Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during January. 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 Link Roundups category archive. I never include my own posts in these end-of-month recaps.
Small Business
- Bill Slawski/SEO by the Sea: Web Self-Help for Small Business
SEO
- Rob Ousbey/SEOmoz: Explaining SEO, Role by Role
PPC
- Andrew Goodman/ClickZ: Five Quality Score Myths Busted
- Giovanna Wall/PPC Blog: PPC Copywriting
- Glenn Gabe/SEJ: Will Your CMS Cause Paid Search Problems?
- George Michie/RKMG: How Important is the “Tail”? An Emperical Study
Link Building
- Russ Virante/The Google Cache: Getting Links from the Top 50 Domains
Social Media
- Michelle Bowles/Online Marketing Blog: 5 Ingredients for a Perfect Twitter Marketing Recipe
- Amber Naslund/Altitude Branding: Practical Social Media Measurement: Awareness, Attention, Reach
- Susan Cooper/BuzzEdition: How To: Get Your Twitter Account Suspended Or Banned
- Jason Falls/Social Media Explorer: Four Styles Of Marketing On Twitter
- Amber Naslund/Altitude Branding: Breaking A Goal Into Metrics
- Amber Naslund/Altitude Branding: 10 Ways to Get Serious About Social Media
Viral Marketing
- Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: 7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos
Blogs & Blogging
- Michael Gray/Wolf-Howl: How to Use Tags on Your Blog or Website
- Darren Rowse/Problogger: The Power of Uniqueness [19 Starting Points for Being a Unique Blogger]
- Glen Allsopp/ViperChill: What You Can Learn From The Most Tweeted Blog Posts Ever
- Michael Gray/Wolf-Howl: How to Speed up WordPress
- Virginia Nussey/Bruce Clay Inc.: So You Wanna Reap the Marketing Benefits of a Business Blog?
- Lisa Barone/Small Business Trends: 100+ SMB Blogging Ideas to Kick Start 2010
Copywriting
- Karon Thackston/Marketing Words: Copywriting Secrets I Learned from the Kirby Vacuum Cleaner Man
Analytics
- Will Critchlow/SEOmoz: How To Get Past Last-Touch Attribution With Google Analytics
- Avinash Kaushik/Occam’s Razor: Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch
February 1, 2010 - 2:52 pm
Hi Matt,
Thanks for including my “Self Help for Small Business” post. I enjoyed writing it, and received a lot of great comments with additional suggestions and advice. More are welcome.