At the start of the year, I vowed to do a better job of bookmarking and tracking what I felt were the best and most helpful posts or discussion threads. I wasn’t too good about that in 2006, and I think my own writing here on SBS was hurt without the ability to quickly reference other good material.

After about a week or so of keeping this list, a light bulb appeared over my head. It was one of those Energy Star, swirly ones so it came on slowly … but it occurred to me this might be a good resource for SBS readers, too. So, at the end of each month I’ll post a list like what you see here of the best posts I found, put into nice little categories for your convenience. (And then I have some additional ideas for how to use these lists later in the year, so stay tuned….)

So, here are my choices for the Best Search/Marketing Posts of January 2007. (Because I’m an organization geek, I’ve tried to keep each category sorted with most recent posts at the top of the list.)

Small Business

• Nick/Small Business Branding: 9 Branding Tips for Small Businesses
• Lee/Online Marketing Blog: The Lowdown on Web Designers and SEO
• Dave/SearchRank: Search Engine Marketing Still Foreign To Many

Public Relations

• Chris/Natural Search Blog: PR for Your PR: Publicity for Improved PageRank

Link Building/Viral Marketing

• Roger/martinibuster: Creating Authority and Link Development
• Shimon Sandler: Criteria & Time Period for Link Effectiveness
• Nick/Search Engine Land: 2007 Guide to Linkbaiting: The Year of Widgetbait?
• Todd/Stuntdubl: The Link Baiting Playbook: Hooks Revisited
• Jenn/Search Engine Guide: Link Building As Relationship Building - A Great Example
• 10e20: Building Links Using Netscape Video

Social Media

• Matt/SiteLogic: Social Media - Under the Microscope
• WeblogHits.com: How to Increase Blog Traffic with YouTube
• Sverre/SEO Bomb: How to AMAZE Your Clients with a KILLER Viral Campaign

PPC

• Brad/eWhisper: Understanding IP Targeting for PPC Campaigns

Google

• Webmaster Central: A quick word about Googlebombs
• Matt Cutts: Infrastructure status, January 2007

Blogs & Blogging

• Charlene/Forrester: New ROI of blogging report from Forrester
• Darren/ProBlogger: 23 Ideas for Finding New Readers for Your Blog
• Jeremiah Owyang: Blog Panel: Negative is the New Positive
• Lee/Online Marketing Blog: SEO Benefits from Blogs
• Carsten/Search Engine Journal: Smart Spam via .EDU Link…
• Jen/Search Engine Land: 25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines
• Lee/Online Marketing Blog: Must-Read Search Marketing Blogs

Online Marketing/General

• Jeremiah Owyang: Why Online Video is good for your Corporate Executives and How to Deploy
• Rand/SEOmoz: The Keys to Online Success in Simple Equations and Links

Search Tech

• WebmasterWorld discussion: How Do Search Engine Robots Work?
• Dave/SearchRank: What To Look For in a SEO Friendly E-Commerce Application

Rants

• Michael/Wolf-Howl: Google’s Policy on No follow and Reviews is Hypocritical and Wrong
• Lee/Online Marketing Blog: Good SEO Humor
• John Andrews: Black Hat vs. White Hat vs. Grey Hat SEO: The Definitive Guide
• Todd Friesen: Shoemoney, A Fish Bowl, and Bulls–t

LOL Funny!

• Chris/ThinkBait: Chris Hooley talks Chris Hooley, SEO, and Awesomeness in General

Is this helpful? Any that I missed? (That’s not an invite to spam the comments….)

BTW, I won’t be including my own posts in these lists. My head ain’t that big! If you want to see what I think my own best posts are, there’s a category just for you.

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