May ’10: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during May. 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
- Mike Ramsey/SEJ: The 7 Deadly Sins of Google Local Listings
- Ash Nallawalla/Net Magellan: U.S. Real Estate SEO Ranking Report
- Chris Berkompas/Manage My Property: Top Rental Sites SEO Report
SEO
- Laura Lippay/SEOmoz: Spying on (and Learning from) Your Competitors: Step 5 of the 8-Step SEO Research Strategy
- Amit Agarwal/Digital Inspiration: Google Experts Answer your SEO Questions
- Vanessa Fox/Nine by Blue: Microsites. A Bad Idea Most of the Time.
- Bill Slawski/SEO by the Sea: Google’s Reasonable Surfer: How the Value of a Link May Differ Based upon Link and Document Features and User Data
- Laura Lippay/SEOmoz: Define Competitors: Step 4 of the 8-Step SEO Strategy
- Laura Lippay/SEOmoz: Finding Gaps and Opportunities: Step 3 of the 8-Step SEO Strategy
Links & Link Building
- Rand Fishkin/SEOmoz: All Links are Not Created Equal: 10 Illustrations on Search Engines’ Valuation of Links
PPC
- Brad Geddes/bgTheory: Google AdWords Remarketing Campaigns: See how we set up our own campaigns
Social Media
- Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: Social Media Strategy from A to Z
- Amber Naslund/Altitude Branding: 13 Truths About Social Media Measurement
- Rick Burnes/Mashable: 5 Surprising Social Media Business Success Stories
- Lee Odden/Online Marketing Blog: 5 Steps to Build a Twitter Marketing Strategy
- Mack Collier: How I got 20,000 followers on Twitter
- Lesley Lambert/Agent Genius: Who should real estate agents follow on Twitter?
- Lisa Barone/Small Business Trends: 20 Reasons People Unfollow You On Twitter
- Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia: How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing
Blogs & Blogging
- Glen Allsopp/ViperChill: 6 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging 4 Years Ago
- Glen Allsopp/ViperChill: The Secret to Growing Your Blog Twice as Fast With Half the Effort
- Corbett Barr/Think Traffic: 10 Blogs with Explosive Growth to Learn From
- Jill Chivers/Copyblogger: 17 Easy Steps to Brilliant Blog Posts
Thanks a ton Matt! It’s been a while. I hope everything is going good with you and your family.