Monthly Blog Roundup: WordStream’s February Highlights

February: Kind of a pathetic little month, isn’t it? Cold, wet and short. Like a dog left out in the rain. I can’t imagine anyone picking February as their favorite month. It would be like having taupe as your favorite color. Or oatmeal as your favorite food. (Cold oatmeal that is.)

Luckily this dumb month is pretty much over and that means it’s time for our monthly list of the WordStream blog’s greatest hits! Our most popular posts in February, without further ado:

• How We Got a Link from The New York Times: Ken wrote this link bait case study of the strategy behind our most popular post ever, Larry Kim’s “Poll: Scott Brown to Win Massachussets Senate Race by a Landslide.”
• Is SEO Dead? Nope, It Has Just Come Full Circle!: In this guest post, Terry Van Horne argues that links are a noisy signal and, like meta keywords, too easy to manipulate.
• Link Building Interview: Arnie Kuenn of Vertical Measures: In this Q&A, the president and founder of Vertical Measures shares his link building expertise on how much time SEOs should devote to link building, his favorite tools and more.
• Ten Ways to Improve Your AdWords Click-Through Rate: 10 great tips to ratchet up your CTR and Quality Score.
• 38 Things You Could Do With the Time You Spend on Facebook: The average American spends over seven hours per month on Facebook. Find out what else you could do with that time.
• Interview with Megan Leap, Online Marketing Manager at Ion Interactive: Megan chatted with us about landing page management and conversion rate optimization.
• 2010 Search Marketing Spend Trend Survey: An overview of the results of our survey on where SEM dollars are flowing this year.
• Google Buzz: Is Google's Would-Be Twitter Killer Buzz-Worthy?: A look at the promise and the disappointments of Buzz.

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