March/April ’12: Best Search/Marketing Posts

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

• Brian Carter/SEJ: Is AdWords Express Hurting Your Small Business?
• Mike Blumenthal: Yext & Local SEO

SEO

• Adam Audette/RKG: SEO Should Be Invisible
• AJ Kohn/Blind Five Year Old: Author Rank
• Jessica Lee/ Bruce Clay Inc.: The SEO Copywriting Checklist
• Phil Nottingham/Distilled: Getting Video Results in Google

Social Media

• Mack Collier: “It’s Not You, It’s Me.” – Five Reasons For Our Social Media Breakup
• Ruben Sanchez/RKG: A Complete Guide to Creating and Optimizing Google+ Brand Pages
• Jason Keath/SocialFresh: 10 Awesome Examples Of How To Use Facebook Timelines
• Courtney Seiter/Marketing Land: 21 Unexpected Ways Brands Can Use Pinterest
• John Haydon: Eleven Ways Facebook Page Timelines Change Your Content Strategy

Blogs & Blogging

• Laura Crest/Success Works: How to create an editorial calendar
• Brittany Klontz/Blueglass: How To Connect with These 6 Influential Bloggers

Design & Usability

• Ted Ives/Coconut Headphones: Website Architecture for SEO: The Complete Guide

Analytics

• Justin Cutroni: A Social Media Dashboard for Google Analytics

General Internet Marketing

• Greg Ciotti/Sparring Mind: The Blogger’s Guide To YouTube: How To Absolutely Dominate Your Niche With Video Content
• Bryan Eisenberg: Designing Effective Pricing Tables
• Peep Laja/ConversionXL: The Ultimate Guide to Increasing Ecommerce Conversion Rates