November ’11: Best Search/Marketing Posts

Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during November. 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 Blumenthal: Google Maps Bubble Ads and The SMB State of Mind
• AJ Kumar/Entrepreneur: How Apple’s Siri Could Destroy Local SEO
• Mike Blumenthal: 8 Tips to Maximize Your Branded Presence in the Google Local Search Results
• Phil Rozek/Local Visibility System: 10-Point Maintenance Routine for Your Google Places Visibility
• Chris Silver Smith/SEL: 9 Common Ways To Bork Your Local Rankings In Google

SEO

• Justin Briggs: 18 Tools to Speed Up Link Building
• Linda Bustos/Get Elastic: Guide to Link Building for Ecommerce
• Jill Whalen/High Rankings: The Meta Description Tag
• Dr. Pete Meyers/SEOmoz: Duplicate Content in a Post-Panda World
• Trevin Shirey/WebPageFX: An Open Letter To College Students: How to Study SEO in School

PPC

• Kayla Kurtz/PPC Hero: Holiday PPC Account Structure
• Pamela Lund/Blueglass: Holiday PPC: It’s Not Too Late

Blogs & Blogging

• Chris Abraham/Biznology: The art of writing the perfect blogger pitch
• Wayne Barker/SEP: How To Make Your Blog Content More Shareable

Social Media

• Kerry Jones/Blueglass: Everything You Need to Know About Pinterest
• Peter Stringer: Why a Google+ Brand Page Could Be More Important Than Your Facebook Page
• Marcus Taylor/State of Search: Who Should Represent Your Brand on the Social Web?

Analytics

• Avinash Kaushik/Occam’s Razor: Smarter Data Analysis of Google’s https (not provided) change: 5 Steps

Online Marketing/General

• Linda Bustos/Get Elastic: 8 Tips for Recovering Abandoned Shopping Carts