Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts during April. If you’re new to SBS, this is a monthly feature and will lead to something fun later in the year. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives. Only rule is that my own posts are not eligible.

Small Business

• Stoney/Search Engine Guide: Everything is Marketing
• Steve/Small Business Branding: 10 Lessons Learned from Starting a Small Business

Local Search

• Bill/SEO by the Sea: Google Reviews: Reputation + Quality + Snippets + Clustering

Linking / Link Building

• Graywolf: The Paid Link Blog Meme
• Jim Boykin: Can Google Find and Spank your Paid Links?
• Philipp/Google Blogoscoped: The Paid Links Economy
• Sugarrae: Why Google Shouldn’t Penalize Us for Their Incompetence
• Jennifer Slegg: What exactly qualifies as a quality link?

SEO

• Todd/Stuntdubl: The SEO Playbook - Welcome to the Rabbit Hole Alice
• Todd/Search Engine Land: SEO Is Easy? Let’s Look At The Hard 5 Percent
• Rand/SEOmoz: Ranking Factors Version 2 Released

Social Media

• Jeremiah Owyang: Strategies for organizing your Corporate Social Media Program (Starting internally first)
• Mike/Small Business Hub: 10 Secrets to Marketing with Social News Sites - Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and more

Blogs / Blogging

• Lee/Top Rank: 3 Blog Mistakes You Can Avoid

PPC/SEM

• Brad/eWhisper: How to Lower Your AdWords Minimum Bid

Online Marketing/General

• Sexy Widget: Widget Use Cases

Google

• Danny/Search Engine Land: What Is Google PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters
• Brian/Scoreboard Media: How To Turn Google’s Paid Link Reporting Into Profit

Rants

• Dean/Speaking Freely: Words and Phrases You Should Avoid

LOL Funny!

• David/SearchRank: 10 Signs That You May Be a Blog Addict
• In Search of Stuff: This Just In
• Lisa/Bruce Clay: 9 Ways To Bore The Audience at SES New York