Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during July. 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 archives: 2008 Best Posts and 2007 Best Posts. I never include my own posts in these end-of-month recaps.
Local Search
- Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea: Google Geocoding, Ambiguous Locations, and My Maps Submitted Data
- David Harry/Search Engine People: Geo Targeted SEO: The Technical Review
- Mary Bowling/ClickZ: Advertising and Local Search
SEO
- Peter DaVanzo/SEO Book: Marketing Driven SEO Strategy
- Bruce Clay: SEO is in the Details: Bruce Busts the Boondoggle
- Vanessa Fox/SEL: What Site Owners, Web Developers & SEOs Should Know About The Yahoo Microsoft Deal
- Glenn Gabe/SEJ: Great Headlines, Poor Rankings – Why Clever Headlines Don’t Beat Optimized Title Tags for SEO
- Andrew Goodman/Traffick: Most of SEO a Boondoggle? Jill Whalen Sticks to Her Guns
- Jill Whalen/SEL: Is Most Of SEO Just A Boondoggle?
PPC
- Brad Geddes/bgTheory: Microsoft adCenter & Google AdWords Resources to make your life easier when Yahoo Search Marketing is replaced by adCenter
Link Building
- Pete Caputa/HubSpot: The 5 B’s of Bad Link Building: Borrowing, Begging, Bartering, Bribing and Buying
Social Media
- Meryl Evans/Web Worker Daily: 34 Ways to Use YouTube for Business
- Nick O’Neill/All Facebook: 9 Rules of Facebook Promotion Every Small Business Should Know
- Samir Balwani/Left the Box: Twitter Marketing: A Small Business Guide
- Vince Blackham/Primary Affect: How To Integrate Viral Marketing Into Your Small Business
- Lisa Barone/Small Biz Trends: How to Get the Most Out Of Facebook Fan Pages
Blogs & Blogging
- Darren Rowse/Problogger: 6 Reasons Your Blog Traffic Might Be Declining [And What to Do About It]
- Barry Welford/SEO Scoop: Five Ways To Turn Blog Comments Into Conversations
Reputation Management
- Marty Weintraub/aimClear: Reputation Management Crises? 8 Crucial Priorities
Online Marketing/General
- Adam Singer/Online Marketing Blog: Use A Creative Commons License As An Online Marketing Tool
Rants
- Andrew Shotland/Local SEO Guide: Yellow Pages v. Social Media Marketing: A Rebuttal To The Lazy, Lying Mainstream Media
August 2, 2009 - 12:10 pm
Great collection of articles, and many from my regular blog list. It was a great catch to find this blog and I’m looking forward to the next article.
Cheers,
Kris
August 3, 2009 - 11:45 am
Actually Matt is was more of a screed than a rant, but I do appreciate the sentiment.
August 3, 2009 - 2:08 pm
Some super reading there for us techy geeks!
August 3, 2009 - 6:18 pm
Thanks for the shout out Matt… always appreciated (but OMG ye must’ve missed my rant at the Google LSI snake oil that is still rampant… hehe…) – regardless, nice round up as always – Shouldn’t this one be called the ‘Boondoggle’ edition?
August 5, 2009 - 6:16 pm
What a sweet deal this site offers:
Best of the month list
Absolutely Stunning content
Great conversation
All for the low price of FREE. Thanks Matt.
August 6, 2009 - 5:13 pm
Thx for the comments, folks. Andrew … I like screed, but for consistency, gotta file it under “rant.”
August 7, 2009 - 2:28 pm
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