August ’12: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts that I found and read during August. 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
- David Mihm: Why You Shouldn’t Get Bent Out of Shape About Siri Rankings (Yet)
- Phil Rozek/Local Visibility System: Yelp Ranking Factors
- John-Henry Scherck/Seer: Catching Up with your Local Competitors & Automating Citation Discovery
- Bryan Phelps/SEO.com: Local Search Dream Team – Tips, Tools & Predictions
- Nyagoslav Zhekov/NGS: The Two Types of Local Search and How Local SEO Should Reflect Them
- Phil Rozek/Local Visibility System: Can You Rank Well in Local Google without Revealing Your Street Address Anywhere?
SEO
- Debra Mastaler/Link Spiel: Creating Provocative Link Content
- Julie Joyce/SEL: 50+ Things Every Link Builder Needs To Know
- Jim Gianoglio/LunaMetrics: Monitoring Penguin Updates with Google Analytics
Social Media
- Chris Sietsema/Convince and Convert: The 5 Top Google Analytics Reports for Social Media Marketers
- Andrew Melchior/Avalaunch Media: Content, Contests, and Creativity: Seven Lessons on Using Pinterest
Blogs & Blogging
- Warren Wooden/Business 2 Community: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers
- Kerry Jones/Blueglass: 33 Things to Ask Before Hitting Publish
- Rae Hoffman-Dolan/Sugarrae: How to Make Money Blogging
- Corey Eridon/Hubspot: 12 Things You Should Be Using Your Blog For (Besides Blogging)
- Jeff Bullas: 6 Reasons Why You Will Fail at Blogging
- Jonathan Payne/Business 2 Community: How To Cure The Disease That Plagues Unsuccessful Bloggers
- Scott Hanselman: Yours Words are Wasted
- John Jantsch/Duct Tape: Why Blogging Is Even More Critical In the Age of Social
- Danny Brown/For Bloggers By Bloggers: Read, Savour, Comment, Share – Your Four Step Guide to Blogging Success
- Stanford Smith/Pushing Social: 50 Blogging Ideas to Steal and Take Credit For
- Ollin Morales/Write to Done: Do The Wrong Thing: The Benefits Of Writing Unconventional Headlines
- Kylie Jane Wakefield/Content Strategist: 8 Steps to Getting the Most Out of a Blog Post
Design & Usability
- AJ Kohn/Blind Five-Year-Old: Readability and SEO
- Nathaniel Davis/UX Matters: Creating a Web-Site Information Architecture in Six Steps
General Online Marketing
- Diana Huff/MarCom: Effective Marketing Isn’t Easy — Or Cheap
- Joanna Wiebe/Copyhacker: Writing Email Subject Lines: 6 Ways to Improve Your Open Rate
- Ryan Pinkham/Constant Contact: 10 Steps to Creating a Newsletter That Makes You Look like an Expert
