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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

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This is a post from Matt McGee’s blog, Small Business Search Marketing.

July ‘09: Best Search/Marketing Posts

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1. May ‘09: Best Search/Marketing Posts
2. June ‘09: Best Search/Marketing Posts
3. March ‘09: Best Search/Marketing Posts

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July ‘09: Best Search/Marketing Posts