January 2009. A historic new Webmaster In Chief took over at WhiteHouse.gov. Experience made a comeback when a calm hero landed a disabled plane on the Hudson River in time to see Google panic and declare every site on the internet a malware threat. Online media was a part of the good and the bad. Here are the posts that our readers found most helpful in January, along with the [popularity score] and a chance to spread some help around by ReTweeting on Twitter. |
Search Marketing: |
Your Site is Keyword Optimized, But is it Search Engine Friendly? (Search Engine Guide) [7.5] 8 Simple Things That Benefit SEO & Site Usability (Komarketing) [6.4] 5 Link Building Tactics You Probably Don’t Use But Should (Search Engine Journal) [6.2] 5 Places You Can Look For New Keywords (Keyword Academy) [5.9] 30 Old Ways to Gain New Links for 2009 (Komarketing) [5.7] |
Social Media: |
30+ Apps for Doing Business on Facebook (Mashable) [7.8] Five Tips In Building a Twitter Profile For Business (Social Media Optimization) [6.0] 10 Tips to Be Effective at Marketing on Twitter (TwiTip) [5.0] Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation (Mashable) [4.7] Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers (Techcrunch) [4.3] |
User Experience: |
20 Websites with Beautiful Typography (Six Revisions) [6.7] 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts (Smashing) [5.2] 10 Ways to Improve Your Web Page Performance (Six Revisions) [4.0] 31 Ways to Improve Your Landing Pages (Ion Interactive) [2.9] Reducing Customer Anxiety About Products on Product Pages (Get Elastic) [2.6] |
Email Marketing: |
How to craft irresistible subject lines (The Marketing Blog) [5.8] 4 Deliverability Measures To Increase Revenue (email Insider) [2.7] Tracking Email with Google Analytics (Analytics Talk) [2.7] 10 Tips for Using Twitter And Email Marketing for B2B (Anything Goes) [2.7] 5 Steps to Increase Your 'Tell a Friend' Email Marketing Success (One Degree) [2.7] |
Analytics: |
The 8 Most Important Conversion Metrics You Should Be Tracking (KissMetrics) [3.4] 10 Promising Free Analytics Tools (Six Revisions) [3.4] 5 Ways You Can Misuse Analytics and Damage Your Website (Big Wave) [2.5] Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns (Occam's Razor) [2.4] Integrating Voice of Customer data with Google Analytics (Measuring Success) [2.4] |
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