Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during April. If you’re new to this blog, this is a monthly feature that began way back in 2007. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives: 2008 Best Posts and 2007 Best Posts. I never include my own posts in these end-of-month recaps.
By the way … this collection of articles is really, really terrific. April was a great month for search/online marketing content.
Local Search
- Mike Blumenthal: Google Maps: Manic Merging of Business Listings due to Algo Change
- Martijn Beijk/Blumenthals: Tracking Local search Traffic with Analytics
Small Business
- Lisa Barone/Outspoken Media: Small Business SEO: How To Launch That Web site
- David Ingram/SEL: A Google Alternative For Small Business: Breadcrumbs & Business Directories
SEO
- Tom Critchlow/SEOmoz: How to Rank Well in Google Products Search & a Big List of Places to Get Reviews
- Vanessa Fox/O’Reilly Radar: Practical Tips for Government Web Sites (And Everyone Else!) To Improve Their Findability in Search
- Stoney deGeyter/SEG: Q&A: A Few Things You Need to Know About Keyword Usage
- Mat Siltala/Search Engine People: The 5 Minute SEO Site Audit Checklist
- Stoney deGeyter/SEG: 61 Pre-SEO Campaign Questions You Need To Answer To
PPC
- Brian Carter/SEJ: Why The AdWords Starter Edition Is Bad For Business
- Avinash Kaushik/Occam’s Razor: Google’s Search Based Keyword Tool: Monetize The Long Tail of Search
- Brad Geddes/bg Theory: Your Broad Match Keywords Are Not Converting Higher than Your Exact Match Keywords
Social Media
- Glen Allsopp/PluginHQ: The Definitive Guide to StumbleUpon
- Lee Odden/Online Marketing Blog: 25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips
- Aaron Weiche/Five Technology: You’re A Small Business, Why Be On Twitter? 100 Reasons.
- Lee Odden/Mashable: Social Media and SEO: 5 Essential Steps to Success
- Rob Ousbey/Distilled: Ten Minute Guide: How-To Become a Wikipedia Pro
- Chris Winfield/10e20: The Best Niche Social Media News Sites Right Now
Blogs & Blogging
- Jeremiah Owyang: 8 Principles for the Modern Blog … at least for 2009
- Mack Collier/Viral Garden: Secrets of the top Marketing and Social Media blogs
- Rand Fishkin/SEOmoz: 21 Tips to Earn Links and Tweets to Your Blog Post
Design & Usability
- Jordan Kasteler/Search Engine People: Optimizing Post-Conversion: Maximimizing Your “Thank You” Page
May 1, 2009 - 2:39 am
Matt this is very useful from a learning perspective.
May 1, 2009 - 3:05 am
Thanks a lot for the link, Matt!
May 1, 2009 - 7:20 am
Excellent list Matt. Stoney’s 61 Questions was a great read that anyone with a website should be reading/asking.
May 6, 2009 - 9:15 pm
Nice! The 5 Min SEO Audit is a great post that I hadn’t seen before and really liked.
May 27, 2009 - 12:41 am
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