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‘Tis the season to reflect on the most popular blog posts of 2008. Following in my grand (1 year old) tradition, I scoured my Google Reader for those blog posts that I starred throughout the year as useful and entertaining.
These are the most popular blog posts to me, but I’d also like to know which ones are your favorites. Feel free to comment and share either ones you’ve written on your blog or ones you’ve read on other people’s blogs.
Special thanks to Dennis, Li, Craig, Matt, Manoj, June, Rich, Lu, PPC Hero, Bryan, and Avi.
Digital Alex (most popular blog posts on my site per analytics data)
- Campaign Tagging with Google Analytics
- A Basic Website and Marketing Analysis Method
- 7 Ways to Measure and Improve Your Website
Web Analytics Blog Posts
- The Elements of a Great Web Analytics Dashboard
- Web Analytics Data Reconciliation How-To Guide
- The Difference Between a KPI and a Metric
- Measuring and Optimizing Engagement: The Audible.com Case Study
- Pinch Media Releases Free Analytics for iPhone SDK
- Online Video Analytics
- Alexa Overhauls Ranking System
- Striving to Be Below Average
- Die Chart :-)
Website Testing + Targeting Blog Posts
- Best of 2008: Top 10 Website Optimization Posts to Kick Start and Improve Your Website!
- Search Behavior Targeting: Determining Targeted Content Viability and Messaging on Landing Pages
- How To Do Efficient Optimization
- Optimizing Your Content Pages
- Offermatica’s Behavioral Targeting by Personal Affinity
- Multivariate Testing Series
- The Promise & Challenge of Behavior Targeting (And Two Prerequisites)
- Marketing ROI Workshop Reflections: Onsite Resourcing & Behavior Variables
Blogging
- How To Use Forums to Drive Hundreds of Thousands of Readers to Your Blog
- 10 Ways to Optimize a Popular Post on Your Blog
- 30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes
- The Comprehensive Paint-by-numbers Guide to Writing and Publishing Your Ebook
- Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post
- 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky
- How to Make Your Blog More Personal
- 2 Sure-Fire Ways to Make Money Online
- How to Use PR People to Build Traffic to Your Blog
- 10 Easy Ways to Grow Your Blog Traffic
- A 20-Step Process For Finding Your 1,000 True Fans
- How To Create a Sense of Anticipation with Your Blog
- Crafty Cart Theme Review
- How To Write Posts that Set Stumbleupon On Fire
- How I Increased My Blog’s Subscriber Count By Over 1000% In Less Than a Year
Paid Search Blog Posts
- Quality Score: Final Thoughts (For Now)
- The Match Type Keyword Trap
- Google’s Keyword Tool With Volume Numbers: Useful or Ho-Hum?
- Google Grants - Revolutionizing the Non-Profit Industry
- Truth in SEM Analytics
- Financial Services Industry Knowledge Center
- Landing Page Tutorials and Case Studies
- Yahoo Tweaks Its (Advertising) Algorithm
- Helpful tips on our new content network tools
- Paid Search In The Hot Sun
Copywriting Blog Posts
- How to Say Nothing in 500 Words (A Lesson on Writing)
- Four Ways to Target Online Buyers With the Right Words
- Give More Than Words for Extreme Reader Response
- The Two Magic Words That Guarantee Limitless Copywriting Success
- Five Lessons From Newspapers to Boost Your Blog’s Circulation
- New Services will Monitor Your Site for Typos
- How a Few Measly Words Can Dramatically Improve Your Blog Headline and Content
- Just Say No to These Three Enemies of Clear and Direct Writing
- Are You Creating Bookmarkable Content?
SEO + Social Media Blog Posts
- Barack Obama: The First Social Media President?
- 10 Tips to Pick the Low-hanging Fruit
- Holy Mother of Linkbait
- Good Housekeeping (site tips from Google)
- How To Herd Organic Traffic to Your Blog
- First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression
- SEO Swot Analysis
- Keyword Research for Bloggers
- 5 Basic SEO Rules for Launching a Website
Startup Blog Posts
- A Quick and Dirty Guide to Starting Up
- The Crisis in Venture Capital
- Fear is the Mind Killer of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (we must be Muad’Dib, not Clark Kent)
- PR Secrets for Startups
- Sequoia’s Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever
- After the TechCrunch Bump
Web Design + Visual Inspiration Blog Posts
- Five More Principles of Effective Web Design
- Andrew Bannecker (Illustrator)
- Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques
- Free Credit Card Icons for Online Shops
- Shopping Carts Gallery: Examples and Good Practices
- Free Fonts of the Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans
- 50 Beautiful Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography
- Odopod Design Studio Visit
- Mustache Handkerchief
- 7 Deadly Glasses
Careers & Salary Blog Posts
- Resumes are for *Shit*. The 4 Things You Really Need: LinkedIn, Blog, Keywords, Social Media
- You Make HOW Much? Getting Paid What You’re Worth
- Site Offers Peek at Salaries
- The Answer to the Toughest Interview Question
General Marketing + Strategy Blog Posts
Presentation Blog Posts
A few of these blog posts aren’t from 2008, but I discovered them in 2008. So, they’re still the most popular blog posts of 2008 to me :-)
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I really like the web analytics post. Top of my list as I am still learning.
Agreed–the web analytics post is very helpful!