July ’08: Best Search/Marketing Posts

Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts during July. It was a good month with a lot of variety.

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.

Local Search

• David Mihm: The Mother of All SMX Local/Mobile Recaps
• Eric Enge/Stone Temple Consulting: Interview with Google’s Carter Maslan about Local Search
• Nathania Johnson/SEW: 24 iPhone Applications That Accelerate Mobile Search

SEO

• Mark Jackson/SEW: Press Releases and Search Engine Optimization
• Ann Smarty/SEJ: Online SEO Tools – the Ultimate Collection
• Vanessa Fox: Search-Friendly Flash?
• Tim Nash: Flash SEO Indexing Revisited Part 1
• Jennifer Laycock/SEG: Why the Social Media World NEEDS to Understand SEO
• Todd Mintz/Inside CRM: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves: Ethical SEOs and Search Engineers Narc Out SEO Fraud
• Michael Martinez/SEO Theory: The Layman’s Guide to How to choose an SEO

PPC

• Brad Geddes/SEL: What Should You do When Quality Score Kills Your Keywords?

Social Media

• Muhammad Saleem/SEL: A Comprehensive Look at Digg’s Recommendation Engine
• Thomas Hawk/Flickr: Top 10 Ways to Get Attention on Flickr
• Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?
• Marta Kagan (PPT on Slideshare): What the F**K is Social Media?
• Anita Campbell/Small Business Trends: Real Life Examples of Business Owners Using Social Media

Blogs & Blogging

• David Wallace/SearchRank: Common Excuses Companies Use For Not Having a Blog
• Darren/ProBlogger: 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky
• Patrick Winfield/10e20: Rewind to Fundamentals: The 10 Best Ways to Find the Perfect Image for your Blog Post
• Dustin Wax/ProBlogger: Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post
• Donna Fontenot/SEO Scoop: The Ultimate Hacker Prevention Guide

Google

• Aaron Wall/SEO Book: Google Knol – Google’s Latest Attack on Copyright

Yahoo!

• Eric Enge/Stone Temple: Eric Enge Interviews Yahoo’s Priyank Garg

General/Online Marketing

• Karon Thackston: Stop the Slaughter of Innocent Copy!
• Dean Rieck/Copyblogger: 10 Quick and Simple Ways to Power Up Your Customer Testimonials
• Paul Chaney/Practical eCommerce: Ratings and Reviews Engage Your Visitors
• Sean Moffitt/Buzz Canuck: The 11 Deadly Sins of Ill Advised Word of Mouth Marketers
• Jeff Sexton/GrokDotCom: 5 Copywriting Key’s to Landing Page Credibility
• Avinash Kaushik/Occam’s Razor: Tracking Offline Conversions: Hope, Seven Best Practices, Bonus Tips

Analytics

• Jake Matthews: Video Optimization and Analytics: A closer look at YouTube Insight

LOL Funny!

• Linda Bustos/Get Elastic: Why eCommerce is a Lot Like ICanHasCheezburger

Rants

• Dave Harry/Huomah: Your SEO is weak my foolish friends