There were some fantastic and very important articles around the web this week. Here are some of our favorites. Happy reading!
SEO
– 7 Technical SEO Wins for Web Developers – Distilled
– The Meta Keywords Tag Lives At Bing & Why Only Spammers Should Use It – Search Engine Land
– Social Signals & SEO: Focus on Authority – Eric Enge on Search Engine Watch
– Google Questions & Answers from Matt Cutts Live Q&A – Sept 2011 – StepForth
– 5 SEO Issues That Can Affect A Link Campaign – Search Engine Land
– A Writer’s Guide to Working With Keywords (Without Tearing Your Hair Out) – Nicki Porter, Copypress
– HTML5 and SEO: New Strategies for Optimizing Code – Vertical Measures
– 7 notes from the inhouse SEO to agency SEO’s – State of Search
Analytics
– Making search more secure: Accessing search query data in Google Analytics – Google Analytics Blog
– Google Whores Out Users With False Privacy Claims – Yoost de Valk on SEOBook
– Google To Begin Encrypting Searches & Outbound Clicks By Default With SSL Search – Danny Sullivan on Search Engine Land
– SEO Under Attack – The Google Analytics Keyword Data Apocalypse – Alan Bleiweiss on SEJ
– Now We Will Need To Pay To See Keyword Referrer Data? – Shaun Anderson
– Google Turning the Lights Out on Organic Data – Opinion by Tony Verre – Tony Verre on SEJ
– Dennis Goedegebuure’s Thoughts on Changes in Google Analytics – SEJ
– Discussion: Impact of Google’s Encrypted Search? – Sphinn
– Dear Google, This is War – Ian Lurie on Search News Central
– What Google’s encrypted search means for Raven – Raven Tools Blog
– SEOs Strike Out as Google Encrypts Signed-in Search Data – Jonathan Allen, Search Engine Watch
– Say goodbye to branded vs. non-branded SEO analysis? – Hugo Guzman
Internet Marketing
– 3 Tested Email Marketing Templates You Can Use Right Now – Copyblogger
– Mastering The Content Workflow – Lee Odden, TopRankBlog
– The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design – Smashing Magazine
– The 60-30-60 Framework: A Non-Writer’s Help Guide – Search Engine People
Social Media
– Beta launch of bitly’s search platform and reputation monitoring service.– Bit.ly
– HOW TO: Get More Twitter Followers [INFOGRAPHIC] – AllTwitter
– 7 Ways Universities Are Using Facebook as a Marketing Tool – Mashable
– The 5 Crucial Rules of How to Handle A Social Media Crisis, Search Engine People
PPC
– 25 Tips For Giving Your PPC Campaigns a Boost – Search Engine Watch
– PPC Secret Weapons & Brand Cannibal Combat with Melissa Mackey – aimClear
Design
7 Blog Design Tips from a Content Strategist – Six Revisions
News
– How the US government and Google will watch you – Elevate Local
– The Fed Plans to Monitor Google, Twitter, Facebook – Search Engine Watch
– Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer’s Gmail Data to U.S. Government – ReadWriteWeb
Humor
– Matt Cutts Capturing Baby Pandas! – Search Engine Roundtable
