Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts during July. It was a good month with a lot of variety.
If you’re new to SBS, this is a monthly feature. 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
- David Mihm: The Mother of All SMX Local/Mobile Recaps
- Eric Enge/Stone Temple Consulting: Interview with Google’s Carter Maslan about Local Search
- Nathania Johnson/SEW: 24 iPhone Applications That Accelerate Mobile Search
SEO
- Mark Jackson/SEW: Press Releases and Search Engine Optimization
- Ann Smarty/SEJ: Online SEO Tools – the Ultimate Collection
- Vanessa Fox: Search-Friendly Flash?
- Tim Nash: Flash SEO Indexing Revisited Part 1
- Jennifer Laycock/SEG: Why the Social Media World NEEDS to Understand SEO
- Todd Mintz/Inside CRM: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves: Ethical SEOs and Search Engineers Narc Out SEO Fraud
- Michael Martinez/SEO Theory: The Layman’s Guide to How to choose an SEO
PPC
- Brad Geddes/SEL: What Should You do When Quality Score Kills Your Keywords?
Social Media
- Muhammad Saleem/SEL: A Comprehensive Look at Digg’s Recommendation Engine
- Thomas Hawk/Flickr: Top 10 Ways to Get Attention on Flickr
- Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?
- Marta Kagan (PPT on Slideshare): What the F**K is Social Media?
- Anita Campbell/Small Business Trends: Real Life Examples of Business Owners Using Social Media
Blogs & Blogging
- David Wallace/SearchRank: Common Excuses Companies Use For Not Having a Blog
- Darren/ProBlogger: 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky
- Patrick Winfield/10e20: Rewind to Fundamentals: The 10 Best Ways to Find the Perfect Image for your Blog Post
- Dustin Wax/ProBlogger: Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post
- Donna Fontenot/SEO Scoop: The Ultimate Hacker Prevention Guide
- Aaron Wall/SEO Book: Google Knol – Google’s Latest Attack on Copyright
Yahoo!
- Eric Enge/Stone Temple: Eric Enge Interviews Yahoo’s Priyank Garg
General/Online Marketing
- Karon Thackston: Stop the Slaughter of Innocent Copy!
- Dean Rieck/Copyblogger: 10 Quick and Simple Ways to Power Up Your Customer Testimonials
- Paul Chaney/Practical eCommerce: Ratings and Reviews Engage Your Visitors
- Sean Moffitt/Buzz Canuck: The 11 Deadly Sins of Ill Advised Word of Mouth Marketers
- Jeff Sexton/GrokDotCom: 5 Copywriting Key’s to Landing Page Credibility
- Avinash Kaushik/Occam’s Razor: Tracking Offline Conversions: Hope, Seven Best Practices, Bonus Tips
Analytics
LOL Funny!
- Linda Bustos/Get Elastic: Why eCommerce is a Lot Like ICanHasCheezburger
Rants
- Dave Harry/Huomah: Your SEO is weak my foolish friends
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This is a nice list of useful posts…hopefully one of my blogs will make this list in the near future
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Honored to make Matt’s “Best Of” list…thanks.
Thanks, Matt, for including the WTF is Social Media presentation! And for all the great references… Rock on.
Hey Matt, thanks for the reading and luv as well… between you and Steven (aka VanGogh) I have a TON of reading this weekend…. let’s hope for rain huh? I did notice a few of my favs from the month as well in there… would that be great minds? Or fools seldom differing? hee hee…..
Talk atcha’ soon ;0)
Dave
This is really a good list!Thank you so much for sharing. Keep it up!