January ’10: Best Search/Marketing Posts

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

Small Business

• Bill Slawski/SEO by the Sea: Web Self-Help for Small Business

SEO

• Rob Ousbey/SEOmoz: Explaining SEO, Role by Role

PPC

• Andrew Goodman/ClickZ: Five Quality Score Myths Busted
• Giovanna Wall/PPC Blog: PPC Copywriting
• Glenn Gabe/SEJ: Will Your CMS Cause Paid Search Problems?
• George Michie/RKMG: How Important is the “Tail”? An Emperical Study

Link Building

• Russ Virante/The Google Cache: Getting Links from the Top 50 Domains

Social Media

• Michelle Bowles/Online Marketing Blog: 5 Ingredients for a Perfect Twitter Marketing Recipe
• Amber Naslund/Altitude Branding: Practical Social Media Measurement: Awareness, Attention, Reach
• Susan Cooper/BuzzEdition: How To: Get Your Twitter Account Suspended Or Banned
• Jason Falls/Social Media Explorer: Four Styles Of Marketing On Twitter
• Amber Naslund/Altitude Branding: Breaking A Goal Into Metrics
• Amber Naslund/Altitude Branding: 10 Ways to Get Serious About Social Media

Viral Marketing

• Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: 7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Blogs & Blogging

• Michael Gray/Wolf-Howl: How to Use Tags on Your Blog or Website
• Darren Rowse/Problogger: The Power of Uniqueness [19 Starting Points for Being a Unique Blogger]
• Glen Allsopp/ViperChill: What You Can Learn From The Most Tweeted Blog Posts Ever
• Michael Gray/Wolf-Howl: How to Speed up WordPress
• Virginia Nussey/Bruce Clay Inc.: So You Wanna Reap the Marketing Benefits of a Business Blog?
• Lisa Barone/Small Business Trends: 100+ SMB Blogging Ideas to Kick Start 2010

Copywriting

• Karon Thackston/Marketing Words: Copywriting Secrets I Learned from the Kirby Vacuum Cleaner Man

Analytics

• Will Critchlow/SEOmoz: How To Get Past Last-Touch Attribution With Google Analytics
• Avinash Kaushik/Occam’s Razor: Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch