September ’08: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Time again for a roundup of the best search/marketing posts during September. I’m particularly pleased with this one because there are a lot of authors and blogs that you probably haven’t seen in previous recaps. Expanding horizons = a Good Thing.
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.
Small Business
- Lee Odden/TopRank Blog: Interview with John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing
Local Search
- Pierre Far/Search Engine People: Don’t Leave Home Without It: 8 Steps for Making Your Site Mobile Friendly
- Dev Basu: How To Create Effective Local Business Landing Pages
- Eric Enge/Stone Temple: Interview: Yahoo’s Frazier Miller and Shailesh Bhat
- Eric Enge/Stone Temple: Interview: Microsoft’s Ziya Genceren
Link Building
- Danny Sullivan/SEL: Conversation With An Idiot Link Broker
- Pete Caputa/HubSpot: Did You Graduate From Link Building High School Yet?
- Loren Baker/SEJ: Going Green: The Power of Ecofriendly Link Building
- Andy Boyd/The Matchbox: Social Media Epic Fail: How To Build Links To Linkbaits That Don’t Go Viral
SEO
- Eduard Blacquière/Yoast: Measuring SEO: why rankings are worthless
- Rand Fishkin/SEOmoz: Why Reputable SEO Firms Don’t Promise Guaranteed Search Engine Rankings
Social Media
- Vince Blackham/Primary Affect: How to Use Yahoo Answers for your Social Media Campaign
PPC
- Linda Bustos/Get Elastic: Keyword Ideas for Holiday PPC Campaigns
- George Michie/SEL: 9 Keys to Successful Day-Parting
Blogs & Blogging
- Sonia Simone/Copyblogger: How to Grow a Blog Post in 7 Easy Steps
- Mack Collier/SEG: 10 Steps to Creating the Perfect Small Business Blog
- Patrick Altoft/Blogstorm: The Paid Link Farce is 3 Years Old – Get Your Act Together Google
Online Marketing/General
- Scott Van Achte/Stepforth: Your Website from the Ground Up in 10 Steps
- Sugarrae/Copyblogger: Here’s How Affiliate Marketing Works
- Peter Da Vanzo/SEOBook: Brand Building Tips (On A Budget)
- Stoney deGeyter/SEG: The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period!
- Carrie Hill/SEW: 6 Tips for Small Business Marketing Success
LOL Funny!
- Anita Campbell/Small Business Trends: Top 10 Signs That Your Online Marketing Has Hit the Wall
- Joe Kerschbaum/PPC Hero: PPC Hero is Interviewed by James Lipton!
- SEO Hack: Plurk, You’re A Needy Bitch (for the comments as much as anything)
Rants
- Sugarrae: Did Twitter Lay Down for Google?
Howdy Matt! Thanks for mentioning my article and the link back. Much appreciated 🙂
I don’t know, Matt…Danny’s post about the conversation with the idiot might have fit just as well into the “LOL Funny!” category. I’m not even in your line of work and I was guffawing my way through it!
What a great resource! I’ll be bookmarking these every month into a folder, for sure, to keep them all together and refer back to. Thanks for this!
I genuinely always enjoy these link roundups as you truly provide quality ones! Bookmarking it now and yes… new blogs/authors are ALWAYS good.
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the mention 🙂
There’s tons of stuff in here I missed…I need to stop relying on Twitter as my feed reader and actually look at the dang reader itself!
~Carrie
You’re welcome, Dev and Carrie. Thank you, Melanie and Nick. And you’re right, Cari, I could’ve put that one in the LOL category….
It’s an honor to be in the SBS monthly feature! Thanks for the mention, Matt.
Wow what a great list. I have been reading for an hour and have only gotten to three of the posts!
Thanks, Dan. 🙂 I post these roundups at the end of every month, so be sure to check back. Or, just subscribe to the RSS feed!