May ’10: Best Search/Marketing Posts

Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during May. 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

• Mike Ramsey/SEJ: The 7 Deadly Sins of Google Local Listings
• Ash Nallawalla/Net Magellan: U.S. Real Estate SEO Ranking Report
• Chris Berkompas/Manage My Property: Top Rental Sites SEO Report

SEO

• Laura Lippay/SEOmoz: Spying on (and Learning from) Your Competitors: Step 5 of the 8-Step SEO Research Strategy
• Amit Agarwal/Digital Inspiration: Google Experts Answer your SEO Questions
• Vanessa Fox/Nine by Blue: Microsites. A Bad Idea Most of the Time.
• Bill Slawski/SEO by the Sea: Google’s Reasonable Surfer: How the Value of a Link May Differ Based upon Link and Document Features and User Data
• Laura Lippay/SEOmoz: Define Competitors: Step 4 of the 8-Step SEO Strategy
• Laura Lippay/SEOmoz: Finding Gaps and Opportunities: Step 3 of the 8-Step SEO Strategy

Links & Link Building

• Rand Fishkin/SEOmoz: All Links are Not Created Equal: 10 Illustrations on Search Engines’ Valuation of Links

PPC

• Brad Geddes/bgTheory: Google AdWords Remarketing Campaigns: See how we set up our own campaigns

Social Media

• Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: Social Media Strategy from A to Z
• Amber Naslund/Altitude Branding: 13 Truths About Social Media Measurement
• Rick Burnes/Mashable: 5 Surprising Social Media Business Success Stories
• Lee Odden/Online Marketing Blog: 5 Steps to Build a Twitter Marketing Strategy
• Mack Collier: How I got 20,000 followers on Twitter
• Lesley Lambert/Agent Genius: Who should real estate agents follow on Twitter?
• Lisa Barone/Small Business Trends: 20 Reasons People Unfollow You On Twitter
• Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Blogs & Blogging

• Glen Allsopp/ViperChill: 6 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging 4 Years Ago
• Glen Allsopp/ViperChill: The Secret to Growing Your Blog Twice as Fast With Half the Effort
• Corbett Barr/Think Traffic: 10 Blogs with Explosive Growth to Learn From
• Jill Chivers/Copyblogger: 17 Easy Steps to Brilliant Blog Posts

Category: Link Roundups

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