Top SEO Blog Posts from 2011

It’s that time of year again! Time for our favorite blog posts related to the subject of SEO. It’s been a crazy year for SEO experts. We saw some major changes to Google’s algorithm – first Google Panda then Google Places – and their earth shaking decision to remove organic keyword data from Analytics. 2012 should be interesting!

So without further ado, here are our favorite SEO-related blog posts from 2011:

1. Danny Sullivan’s “Google To Begin Encrypting Searches & Outbound Clicks By Default With SSL Search”
2. Matt McGee’s “Reactions From SEOs Come Loud, Fast & Often Angry To Google’s Switch to Encrypted Search”
3. Greg Sterling’s “Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs”
4. Rand Fishkin’s “How Google’s Panda Update Changed SEO Best Practices Forever – Whiteboard Friday”
5. Linda Buquet’s “Google Places Algorithm Change”
6. Rand Fishkin’s “Aaron Wall and I Debate the Open Discussion of Webspam”
7. Tom Schmitz’s “SEO Playbook for 2012″
8. Ian Lurie’s “29 Ways to Speed Up Your Website”
9. Ben Landers’ “Tracking SEO Success – Google Analytics Isn’t Enough”
10. George Aspland’s “8 Necessary SEO Steps During A Website Redesign”

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