Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts during September. If you’re new to SBS, this is a monthly feature and will lead to something fun in a few months. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives. Only rule is that my own posts are not eligible.

Small Business

• David/Search Engine Guide: Increase The Visibility of Your Small Business Web Site on a Shoestring Budget

Local Search

• Scott/Publishing 2.0: Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks
• Andy/Tropical SEO: Everything You Need to Know About FRO (Fake Review Optimization)
• Mike/SEL: Yahoo Local Now Features "User Denigrated Content"

SEO

• Bob/Ask the SEO Guru: The Top 10 List For Finding A Competent Plumber — or SEO
• Rand/SEOmoz: My Personal Opinion – 90% of the Rankings Equation Lies in These 4 Factors
• Todd/Oilman: SEO Forecasting
• Bill/SEO by the Sea: 20 More Ways that Search Engines May Rerank Search Results
• Stoney/e-Marketing Performance: The SEO Fool’s Errand for the SEO Fool
• David/SearchRank: When Your On-Page SEO Goes Too Far
• Jennifer/Search Engine Guide: Five Reasons to Aim Low When You’re Just Learning SEO
• Lee/TopRank: Evaluating Client Search Marketing Readiness
• Dan/SEO Fast Start: How To Get More Pages Indexed With Nofollow

Link Building

• Deb/The Link Spiel: Help! I’m New, I Need Links, What Can I Do?
• Jennifer Slegg: Revisiting your linking strategies for a link health check
• Joe/Search Marketing Standard: SES Interviews: SEOmoz’ Matt Inman on Linkbaiting
• Deb/SEL: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Link Builders

Social Media

• Lisa/Bruce Clay blog: How to Encourage Clients to Engage In Social Media
• Jennifer/Search Engine Guide: Hide and Speak: Recovering from a Social Media Disaster
• Muhammad/Copyblogger: Writing for StumbleUpon: High Impact Content “Above the Scroll” in Four Easy Steps

Google

• Jim Boykin: Google Punished My Site For Selling Links – NOT!
• Sugarrae: Google Doesn’t Know the Face of “Evil”
• Eric/Search Engine Journal: Google Webmaster Tools: A Comprehensive Guide
• Loren/Search Engine Journal: Google Loves Transparent Links & Hit Counter Spam

Blogs & Blogging

• BL Ochman/Marketing Profs: How to Have a ‘Totally F—ing Amazing’ Corporate Blog
• Pat/Lonely Marketer: Beginner’s Guide To Setting Up A First Blog Site

Rants

• Bob/Ask the SEO Guru: Getting Bitch Slapped by The Guru – OUCH! That’s Gotta Hurt
• John Andrews: More SEO Noise
• Vanessa Fox: Why the SEOmoz SEO Quiz Is Completely Wrong
• John Andrews: SEOS: The Card Counters of the Internet
• Aaron/SEOBook: 7 Useful Webmaster Tools Google Stole From You
• Dan/SEO Fast Start: Web 2.0 & SEO: Must We Piss In Every Public Fountain?

LOL Funny!

• Darcy/Worst SEO Blog Ever: Jill Whalen -vs- SEO Hack
• Stoney/e-Marketing Performance: SEO QUIZ – Just the Essentials!
• Greg Boser: SEO Vanity Contest
• Todd/Oilman: The Facebook Black Hole