Empowering Search Vol. 1

Welcome to my first ever curated/round up post. Basically, these are the stuffs I’ve personally read, watched and listened to this week.

Also, I just found out that one of my posts – 21 advanced link building strategies – were featured as a top link building article on Linkbuildingwiki.com, it’s an excellent resource for link building and you should check it out (I bet that you’ll be bookmarking it).

Search:

• Traffic Source Diversity is Essential for Successful SEO – Rand Fishkin
• 4 Free Tools for Researching Guest Blogging and Advertising Opportunities – Kristi Hines
• Social Reciprocity and Signals that Factor into Search – Kaila Strong
• 50 Website Traffic Sources You Should Milk Like Crazy – Brankica Underwood
• Do Your Very Own Site Structure Audit – Mike Pantoliano
• Google Announces User-Generated Filters for Unwanted Results – Spencer Hesseltine
• SEO Competitive Analysis – Your Roadmap to Ranking #1 on Google – Zeke Camusio
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Link: Learn How to Recognize Link Value – Wayne Barker
• Ranking Factors that Shouldn’t Be Ignored – Erin Sellnow

Marketing:

• The Ultimate List: 50 Local Business Directories – Eric Vreeland
• Essential Marketing Moves – Giving Your Blog an Identity – Gary Lawood
• Why Maya Angelou is a Groupon Marketing Master – Lisa Barone
• Is Your Marketing Scalable – Hugo Guzman

Offbeat:

• 6 Real World Jedi Mind Tricks Salesmen are Using on You – Kathy Benjamin
• One Piece 618 – Eichiro Oda

Watched Movies:

• The Counterfeiter – Stefan Ruzowitzky
• A Prophet – Jacques Audiard
• Shutter Island – Martin Scorsese

Last Song Syndrome:

• Gold – Glassjaw
• Beauty School – Deftones

Image Credit: Spysheep

Tagged as: Marketing, Movies, Music, Offbeat, Search