These are some of the best posts of 2012. There is so much to learn and to bookmark. We hope you enjoy this list of fantastic posts by a bunch of fantastic and intelligent people.
SEO
Microsoft Excel for SEOs – Tutorials by Distilled
What The Heck Is SEO? A Rebuttal by Bill Slawski and Will Critchlow
Should We Chase The Algorithm? by Dr. Pete
The Definitive Guide To Authorship Markup by Rick DeJarnette
How to Run A/B Tests That Give Your Business Big Wins by Lars Lofgren
Link Building Strategies – The Complete List by Jon Copper
Excavating “Social Tail” Keywords For SEO & PPC! Radical ScrapeBox Tutorial #78 By Marty Weintraub
2012 Year In Review: Important Shifts In Google SEO by Tom Schmitz
The 2012 Guide to Google Webmaster Tools – Analytics Integration, +1 Metrics, and More by Kristi Hines
The Ultimate Guide To Enterprise SEO: 25 Things To Know Before You Take The Plunge by Brian Provost
Meta Description Magic: Think Less about SEO & More about Click-Throughs by Kristi Hines
The Latest & Greatest On SEO Pagination by Adam Audette
24 Ways To Make Life Hard For Your SEO Team by Eric Enge
7 Critical SEO Errors of E-commerce Websites by Sean Work
How User Personas Can Improve Your SEO Strategy by Rob Millard
Social
The Social Search Revolution: 8 Social SEO Strategies To Start Using Right Now - Jordan Kasteler
6 Tips for Using LinkedIn the New Endorsements By Linda Coles
22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros by Cindy King
Why Pinterest Is NOT Your SEO Miracle Worker by Jordan Kasteler
5 Twitter Tools to Enhance Your Marketing By Aaron Lee
Optimize Facebook Open Graph Tags: They Are the 50% by Aaron Friedman
9 Businesses Using Pinterest Contests to Drive Traffic and Exposure By Prafull Sharma
9 Search & Social KPIs To Start Tracking Right Now by Jordan Kasteler
21 Unexpected Ways Brands Can Use Pinterest by Courtney Seiter
Titter Will Win The Social Brand Advertising War by AJ Kohn
It’s Not WHAT You Need to Go Viral – It’s WHO by Jordan Kasteler
Advertising on Facebook: Self-Serve Ad Units Explained & Examined by Merry Morud
13 Ways to Improve Social Media Marketing in 2013 by Megan Leap
Google+ Growing Your Social Network: Quantity vs. Quality by Aaron Friedman
Facebook Launches Conversion Measurement Tool by Miranda Miller
How Social Signals Could Potentially Influence Local Search Results by Selena Narayanasamy
14 Ideas To Utilize Custom Variables For Search & Social Tracking by Jordan Kasteler
Making the Most of the Open Data Movement by Andrew Delamarter
Content
44 Must Read Resources on Content Marketing by Eric Siu
Content Scrapers – How to Find Out Who is Stealing Your Content & What to Do About It by Kristi Hines
How to Leverage Google Reader for Guest Post Opportunities and Blogger Outreach via Pak Hou Cheung
Is Presentation More Important Than Content Itself? by Jordan Kasteler
8 Mistakes I Have Seen Guest Bloggers Make: As a Publisher & a Business Owner by Melissa Fach
12 Content Research Tools You Should Be Using by Arnie Kuenn
6 Copywriting Mistakes That Shatter Conversion Rates by Craig Anderson
We Can Do Better Than This by Jonathon Colman
Putting the Strategy Back in Content Strategy by Lisa Barone
How to Better Connect with Influential Bloggers by Jessica Edmonson
How to Slowly Lose Trust, Influence, and Ultimately Your Audience by Michelle Lowery
The Ultimate Guide to Guest Blogging by Kristi Hines
8 Habits Of Conversion-Focused Copywriters by Craig Anderson
Company
Article is great. Lots of great articles at one place. However, it would be great if your blog posts have an option to “email the post” to someone. I know there is an option to share this post on social media, but i actually needed to email this to someone. So i thought it would be good to suggest this.
Thanks