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

Local Search

• Miriam/SEO Igloo: Google Reviews Review
• Chris/Search Engine Land: Anatomy & Optimization Of A Local Business Profile

Small Business

• Miriam/SEO Igloo: Thinking of leaving eBay and getting a professional website? Look before you leap!

SEO

• Stephan/SEL: Sculpting Your PageRank For Maximum SEO Impact
• Carsten/Search Engine Journal: About URL Tracking Parameters and Duplicate Content Issues

Google

• Stephan Spencer: Interview with Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon
• Barry/Search Engine Roundtable: Google Declares War on Paid Links: But Why Now?

Blogs/Blogging

• Darren/ProBlogger: Discover Hundreds of Post Ideas for Your Blog with Mind Mapping
• Brian/Copyblogger: How to Use the “Rule of Three” to Create Engaging Content
• Chris Garrett: How to Generate Post Ideas When You Are Stuck
• Skellie/ProBlogger: How To Keep Your Subscribers Forever
• Brian/Copyblogger: The Cosmo Headline Technique for Blogging Inspiration

Social Media

• Bryan/Grokdotcom: Top 3 Problems of Social Media
• Chris Brogan: Social Media for Your Career
• Li/Search Marketing Gurus: What Social Media Isn’t - 10 Misconceptions
• Jennifer/Search Engine Guide: Hide and Speak: Letting the Spiders Back in to Bento Yum
• Rand/SEOmoz: A Visual Tour Through the Basics of Social Media Marketing
• Justin/Inside Facebook: The Facebook Viral Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook
• Carsten/Search Engine Journal: How to Add Content to Wikipedia the ‘White Hat’ Way?
• Donna/SEO Scoop: Using Social Profile Pages To Your Advantage
• Brandon/Kolbrener: 50 Top Niche Social Media Sites, and Their Power Accounts

Link Building/Viral Marketing

• Jon/Optimize and Prophesize: Optimizing Viral Marketing

PPC

• James/Apollo SEM: NUDE: AdWords Keyword Data Exposed With Google Analytics!
• David/Search Engine Guide: How Can Small Business Compete in a Highly Competitive Paid Search (PPC) Market?
• Greg/SEMGeek: Optimizing Paid Search & Landing Pages for TV, Radio and Print Advertising

Analytics

• Avinash/Occam’s Razor: Web Analytics Demystified

Online Marketing / General

• Mason/Small Fuel: 5 Things People Want to See Before the Sale
• Brendan/SquareOak: 6 Web Tools That You Can’t Live Without
• Kim/Cre8pc: Web Site Usability Developers Have No Idea What They’re Doing
• Dean/Copyblogger: 58 of the World’s Greatest Offers (4-part series)
• Miriam / SEO Igloo: Seeing With Web Designer Eyes - 9 Evident Errors

Rants

• Michael/Wolf-Howl: Matt Cutts Says Financial Arrangements Should Affect All Links Within a Post
• Michael/Wolf-Howl: What Google Knols Can Teach You About Google’s Philosophy
• Kim/Cre8pc: Hey Blog Scrapers! Take This Post Too