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Small Business

• David Mihm: The Ten Commandments of Online Marketing for Small & Local Businesses
• Andy Beal: Advice for Managing Negative Reviews of Hotels or Small Businesses

Local Search

• Steven Brier/SEJ: How to Optimize Local Business Profiles for Free Local Directories
• Rob O’Daniel/Problogger: Geoblogging - How to Geotag Your Blog
• Lucy Langdon/Distilled: Local SEO’s Share Geo Location Tips From Around The World

SEO

• Marty/aimClear: Measuring SEO Success: Solve Personalized Search Misperceptions
• Barry/SERoundtable: How Google Views Four Ways Of Hiding Content
• Bill/SEO by the Sea: Same-Site Duplicate Pages at Different URLs
• Mason/Small Fuel: SEO Explained for Small Business Owners
• Bill/SEO by the Sea: Do Domain Ages Affect Search Rankings?
• Mark Jackson/SEW: How to Tell if Your Domain is Banned in a Search Engine
• David Berkowitz/MediaPost: Search Marketing By The Book (I’ll be using some of these techniques when I start promoting U2, A Diary.)

PPC

• Brad Geddes/SEL: What Yahoo’s New Minimum Bid Means to You
• John Lee/PPC Hero: Learn How to Track Your MSN adCenter PPC Keyword Data in Analytics
• John Lee/PPC Hero: The Secret of Tracking Yahoo! Keyword Data in Google Analytics

Blogs & Blogging

• Teresa Boardman/Real Estate Tomato: Finding Time To Blog As A Real Estate Professional
• Skellie: How to Get Piles of Links, Subscribers and Comments
• Jennifer Osborne/Search Engine People: 10 Golden Rules of Blogging
• Courtney Tuttle/Problogger: 10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less
• Pete Caputa/Hubspot: 13 Ways to Use Your Blog to Improve Your Sales Process

Social Media

• Jeff Quipp/Search Engine People: 4 Pillars of Social Media Algorithms … Trust x4
• Brian Provost/Scoreboard Media: How To Make A Small Fortune With Twitter (#5 and #7 make this eligible for the LOL FUNNY section, too)
• Scott Clark/Finding the Sweet Spot: 20 Take-Aways from SMX Social Media
• Scott Clark/Finding the Sweet Spot: Link Building, Search, and Influence: Not So Silly After All
• Wendy Piersall/Sparkplugging: 10 Social Media Blunders that Can Destroy Your Brand
• Brent Csutoras/SEL: Tools For Engaging In Social Media
• Jason Falls/Social Media Explorer: The Next Generation Of Social Media Experts
• Maki/DoshDosh: Building a Popular Social Media Profile: Seven Essential Characteristics
• Rebecca/SEOmoz: How a Good Title and Description Can Make or Break Your Social Media Submission

Reputation Management

• Andy/Marketing Pilgrim: 12 Reputations Every Company Should Monitor Online

Google

• Aaron Wall: Google Thinks YOU Are a Black Hat SEO. Should You Trust Them?

Analytics

• Carrie Hill/SEW: Taking the Fear Out of Web Analytics for Your Small Business
• Avinash/Occam’s Razor: How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips.

Online Marketing/General

• Matt Bailey/SiteLogic Marketing: Make Your Website Content Explode
• Rebecca/SEOmoz: Let’s Talk Landing Pages
• Bryan Eisenberg/Clickz: Three Reasons Your Visitors Don’t Convert to Leads
• Andrew Goodman/Traffick: 5 gaffes that will get you a low speaker rating at any conference, anywhere

Search Tech

• Riona MacNamara/Google Webmaster Central: Best practices when moving your site

LOL Funny!

• Jane/SEOmoz: Google Search Results Missing from OneBox
• Ian Lurie/Conversation Marketing: 17 Internet Marketing Things I Will Not Write About
• Mike Blumenthal: Yahoo Local Bug: San BuenaVentura Ca located just off African Coast (I love the matter-of-factness of the title….)
• Matt Davies/SEOTunes: 21 Reasons Twitter Is Bullshit
• SEO Hack/Worst SEO Blog Ever: You Want SEO Standards? Well, Here Ya Go!

Rants

• Rand/SEOmoz: I’m Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn’t Include Any Mention of SEO

This is a post from Matt McGee's blog, Small Business SEM.

April ‘08: Best Search/Marketing Posts

Local Search

• Mike/SEL: A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam
• Cavan/eClick Performance: Yahoo Local Full of Affiliate Spam
• Bill/SEO by the Sea: Incomplete and Wrong Data in Google Local Search

Small Business

• Michael/Chiropractic Blogs: Google Blended Video Offers Small Business Marketing Opportunities
• Carrie Hill/SEW: 30 Free Ways To Market Your Small Business Site

SEO

• Andy Beard: Site Structure - SEOs Going Fishing Without Any Bait
• Vanessa Fox: SEO Is The Worst Thing Ever Invented

Link Building

• Adam/Audette Media: Link Building Fundamentals: A Primer
• Eric Enge/SEOmoz: So Many Ways to Pursue Links and So Little Time
• Sage Lewis/SEW: First SEO Link Building Rule: Never Buy Paid Links…Until Now
• Stoney/Pole Position Marketing: Link Building Secrets Revealed by Top Linking Experts

Blogs & Blogging

• Jennifer Slegg: 52 easy ways optimize your blog while on your coffee break
• Chris Garrett: The ROI of Business Blogging
• Linda Bustos/Problogger: SEO Tip: Almost 7 Ways To Re-Optimize Your Posts
• Jennifer Osborne/Search Engine People: How to Sell your Client on a Blog Strategy
• Chris Garrett: 41 Blog Success Tips from 10 Years of Blogging You Can Learn Today

Social Media

• Carsten/SEJ: Social Media Guide for Big Brand Corporate Businesses
• Chris Brogan: Social Media Starter Moves for Freelancers
• Maki/DoshDosh: 12 Must-Have Tools for Active Digg Users
• Jeff/Search Engine People: Using Digg to Get TV, Newspaper, Radio, and Magazine Mentions
• Reem Abeidoh/Social Impressions: IM Etiquette: 8 Tips from Top Social Media Users

Google

• Brian Ussery: New Google Spam Recognition Guide for Quality Rater Reviewed
• Jay Weintraub: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

PPC

• Jeremy Mayes/PPC Discussions: AdWords Quality Score FAQ
• Barry/Search Engine Roundtable: Landing Page Load Time Will Impact Google AdWords Quality Score

Search Tech

• Maile & Jeremy/Google Webmaster Central Blog: First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression

LOL Funny!

• Todd/Stuntdubl: 15 Ways to Be a SEO Conference Douchebag

Rants

• Lisa/Bruce Clay blog: Jason Calacanis Is The Devil & SEOs are Children
• Richard/Apogee Weblog: Google’s Miserable Failure

This is a post from Matt McGee's blog, Small Business SEM.

March ‘08: Best Search/Marketing Posts

What about the SEMMYS?, you ask. Well, as I’ve been saying all along, the goal is to not be using these roundups for next year’s awards. More on that coming soon, I hope.

Local Search

• Miriam/SEO Igloo: Local SEO Interview Roundup!
• Mike/Understanding Google Maps…: Google Maps Category Mystery Part 3: Solved?

Link Building

• Eric Enge/SEOmoz: I Don’t Buy Links
• Michael/Graywolf: Link Building and Development Mistakes - Treetrunks and Houses on Stilts
• Branko Rihtman/SEO Scientist: Tapping into Unconventional Link Attributes

Blogs & Blogging

• Brian/Copyblogger: Keyword Research for Bloggers: A Comprehensive Guide
• Eric/Stone Temple: Key Blogging Tips from Avinash and Eric
• Skellie/ProBlogger: How to Write Posts That Set StumbleUpon on Fire
• Chris Garrett: How to Get More Bookmarks and Better Links

Social Media

• Joe Whyte/Search Engine Journal: Guide to Video Marketing on YouTube
• Sonia Simone/Remarkable Communication: The Ten Commandments of New Social Media

SEO

• Diane/Search Engine Guide: Why Do The (Good) SEOs Cost So %&*# Much?
• Tim Nash: PDFs and Search Engines
• Ann Smarty/Search Engine Journal: Make the Most of SEO Competitive Research : Evaluating the Competition
• Tim Nash: Does Flash SEO still suck?
• Esteban Panzera: 11 Tips for Appearing at Google Definitions
• Sugarrae: Creating Firefox Quick Search Bookmarks

PPC

• Alan Rimm-Kaufman/Search Engine Land: The Secret Of Large Term Lists (It’s All In The Bidding)
• Markus Urban/AUblog: Facebook Ads Don’t Work. Here’s Proof

Google

• Jeff Behrendt/Aviva Directory: How You Can Get Your Google Rankings Back
• Robin Goad/Hitwise: What happens if your site gets ‘blacklisted’ by Google?

Analytics

• Shawn Purtell/Unofficial Google Analytics Blog: Tracking Secondary Sources and Autoresponders Using Site Search
• Thomas/TopRank: 5 Lesser Known Google Analytics Features

Online Marketing/General

• Jeff Quipp/Search Engine People: Authority Building: Tools of the Trade
• Bryan/Grokdotcom: Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart
• Linda/Get Elastic: How To Attract Customer Reviews

Search Tech

• Sebastian/Sebastian’s Pamphlets: @ALL: Give Google your feedback on NOINDEX, but read this pamphlet beforehand!
• Sebastian/Sebastian’s Pamphlets: Why storing URLs with truncated trailing slashes is an utterly idiocy

LOL Funny!

• Michael Streko/Sugarrae: Not at the SMX? Want to be? I can help…
• Aaron Chronister/The Mad Hat: My Take On Famous SEO Celebrity Nonsense (could also go under “Rants”)
• Graywolf: 27.3 Ways To Do 51 1/2 Things on Wordpress, Digg, Twitter, Stumbleupn, Blogger, Pownce, Reddit, Hugg, Sk-rt, Propeller, SugarLoving, Mixx, Delicious, Blogger, Facebook, Google Reader, YouTube, Gmail, RSS, iPhone, Qik and Seesmic While I Optimize, Stategize, Customerize, Search Engine Optimise, Social Media Enable, SEO, SEM, PPC, LODLSM, for the Long Term in 2 weeks, 14 Day, 7 Hours, 2 minutes 19 seconds and 7 nano seconds while You Were Merging With Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK and Plaxo

Rants

• Rebecca/SEOmoz: Digg’s New Algorithm is The Suck

This is a post from Matt McGee's blog, Small Business SEM.

February ‘08: Best Search/Marketing Posts

What about the SEMMYS?, you ask. Well, as I’ve been saying all along, the goal is to not be using these roundups for next year’s awards.

Local Search

• Bryson Meunier: Characteristics of the Top 100 Mobile Search Queries at AT&T
• Jake/10e20: Going Local in StumbleUpon
• Heather/Hitwise: Google Maps Making Inroads Against Leader, Mapquest

SEO

• Bob/Ask the SEO Guru: The Secret of Getting a New Site to Beat an Old One or Content is King is Just a Cliche
• Bill/SEO by the Sea: Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data
• Patrick/Blogstorm: Fresh Content: Myth or Magic?
• Mike/Hubspot: How to Revive an Old Blog Article for SEO

Link Building

• Sugarrae: 11 Experts on Link Development Speak Out
• Brian Chappell: Thinking about buying links? 30 tips to save you from failure

Blogs & Blogging

• Mason/Small Fuel: Small Business Blogging Map
• Skellie/ProBlogger: How to Create Social Media’s Favorite Type of Blog Post
• Jonathan/Awake at the Wheel: Top bloggers confess: size matters!
• Michael Gray/Graywolf: Optimizing Wordpress Page Titles, Post Titles and Page Slugs

Social Media

• Brent/SEL: How To Create Compelling Social Media Profiles
• Li/Search Marketing Gurus: 6 Reasons Why I Won’t Stumble! Your Page
• Maki/DoshDosh: 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners
• Maki/DoshDosh: 40+ Social News Websites: A List of General and Niche Social Media Communities
• Jeff/Search Engine People: Tips for Finding and Securing the ‘Right’ Friends on Digg
• Kathryn/Gooruze: 9 Ways Social Media Can Hurt a Brand
• Danielle/10e20: The Ins and Outs of Forum Marketing

Reputation Management

• Andy/Marketing Pilgrim: Five Steps for Recovering from an Online Reputation Crisis

Google

• Pat/SEOish: Google Gadgets Tutorial
• Danny/SEL: Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition
• Chris/97th Floor: Public Spam Report: Google Your Honeymoon with Rip Off Report has to Stop

General/Online Marketing

• Gregg/Search Engine Watch: Online Reviews: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for Advertisers and Publishers
• Mason/Small Fuel: Marketing Trends: 21+ Websites for Finding What’s Hot
• Sarah/SEOmoz: Four Ways to Enforce Your Copyright: What to Do When Your Online Content Is Being Stolen
• Jeremiah Owyang: A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008

Web Analytics

• Avinash/Occam’s Razor: Standard Metrics Revisited: #4 : Time on Page & Time on Site

Search Tech

• Matt Cutts: Three tips to protect your WordPress installation

Rants

• Sugarrae: The SEMMYS Launch, The Whineys TBA
• Kalena/Ask Kalena: Dumbass of the Week: Gene Marks

This is a post from Matt McGee's blog, Small Business SEM.

January ‘08: Best Search/Marketing Posts