May ’11: 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.

SEO

• Greg Boser/Blueglass: A Practical Guide to SERP Profiling – Part 1
• Debra Mastaler/Link Spiel: Panda Pushback Links
• Aaron Weiche/Spyder Trap: 10 Reasons Search Should Be Part Of Your Web Design Process From The Start
• Rae Hoffman-Dolan: SEO Checklist for Local Small Business Websites

Link Building

• Debra Mastaler/SEL: A Campaign Prep Checklist For Link Builders
• Justin Briggs/Distilled: Finding Fresh Linkers: Quick Linkfromdomain Hack
• Lexi Mills/Distilled: Getting big links from big media sites, the fundamentals

PPC

• Nathan Pabich/Certified Knowledge: 10 PPC Management Tips for a Company Rebranding
• Pamela Lund/Blueglass: PPC Optimization in Under 30 Minutes a Week

Blogs & Blogging

• Mack Collier: How One Blogger Has $20,000 a Month In Sales on Her EBook
• Lee Odden/Top Rank: Blog Marketing Strategy: 7 Steps to Social SEO Success
• Ben Pickering/Social Media Examiner: How to Run a Successful Social Media Contest
• Lee Odden/Top Rank: BlogWorld NY: @JasonFalls No BS Guide to Advertising & PR for Bloggers
• Carol Tice/Copyblogger: 5 Ways to Write High-Quality Content – Fast
• Lisa Barone/Outspoken Media: About to Publish A Post? STOP! Read This
• Danny Iny/Copyblogger: 21 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue

Social Media

• Jessica Lee/Bruce Clay Inc.: Create Social Media Policies or Trust the Community Manager?
• Peter Shankman: I Will Never Hire a “Social Media Expert,” and Neither Should You
• Linda Bustos/Get Elastic: EdgeRank: How Facebook Determines What Appears in the News Feed
• Tony Ahn/Social Media Examiner: How to Build a Free Social Media Monitoring Dashboard
• Linda Bustos/Get Elastic: News Feed Optimization: 14 Ideas To Get Noticed In Facebook

Online Marketing/General

• Joe Hall: A Few Lessons in Developing and Marketing Products