50 of the Best Online Marketing Articles From 2012
2013 is here and it is time to take a look through the very best online marketing articles from the past year. I have compiled and categorised a list of my personal favourites from a range of different authors and collated it into this one article for you to look through. There is some amazing content here so make sure you give it a read and share the authors work if you feel fit. Anyway, enough of me rambling, here are the articles:
Link Building
Link Building Through Blogger Outreach – Paddy Moogan
Link Building Strategies – The Complete List – Jon Cooper
The Most Creative Link Building Post Ever – Jon Cooper
9 More Evil Ways to Build Links – Peter Attia
33 Links & How To Get Them – Justin Briggs
The Noob Guide to Link Building – Michael King
Crazy Link Building Ideas That Work – Jason Acidre
Link Building for the Little Guys – Matthew Barby (excuse the shameless plug of my own content!)
Semantic Web and Link Building without Links > The Future for SEO? – Simon Penson
How Link Building Really Works These Days – Tadeusz Szewczyk
A List of Link Building Lists – Peter Attia
Technical SEO
Grey Hat SEO Techniques That Work – Peter Attia
7 Critical SEO Errors of E-commerce Websites – Sean Work
Which Page is Canonical? – Pete Meyers
Blog Post Optimization – AJ Kohn
How To NoIndex And Organize Categories And Tags In WordPress – John Doherty
10 .htaccess File Snippets You Should Have Handy – Tom Anthony
How I Hijacked Rand Fishkin’s Blog – Dan Petrovic
BlueGlassX – Big Site SEO Triage by Dr. Pete Meyers (SlideShare) – Pete Meyers
Find Your Site’s Biggest Technical Flaws in 60 Minutes – Dave Sottimano
The Beginners Guide to using the Command Line for SEO – Craig Bradford
Social Media
A Crystal Clear Explanation of How Social Media Influences SEO – Meghan Keaney Anderson
Google+ SEO – AJ Kohn
The [Interactive] Guide to Social Media Success – Jasper Martens / Hannah Smith
Guide to the Facebook Open Graph – Phil Nottingham
Google Plus Pages Can Now Act Like Real People – Mark Traphagan
A Retweet From Michael @Arrington is Worth 20K Unique Visits, 3 Job Offers and 20 Interview Requests – Cliff Dailey
How To Get More Comments On Your Articles – Jacob Klein
Don’t build links, build bubbles… – Craig Bradford
How you can get 24 Facebook Likes on your blog post in less than 14 minutes – and why not to bother! – Pak Hou Cheung
People Don’t Buy Things, They Join Things – Pam Moore
Conversion Optimisation
53 Ways to Increase Conversion Rate – Peep Laja
5 Ways to Improve Your Contact Form Conversion Rate – Chuck Longanecker
Ultimate Guide to Effective Landing Pages: 50 Landing Page Best Practices – Ion Interactive
The Conversion Rate Optimization Report – 2012 Stats [Infographic] – Oli Gardner
Building Landing Pages that Rank for SEO – John Doherty
Anatomy of a Successful Landing Page – Amy Nokinsky
Conversion rate optimization tips from top 10 online retailers – Growth Giant
Content Creation & Blogging
Linkbait is not a Content Strategy – John Doherty
Why Big Content Is Worth the Risk – Pete Meyers
The Guide to Developing a Content Strategy for “Boring” Industries – Stephanie Chang
Creating Content For Potential Customers – 011100110110010
AuthorRank & The Future of Guest Posting – James Agate
Search Query Generator for Guest Blogging via Google Spreadsheet – Jayson Bagio
Where To Find Images For Your Blog Articles – Aura Dozescu
Why I Hired A Girl On Craigslist to Slap Me In The Face – Maneesh Sethi
The Blogger Outreach Equation – Kelsey Libert
Does Your Marketing Copywriter Shake It Up? – Barry Feldman
Content Keywords FAQ: How to Use SEO Keywords for Content – Elisa Gabbert
Why I Deleted Your Guest Post Pitch (With Awful Outreach Examples) – Mike Essex
So there you have it, my 50 favourite articles from 2012. Thanks to all of the authors of the content and hopefully you will have found some hidden gems within the list! Oh and I nearly forgot… Happy New Year!
Hey! Thanks for including my article "How Link Building Really Works These Days". Wayne Barker has shared it on Inbound.org but is not the author.
No problem Tadeusz, I have also updated the post to reflect you as the correct author! Sorry about that!
Matt.
I really loved the blog- "Link Building Strategies – The Complete List" by Jon Cooper. It has a clear and very precise definition of what should be the basic structure and approach of link building and how a wrong move of link building can seriously damage your site's worth.
Thanks for sharing the very best online marketing articles you compiled and categorized a list of your personal favorites from a range of different authors. There is some amazing content here you share in a post; it could be very helpful for the peoples who need review about Link building, SEO, Social media optimization, content creation and blogging and some other points you shared.