July ’09: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during July. 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 archives: 2008 Best Posts and 2007 Best Posts. I never include my own posts in these end-of-month recaps.
Local Search
- Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea: Google Geocoding, Ambiguous Locations, and My Maps Submitted Data
- David Harry/Search Engine People: Geo Targeted SEO: The Technical Review
- Mary Bowling/ClickZ: Advertising and Local Search
SEO
- Peter DaVanzo/SEO Book: Marketing Driven SEO Strategy
- Bruce Clay: SEO is in the Details: Bruce Busts the Boondoggle
- Vanessa Fox/SEL: What Site Owners, Web Developers & SEOs Should Know About The Yahoo Microsoft Deal
- Glenn Gabe/SEJ: Great Headlines, Poor Rankings – Why Clever Headlines Don’t Beat Optimized Title Tags for SEO
- Andrew Goodman/Traffick: Most of SEO a Boondoggle? Jill Whalen Sticks to Her Guns
- Jill Whalen/SEL: Is Most Of SEO Just A Boondoggle?
PPC
- Brad Geddes/bgTheory: Microsoft adCenter & Google AdWords Resources to make your life easier when Yahoo Search Marketing is replaced by adCenter
Link Building
- Pete Caputa/HubSpot: The 5 B’s of Bad Link Building: Borrowing, Begging, Bartering, Bribing and Buying
Social Media
- Meryl Evans/Web Worker Daily: 34 Ways to Use YouTube for Business
- Nick O’Neill/All Facebook: 9 Rules of Facebook Promotion Every Small Business Should Know
- Samir Balwani/Left the Box: Twitter Marketing: A Small Business Guide
- Vince Blackham/Primary Affect: How To Integrate Viral Marketing Into Your Small Business
- Lisa Barone/Small Biz Trends: How to Get the Most Out Of Facebook Fan Pages
Blogs & Blogging
- Darren Rowse/Problogger: 6 Reasons Your Blog Traffic Might Be Declining [And What to Do About It]
- Barry Welford/SEO Scoop: Five Ways To Turn Blog Comments Into Conversations
Reputation Management
- Marty Weintraub/aimClear: Reputation Management Crises? 8 Crucial Priorities
Online Marketing/General
- Adam Singer/Online Marketing Blog: Use A Creative Commons License As An Online Marketing Tool
Rants
- Andrew Shotland/Local SEO Guide: Yellow Pages v. Social Media Marketing: A Rebuttal To The Lazy, Lying Mainstream Media
Great collection of articles, and many from my regular blog list. It was a great catch to find this blog and I’m looking forward to the next article.
Cheers,
Kris
Actually Matt is was more of a screed than a rant, but I do appreciate the sentiment.
Some super reading there for us techy geeks!
Thanks for the shout out Matt… always appreciated (but OMG ye must’ve missed my rant at the Google LSI snake oil that is still rampant… hehe…) – regardless, nice round up as always – Shouldn’t this one be called the ‘Boondoggle’ edition?
What a sweet deal this site offers:
Best of the month list
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Great conversation
All for the low price of FREE. Thanks Matt.
Thx for the comments, folks. Andrew … I like screed, but for consistency, gotta file it under “rant.” 🙂
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