April ’08: Best Search/Marketing Posts

WOW. I’ve been doing these monthly roundups for the better part of 16-18 months, and April 2008 will go down as the best month yet. There are some fantastic articles linked below. If you’re new to SBS, this is a monthly feature. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives. Only rule is that my own posts are not eligible.

Oh, before you read, another reminder to please follow me on Twitter! (Remember, it’s for charity.)

Small Business

• David Mihm: The Ten Commandments of Online Marketing for Small & Local Businesses
• Andy Beal: Advice for Managing Negative Reviews of Hotels or Small Businesses

Local Search

• Steven Brier/SEJ: How to Optimize Local Business Profiles for Free Local Directories
• Rob O’Daniel/Problogger: Geoblogging – How to Geotag Your Blog
• Lucy Langdon/Distilled: Local SEO’s Share Geo Location Tips From Around The World

SEO

• Marty/aimClear: Measuring SEO Success: Solve Personalized Search Misperceptions
• Barry/SERoundtable: How Google Views Four Ways Of Hiding Content
• Bill/SEO by the Sea: Same-Site Duplicate Pages at Different URLs
• Mason/Small Fuel: SEO Explained for Small Business Owners
• Bill/SEO by the Sea: Do Domain Ages Affect Search Rankings?
• Mark Jackson/SEW: How to Tell if Your Domain is Banned in a Search Engine
• David Berkowitz/MediaPost: Search Marketing By The Book (I’ll be using some of these techniques when I start promoting U2, A Diary.)

PPC

• Brad Geddes/SEL: What Yahoo’s New Minimum Bid Means to You
• John Lee/PPC Hero: Learn How to Track Your MSN adCenter PPC Keyword Data in Analytics
• John Lee/PPC Hero: The Secret of Tracking Yahoo! Keyword Data in Google Analytics

Blogs & Blogging

• Teresa Boardman/Real Estate Tomato: Finding Time To Blog As A Real Estate Professional
• Skellie: How to Get Piles of Links, Subscribers and Comments
• Jennifer Osborne/Search Engine People: 10 Golden Rules of Blogging
• Courtney Tuttle/Problogger: 10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less
• Pete Caputa/Hubspot: 13 Ways to Use Your Blog to Improve Your Sales Process

Social Media

• Jeff Quipp/Search Engine People: 4 Pillars of Social Media Algorithms … Trust x4
• Brian Provost/Scoreboard Media: How To Make A Small Fortune With Twitter (#5 and #7 make this eligible for the LOL FUNNY section, too)
• Scott Clark/Finding the Sweet Spot: 20 Take-Aways from SMX Social Media
• Scott Clark/Finding the Sweet Spot: Link Building, Search, and Influence: Not So Silly After All
• Wendy Piersall/Sparkplugging: 10 Social Media Blunders that Can Destroy Your Brand
• Brent Csutoras/SEL: Tools For Engaging In Social Media
• Jason Falls/Social Media Explorer: The Next Generation Of Social Media Experts
• Maki/DoshDosh: Building a Popular Social Media Profile: Seven Essential Characteristics
• Rebecca/SEOmoz: How a Good Title and Description Can Make or Break Your Social Media Submission

Reputation Management

• Andy/Marketing Pilgrim: 12 Reputations Every Company Should Monitor Online

Google

• Aaron Wall: Google Thinks YOU Are a Black Hat SEO. Should You Trust Them?

Analytics

• Carrie Hill/SEW: Taking the Fear Out of Web Analytics for Your Small Business
• Avinash/Occam’s Razor: How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips.

Online Marketing/General

• Matt Bailey/SiteLogic Marketing: Make Your Website Content Explode
• Rebecca/SEOmoz: Let’s Talk Landing Pages
• Bryan Eisenberg/Clickz: Three Reasons Your Visitors Don’t Convert to Leads
• Andrew Goodman/Traffick: 5 gaffes that will get you a low speaker rating at any conference, anywhere

Search Tech

• Riona MacNamara/Google Webmaster Central: Best practices when moving your site

LOL Funny!

• Jane/SEOmoz: Google Search Results Missing from OneBox
• Ian Lurie/Conversation Marketing: 17 Internet Marketing Things I Will Not Write About
• Mike Blumenthal: Yahoo Local Bug: San BuenaVentura Ca located just off African Coast (I love the matter-of-factness of the title….)
• Matt Davies/SEOTunes: 21 Reasons Twitter Is Bullshit
• SEO Hack/Worst SEO Blog Ever: You Want SEO Standards? Well, Here Ya Go!

Rants

• Rand/SEOmoz: I’m Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn’t Include Any Mention of SEO