Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during March. 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.
Local Search
- Dev Basu/Powered by Search: The 20 Best Local SEO Citation Sources for The United States
- Mike Blumenthal: Principles for a Review Plan: Considerations in encouraging customer reviews
- Pamela Seiple/HubSpot: 10 Easy Ways to Supercharge Your Small Business’ Yelp Presence
SEO
- Lee Odden/Online Marketing Blog: Common B2B SEO Mistakes and How to Solve Them
- Bill Slawski/SEO by the Sea: Good SEO
- Edward Lewis/SEOConsultants.com: SEO for PDFs – Optimizing PDF for Search
- Eric Enge/Stone Temple: Matt Cutts Interviewed by Eric Enge
- Rand Fishkin/SEOmoz: Pagination: Best Practices for SEO & User Experience
PPC
- Dave Davis/RedFly: What Every Google AdWords Advertiser Should Know About Quality Score – The Ultimate QS Improvement Guide
Blogs & Blogging
- Samir Balwani/Training Social: 10 Blog Ideas For Every Business
- Jonathan Fields: 7 Sneaky Ways to Write Irresistible Headlines
- Jim Cronin/Real Estate Tomato: How To Approach Real Estate Blogging And Ensure Your Success, Guaranteed
- Mark Hayward/Problogger: 9 Tips for Creating More Small Business Blogging Ideas
Social Media
- Amber Naslund/Radian6: 10 Key Sales Metrics to Track
- Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: How to Get an Influencer’s Attention
- Jared O’Toole/TwiTip: How to Get Ignored on Twitter
- Lee Odden/Online Marketing Blog: 11 Free Tools for Social Media Optimization
- Pamela Seiple/HubSpot: Restaurant Owner Increases Sales by 110% with Foursquare Swarm Badge Party
- Wordstream: The Experts’ Guide to Keyword Research for Social Media
- Jeremiah Owyang/Web Strategy: Roadmap: Make Your Corporate Websites Relevant by Integrating Facebook, Google, MySpace, LinkedIn, or Twitter
Online Marketing/General
- Pat Sexton/SEOish: An In Depth Guide to Creating Small Websites That Rank Well
- Amanda Barth/Search Influence: E-mail Marketing for Small Business: 9 Things Not to Do
- Tim Ash/ClickZ: How Your Graphic Designer Is Killing Your Conversion Rate
- Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet Marketing Snake Oil)
- Rob Smith/Smashing Magazine: Handy Tools and Tips for E-Commerce Websites
Rants
- Kim Krause-Berg/Cre8pc: My Response to an UnSolicited Letter from Yet Another SEO Rip-Off
April 2, 2010 - 8:39 pm
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the mention. My team has been doing a great job of keeping fresh content from the real world of Small Business SEO on our blog and it’s a big bonus when their work gets noticed.
Thanks!
Will
April 3, 2010 - 2:29 pm
Wow, that Pat Sexton post about creating small websites was incredible. Bookmarking that. Really, really informative. I have got to put Pat in my feedreader. Thanks for pointing that one out, Matt.
April 12, 2010 - 10:52 pm
Great blog by Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia, as I am new in the internet marketing world, I have been going through the same struggles, gald to hear I am not the only one, Im sure there are more, keep digging at it everyone.