Online Marketing Blog Outpaces Copyblogger to Become Junta42's #1 Content Marketing Blog

Junta42 releases its much-anticipated update of the Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs. Featuring almost 200 blogs that cover the content marketing industry - the top spot goes to Lee Odden's Online Marketing Blog, unseating Brian Clark's Copyblogger, which held the #1 position for the previous two releases.

Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) November 18, 2008 -- It seems a lot of bloggers have a lot to say about content marketing: today nearly 200 sites address the topic. But only the best have climbed to the top to be named one of Junta42's Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs.

Today, Junta42, the go-to site for content marketing and custom publishing, announced the updated Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs. Reviewed by Junta42's team of custom-content experts, the list includes some of the best-known marketing blogs, as well as up-and-comers that are reshaping and reinvigorating the content marketing conversation.

The newly released list offers updated rankings from those named in the August 2008 Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs list and is available at http://www.junta42.com/top_42_content_marketing_blogs/.

"The content marketing revolution is alive and well," said Joe Pulizzi, founder and chief content officer of Junta42. "Marketing professionals are trying to figure out how to create valuable, relevant and compelling content - and that's exactly what they'll find on the Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs list."

The Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs stood out for their commitment to covering the issues at the heart of content marketing. Unlike other top blog lists that focus on solely traffic and popularity, the Junta42 team reviews each blog individually on the basis of the following: 1) Relation to the field of content marketing, 2) Reader Value, 3) Junta42 Member Rank, 4) Regularity and 5) Google page rank.

The Top Five Blogs Include:

1.    Online Marketing Blog, from Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Online Marketing.

2.    Copyblogger, from writer and entrepreneur Brian Clark.

3.    Writing on the Web, from writing and blogging expert Patsi Krakoff.

4.    Influential Marketing Blog, from public relations guru Rohit Bhargava, author of Personality Not Included

5.    Web Ink Now, from David Meerman Scott, author of the bestselling The New Rules of Marketing and PR.

For complete information on the selection criteria, go to http://www.junta42.com/resources/Top_42_Blogs_Selection_Criteria/. The Junta42 Top 42 is also available as its own category of content marketing at Alltop.com (http://contentmarketing.alltop.com/).

For all of the latest news on anything and everything content marketing, visit Junta42 at http://www.junta42.com. To learn more about Junta42's marketer-content provider matching service Junta42 Match, visit http://www.junta42.com/match.

About Junta42

Junta42 (http://www.junta42.com) is the leading media site dedicated to everything content marketing and custom publishing. Junta42 also offers Junta42 Match (http://www.junta42.com/match), the only buyer/seller matching site for the custom publishing & content marketing industry. The service is an audited directory of custom publishing providers, and gives marketing, agency and association professionals the ability to match their project--a custom magazine, newsletter, content Web site, video series, etc.--to the exact qualifications of a custom publisher, content agency, writer or other content provider. Matching services are conducted online, allowing for ease and anonymity. Junta42 is a division of Z Squared Media, LLC (http://www.zsquaredmedia.com).

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