, I’ve grouped them into a suggested ranking for leaving comments when you read each. Group 1 are blogs that give link love to your comment by disabling the NoFollow tag built into WordPress, plus some deep-linking love to your latest blog post’s permalink by enabling the CommentLuv plugin. Since these give the most in return for leaving your comments, I recommend commenting each time you read a new post on them.

Group 2 also has disabled their NoFollow tag to show you some love for commenting on their posts. The only thing that differentiates them from Group 1 is that they’re not (at the time of this post) using the CommentLuv plugin to also give a link to your latest post, but just linking to your blog’s home page. Commenting regularly on these blogs should be a part of your off-site SEO efforts too.

The bloggers in Group 3 also have great Internet marketing and/or affiliate marketing information to share with you, but at this point still have the NoFollow tag enabled, preventing your comments from helping in your SEO efforts. But just because you don’t get link love for search engine purposes doesn’t mean you won’t derive some targeted traffic from direct click-throughs, which you may well see from any of the blogs listed here. In general, when visiting these blogs I recommend commenting occasionally when a post is of particular use to you or leaves you with a question about the material covered.

A Few Caveats…

First up, recognize up front that this isn’t an exact science. For example, Google updates their PageRank as often as twice a day, bloggers may go off on a tangent or abandon their blogs, and no one can say for sure that these particular bloggers will always be the best source of information – I can only say these are the ones I count on for great info!

Similarly, exclusion from this list is by no means a comment on any other blog – there certainly are other great blogs I visit and comment on regularly. Bu then I have the time since I do this full time – since so many of my readers here are part-time Internet marketers and affiliate marketers, I’ve tried to provide a good representative selection while keeping it short enough the can easily visit each one at least once a week.

*About the Google PageRank shown for each site… As stated above, Google updates their PR rankings almost in realtime, so the listings shown are as of the date of this post, as reported by RealPageRank.com and will change often throughout the year, no doubt.

Google defines their PageRank Technology as follows:

PageRank Technology: PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.

PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.

As such, it would seem that the link love from blogs with higher PR would benefit your SEO efforts more, although it’s also affected by factors like how many links are on the page, the relevance of that page’s content to your blog, etc. There are too many factors involved, just of those we know of, to try and formulate an exact listing, so only use PR as part of your own guidelines when considering your blog commenting strategies…

And finally, remember that every blogger on this list is a professional Internet marketer, affiliate marketer and/or blogger. You’re only hurting yourself if you try to post spam comments to try for the backlinks – not one of these blogs approves comments automatically, so your comment will be evaluated before being accepted or rejected – or marked as spam.

Besides, you’re hoping some of their readers will click through and visit your blog too, right? So make sure your comments are relevant and helpful – no other course of action will bring you traffic from people reading such professional blogs.

Start formulating your plans now to visit and read these 20 blogs regularly in 2010 – they’ll certainly add a LOT to our Internet marketing, affiliate marketing and blogging education!

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